Florian Neuschwander

Florian Neuschwander
nation	Germany
birthday	1st June 1981 (age 39)
place of birth	Neunkirchen (Saar) ,  Germany
size	167 cm
Weight	57 kg
job	Retail salesman
Career
society	SV Saar 05 Saarbrücken (until 2001) LC Rehlingen (2002–2004) VfA Neunkirchen (2005–2007) LG Stadtwerke München (2008–2010) Post-Sportverein Trier (2011–2014) Spiridon Frankfurt (since 2015)
Medal table
IAU World Championships 0 × 1 × 0 × German Championships (DLV) 0 × 1 × 2 × German Championships (DUV) 0 × 1 × 0 ×
IAU World Championships silver Llanrwst 2013 Ultra trail German Championships (DLV) silver Calw 2008 half marathon bronze Hamburg 2011 marathon bronze Grünheide 2019 50 km of road German Championships (DUV) silver Marburg 2015 50 km of road
last change: April 16, 2020

Florian "Flo (w)" Neuschwander (born June 1, 1981 in Neunkirchen (Saar) ) is a German long-distance and ultra runner .

Career

Florian Neuschwander started running at the age of 15, before he played tennis from the age of six .

His first competition, 2 km at the 20th International St. Nicholas Road Run of the VFA Neunkirchen , he ran on December 8, 1996 without training and in tennis shoes in a time of 6: 29.2 minutes.

After dropping out of sports studies, he completed a successful training as a retail salesman and in 2008 switched to LG Stadtwerke München , for which he started until 2010. In the meantime he lived in London for a year and was able to win ten of 18 races in Great Britain . His personal best of 29: 51.88 minutes over 10,000 m in Birmingham in 2009 meant fifth place on the German annual best list.

Neuschwander initially specialized in medium and long-distance runs before switching to ultra- marathons. He completed his first ultra trail and won it in 2011 at the Uewersauer ( Luxembourg ) trail in a time of 03:49:17 h on 52.5 km. In 2012 (3:27:27 h) and 2013 (3:36:07 h) he was also able to win this run.

Florian Neuschwander worked in a run shop in Frankfurt; He counts among his role models Steve Prefontaine . He lives in Inzell with his girlfriend and child .

Neuschwander became known to the general public through his victory at the Wings for Life World Run 2015 in Darmstadt , as a result of which he was able to successfully establish the "Run with the flow" brand . At the IAU 100K World & European Championships 2015 in Winschoten ( NLD ) he was able to achieve ninth place.

On February 3, 2018, Neuschwander took part in the Sean O'Brien 100k , a 100-kilometer trail run in Malibu . He won the race with a time of 8:48:04 h and thus received a golden ticket - the right to participate - for the Western States Endurance Run .

On February 27, 2020, Neuschwander ran a world record over the 50-kilometer route on a treadmill in Thalgau . With a time of 2:57:25 h, it was almost two minutes below the treadmill world record of 2:59:03 h set by the American Mario Mendoza Jr. on January 14, 2020. In addition, Neuschwander secured an entry in the Guinness Book of Records . On April 16, the record was improved by Swiss orienteer Matthias Kyburz to 2:56:35 h. Neuschwander ran a marathon in the Berchtesgaden Alps in June with over 2000 meters in altitude in 2:59:42 hours.

Personal bests

• 800 m : 1: 56.14 min, July 5, 2012, Saarbrücken
• 1000 m : 2: 29.66 min, 2002, Rehlingen
• 1500 m : 3: 49.83 min, July 30, 2002, Rehlingen
• 3000 m : 8: 25.54 min, July 16, 2000, Dresden
• 5000 m : 14: 22.05 min, May 23, 2012, Koblenz
• 10,000 m : 29: 51.88 min, August 22, 2009, Birmingham
• 10 km road run : 30:14 min, July 30, 2011, Ralingen
• Half marathon : 1:06:20 h, April 18, 2010, Bad Liebenzell
• Marathon : 2:20:29 h, April 14, 2013, Bonn
• 50 km road race: 2:52:17 h, April 10, 2016, Ebershausen
• 100 km road race: 6:49:13 h, September 12, 2015, Winschoten

Personal achievements

Web links

• Official website
• Florian Neuschwander in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait in the athletics database
• Athlete portrait in the statistics of the German Ultramarathon Association
• Athlete profile with the Association of Road Racing Statisticians

Individual evidence

1. ↑ This German runs like van Gogh painted. In: The world . August 31, 2015, accessed September 20, 2015 . 
2. ↑ The racing maniac. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . October 23, 2014, accessed September 20, 2015 . 
3. ↑ My first competition. In: Facebook Florian Neuschwander. October 4, 2015, accessed October 7, 2015 . 
4. ^ Gabi Gründling: Neuschwander, Florian. (No longer available online.) In: Laufticker.de. July 8, 2013, archived from the original on February 6, 2016 ; accessed on February 6, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Uwe Martin: Ballern. (No longer available online.) In: hlv.de. November 18, 2015, archived from the original on March 29, 2016 ; accessed on January 2, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ WM 100 km: Florian Neuschwander finished ninth. In: hlv.de. September 13, 2015, accessed January 2, 2017 . 
7. ↑ SOB 2018 - 100k Results. In: livensr.com. Retrieved February 5, 2018 . 
8. ↑ German ultra runner breaks 50 km treadmill world record. Retrieved February 28, 2020 . 
9. ↑ 50 km on the treadmill: Kyburz creates the world record. Retrieved April 16, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Florian Neuschwander runs the mountain marathon in an impressive time! (June 15, 2020)