Daniel Unger

Daniel Unger is a German triathlete, born on 22 March 1978, who became the ITU Triathlon World Champion in 2007. At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing he finished sixth in the men triathlon with a time of 1:49:43.78, about fifty seconds behind the winner Jan Frodeno, another German athlete. His world title came in the Olympic distance format that is raced as a swim, cycle and run in succession, and his Beijing result placed him among the leading finishers of the Games in a field that included the other top short-distance triathletes of his era.