Christoph Strasser (extreme athlete)

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Christoph Strasser at the Race Around Austria 2010

Christoph Robert Strasser (born November 4, 1982 in Leoben , Austria ) is an Austrian extreme athlete and six-time and reigning winner of the Race Across America (within 2011-2019). He is the first person to cycle 1000 kilometers in less than 24 hours.

Career

Strasser grew up in Kraubath an der Mur . After his community service , he began studying environmental technology at the Montanuniversität Leoben , which he did not graduate.

After he was active as a soccer player in his youth , Christoph Strasser started cycling at the age of 18 . In 2002 he took part in his first 24-hour race . In 2005, at the age of 22, he was the youngest finisher of the Race across the Alps . In the following years he won several 24-hour races. At the age of 25, he became the youngest ultra-cycling marathon world champion. In 2009 he qualified for the Race Across America (RAAM) for the first time , but had to retire from fourth place after 2,400 km for health reasons.

A year later, on June 24, 2011, Strasser won the Race Across America as the third Austrian after Franz Spilauer and Wolfgang Fasching (three victories from 1997) and as the youngest winner to date.

On June 19, 2013, the Race Across America won for the second time. With a driving time of 7 days, 22 hours 52 minutes, he undercut the time of Pete Penseyres from 1986, setting a new course record and driving the course in less than eight days for the first time.

On June 18, 2014, he won the Race Across America for the third time. This makes him the first Austrian to defend the title the following year. With a driving time of 7 days, 15 hours and 56 minutes, he undercut his own course record set in the previous year.

On March 21, 2015, he improved the 24-hour world record outdoors in Berlin to 896.173 km. The attempt to be the first participant to win the Race Across America three times in a row in 2015 failed due to a lung infection . In August Strasser won the Race Around Austria and was able to beat his own record time from 2014 for the 2,200 km and 30,000 meters in altitude in 3 days, 14 hours and 44 minutes  .

In September 2015, Strasser had an accident with a car at around 45 km / h on a training drive in the Fohnsdorf area . The result was a fracture of the right kneecap , a serious injury to the right shoulder and a torn ligament on the left shoulder.

In August 2016, Strasser won the Race Around Austria for the third time in a row . It took him 3 days, 12 hours and 41 minutes.

On June 13, 2017, Strasser started again at the RAAM and finished it for the fourth time after 8 days, 9 hours and 34 minutes, with almost a day and a half ahead of the runner-up. That same year he improved in Tissot Velodrome in Swiss Grenchen the 24-hour world record km on the track at 941.873.

Strasser finished the 2018 RAAM again as the winner, after 8 days, 1 hour and 23 minutes, a total of 4960.51 km with an average speed of 25.65 km / h and a similar advantage as in 2019. In this race, 51 kilometers of altitude were overcome.

In 2019 he won the Race Across America for the sixth time with a time of 8 days, 6 hours and 51 minutes. With that he holds the only record, nobody before has won the race six times. He also achieved the third win in a row.

In August 2020 Strasser won the Race Around Austria again . He needed 3 days, 11 hours and 26 minutes for the 2,200 kilometers with 35,000 meters of altitude in mostly rainy weather, sometimes even hard. In these three days he got by with a total of only 1:05 hours of sleep. In September 2020 Christoph Strasser won the Race Around Lower Austria and at the same time the state champion in ultra solo.

From July 16 to 17, 2021, Strasser was the first person to drive more than 1,000 km in 24 hours on a circuit at Zeltweg Air Base . It reached 1,026.215 km at an average speed of 42.75 km / h. At the same time, according to his team, he also set 11 further world records over the kilometer and mile distances of 100, 200, 300, 500 and over the times of six, 12 and 24 hours.

successes

2021
  • AustriaAustria Race Around Lower Austria, 2nd victory, course record
2020
2019
  • United StatesUnited States Race Across America , 6th win
  • AustriaAustria Race Around Austria, team of 2, track record
2018
  • United StatesUnited States Race Across America , 5th victory
  • AustriaAustria Race Around Austria CHALLENGE, victory, course record
2017
  • United StatesUnited States Race Across America, 4th win
2016
2015
  • AustriaAustria Race Around Austria, 2nd victory, course record
2014
  • United StatesUnited States Race Across America, 3rd victory, course record
  • AustriaAustria Race Around Austria, 1st victory, course record
2013
  • United StatesUnited States Race Across America, 2nd win track record
  • AustriaAustria Race Around Austria, team of 4, track record
  • IrelandIreland United KingdomUnited Kingdom Race Around Ireland, course record
  • ItalyItaly Race Across Italy , first edition
2012
2011
  • SwitzerlandSwitzerland Tortour Suisse - in a team of 6
  • United StatesUnited States Race Across America, youngest winner
2010
  • AustriaAustria Record - Transaustria - UMCA Record
  • AustriaAustria Glocknerman - World Championship Ultra Cycling Marathon
2008
2007
  • AustriaAustria Glocknerman - world championship ultra cycling marathon, course record and youngest ultra world champion
2006

Web links

Commons : Christoph Strasser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 1026 kilometers in 24 hours: Extreme cyclist reports new world record. In: Der Spiegel. Retrieved July 18, 2021 .
  2. ↑ stefan.sigwarth: 4800 kilometers a matter of the head . June 1, 2014, accessed July 18, 2021 .
  3. ↑ Bike: Steirer Strasser improves the 24-hour world record: 896.173 km. In: kurier.at. March 21, 2015, accessed December 26, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Christoph has to end RAAM early // extreme athlete Christoph Strasser. Retrieved July 18, 2021 .
  5. ↑ Race Around Austria: Strasser with a new record time at the finish (August 16, 2015)
  6. ↑ RAAM-Star Strasser hit by car. September 21, 2015, accessed July 18, 2021 .
  7. ↑ Strasser comeback ends with a third victory - Race Around Austria. August 21, 2016, accessed July 18, 2021 .
  8. ↑ Fourth triumph: Strasser wins RAAM superior. In: sport.orf.at. June 22, 2017. Retrieved November 24, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Cyclist Strasser breaks the 24-hour world record. In: rad-net.de. October 15, 2017. Retrieved October 15, 2017 .
  10. ↑ HOME. Retrieved July 18, 2021 .
  11. ↑ Race Coverage Navigation raceacrossamerica 2019. In: raceacrossamerica.org. Retrieved July 18, 2021 .
  12. ↑ Strasser wins Race Around Lower Austria - sport.ORF.at. In: ORF Sport. September 19, 2020, accessed September 20, 2020 .
  13. ↑ ORF at / Agencies red: Extreme sport: Strasser pulverizes a 24-hour world record. July 17, 2021, accessed July 18, 2021 .
  14. ↑ RAN News - Race Around Lower Austria , May 8, 2021, accessed June 23, 2018.
  15. ↑ M3GA picture report Kuota 24h Kraftwerk Trophy bikeboard.at, 24./25. May 2008, accessed June 23, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Strasser, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strasser, Christoph Robert (full name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION Austrian extreme athlete
DATE OF BIRTH 4th November 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Leoben , Austria