Wings for Life World Run

Wings for Life World Run in Munich (2017)

The Wings for Life World Run has been a charity run that has been taking place every year in May on 34 or 35 routes in 33 countries worldwide since 2014 . The motto is: "Running for those who cannot walk" . 100% of the income goes to spinal cord research through the Wings for Life Foundation .

The special feature of the Wings for Life World Run is that, unlike other fun runs, no predetermined distance has to be covered. 30 minutes after the start, a "catcher car" drives the route. Overtaken participants are out of the race until only one remains, the winner.

The Wings for Life Foundation and the Wings for Life World Run

The non-profit Wings for Life Foundation was founded in 2004 by two-time motocross world champion Heinz Kinigadner and Red Bull founder Dietrich Mateschitz . It has set itself the goal of a cure for spinal cord injury and paraplegia to find. In addition, the foundation financially supports research and studies on spinal cord and spinal cord injuries. Anita Gerhardter is the managing director. Founder Kinigadner himself is indirectly affected because his brother and son, who were both motocross riders, are paraplegic.

In order to collect donations and at the same time to draw attention to the limitations and health problems of people with spinal cord injury, the foundation organized the first Wings for Life World Run on May 4, 2014 after two years of preparation. After the success of the first run, the concept will be continued as an annual event. According to the official website, Anita Gerhardter came up with the idea during a stay at Moscow Airport to organize a worldwide race, in which the last participant remaining in the race should be the winner.

It is a fun run , which means that everyone can participate. The entry fee will be donated in full to the foundation, the main sponsor Red Bull will cover the event costs. The entry fee differs a little depending on the place and time of registration. In Germany you have to pay 39.00 euros, but it is also possible to increase the donation during the registration process. In the two events in 2014 and 2015, 3 million and 4.2 million euros were donated.

"World" Run

The name Wings for Life World Run is derived from the fact that it takes place simultaneously in 34 or 35 different locations around the world. This means that the participants at venues in Europe and Africa start around noon, while participants in Asia and Australia run in the afternoon and evening, and in the American continents they run early in the morning or at night.

The "catcher car"

The Wings for Life World Run is special in that it does not have to cover a predetermined distance, for example 10 kilometers or 42.195 kilometers as in a marathon . This means that runners of very different levels can participate in the same way.

A route of 100 km is prepared at each location. All participants start at the same time, 30 minutes later a car, the so-called "catcher car", drives the route. It starts at 14 km / h and gets 1 km / h faster every half hour. From 2014 to 2018 the initial speed was 15 km / h and the car only got faster every hour. If the car overtakes a runner, the race is over for him. A bus service brings retired participants back to the start area. From a sporting point of view, it is not the time that everyone needs to cover a certain distance that counts, but the distance that is covered before the catcher car overtakes you.

The last runner at each location are the local Wings for Life World Run winners and receive a free starting place at the location of their choice the following year. In addition, the man and woman who have run the longest distance in the world will become the global Wings for Life World Run Champions and will receive a world tour as a special prize.

The external conditions and the nature of the route are sometimes very different. The catcher cars are precisely controlled thanks to global satellite navigation, so that a comparison between the individual venues is still possible. All data come together in Spielberg in Austria and the race is controlled from there. The following table shows when the car goes how fast and how far it has come with each speed change.

Speed ​​of the catcher car from 2014 to 2018

Time after the start HH: MM	speed	Corresponds to the distance
00:00 to 00:30	0 km / h	0 km
00:30 to 01:30	15 km / h	0 to 15 km
01:30 to 02:30	16 km / h	15 to 31 km
02:30 to 03:30	17 km / h	31 to 48 km
03:30 to 05:30	20 km / h	48 to 88 km
from 05:30	35 km / h	more than 88 km

Speed ​​of the catcher car since 2019

Time after the start HH: MM	speed	Corresponds to the distance
00:00 to 00:30	0 km / h	0 km
00:30 to 01:00	14 km / h	0 to 7 km
01:00 to 01:30	15 km / h	7 to 14.5 km
01:30 to 02:00	16 km / h	14.5 to 22.5 km
02:00 to 02:30	17 km / h	22.5 to 31 km
02:30 to 03:00	18 km / h	31 to 40 km
03:00 to 03:30	22 km / h	40 to 51 km
from 03:30	26 km / h	more than 51 km

