| Date of birth: | 29. August 1980 |
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| Height: | 188 cm |
| Weight: | 74 kg |
Michael Raelert is the younger of the two “Raelert-Brothers”.
Triathlon became very early to his sport. Since 2002 he does his passion professionally and was internationally and nationally successful at the Olympic distance. Thus he won inter alia the Alps -Triathlon Schliersee in 2005 with a new track record and became German champion. In 2008 he gained the victory again at Schliersee.
2009 Michael switched over to the half Ironman distance and reached his first World Championship title in November 2009 at the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Clearwater (Florida) with a course record. With the total time of 3:34:04 arrived there, Michael is the reigning world record holder.
2010 Michael remained unbeaten on the Ironman 70.3 distance. In August he crowned this series of victories at the Ironman 70.3 European Championship in Wiesbaden and took a new course record to win the European Championship. Three months later, Michael successfully defended his title in an impressive race in Florida claimed the title as the Ironman 70.3 World Champion again. It was a victory, which marked his name in the history book of triathlon.
Michael made his Ironman debut 2012 at Ironman Regensburg. In 2012 he celebrated the title at the Ironman 70.3 European Championships in Wiesbaden again – with a new race record.
After winning the title of Ironman 70.3 Berlin in 2013, Michael injured his knee. Operations and a long rehab forced him to break from racing. Mid-2014, these had been overcome and Michael celebrated after the 3rd place at the Challenge Walchsee this year exclusively first places.
Also in 2015 Michael was almost exclusively in the very front. For the 70.3 Worldchamps then not all fit together perfectly, but he takes the 5th place as a great motivator to retrieve back this title.By now Micha can look back on more than 20 Ironman 70.3 titles.
