Ingo Schulze (athlete)

Ingo Schulze (2009)

Ingo Schulze (born February 8, 1948 in Tangermünde ) is a German ultramarathon runner and organizer of ultramarathon events.

Life

Ingo Schulze has been an ultramarathon runner since 1978. In 1998 he organized his first multi-day competition. In 2003 he organized the first transcontinental run through Europe with great media interest.

Performances as a runner

(As of January 2014)

• Germany Run 1983 (1097 km) entry in the Guinness Book of Records
• Germany Run 1993 (1305 km, all of Germany) Entry in the Guinness Book of Records
• Twin city run from Horb am Neckar to Salins-les-Bains / France over 353 km in 59.5 hours
• Twin town run from Horb to Haslemere / England 856 km in 7 days and 4.5 hours
• Marathon des Sables in the Moroccan Sahara (230 km in 7 days), 1997
• Six-day race in Odessa / Ukraine , 1997
• over 100 marathons
• over 142,000 kilometers run

Services as an organizer

• Germany run 1998, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2010, 1,204 km in 17 days
• Spreelauf 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2014, 420 km in six days
• 2003 Transeuropean run 5,036 km in 64 days from Lisbon to Moscow
• 2009 TransEurope-FootRace 4,488 km in 64 days from Bari to North Cape
• 2011 Horb-Berlin run 790 km in 13 days, from Horb am Neckar to Berlin
• 2012 TransEurope-FootRace 4,178 km in 64 days from Skagen to Gibraltar
• Black Forest Run 2016, 2017 and 2018, 262 km in five days through the Black Forest
• some fun runs in his hometown of Horb am Neckar ("Horber Stäpfeleslauf", "Horber Neckarlauf" and "Nordstetter Schloßlauf")

Since 1999 organizer of the Horber New Year's Run (without competition character)

Works

• Transeuropean Run 2003: Lisbon-Moscow 5036 km in 64 daily stages . VHEVG, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-86703-437-0
• TranseuropaLauf 2009: Bari - North Cape - 4,487.7 km in 64 daily stages . VHEVG, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-86901-782-2
• TranseuropaLauf 2012: Skagen - Gibraltar - 4,178 km in 64 daily stages . VHEVG, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-95488-207-6
• Passenger on a cargo ship. 49 days on a container ship of the “Hamburg-Süd” . VHEVG, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-95488-492-6
• Ultramarathon & more, VHEVG, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-96145-769-4

Awards

Special award from the German Ultramarathon Association in 2007 : "Ingo Schulze, as an organizer [...] did great work in promoting the ultramarathon." In November 2009 Ingo Schulze was made an honorary member of the DUV.

Web links

• Ingo Schulze's website