Known participants

• Giorgio Calcaterra , 2014: 72.96 km; 2015: 78.06 km; 2016: 88.44 km, 2017: 87.15
• Julian Eberhard , 2014: 29.57 km; 2015: 25.16 km; 2016: 31.68 km; 2017: 22.84 km: 2018: 22.08 km
• Simon Eder , 2014: 30.24 km; 2015: 47.38 km; 2018: 16.78 km
• Andreas Goldberger , 2014: 40.60 km; 2016: 41.94 km; 2017: 44.22 km; 2018: 35.87 km
• Miriam Gössner , 2014: 22.71 km; 2015: 24.49 km; 2016: 30.02 km
• Marcel Hirscher , 2014: 14.02 km; 2015: 22.19 km; 2016: 23.09 km, 2017: 11.31 km
• Marco Kaminski , 2014: 56.51 km
• Lemawork Ketema , 2014: 78.58 km; 2015: 79.90 km; 2016: 41.00 km; 2017: 87.16 km
• José Manuel Martínez , 2014: 55.56 km; 2015: 59.19 km; 2016: 60.36 km, 2017: 66.25 km
• Sabrina Mockenhaupt , 2014: 26.13 km; 2016: 14.82 km; 2017: 21.32 km
• Florian Neuschwander , 2015: 74.56 km; 2016: 63.66 km; 2017: 83.49 km; 2018: 69.54 km
• Daniela Ryf , 2014: 44.44 km; 2015: 20.40 km; 2016: 21.35 km; 2017: 4.80 km; 2018: 20.41 km
• Gregor Schlierenzauer , 2014: 18.56 km; 2015: 17.87 km; 2017: 14.19 km
• Frida Södermark , 2015: 42.09 km (Sweden); 2016: 52.37 km (Chile); 2017: 47.62 km (Mexico); 2018: 41.30 km (Taiwan)
• Heidi Weng , 2014: 25.67 km; 2016: 24.95 km; 2017: 28.23 km

Wings for Life World Run 2014

The first Wings for Life World Run took place on May 4th, 2014 at 34 locations around the world. The start time for all participants was 10:00 UTC , i.e. 12:00 CEST . The sporting director of the event was the British athletics world champion Colin Jackson .

Ultimately, the event was a success. The race for the global championship was particularly close for men. Finally, the Ethiopian Lemawork Ketema prevailed with 78.58 km on the Danube Valley route in Austria. He had come 90 m further than the Peruvian Remigio Huaman Quispe, who ran in Lima, and 180 m further than Evgenii Glyva from the Ukraine, who, like Ketema, had started in Austria.

In the women’s race, the Norwegian Elise Selvikvåg Molvik came out on top with 54.79 kilometers in Stavanger. It is noteworthy that, according to the official website, she was only 18 years old at the time and had never competed more than 30 km. With 54.79 km she also took 42nd place in the overall ranking of women and men. Second was Nathalie Vasseur from France with 51.26 km in Hennebont, third Svetlana Shepeleva from Moldova with 48.29 km in Alanya.

A total of 35,397 men and women, including numerous celebrities such as Mark Webber and Aksel Lund Svindal , started and covered a total of 530,928 km.

Winner of the Wings for Life World Run 2014

place	winner	Age group	Distance (in km)	Global placement
Alanya	Murat Kaya	M40	55.93	38
Auckland	Braden Currie	M25	45.34	140
Barcelona	Chema Martinez	M40	55.56	40
Bratislava	Boris Csiba	M30	50.22	68
Bucharest	Eugene Constantin Sorop	M25	58.86	21st
Busselton	David Kennedy	M35	43.89	168
Cancun	Crisanto Grajales	M25	43.17	185
Comporta	Antonio Sousa	M40	46.82	119
Darmstadt	Markus Mockenhaupt	M30	56.87	32
Denver	Hunter Paris	M30	55.37	41
Danube Valley	Lemawork Ketema	M25	78.58	1
Drenthe	Fréderique Lotin	M25	54.31	44
Florianópolis	Cesar Miguel Momesso dos Santos	M30	44.78	151
Haryana	Isaac Kipernoi	M25	41.11	250
Hennebont	Thibaut Baronian	M25	59.35	18th
Hualien	Chih Chun Li	M35	48.05	103
Kakheti	Anatoly Oleinikovi	M30	52.65	53
Squid	Thomas Pechhacker	M30	50.50	65
Cape Town	Coolboy Ngamole	M35	59.88	16
Kerry	John O'Regan	M45	49.24	76
Lima	Remigio Huaman Quispe	M30	78.49	2
Ljubljana	David Plese	M30	59.74	17th
Olten	Marco Kaminski	M50	56.51	34
Pinamar	Ignacio Ilarregui	M35	57.08	31
Poses	Grzegorz Urbańczyk	M25	49.08	77
Prairies	Ryan King	M25	46.79	120
Santa Clarita	Calum Neff	M30	58.52	22nd
Santiago	Pablo Gonzalez	M35	57.40	30th
Silverstone	Paul Martelletti	M35	69.37	5
Stavanger	Svein Ove Risa	M40	63.36	12
Sunrise	Michael Wardian	M40	57.75	27
Verona	Giorgio Calcaterra	M40	72.96	4th
Ypres	Wouter Decock	M30	65.11	7th
Zadar	Goran Muric	M30	49.52	73

