Jürgen Mennel
Jürgen Mennel 
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| birthday | 30th May 1960 (age 60) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Ultra marathon | ||||||||||||||||||
| society | SV Neckarsulm | ||||||||||||||||||
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Jürgen Mennel (born May 30, 1960 in Neckarsulm , Baden-Württemberg) is a German ultramarathon runner and sports therapist.
Career
In 1969 he started as a student in Lampoldshausen in his first competition over 800 m.
From 1983 to 1988: he studied social work (focus: linking the elements of sports education and motivation; among other things with non-sedentary people).
In 1985 he switched to the ultramarathon distances (1200 km in 14 days; unaccompanied from Neckarsulm to Carmaux , southern France).
In 1988 Mennel started his first 100 km road race at the German Championships (7:32:10 h). In 1989 he was German champion over 100 km track run in 7:24:24 h and in the following year he was able to repeat this title in the time of 7:02:05 h. In 1991, 1994 and 1995 he was runner-up in the 100 km distance.
In 1991 Jürgen Mennel was runner-up in the World Cup with the German national team in Florence and took fifth place in the individual World Cup ranking.
In July 2008, he completed a 650 km run from Künzelsau to Berlin in just five days . During this run, he also set a new world record: Jürgen Mennel completed his 300,000th run kilometer in this context. This is the highest number of kilometers that an internationally active championship runner can run anywhere in the world.
On September 20, 2010, on the occasion of the 2500th anniversary of the Athens Marathon, the 50-year-old started in Heilbronn and ran to Athens . It took him a month to cover the 2200 km route. The Greek Minister of Culture Pavlos Geroulanos received him in the Panathinaikon Stadium , the Olympic Stadium from 1896 .
He works as a sports therapist with people with disabilities.
literature
- Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005. 2 volumes . Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Mennel has perseverance. The 50-year-old covered the distance from Heilbronn to Athens on foot. It took him a month. (October 21, 2010)
- ↑ Running is his life (October 12, 2017)
- ↑ Newspaper report of the Hamburger Abendblatt Access: October 26, 2010
- ↑ Jürgen Mennel runs. Ultra marathon. (October 9, 2015)
- ↑ Jürgen Mennel (57) still jogs 32 kilometers a day (October 11, 2017)
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| SURNAME | Mennel, Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ultramarathon runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neckarsulm , Baden-Wuerttemberg |