 Helle Frederiksen on her way to the silver medal at the Premium European Cup in Alanya, 2009. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Helle Houmann Frederiksen | |||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Danish | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1981-03-05)March 5, 1981 (age 44) | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 53 kg (117 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
| Website | www | |||||||||||||||||
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| Team | Uplace-BMC Pro Triathlon Team | |||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Joel Filliol | |||||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | ||||||||||||||||||
| Olympic finals | 27th Place, London 2012 Olympics | |||||||||||||||||
| Personalbest(s) | 3:55:50 Current World Best (1.9km, 90km, 21.1km) | |||||||||||||||||
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Helle Frederiksen (born 5 March 1981 inOdense,Funen) is a Danish professional triathlete. She represented Denmark intriathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics, placing 27th, and raced onInternational Triathlon Union race circuit. She is the winner of the 2018ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships as well as the 2014Hy-Vee Triathlon and 2014 Challenge Bahrain.
Frederiksen was a swimmer from the age of 12 to 18 and a member of the national Danish swimming squad. She had won several Danish championships when, in 1999, she decided to retire from elite sports.
Frederiksen studied atSyddansk Universitet an earned a bachelor's degree in sports(Idræt og Sundhed, 2005) and after having moved toFarum she studied for a master's degree in Physical Education andNutrition(Cand. Scient. i Human Ernæring, 2008) at theUniversity of Copenhagen.[1]
Having worked as aspinning trainer for five years, she missed her former life as an elite sportswoman and in 2004 she took part in, and won, a women'striathlon(Piger med Power) in Odense, and in 2005, at the Danish Championships, she placed second in the Sprint and third in the Olympic Distance. In 2006, an intensive training period on theGold Coast inAustralia was worth the effort, and Frederiksen won the Danish Championships at the Olympic Distance. For 4 consecutive years, from 2006 to 2009, she was the Danish Triathlon Champion. In 2010, however, due to a flat tyre in the bike stage, she could not finish the National Championships inNykøbing Falster.
In 2010, Frederiksen suffered a mixture of misfortunes. Since her bicycle crash at the World Championship Series event in Madrid, she suffered from a hip and back injury and later a spinal disc prolapse dating back to 2007 started to cause pains again. On the other hand, Helle Frederiksen was awarded anOlympic Scholarship for Athletes London 2012 and competed at the2012 Olympic Games, finishing in 27th place.[2]
In the five years from 2006 to 2010, Helle Frederiksen took part in 36 ITU competitions and achieved 18 top ten positions, among which 10 medals.[2]
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Helle Frederiksen and the Welsh triathlete Ben Powell, former member of the Swansea High Performance Squad and son of the former Welsh Ironman record holder Martin Powell, are a couple. Ben Powell works at the triathlon high performance centre Club LaSanta in Lanzarote where Helle Frederiksen spends her training period.[3]
