German triathlete (born 1996)
Lasse Lührs
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| Born | (1996-05-16) 16 May 1996 (age 28)
Wingst, Lower Saxony, Germany |
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| Sport | Triathlon |
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Lasse Lührs (born 16 May 1996) is a German triathlete.
Career
At junior level, Germany’s national junior champion and in June 2014, he became Junior European Champion in the team sprint with the German team at the European Triathlon Championships in Kitzbühel, Austria. He won gold in the junior race at the 2015 European Cup in Vienna. In July 2015 he became European junior champion in Geneva and also won mixed-relay silver at championships.[1]
In 2019, he finished second in the World Cup triathlon event in Madrid.[2]
He became triathlon German champion in the sprint distance in 2022. That year, he finished in ninth place in the overall ranking of the 2022 World Triathlon Championship Series. He finished in fifth place in the 2023 Grand Final of the World Triathlon Championship Series in Pontevedra, Spain.[3]
In July 2024, he was a gold medalist at the World Triathlon Mixed Relay Championships.[4] He qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics.[5]
Personal life
From Wingst, he was educated in Potsdam. He trained for a while in Alicante and from 2021 is based in Bonn.[6]
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