FROM LOCAL HEROES TO WORLD CLASS ATHLETES

Daniel Bækkegård - age 23 - is a Danish long distance triathlete. 2019 was Daniel’s first year as a full-time professional athlete. Despite his young age and inexperience on the full distance, he has taken the triathlon world by storm. He did this by winning his debut Ironman at the legendary Ironman Austria-Kärnten in Klagenfurt, just a week after his 70.3 World Cham...

From jogger to AG winner and the World championships in Hawaii.  I started my triathlon journey in 2014 with a mini-triathlon, got caught up in it, and went in for a half triathlon the next year. That proved to be the way out of anxiety and depression that had overshadowed my younger years. Triathlon occupied me more and more – I started with a coach, and in 2018 I did ...