Asker Jeukendrup
{{short description|Dutch nutritionist and physionlogist}}
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| fields = Sports Nutritionist, Exercise Physiologist
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Asker Jeukendrup is a sports nutrition scientist and an Ironman triathlete.
Academic career
Following an MSc in Human Movement Sciences at Maastricht University in the Netherlands he completed his PhD in 1997 at the same university studying aspects of carbohydrate and fat metabolism during exercise.{{cite web |url=http://www.askerjeukendrup.com/profile.html |title=Profile Asker Jeukendrup |publisher=Askerjeukendrup.com |date=2004-01-01 |accessdate=2011-07-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110827181110/http://www.askerjeukendrup.com/profile.html |archive-date=2011-08-27 |url-status=dead }} After postdoctoral research at the University of Texas in Austin, Jeukendrup
became the youngest professor at the University of Birmingham at the age of 35.{{cite web |url=http://home.trainingpeaks.com/profiles/asker-jeukendrup.aspx |title=Focus your training and find room for improvement | TrainingPeaks |publisher=Home.trainingpeaks.com |accessdate=2011-07-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110815004324/http://home.trainingpeaks.com/profiles/asker-jeukendrup.aspx |archive-date=2011-08-15 |url-status=dead }} He was a Professor of Exercise Metabolism at the University of Birmingham for over 12 years. He also served as a Director of the Human Performance Lab at the same university.{{cite web|url=http://www.worldwhoswho.com/public/views/entry.html?id=sl2175066 |title=JEUKENDRUP Asker E. : World Who's Who |publisher=Worldwhoswho.com |date= |accessdate=2011-07-29}} Jeukendrup has authored several books on sports nutrition and over 200 peer reviewed journal articles on exercise and sports nutrition.{{cite press release |url=http://triathlon.competitor.com/2011/06/press-room/ironman-athlete-named-global-director-of-gatorade-sports-science-institute_31235 |title=Ironman Athlete Named Global Director Of Gatorade Sports Science Institute |publisher=Triathlon.competitor.com |date=2011-06-14 |accessdate=2011-07-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110819175937/http://triathlon.competitor.com/2011/06/press-room/ironman-athlete-named-global-director-of-gatorade-sports-science-institute_31235 |archive-date=2011-08-19 |url-status=dead }}
His research interests include metabolic responses to exercise, regulation of carbohydrate and fat metabolism, sports nutrition, gastrointestinal complaints during exercise, training and over-training. He is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the Nutrition Society, the Physiological Society, the Biochemical Society, the American Diabetes Association and the European College of Sport Sciences.
Post-academic career
In June 2011, Jeukendrup was named Global Senior Director of the Gatorade Sports Science Institute (GSSI) at PepsiCo. In addition to leading GSSI, he remained an adjunct professor at the University of Birmingham.{{cite web |author=Dr. Asker Jeukendrup |url=http://www.gssiweb.com/GSSITeam_Detail.aspx?personID=18 |title=GSSI |publisher=Gssiweb.com |accessdate=2011-07-29 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622075333/http://gssiweb.com/GSSITeam_Detail.aspx?PersonID=18 |archivedate=22 June 2011 |url-status=dead }} In 2014 Jeukendrup started his own consulting company mysportscience ltd and now advises mostly teams and organisations. Jeukendrup is currently{{when|date=December 2024}} Head nutrition for the Dutch Olympic Committee (Performance Manager Nutrition TeamNL), JumboVisma Pro cycling, PSV Eindhoven, Red Bull Salzburg and the Red Bull Athlete Performance Center. Through blogs on Mysportscience.com he tries to bust myths in sports nutrition and provide evidence based and balanced information about nutrition. Jeukendrup is also co-founder of CORE Nutrition planning, an evidence based web based nutrition planner that provides detailed nutrition plans for races and training.
Sporting competitions highlights
Jeukendrup has competed in 21 Ironman races, including 6 Ironman Hawaii triathlons. He won the Golden Gate Headlands Marathon in 2006 (3:22:48){{cite web|url=http://zinsli.com/results/index.asp |title=Search Sacramento Area Running Results – Zinsli |publisher= |date= |accessdate=2011-07-29}} and competed at the European and World Championships duathlons.{{cite web |url=http://www.nutrifit.co.uk/science/en/researchers.html |title=researchers |publisher=Nutrifit.co.uk |date= |accessdate=2011-07-29 }}{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Selected bibliography
- Textbook on Sports Nutrition (3rd edition) 2018
- Textbook on Sport Nutrition (2nd Edition) (2009){{cite book|author=Asker Jeukendrup, Michael Gleeson|title=Sport Nutrition eBook-2nd Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ul-UlX5F84sC&pg=PP1|accessdate=28 July 2011|publisher=Human Kinetics|isbn=978-0-7360-8715-5|pages=1–}}
- High-Performance Cycling (2002){{cite book|author=Asker E. Jeukendrup|title=High-performance cycling|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7MZu1ZTZL_kC&pg=PP1|accessdate=28 July 2011|year=2002|publisher=Human Kinetics|isbn=978-0-7360-4021-1|pages=1–}}
Notable clients
- Team Jumbo-Visma
- Haile Gebrselassie - Ethiopian long-distance track and road running athlete, Olympic gold medalist.
- Chrissie Wellington - English triathlete holder of three world and championship records relating to ironman-distance triathlon races.
- Chelsea Football Club
- UK Athletics
- British Olympic Association
- Rabobank cycling team – a professional bicycle racing team, sponsored by the Rabobank.{{cite web |url=http://www.askerjeukendrup.com/profile.html |title=Profile Asker Jeukendrup |publisher=Askerjeukendrup.com |date=2004-01-01 |accessdate=2011-09-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110914013154/http://www.askerjeukendrup.com/profile.html |archive-date=2011-09-14 |url-status=dead }}{{cite book|author1=Don MacLaren|author2=British Association of Sport and Medicine|title=Nutrition and sport|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v0RadnSEdM4C&pg=PR8|accessdate=30 July 2011|year=2007|publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences|isbn=978-0-443-10341-4|pages=8–}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.mysportscience.com/ Asker Jeukendrup's sports science website]
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