Winners of the Wings for Life World Run 2014

place	Winner	Age group	Distance (in km)	Global placement
Alanya	Svetlana Shepeleva	F45	48.29	3
Auckland	Antonia Elliot	F25	31.38	94
Barcelona	Miriam Garcia Heredia	F30	42.91	11
Bratislava	Jana Zatlukalová	F25	39.26	24
Bucharest	Liliana Maria Danci	F18	39.03	25th
Busselton	Laoise Thuama	F25	36.30	39
Cancun	Anahi Inzunza	F25	26.99	213
Comporta	Mária Santos	F35	25.35	321
Darmstadt	Lea Bäuscher	F30	46.23	5
Denver	Erlena Josifi	F18	33.53	66
Danube Valley	Julia Moser	F18	34.87	53
Drenthe	Linda Vliet	F25	31.75	85
Florianópolis	Ana Borba	F30	37.40	30th
Haryana	Wahida Raheman	F25	29.17	137
Hennebont	Nathalie Vasseur	F45	51.26	2
Hualien	汪, 旖 文	F30	29.58	127
Kakheti	Marielle Carmagnolle	F55	25.34	323
Squid	Maria Lundgren	F40	45.24	9
Cape Town	Mfunzi Ntombesintu	F30	47.57	4th
Kerry	Alison Kirwan	F30	30.19	115
Lima	Ayde Quispe Ortiz	F18	40.83	17th
Ljubljana	Sylvie Tramoy	F40	33.82	62
Olten	Daniela Ryf	F25	44.44	10
Pinamar	Laura Gordiola	F40	36.56	34
Poses	Aga Głomb	F18	38.81	27
Prairies	Chrissy Magneson	F25	32.97	69
Santa Clarita	Jeannie Rutherford	F35	35.64	46
Santiago	Gabriela Cerda	F18	31.82	83
Silverstone	Joanna Zakrzewski	F35	45.39	7th
Stavanger	Elise Selvikvåg Molvik	F18	54.79	1
Sunrise	Haley Chura	F25	45.61	6th
Verona	Astrid Kaltenboeck	F40	35.49	48
Ypres	Nele Louwagie	F35	34.68	54
Zadar	Kimberly ReMine	F18	41.02	16

Wings for Life World Run 2015

On May 3, 2015, the second edition of the Wings for Life World Run was held at 35 locations. The start time this year was 11:00 UTC, i.e. 13:00 CEST. As in the previous year, the sporting director of the event was the British athletics world champion Colin Jackson.

This year 72,224 women and men took part, including numerous international sports stars such as Marcel Hirscher and Gregor Schlierenzauer . Aksel Lund Svindal, who started as a runner in 2014, sat in the catcher car in Stavanger this time, as did other well-known people such as Felix Baumgartner (in Bucharest) and David Coulthard (in Silverstone). There were even 101,000 runners registered worldwide: Many of them were multiple entries, which brought in additional entry fee.

On the sporting side, last year's two fastest Lemawork Ketema and Remigio Huaman Quispe started at the same location in Austria. Ketema increased its performance to 79.90 km and took the global title again. Quispe ran almost as far as in 2014, namely 78.20 km and thus achieved third place worldwide. Another long-distance duel developed, this time with the Chilean César Díaz Hernández, who finished second with 78.31 km in Santiago, and with Giorgio Calcaterra, who repeated his victory in Italy and cleared himself with 78.06 km (4th place worldwide) increased.

Last year's winner Elise Molvik competed in Stavanger again. She won the event there, but was clearly beaten in the overall standings with 45.02 km. The global podium at this event was formed by Yuuko Watanabe from Japan with 56.33 km in Takashima, Riana van Niekerk from South Africa with 55.21 km in Cape Town and Nathalie Vasseur (second in 2014) with 52.18 km in Sunrise. A total of only 81 men came further than the fastest woman.

From a German point of view, this event was special. With the United States of America, Germany was the only country with two venues: Darmstadt, the only German venue in 2014, and Munich, the only German venue in 2016. The best performances were achieved in Darmstadt. In the men’s race, ultra runner Florian Neuschwander won with 74.56 km (global 6th place), in the women’s Laura Chacon Biebach won with 51.78 km, which is fourth place worldwide.

