Katja Mayer

Katja Mayer, born on 4 January 1968 in Augsburg, is a former German triathlete who won Ironman Florida in 1999. In 1992 she qualified for the world championship in Hawaii over the long distance and won the amateur world title, in 1997 she came second at the ETU European Triathlon Long Distance Championship in Fredericia, Denmark, and from 1994 to 2001 she was a member of the German national team in the triathlon. The article credits her with 35 successful Ironman competitions, eight of them in Hawaii, and with top five placings in twenty of them. Mayer studied sports science and mathematics at the universities of Munich and Augsburg, has been an assistant professor at the University of Augsburg since 2003, trains triathletes, runners and cyclists, and owns an event agency that organizes the Kuhsee Triathlon in Augsburg and the Munich city run.