Career
Born in Cologne, Frodeno started out as a swimmer in South Africa at the age of 15, and he entered triathlon in 2000. He then went to Germany to compete in the Triathlon-Bundesliga, and qualified for the national team in 2002. As part of the national team he trained at the Olympic Training Centre in Saarbrücken.
Before his Olympic victory, his best result was placing sixth in the 2007 World Championships, and winning the German Championship the same year.
He had previously also placed second and third in various races of the World Cup from 2005 to 2008. The victory came the day after his twenty-seventh birthday.
Frodeno continued to perform strongly in 2009 and 2010, finishing 4th overall in the World Championship Triathlon Series both years. Frodeno returned to the Olympics in 2012 to compete in the men"s triathlon event where he would finish 6th.
The next year, in 2013, he retired from the shorter standard and sprint triathlon after winning a gold medal as part of the German team in the mixed relay triathlon world championships in Hamburg.
He finished third on his full-length Ironman debut at the Ironman European Championship and also finished third at the 2014 Ironman World Championship on his World Championship debut. In 2015 Frodeno suffered a cycling injury that took him out of the inaugural Challenge Dubai. Instead he made his season debut at Ironman 70.3 Oceanside, winning the event while edging out Andy Potts and Lionel Sanders.
Following Oceanside, Frodeno took 2nd at Cannes Triathlon and 1st at Ironman 70.3 Barcelona.
He began with a strong swim where he exited and transitioned onto the bike along with Potts and Dylan McNeice at the front, pulling away from the other leaders on the bike, and completing with one of the fastest marathon runs of the day. Frodeno is married to Emma Snowsill, the gold medalist in women"s triathlon at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