Winner of the Wings for Life World Run 2015

place	winner	Age group	Distance (in km)	Global placement
Aarhus	Brian Hansen	M30	61.48	37
Alanya	Jose Requejo Santos	M30	68.04	18th
Aranjuez - Madrid	Chema Martinez	M40	59.19	48
Brasília	Juan Pablo de Lima Costa Salazar	M35	52.61	122
Bratislava	Philipp Aigner	M25	68.65	16
Breda	Kevin Pletz	M18	50.29	172
Bucharest	Wouter Decock	M30	61.72	36
Darmstadt	Florian Neuschwander	M30	74.56	6th
Dubai	Sami Al Saidi	M30	44.92	323
Dublin	David Sheehy	M35	52.64	121
Gurgaon	Amit Dhankar	M18	57.38	70
Kakheti	Anatoly Oleinikovi	M30	57.39	69
Kalmar - Öland	Aron Anderson	M25	64.82	30th
Cape Town	Eric Ngubane	M30	68.86	14th
Kolomna - Moscow	Nikolay Yanalov	M30	70.19	11
Lima	Emerson Trujillo Flores	M30	72.15	9
Ljubljana	Robert Radojkovic	M30	69.36	13
Melbourne	Michael Wardian	M40	70.66	10
Munich	Matthias Baur	M18	61.10	41
Niagara Falls	Blaine Penny	M40	65.41	26th
Lower Austria	Lemawork Ketema	M25	79.90	1
Olten	Michael Boch	M30	70.14	12
postage	Daniel Pinheiro	M30	67.39	20th
Poses	Bartosz Olszewski	M30	73.46	8th
Rouen	Simon Munyutu	M35	73.51	7th
Santa Clarita	Thibaut Baronian	M25	55.15	90
Santiago	César Díaz Hernández	M25	78.31	2
Silverstone	Thomas Payn	M35	61.09	42
Stavanger	Jarle Risa	M35	58.80	50
Sunrise	Svein Risa	M40	54.88	93
Takashima	Kazuhiko Oki	M25	67.68	19th
Verona	Giorgio Calcaterra	M40	78.06	4th
Yilan	Chih Pin Su	M35	57.62	66
Ypres	Pieter Rijnders	M35	61.99	35
Zadar	Matija Grabrovečki	M35	57.36	71

Winners of the Wings for Life World Run 2015

place	Winner	Age group	Distance (in km)	Global placement
Aarhus	Lone Nielsen	F35	48.97	10
Alanya	Svetlana Shepeleva	F45	50.31	8th
Aranjuez - Madrid	Mª Cruz Parras Morcillo	F25	31.89	193
Brasília	Astrid Kaltenböck	F40	44.28	22nd
Bratislava	Romana Komarnanska	F25	41.85	30th
Breda	Sandra Laros	F40	37.70	60
Bucharest	Liliana Danci	F18	45.76	17th
Darmstadt	Laura Chacon Biebach	F25	51.78	4th
Dubai	Katie Sloane	F25	30.08	281
Dublin	Orna Dilworth	F30	39.54	45
Gurgaon	Linah Chirchir	F25	44.90	20th
Kakheti	Linda Vliet	F35	32.01	191
Kalmar - Öland	Frida Södermark	F35	42.09	29
Cape Town	Riana van Niekerk	F35	55.21	2
Kolomna - Moscow	Irina Antropova	F30	51.33	5
Lima	Rocio Carrion	F45	35.13	107
Ljubljana	Žana Jereb	F30	45.05	18th
Melbourne	Kelly-Ann Varey	F35	50.75	7th
Munich	Ingalena Heuck	F25	49.54	9
Niagara Falls	Lyne Bessette	F40	47.44	13
Lower Austria	Bernadette Schuster	F30	47.06	15th
Olten	Karen Sobrino	F40	43.04	24
postage	Doroteia Peixoto	F30	41.70	32
Poses	Dominika Stelmach	F30	41.84	31
Rouen	Leaharna Marsden	F30	35.93	95
Santa Clarita	Shannon Rahlves	F40	37.01	72
Santiago	Karen Torrealba	F30	47.68	12
Silverstone	Kate Carter	F35	34.73	115
Stavanger	Elise Molvik	F18	45.02	19th
Sunrise	Nathalie Vasseur	F45	52.18	3
Takashima	Yuuko Watanabe	F25	56.33	1
Verona	Chiara Moras	F30	39.48	46
Yilan	Pei-Yu Cheng	F25	37.45	64
Ypres	Deborah Ghyselen	F25	40.63	38
Zadar	Nikolina Šustić	F25	48.15	11

Wings for Life World Run 2016

On May 8, 2016 at 11:00 UTC, the Wings for Life World Run entered its third round. This time, like 2014, there were again 34 venues - two of them in the USA. The sporting director of the event is Colin Jackson and the catcher cars were once again driven by international stars.

