Yvonne´s coaching-team from left:
Mag. Mario Huys, Yvonne, Thomas J. Vonach, Mark Allen
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Mag. Mario Huys is a person that keeps himself more in the background that he needs to. Definetly he is one of the most succesfull coaches in Triathlon. Born in Belgium Mario Huys was a professional athlete himself for over 20 years. He once did hold the world-record over the double-iron-distance triathlon and is a 60 time Belgium Champion in various disciplines such as rowing for example.
In the past Mario coached Ironman-world-record holder Luc van Lierde/Bel, build up Kate Allen/Aut to a world-class athlete succeding in winning Ironmans and later become the Olympic triathlon champion in Athens ´04.
Since 2007 Mario is the head-coach of Yvonne´s team after working with Thomas Vonach since 2003. The partnership with Yvonne was an immediate success when Yvonne finished with a 8:51:55 on debut in Roth/Ger, on her first Ironman-distance.
In only three years the list of success grew quickly with an Ironman-distance world record, a runner-up-finish on Hawaii and numerous victories on Ironman/Ironman-distances and Ironman 70.3s, often with course-records.
Mario lives in Austria and coaches various athletes on different levels through his coaching-platform:
mariohuys.com
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Mark Allen Everybody in triathlon knows Mark as one of the most successful
athletes of all time and as a six time-winner of the legendary Ironman
Hawaii. Since Mark retired from professional racing he grew into his
role as an author, speaker and is the co-founder of one of the most
successfull coaching-platforms in the sport:
markallenonline.com
Fortunately for us Mark was ready to be a consultant and contribute his knowledge and experience. He guides the coaching team through the year giving crucial input for the mental preparation and training. But he does not only turn in his knowledge about smart training, but also is guiding Yvonne to find the perfect balance of a high level in
fitness and a fit soul as the perfect combination to compete on the
highest possible level.
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| Thomas J. Vonach/ AUT is a successful Triathlete, that concentrates his racing mainly on the IRONMAN-distance and XTerra. Born and raised in Austria he found his way to sport very early with the age of two: in skiing and athletics. Thomas succeeded in other disciplines like Tennis, Volleyball, Water-skiing and Gymnastics, collecting victories, before he found his way to Triathlon. After attending the Sport-Gymnasium in Dornbirn/Austria his life was threatened by a severe form of the Anorexia Nervosa (Magersucht). From the age of 18 on Thomas had to spend three years in different hospitals and therapies, there was not too much hope he would survive this difficult illness (with a weight of 36kg and a height of 172cm). Three times he ended up in intensive care. The last visit there was his “turn-around-point”, he could get himself out of the “dead-end-street”. |
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In 1997 he started his career as a multi-sport athlete, in Duathlon,
raced Powermans and other competitions in different countries. 1999 he
did his first long course in Zofingen, in the same year he jumped to
Triathlon and raced in IRONMAN Florida. Since then Thomas has stepped
up to the podium many times. After 20 IRONMAN-races, his palmares show
7 IRONMAN HAWAII-Finishes with 6 of them in the TOP100 Overall in the
most important Triathlon on the Globe. His personal best is a 9:07
hours at one of the hardest races in the series, Ironman Malaysia. In
2006 Thomas won the AMATEURS HAWAIIAN DOUBLE, the combined result of
the XTERRA WC MAUI and the IRONMAN WC HAWAII after being the runner up
three times in the years before, he owns four Amateur World
Championship Podiums in XTERRA WC MAUI. Thomas is the
Amateur-course-record-holder of IRONMAN JAPAN and IRONMAN MALAYSIA.
Thomas is the founder and manager of the successful ENDURANCE TEAM
AUSTRIA and owns his own management and coaching-company: ENDURANCE
TEAM which is taking care of Yvonne.
