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...

  What makes you unique as an athlete?  All who compete at this level are determined athletes with good qualifications, but part of what sets me apart as an athlete is my ability to administer the amount of talent and the resources I have. I am very good at thinking of the long term and laying a strategy for my career. I make use of the tools I have acquired from my eng...