There were 130,732 runners around the world who covered a total of 1.2 million kilometers. In addition, there were 20,556 so-called “selfie runners”, i.e. people who did not run to one of the 34 locations and simulate the catcher car with an app on their mobile phone. The foundation raised 6.6 million euros.

In the men's category, the Italian ultra runner Giorgio Calcaterra prevailed for the third time in his home country and this time also won the global title. With 88.44 km he clearly surpassed the record of the previous year. For the first time, the catcher car had to drive for a short time at the top speed of 35 km / h to catch up with him. The global podium was completed by Bartosz Olszewski from Poland, also over 80 km in Canada, and Francisco Morales from Chile. Lemawork Ketema, the winner of 2014 and 2015, ran again in Austria and, like 2014, side by side with Evgenii Glyva for a long time. Ketema got out prematurely after 41 km in order not to endanger his form for further competitions.

A particularly large number of top performances were achieved in Takashima, Japan. As in 2015, the global winner came from there. With 65.71 km, Kaori Yoshida improved the record by 9.38 km, which is 18th place in the ranking of women and men. The other places went to the Austrian Karin Freitag with 59.08 km in Munich and Vera Nunes from Portugal with 58.86 km. Last year's global winner Yuuko Watanabe came with 56.37 km in Japan, almost as far as in 2015 and in fifth place worldwide.

Winner of the Wings for Life World Run 2016

place	winner	Age group	Distance (in km)	Global placement
Aarhus	Mikkel Kleis	M35	56.80	64
Ahmedabad	Titus Kariuki Wanderi Githu	M35	54.16	90
Brasília	Thomas Payn	M35	56.52	66
Bratislava	Gabriel Švajda	M30	54.15	91
Breda	Emerson Trujillo	M30	64.41	23
Cambridge	Steve Way	M40	63.75	27
Dubai	Hélder Santos	M30	54.34	87
Dublin	Paul Martelletti	M35	73.77	6th
Guadalajara	Gabriel Morfin Torres	M35	59.05	52
Izmir	Ahmet Bayram	M40	52.78	109
Kakheti	Liviu Croitoru	M25	56.02	74
Kalmar - Öland	Pétur Bjarnason	M35	57.95	56
Kolomna - Moscow	Ivan Motorin	M30	67.37	15th
Lima	Charles Jhon Ayala Escribas	M35	63.91	25th
Ljubljana	Vid Senica	M35	64.58	21st
Milan	Giorgio Calcaterra	M40	88.44	1
Melbourne	Barry Keem	M35	65.71	18th
Munich	Florian Neuschwander	M30	63.66	28
Niagara Falls	Bartosz Olszewski	M30	82.42	2
Olten	Stefan Lüscher	M35	57.63	58
postage	Antonio Sousa	M45	69.46	10
Poses	Tomasz Walerowicz	M30	71.12	9
Pretoria	Thibaut Baronian	M25	62.84	31
Rouen	Teddy Bezancon	M30	59.29	50
Santa Clarita	Samuel Bradbury	M35	60.80	42
Santiago	Francisco Morales	M25	75.47	3
Stavanger	Yoann Stuck	M30	61.85	33
Sunrise	Simon Munyutu	M35	61.54	36
Takashima	Nakajima Hiroki	M25	74.51	5
Valencia	Jarle Risa	M35	65.51	20th
Vienna	Evgenii Glyva	M30	68.00	13
Yilan	Yi-Hsun Li	M30	56.84	63
Ypres	Stefan Van den Broek	M40	65.64	19th
Zadar	Dejan Patrčević	M40	56.35	70

Winners of the Wings for Life World Run 2016

place	Winner	Age group	Distance (in km)	Global placement
Aarhus	Camilla Christensen	F18	38.20	71
Ahmedabad	Kiranjit Kaur	F25	39.21	63
Brasília	Leticia Saltori	F25	51.09	16
Bratislava	Petra Fašungová	F25	40.30	52
Breda	Diana Golek	F30	38.91	65
Cambridge	Caitriona Jennings	F35	55.08	9
Dubai	Carolina Gutierrez	F30	21.52	1448
Dublin	Sarah Mulligan	F25	45.64	32
Guadalajara	Rosalva Gudiño Gonzalez	F35	37.40	81
Izmir	Svetlana Shepeleva	F45	45.74	30th
Kakheti	Yana Khmeleva	F35	34.93	119
Kalmar - Öland	Linnea Winberg	F30	40.14	54
Kolomna - Moscow	Elena Nurgaliyeva	F40	55.39	7th
Lima	Jessica Gabriela Paz Rodríguez	F18	35.36	109
Ljubljana	Lucija Krkoč	F25	50.84	17th
Milan	Katia Chiara Figini	F40	51.61	15th
Melbourne	Dominika Stelmach	F30	55.25	8th
Munich	Karin Friday	F35	59.08	2
Niagara Falls	Doroteia Peixoto	F30	55.44	6th
Olten	Pamela Veith	F40	39.60	58
postage	Vera Nunes	F35	58.86	3
Poses	Agnieszka Janasiak	F35	39.94	56
Pretoria	Onneile Dintwe	F30	52.71	11
Rouen	Anna Wasik	F30	43.44	38
Santa Clarita	Maibritt Daugaard	F30	49.45	20th
Santiago	Frida Södermark	F35	52.37	12
Stavanger	Nikolina Šustić	F25	50.03	19th
Sunrise	Nathalie Vasseur	F50	54.53	10
Takashima	Kaori Yoshida	F30	65.71	1
Valencia	Cristina Gonzalez Garcia	F30	46.31	28
Vienna	Cornelia Moser	F18	56.88	4th
Yilan	Yafen Ya	F25	37.92	75
Ypres	Rebecca Nkapiani	F40	35.91	101
Zadar	Katarina Lovrantova	F30	45.55	33

