Sepp Resnik

Sepp Resnik (* 1953 in Graz ) is an Austrian soldier and extreme athlete .

Life

Sepp Resnik graduated from the Federal Real High School for working people at the Theresian Military Academy in 1976 , became a soldier at the age of 17, later completed training in hunting command and became an officer in the Austrian Armed Forces . After that he was on the national military pentathlon team for years . In 1984 he took part in the Ironman Hawaii for the first time and has since been involved in increasingly extreme events, in double and multiple ironmans. Several times he circled the world on his bike. Professionally, he achieved the rank of colonel. After his retirement he looked after tennis professional Dominic Thiem .

In 2011 Resnik was a celebrity camper at the star magazine PINK! .

Publications

• 1988: Ironman: vom Sinn des Wahnsinns Triathlon , together with Wolfgang Prinz, with the collaboration of Herbert Völker and Toni Mathis, Orac Verlag, Vienna 1988, ISBN 978-3-7015-0150-2

literature

• Thomas Rottenberg : Sepp Resnik - Simply extreme (together with Sepp Resnik). Residenz-Verlag, St. Pölten 2006. ISBN 3-7017-3024-5 .
• Josef Metzger: Sepp Resnik: Fit like a sneaker , Echomedia Buchverlag, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-903113-42-8

Web links

Commons : Sepp Resnik  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Festschrift 50 Jahre_BRG for working soldiers , page 194
2. ↑ Wellness Gala 2017 ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed on January 20, 2018 
3. ↑ The Celebrity Campers - Episode 10 - Pink! Austria's star magazine on puls4.com ( Memento of the original from September 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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.