Andreas Raelert

Andreas Raelert, born on 11 August 1976, is a German triathlete whose younger brother Michael is also a triathlete. He competed in the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Sydney Games, finishing twelfth, and returned in 2004 at Athens to take sixth place. On 10 July 2011 he broke the world record for an Ironman distance race at Challenge Roth in 7 hours, 41 minutes and 33 seconds, beating the time Marino Vanhoenacker had set a week earlier, although because the race was not an official Ironman event Vanhoenacker's time remains the fastest at an Ironman-sanctioned event. He won silver at the 2008 Ironman 70.3 World Championships, finished second at the Ironman World Championships in 2010, 2012 and 2015, and took third place in 2011.