Wings for Life World Run 2017

On May 7, 2017, the Wings for Life World Run was held for the fourth time. 155,288 runners started in 25 countries.
Among the men, the paraplegic Aron Anderson from Sweden prevailed with the new record distance of 92.14 km. He drove with a "normal" wheelchair because racing wheelchairs are not allowed. For women in winning Santiago de Chile , the Pole Dominika Stelmach with 68.21 km, which also means a new personal best. The new record sum of 6.8 million euros was raised for the foundation.

Winner of the Wings for Life World Run 2017

place	winner	Age group	Distance (in km)	Global placement
Brasília	Luis Felipe Leite Barboza	M25	58.88	67
Bratislava	Marek Mockovčiak	M35	62.95	47
Breda	Philipp Aigner	M25	71.37	8th
Cambridge	Jacek Cieluszecki	M35	68.8	12
Dubai	Aron Anderson	M25	92.14	1
Guadalajara	Roberto Meier	M25	68.14	18th
Izmir	Veysi Aslan	M30	57.51	77
Kakheti	Giorgi Shekrelidze	M35	35.43	1741
Kalmar / Öland	Elov Olsson	M25	75.05	7th
Kolomna	Shishov Konstantin	M30	70.39	9
Ljubljana	Ivan Motorin	M30	62.13	52
Melbourne	Teddy Bezancon	M30	70.22	10
Milan	Bartosz Olszewski	M30	88.24	2
Munich	Sebastian Hallmann	M40	68.47	15th
Olten	Sylvère Pruvost	M30	68.11	19th
Poses	Tomasz Walerowicz	M35	85.14	5
Pretoria	Renier Grobler	M30	63.07	42
Santa Clarita, CA	Dan Berteletti	M30	69	11
Santiago	Manuelito Figueroa	M30	67.41	21st
Stavanger	Emerson Trujillo	M35	67.43	20th
Sunrise, FL	Calum Neff	M30	65.66	30th
Tainan	Chih Chun Li	M40	52.37	141
Valencia	Chema Martínez	M45	66.25	25th
Vienna	Lemawork Ketema	M30	87.16	3
Zadar	Robert Radojkovic	M35	65.53	31

Winners of the Wings for Life World Run 2017

place	Winner	Age group	Distance (in km)	Global placement
Brasília	Leticia Da Silva Saltori	F25	44.93	39
Bratislava	Jo Meek	F35	54.38	13
Breda	Laura Chacon Biebach	F25	55.07	12
Cambridge	Nikolina Šustić	F25	55.14	10
Dubai	Emily Waugh	F18	43.01	52
Guadalajara	Frida Södermark	F35	47.62	29
Izmir	Meryem Gündoğdu	F30	39.43	93
Kakheti	Nino Miqadze	F18	29	484
Kalmar / Öland	Sophia Sundberg	F30	55.29	8th
Kolomna	Alexandra Morozova	F25	57.59	6th
Ljubljana	Eva Zorman	F18	40.11	84
Melbourne	Olesya Nurgaliyeva	F40	60.97	4th
Milan	Cornelia Moser	F18	62.37	2
Munich	Bianca Meyer	F40	51.23	21st
Olten	Diana Müller	F30	46.81	34
Poses	Joasia Zakrzewski	F40	52.26	14th
Pretoria	Landie Greyling	F30	37.44	121
Santa Clarita, CA	Nathalie Vasseur	F50	57.24	7th
Santiago	Dominika Stelmach	F35	68.21	1
Stavanger	Therese Nordbø	F25	46.88	33
Sunrise, FL	Ana Villegas	F35	43.86	46
Tainan	Maibritt Daugaard	F30	42.5	58
Valencia	Betinha Pereira	F35	49.35	26th
Vienna	Karin Friday	F35	51.72	19th
Zadar	Željka Šaban	F30	44.73	43

Wings for Life World Run 2018

On May 6, 2018, there was again a worldwide run for spinal cord research and the healing of paraplegics. The more than 100,000 runners covered 934,484 km. A "catcher car" was only used in twelve locations this time. For this, it was possible to run simultaneously in over 200 locations worldwide via mobile app . The run raised over 3 million euros for the foundation.