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In 2007 Thomas and Yvonne met on the island of Lanzarote. The fateful meeting of the two dedicated athletes lead into a great training-camp and into a even bigger love. Back home both knew that there was a path before them they had to go hand in hand. The racing- experience of Thomas gives Yvonne a background of knowledge for the long-course, that you just can have after years of racing. Thomas is well known in between the athletes as the one who thinks even about the smallest details.
Since 2008 Thomas and his company “ENDURANCE TEAM – management I coachin I consulting” takes care of the management and PR of Yvonne.
Thomas contributes his experience and knowledge to Yvonne´s goals and
dreams and helps her to reach the start and finish healthy and fit.
More on Thomas as an athlete: www.trivonach.com
More on Thomas´ company: www.enduranceteam.at
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Guido Vroemen is sportsarts and owner off the sportmedical advicecentrum (SMA) Amerongen ,beside´s that he´s the official dokter off the NTB (Dutch Triathlon Federation). He also workes with different proffesional and amateur bikegroupe´s. At the SMA. Amerongen their are spescialized sportsfesissions all experienced with endurancesports, they can help you with all the medical and trainingside´s off your sport.
Guido Vroemen raced in different competitions from runningrace´s ,duathlon´s ,triathlons and cyclerace´s for many years. Lately he´s more concentrating on the cyclingrace´s but you can still find him in a couple of runningcompetitions and duathlons. More info abouth the SMA. Amerongen and Guido Vroemen you can find on:
http://www.sportarts.org/
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Anja de Groot Oosterwijk is a NGS-diplomed sports massage therapist. She has a lot off experience in different massage techniques and is working in this area for over 10 years. She´s a great person with golden hands and a hearing ear when ever you need her.
When Yvonne is in the Netherlands Anja takes good care off her and her muscles.
Anja is a massage therapist that works on different locations, so the customer can have his massage at home if he wants. She also give´s chair- massages for people that work in the office, having a massage on your work (maybe everyone should have that!)
You can reach Anja by telephone on 06 27471210 or by E-mail:
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Jan Prinzhausen: the nutritionist from Jena/gGer, works very succesfully with athletes in different disciplines. The author of several books, which are mainly dealing with nutrition for performance in sports and top-sports. How successful the nutrition strategy of Jan Prinzhausen and the practiable results are we can see in the performances of Yvonne van Vlerken and Thomas J. Vonach. Yvonne started working with this method shortly before Challenge Roth ´07 with the best ever rookie-performance in an „ironman-distance“-Triathlon. 2008 Yvonne broke the 14 year old world record by Paula Newby- Fraser in 8:45:48, also in Roth/Ger. She was 4kg lighter and kept the same power she already had before on the bike. Thomas J. Vonach posted 4 Top10-results at Ironman Races and finished the Ironman Hawaii 6times in the Top 100. The perfect tuning of the right supplements and loading strategies for race-week were developed together with Yvonne and Thomas over years.
Jan Prinzhausen stands in close collaboration with the Olympic Centre in Thüringen/Ger, the German Alpine- Ski Federation and the German Cycling Federation.
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Martin Schnetzer is an Orthopaedic- shoemaker and runs his own company in Altach/Austria. The name of the shop is Schnetzer Richtige Schuhe (for “the rigth shoes”). He works with a pretty big number of good athletes in Austria/Germany/Switzerland and also is specialised in production of custom inner-soles for bike- and running- shoes. He is in charge for keeping Yvonne on the track as an important member of her team.
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Dr. Shelley Overbeek
Shelley is my lung-physian. She is very important to me as I am suffering from severe lung-asthma and already had to get over 4 pneumonias in the last 6 years. Thanks to her I´m still capable of following my dreams and improve my performance nearly as good as I could do if my lungs were in full health. She gives me advice for the races and recommendations how to handle the different climates and air-quality. Shelley is the official MD for all the Dutch athletes that go to the Olympics. She knows everything about the functions and problems of lungs in sports and therefore is one of the greatest specialists we have for that in the Netherlands.
As an athlete you want to perform on your best, with help from people like Shelley you know your having the best support that you can have. Thanks Shelley!!
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