{"id":17366,"date":"2019-03-01T09:11:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T09:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.challenge-family.com\/challenge-family\/uncategorized\/frederic-funk-a-new-star-on-the-triathlon-scene\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T15:46:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T15:46:33","slug":"frederic-funk-a-new-star-on-the-triathlon-scene","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.challenge-family.com\/challenge-family\/news\/frederic-funk-a-new-star-on-the-triathlon-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Frederic Funk &#8211; A new star on the triathlon scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone,<\/p>\n<p>My name is Frederic Funk, I&#8217;m 21 years old and a German pro triathlete from N\u00fcrnberg and one of the new ambassadors for Challenge Family.\u00a0\u00a0I&#8217;m pretty new on the scene and for sure many of you guys don&#8217;t know me yet. Last year was my first year as a pro triathlete and also my first year racing the half distance and I can say it went pretty well: Challenge Riccione\u00a03<sup>rd<\/sup> place, German Elite Champion Half Distance in Ingolstadt, Challenge Kaiserwinkl-Walchsee\u00a02<sup>nd<\/sup> place, Challenge Forte-Village\u00a03<sup>rd<\/sup> place.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4122\" src=\"http:\/\/www.challenge-family.com\/challenge-family\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2024\/05\/challenge_walchsee-46-300x205-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"341\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My goal for this season is to improve on this distance and maybe even get a Challenge Family\u00a0 win \ud83d\ude09 One season highlight for me will be TheChampionship\u00a0and I&#8217;m really looking forward to measuring myself with the world&#8217;s best in our sport. If you want to follow my journey you should follow me on Instagram where I post almost daily.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4121\" src=\"http:\/\/www.challenge-family.com\/challenge-family\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2024\/05\/ikt_8018_new-300x200-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Currently I&#8217;m on my third training camp in Spain. In December I was in Fuerteventura with my coach Roland Knoll and the Austrian National Team and in January this year, I was in Lanzarote with my new team &#8216;Erdinger Alkoholfrei&#8217;. After the current camp which is the longest (almost 4 weeks) there will be one more camp in Italy\/ Tuscany in April before my season will start at Challenge Riccione\u00a0on 5<sup>th<\/sup> May. I heard that there will be a completely new bike course and I&#8217;m very excited to race there. My other main races this year will be TheChampionship\u00a0in Samorin, Challenge Kaiserwinkl-Walchsee\u00a0and Challenge Prague.\u00a0Afterwards I\u2019ll take a little competition break and then go for one more training camp before I start the second part of the season 2019.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4119\" src=\"http:\/\/www.challenge-family.com\/challenge-family\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2024\/05\/cube_2019_fred_funk_0703-300x200-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now that you know me a bit better I hope you will join me on my journey as a pro triathlete and if you ever see me at a race or during training come and say hi \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>See You,<\/p>\n<p>Frederic<\/p>\n<p>Instagram\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/triff97\/\">@triff97<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone, My name is Frederic Funk, I&#8217;m 21 years old and a German pro triathlete from N\u00fcrnberg and one of the new ambassadors for Challenge Family.\u00a0\u00a0I&#8217;m pretty new on the scene and for sure many of you guys don&#8217;t know me yet. 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