In the men’s category, the paraplegic Aron Anderson won again with a “normal” wheelchair with 89.85 km. In the women's category in Munich, the Portuguese Vera Nunes won with 53.78 km, just 50 m ahead of the Croatian Nikolina Šustić in Switzerland.

Winner of the Wings for Life World Run 2018

place	winner	Age group	Distance (in km)	Global placement
Izmir	Murat Kaya	M40	62.01	15th
Kakheti	Aleksandr Cheburkin	M35	74.69	3
Melbourne	Jacek Cieluszecki	M40	67.30	8th
Munich	Andreas Straßner	M35	76.77	2
Poses	Dariusz Nożyński	M35	66.86	9
Pretoria	Admire Muzopambwa	M30	63.24	14th
Rio de Janeiro	José Eraldo Lima	M35	63.71	12
Sunrise, FL	Aron Anderson	M30	89.85	1
Taoyuan	Luís Ricardo Beato Pereira	M35	58.74	22nd
Vienna	Wolfgang Wallner	M50	64.18	11
Zadar	Karl Aumayr	M35	68.01	7th
train	Niklas Sjöblom	M30	70.10	4th

Winners of the Wings for Life World Run 2018

place	Winner	Age group	Distance (in km)	Global placement
Izmir	Olesya Nurgaliyeva	F40	53.61	3
Kakheti	Nina Zarina	F30	47.34	12
Melbourne	Ana Villegas	F35	46.94	13
Munich	Vera Nunes	F35	53.78	1
Poses	Wioletta Paduszyńska	F30	48.13	10
Pretoria	Dominika Stelmach	F35	49.42	5
Rio de Janeiro	Eva Zorman	F18	48.11	11
Sunrise, FL	Nathalie Vasseur	F50	48.74	8th
Taoyuan	Frida Södermark	F30	41.3	26th
Vienna	Alex Roudayna	F25	49.18	6th
Zadar	Martina Burzova	F35	32.74	116
train	Nikolina Šustić	F30	53.73	2

Wings for Life World Run 2019

The Wings for Life World Run took place on May 5, 2019.

In addition to the 12 "event" locations, with a real catcher car, there were hundreds of organized "app runs" where the participants were tracked from their smartphones. An alarm indicates when the "virtual catcher car" has caught up with you. Because the speed of the catcher car has increased from the marathon distance compared to previous years, the top performance is not as high as it used to be.

Winner of the Wings for Life World Run 2019

place	winner	Age group	Distance (in km)	Global placement
Izmir	Ivan Motorin	M30	64.37	1
Kakheti	Levan Chokheli	M25	53.80	29
Melbourne	Aleksandr Cheburkin	M35	58.74	7th
Munich	David Schönherr	M30	62.68	2
Poses	Tomasz Osmulski	M35	55.59	14th
Pretoria	Niklas Sjöblom	M30	53.84	27
Rio de Janeiro	Andreas Straßner	M40	61.25	4th
Sunrise, FL	Dariusz Nożyński	M35	51.10	62
Taichung	Chih Chun Li	M40	53.27	38
Vienna	Wojtek Baran	M35	54.47	19th
Zadar	Robert Radojkovic	M35	56.19	12
train	Francesco Mascherpa	M18	57.66	8th

Winners of the Wings for Life World Run 2019

place	Winner	Age group	Distance (in km)	Global placement
Izmir	Gülçin Arasan	F18	38.92	39
Kakheti	Gaiane Ustian	F25	32.29	174
Melbourne	Vera Nunes	F35	47.79	7th
Munich	Nikolina Šustić Stanković	F30	52.97	3
Poses	Agnieszka Kowalczyk	F30	43.11	14th
Pretoria	Olesya Nurgaliyeva	F40	42.83	15th
Rio de Janeiro	Dominika Stelmach	F30	53.56	2
Sunrise, FL	Wioletta Paduszynska	F30	40.49	27
Taichung	Eva Zorman	F18	42.16	19th
Vienna	Karin Friday	F35	49.16	5
Zadar	Ines Jozić	F18	48.70	6th
train	Nina Zarina	F30	53.72	1

Wings for Life World Run 2020

The Wings for Lifs World Run was scheduled to take place on May 3rd, again the first Sunday in May. 13 locations were selected as so-called "flagship locations", ie with a real catcher car. Including France and the United Kingdom, which had not held such a run in previous years. Due to the pandemic outbreak of the coronavirus , the organizer announced on March 13th that all flagship and app runs would be canceled. The only way to take part in the race would be an individual run with the app on your own smartphone.

