Jonathan Wyatt

Jonathan Wyatt
The six-time mountain running world champion at the Taipei 101 Run Up, 2010
nation	New Zealand
birthday	20th December 1972 (age 47)
place of birth	Lower Hutt , New Zealand
Career
Best performance	2:13:00 h (marathon)
status	active
Medal table
Mountain running world championships 7 × 1 × 0 ×
Mountain running world championships gold Reunion Island 1998 Mountain run gold Bergen 2000 Mountain run gold Innsbruck 2002 Mountain run gold Sauze d'Oulx 2004 Mountain run gold Wellington 2005 Mountain run silver Bursa 2006 Mountain run gold Sierre 2008 Mountain run
last change: January 10, 2018

Jonathan Wyatt (born December 20, 1972 in Lower Hutt ) is a New Zealand long-distance runner and has been the dominant mountain runner in the world since the late 1990s . He won the world championship in mountain running in 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2008.

Career

Wyatt won his first four world championship titles on pure uphill routes, which are always chosen in the even years for the world championships on the normal distance.

In 2005 he took part in the Uphill-Downhill World Championships for the second time and won them for the first time, although he actually preferred pure uphill routes.

In 2006 he finished second at the World Mountain Running Championships . In 2007 he won the world championships on the long distance as part of the Jungfrau Marathon (42.2 kilometers in length; 1829 meters uphill; 305 meters downhill). In 2008 he won the world championship again on an uphill stretch in Crans-Montana .

In the years 1999 to 2003 he was also undefeated in the flight of stairs . Among other things, he holds the record on the KL Tower (2058 steps) in Malaysia .

He is an eight-time winner of the WMRA World Cup (1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009).

At the 2010 Mountain Running World Championships in the Slovenian city of Kamnik , he finished eighth; his wife Antonella Confortola Wyatt finished sixth.

He has not appeared internationally since 2011. Today he works in the development team of the Trento company La Sportiva .

Private

Since May 2009 he has been married to the Italian cross-country skier and mountain runner Antonella Confortola (* 1975) and they both live in Ziano di Fiemme ( Fiemme Valley ).

Sporting successes

Jonathan Wyatt at the Schneeberglauf 2008

Successes in mountain runs

• 1999 - First at the World for Mountain Running Grand Prix
• 2000 - Winner of the 12th international Schlickeralmlauf (Berglauf Grand Prix) in Telfes im Stubai (AUT)
• 2001 - Winner of the Drei-Zinnen-Lauf in Sexten (ITA)
• 2003 - First in the mountain running classic in Switzerland Sierre - Zinal and course record in 2:29:12
• 2003 - First in the Jungfrau Marathon and course record in 2:49:01
• 2003 - Winner of the 15th international Schlickeralmlauf (Berglauf Grand Prix) in Telfes im Stubai (AUT)
• 2004 - Winner at the Dolomitenmann in Lienz ( East Tyrol )
• 2004 - Winner of the Mount Washington Road Race with a new course record
• 2004 - Winner of the Three Peaks Run in Sexten (ITA)
• 2004 - Winner of the 16th international Schlickeralmlauf (Berglauf Grand Prix) in Telfes im Stubai (AUT) with a new course record of 55:32
• 2005 - Winner at the Dolomitenmann in Lienz (East Tyrol)
• 2005 - Winner of the Kolsassberg Run 2005 with a new course record (24: 11.98 min)
• 2005 - Winner of the Three Peaks Run in Sexten (ITA)
• 2005 - Winner of the 17th international Schlickeralmlauf (Berglauf Grand Prix) in Telfes im Stubai (AUT)
• 2006 - Victory in the Graubünden marathon from Chur to the Parpaner Rothorn
• 2006 - Victory at the Achensee run in Tyrol over 23.2 kilometers
• 2006 - Winner of the 18th international Schlickeralmlauf (Berglauf Grand Prix) in Telfes im Stubai (AUT)
• 2006 - Victory in the Schneeberglauf with a new course record (52:21)
• 2006 - Victory at the Kolsassberg Run 2006 with a new course record (Min 23: 17.20)
• 2006 - Victory at the Gamperney Mountain Run with a new course record (41: 55.51)
• 2007 - victory in the Schneeberglauf
• 2007 - Winner of the Jungfrau Marathon in 2:55:32 (at the same time world championships of the long distance)
• 2007 - Ex-aequo winner with Marco De Gasperi (ITA) at the Kolsassberg Run 2007
• 2008 - Victory in the Schneeberglauf
• 2008 - Victory in the Graubünden marathon from Chur to the Parpaner Rothorn near Lenzerheide
• 2008 - Winner at the Dolomitenmann in Lienz ( East Tyrol )
• 2008 - Winner of the Tour de Tirol in Söll Tirol
• 2008 - Winner of the 20th international Schlickeralm run in Telfes im Stubai (AUT)
• 2008 - Mountain running world champion in Crans-Montana (11.97 km; 1046 m altitude difference in 0:55:03)
• 2008 - Ex-aequo winner with Marco De Gasperi (ITA) at the Kolsassberg Run 2008
• 2009 - Victory at the Zermatt Marathon with a new course record (2:57:47)
• 2009 - Winner of the Kolsassberg Run (December 13, 2009, 5253 m / 593 m difference in altitude in 23: 58.50)
• 2009 - Winner of the Jungfrau Marathon 42195 m length / 1829 m ascent / 305 m descent in 2: 58.33.4
• 2010 - Winner of the Drei-Zinnen-Lauf in Sexten (ITA)
• 2010 - Winner of the 22nd international Schlickeralmlauf in Telfes im Stubai (AUT), with 7 victories record winner and course record holder (2004) at the Schlickeralmlauf

Wyatt also took first places in numerous other mountain races and mountain marathons and holds many course records.

• 2011 - Winner of the Drei-Zinnen-Lauf in Sexten (ITA) Time: 1: 29.02

Success on flat routes

• 1996 - 16th place at the Atlanta Summer Olympics in the 5000 m run
• 2002 - Sixth in the Commonwealth Games marathon in Manchester in 2:14:20
• 2002 - Winner of the media marathon in Munich in 2:23:19
• 2003 - 10,000 m in 27: 56.72 in Inglewood ( New Zealand )

Web links

• Jonathan Wyatt in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Portrait of Jonathan Wyatt at Laufreport.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Westfalen Blatt: Jonathan Wyatt: "I have achieved everything". (No longer available online.) April 23, 2013, formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 17, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
2. ↑ Franz Stöckl: district sheets Kolsassberg Run . OK from the Kolsassberg Classic & Run. December 7, 2008. Retrieved December 20, 2008.