Mr. Lange, let’s look ahead a few months. October 26th, Ironman World Championships in Hawaii. Finish line. Where do you see yourself?
I wouldn’t play the sport anymore if I didn’t firmly believe that it was possible for me to win in Hawaii a third time. That is my goal. That’s the image I have in my head. The image that I work for day after day.
After the resignations of Jan Frodeno and Sebastian Kienle, you are the last active German Hawaii winner. You will be 38 years old on competition day and will face a new generation of young, super-fast competitors such as France’s Sam Laidlow, behind whom you finished second at the 2023 World Championships in Nice, and Denmark’s Magnus Ditlev. Laidlow is 25, Ditlev 26. How do you plan to compete against them?