77,103 people from 171 countries ran the race on May 3rd at 11:00 UTC, each using the smartphone app. Around 2.8M euros were collected for the foundation. The participants ran a total of 924,940 kilometers. There was only one overall overall ranking.

Top 10 men at the Wings for Life World Run 2020

Global placement	Surname	Age group	Distance (in km)
1	Michael Taylor	M35	69.92
2	Aron Anderson	M30	68.15
3	Dariusz Nożyński	M40	67.10
4th	Florian Neuschwander	M35	63.25
5	Niklas Sjöblom	M35	62.12
6th	Aleksandr Storozhev	M25	57.73
7th	Lukas Oberhauser	M25	57.18
8th	Tomasz Osmulski	M35	57.17
9	Wolfgang Wallner	M55	57.09
10	Patrick King	M30	56.72

Top 10 women at the Wings for Life World Run 2020

Global placement	Surname	Age group	Distance (in km)
1	Nina Zarina	F30	54.23
2	Dominika Stelmach	F35	51.25
3	Martyna Cantor	F30	50.38
4th	Dioni Gorla	F18	50.16
5	Devon Yanko	F35	50.00
6th	Alexandra Morozova	F30	49.92
7th	Thea Heim	F25	48.04
8th	Tabea Themann	F25	46.89
9	Vera Nunes	F40	46.73
10	Nora Havlinova	F18	46.64

Web links

• Official website of the foundation
• Official website of the race

Footnotes

1. ↑ http://www.runnersworld.de/laufevent/wings-for-life-world-run/2014
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Kleine Zeitung GmbH & Co: Charity run - Ketema again "Wings for Life World Run" winner. Retrieved March 15, 2016 . 
3. ^ Julia Schweinberger: Motocross: World Champion Kinigadner on strokes of fate. Retrieved March 23, 2016 . 
4. ^ Catch up with the new catcher car speed. Retrieved May 16, 2019 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Rulebook - Wings for Life World Run 2015. Accessed on March 15, 2016 (English). 
6. ↑ World Run winner on a world tour on ServusTV. Retrieved March 15, 2016 . 
7. ^ Goal Calculator - Wings for Life World Run. Retrieved March 15, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Goldberger: "Never ran so far" (May 7, 2017)
9. ↑ Courir pour ceux qui ne peuvent pas. Retrieved March 15, 2016 (French). 
10. ^ Ethiopian wins first-ever World Run. Retrieved March 15, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Tim Sturtridge: Wings for Life World Run: The results are in. Retrieved March 15, 2016 (English). 
12. ↑ ^{a b} Wings for Life World Run 2014 - Official Results. Retrieved March 15, 2016 . 
13. ↑ Wings for Life World Run, la course événement de retour le 3 may. Retrieved March 15, 2016 (French). 
14. ↑ ^{a b} Wings for Life World Run 2015 - Official Results. Retrieved March 15, 2016 . 
15. ↑ http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/F1-legend-David-Coulthard-Cambridge-leg-Wings/story-28861187-detail/story.html
16. ↑ "Wings for Life Run": Calcaterra ran 88.44 kilometers (May 8, 2016)
17. ↑ After 34 Simultaneous Races Across 12 Time Zones, Wings For Life World Run Crowns 2016 Champions. Retrieved May 14, 2016 . 
18. ↑ Wings for Life World Run worldwide in 2016 with 130,732 participants. Retrieved May 14, 2016 . 
19. ↑ ^{a b} Wings for Life World Run 2016 - Official Results. Retrieved May 9, 2016 . 
20. ↑ ^{a b} Wings for Life World Run 2017 - Official Results. Retrieved May 10, 2017 . 
21. ↑ 934.484 km closer to a cure: Charity champions triumph again. Retrieved May 30, 2018 . 
22. ↑ ^{a b} Wings for Life World Run 2018 - Official Results. Accessed May 7, 2018 . 
23. ↑ ^{a b} Wings for Life World Run 2019 - Provisional Results. Retrieved May 6, 2019 . 
24. ↑ Everyone alone and yet united: That was the Wings for Life World Run 2020! Retrieved May 4, 2020 . 
25. ↑ https://live.wingsforlifeworldrun.com/global-data
26. ↑ ^{a b} = Wings for Life World Run 2020 - Official Results. Retrieved May 4, 2020 .