Wenke Kujala

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Personal information
Date of birth 17th July 1976 (age 44)
place of birth Hamburg, Germany
size 178 cm
Weight 61 kg
societies
To 2012 Team Erdinger alcohol-free
successes
2006 German long distance triathlon champion
2008 3rd place Ironman European Championship
status
Resigned in 2012

Wenke Kujala (born July 17, 1976 in Hamburg ) is a former German triathlete .

Career

After playing volleyball and athletics in her childhood, Wenke Kujala started her first triathlon in 1998. In May that same year, the 22-year-old married professional ice hockey player Petri Kujala ( Moskitos Essen and Berlin Capitals ).

Two years later she started as a professional in Roth in her first Ironman race (3.8 km swimming, 180 km cycling and 42.195 km running). In October 2000 she was third in the age group 18-24 at the Ironman Hawaii (Ironman World Championship).

An illness of Pfeiffer's glandular fever forced the athlete to take a break from the competition from the end of 2004 to the beginning of 2006. Wenke Kujala became German champion of the long distance triathlon in Roth in 2006.

In January 2011 she announced that she would take a sporting break this year and her daughter was born in July. In 2012 she started again on both the short and the long distance and at the end of the year she declared her time as a triathlon professional over.

In 2013 their second daughter was born and Wenke Kujala is the team manager for the triathletes in the Erdinger alcohol-free team . Today she lives with her family in Hilpoltstein .

Sporting successes

Triathlon sprint and short distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
17th June 2012 3 City triathlon Erding GermanyGermany Erding 02:21:56 at the 19th edition
0May 9, 2010 3 Siegerland Cup GermanyGermany Bush huts 02:01:04 1 km swimming, 41.7 km cycling and 10 km running
June 21, 2009 3 City triathlon Erding GermanyGermany Erding 02:25:19 Third behind Meike Krebs and Nicole Leder
May 18, 2008 4th City Triathlon Munich GermanyGermany Munich 00:58:12 Sprint distance
 June 2007 1 Rothsee triathlon GermanyGermany Roth
  2004 2 Nibelungen triathlon GermanyGermany Xanten 02:09:10
Triathlon middle distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
0Sep 2 2012 10 Challenge Walchsee-Kaiserwinkl AustriaAustria Walchsee 04:40:07
Aug 16, 2009 5 Ironman 70.3 Germany GermanyGermany Wiesbaden 04:51:56
Aug 10, 2008 8th Ironman 70.3 Germany GermanyGermany Wiesbaden
0Sep 2 2007 1 Cologne Classic GermanyGermany Cologne Victory in the triathlon over the middle distance
Aug 19, 2007 2 Ironman 70.3 Germany GermanyGermany Wiesbaden 04:47:27 In the middle distance (1.9 km swimming, 90 km cycling and 21.1 km running) second place behind the Spaniard Virginia Berasategui-Luna
Long distance triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
Aug 12, 2012 4th Challenge Copenhagen DenmarkDenmark Copenhagen 09:25:14
0July 8, 2012 8th Challenge Roth GermanyGermany Roth 09:25:19
0Oct 3, 2010 2 Challenge Barcelona-Maresme SpainSpain Barcelona 09:39:12 Second over the long distance
0July 6, 2008 3 Ironman Germany GermanyGermany Frankfurt am Main 09: 24: 54.6 third place with personal best
0July 1, 2007 DNF Ironman Germany GermanyGermany Frankfurt am Main -
0July 2, 2006 1 DTU German Championship Triathlon Long Distance GermanyGermany Roth 09:34:24 sixth place at Challenge Roth - and thus German champion over the long-distance triathlon; with exactly the same time as 2004 in Zurich
July 25, 2004 2 Ironman Switzerland SwitzerlandSwitzerland Zurich 09:34:24
0July 6, 2003 9 Ironman Austria AustriaAustria Klagenfurt
0Oct 6, 2001 18th Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Hawaii 10:47:20
Aug 26, 2001 2 Ironman Canada CanadaCanada Penticton 10:10 Second behind Canadian Gillian Bakker
0Aug 5, 2001 6th Ironman Switzerland SwitzerlandSwitzerland Zurich 10: 17: 39.1
Oct 14, 2000 Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Hawaii 11:19:24 3rd place in age group 18–24
0July 9, 2000 20th Ironman Europe GermanyGermany Roth 10:21:10 Wenke Kujala achieved first place in the age group 18-24 at her first Ironman start and thus qualified for a starting place at Ironman Hawaii.

(DNF - Did Not Finish)

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Season planning changed (January 20, 2011)
  2. ↑ Brand ambassador: Wenke Kujala (accessed October 6, 2014)
  3. ↑ Wenke Kujala: Mom and professional triathlon . In: tri-mag.de . September 30, 2008.
  4. ↑ As soon as before the baby break
  5. ↑ Xanten Triathlon 2004
  6. ↑ Ironman 70.3 Germany 2009, Wiesbaden, Hessen - men and women
  7. ↑ Al-Sultan and Berasategui win at IRONMAN Germany 70.3
  8. ↑ Challenge Copenhagen: Farlow wins, Spindler fifth (August 12, 2012)
  9. ↑ WENKE KUJALA: THE WOMAN OF THE SECOND (July 15, 2006)
  10. ↑ IRONMAN: LIGHT BAR AND POWER THIRD ( Memento from September 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (DTU press service)
  11. ↑ Race Results Ironman Hawaii 2001 (PDF, 2 MB, p. 5)
  12. ↑ Race Results Ironman Hawaii 2000 (PDF, 2 MB, p. 7)
  13. ^ Result list Ironman Europe Roth 2000 (PDF, 9.3 MB, p. 7, 42 ( Memento from July 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ))
personal data
SURNAME Kujala, Wenke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg