Els Visser
Professional triathlete
Multiple Ironman Champion
Doctor with PhD in Surgery
Keynote Speaker Topics
Resilience
International Speakers
Sports
- • Professional triathlete from the Netherlands, living in St. Moritz
- • Focusing on the half distance and full distance triathlon
- • Multiple Ironman Champion, European Champion and the current Dutch record holder with a time of 08.24.47
Profession
- • Professional triathlete
- • Doctor – PhD in Surgery
- • Active now as a lifestyle doctor focusing on public health and prevention of diseases
Private
Els is a woman with an incredible story. In 2014 she survived a shipwreck while traveling in Indonesia. A moment that everything in her life changed. Her extraordinary experience taught Els to trust her body and her stamina. After getting back to the Netherlands she kept studying medicine, but she had also discovered her true talent: the Ironman triathlon. She decides to become a professional triathlete, and a few years later she crowns herself to Dutch and European champion.
When she feels like quitting in the middle of a race, she knows that she has a little more to give; because ultimately she survived eighteen hours in open water.