Luc Van Lierde Explained

Luc Van Lierde
Birth Date:14 April 1969
Birth Place:Bruges, Belgium
Country:Belgium

Luc Van Lierde (born 14 April 1969 in Bruges) is a former athlete from Belgium, who has been competing in triathlon since 1990 and who has been a professional triathlon coach since 2009.[1]

Athletic career

Van Lierde's international career started in 1990 when he came fourth in the World Olympic Distance Triathlon Championships. In the full-length Ironman triathlon, which involves swimming 3.8 km, cycling 180 km and running a 42.2 km marathon, he was ranked among the first ten in the European Championships three times between 1990 and 1995. 1995 was a decisive year for Luc Van Lierde, when he took second place at the ITU World Championships, and came second in the European Olympic Distance Triathlon Championships.[2]

In 1996 he won the European Championships and came second in the World Championships in the Olympic Distance Triathlon. He won the Nice Triathlon and became World Long Course Triathlon Champion. Luc Van Lierde became the first European ever to win the Ironman World Championship, beating the existing record by three minutes.[3]

Luc Van Lierde went on to clock the fastest Ironman Triathlon ever in 1997, doing 7:50:27 (0:44, 4:28, 2:36, plus transition) in Ironman Europe. Absent from the Ironman 1998, after undergoing an operation, he nevertheless won the Flemish Sports Personality of the Year trophy. In 1999, he once again won the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii, outrunning the second placed competitor by six minutes. During that same year, he received the Giant of Flanders trophy awarded by the two Flanders section of the Association of Professional Journalists.

Triathlon coach

In 2009, after more than 20 years as a professional triathlete, Van Lierde began a career as a triathlon coach. Frederik Van Lierde (not related) approached Van Lierde with the request to coach him. One year later he managed to coach Frederik Van Lierde to a third place at the 2012 Ironman World Championship. In 2013, he coached Frederik to the 2013 Ironman World Championship.

Van Lierde has successfully coached several other professional athletes, including Marino Vanhoenacker, Iván Raña, Will Clarke, Michelle Vesterby, and Saleta Castro.[4]

Notable achievements

Honors and awards

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 18 May 2024 . Luc Van Lierde - Biography . lucvanlierde.com . nl.
  2. Web site: 30 June 2017 . Triatleet Luc Van Lierde over zijn triomfen en nederlagen: “Mijn palmares is niet af” . dezondag.be . nl.
  3. Web site: 26 April 2022 . Hoe kon Luc Van Lierde als eerste Europeaan de Iron Man van Hawaï winnen? Wereldrecord belicht drie onderschatte factoren . . nl.
  4. Web site: 2 June 2023 . Bekende vader Luc Van Lierde: ‘Ik heb veel moeten missen van Andrews kinderjaren’ . goedgezind.be . nl.
  5. Web site: 20 October 2022 . Triathlon - Luc Van Lierde . the-sports.org .
  6. Web site: 18 May 2024 . IronMan Lanzarote . ironmanlanzarote.com .
  7. Web site: 11 December 2002 . Vlaamse Sportprijzen . vlaanderen.be . nl.
  8. Web site: De Vlaamse Reus . vlaamsesportjournalisten.be . nl . 7 December 2023.
  9. Web site: 18 December 2011 . Palmares Sportman van het jaar . De Standaard . nl.
  10. Web site: Red Lions volgen Nina Derwael op met winst van Nationale Trofee voor Sportverdienste . . nl . 7 November 2019.
  11. Web site: 14 December 2008 . Sportpersoonlijkheid van het jaar . sportgala.be/nl . nl.
  12. Web site: 9 December 2013 . Frederik Van Lierde ereburger van Menen . . nl.

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