Wolfgang Fasching
Wolfgang Fasching (born August 11, 1967 in Bad Radkersburg , Austria ) is an Austrian extreme athlete .
Career
After a moderately successful amateur cycling career, in which he won, among other things, the Straßengler Cycling Day, Fasching decided to switch to extreme sports. It was inspired by the success of Franz Spilauer in the Race Across America , a cycling race from the west coast of the United States to the east coast.
He is a three-time RAAM winner (1997, 2000, 2002); in total he has participated eight times in 12 years (1996–2007) and landed on the podium every time.
In May 2001, Fasching was the 13th Austrian to climb Mount Everest .
When crossing Europe from Gibraltar to the North Cape on August 9, 2019 in Liège , Belgium, a delivery van hit his support vehicle from behind, which was then pushed into him. With abrasions, he continued the 5656-kilometer tour the next morning with a spare wheel, a new pace car and - as was already planned - a new crew. After 10 days, 20 hours and 47 minutes, he reached the North Cape in record time.
Born in Styria, he currently lives in Neukirchen near Lambach .
Sporting successes
- 1995 world record for 12 hours
- 1997 24 hour world champion
- 1999 24 hour world champion
- 1999 world record holder "Across Australia"
- 2002 24 hour world record
- 2005 2nd place Le Tour Direct
- 2001 to 2009 ascent of the Seven Summits
- 2014 Russia - Coast to Coast SOLO, Vladivostok - St. Petersburg: 10,000 km, 80,000 vertical meters, 21 days, 19 hours and 31 minutes
- 2019 Europe - Coast to Coast, Gibraltar - North Cape: 5,656 km, 30,000 vertical meters, 10 days, 20 hours and 47 minutes
| Date / year | rank | competition | place | time | comment |
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| 2007 | 2 | Race Across America |
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4,733 km with a total difference in altitude of around 28,000 m | |
| 2004 | 3 | Race Across America |
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| 2002 | 1 | Race Across America |
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9 days 2 hours 45 minutes |
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| 2000 | 1 | Race Across America |
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8 days 10 hours 19 minutes |
new record time |
| 1999 | 2 | Race Across America |
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| 1998 | 2 | Race Across America |
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despite a broken collarbone | |
| 1997 | 1 | Race Across America |
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| 1996 | 3 | Race Across America |
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best first participation, broken in 2012 by Reto Schoch , who was the first first time participant to win |
Books
- Leben am Limit, 2001, Publisher: Styria, ISBN 3-222-12905-3
- YOU can do what YOU want, 2003
- Success factor head, 2006, publisher: egoth, ISBN 3-902480-13-0
- You create what you want !, 2007, publisher: colorama, ISBN 978-3-901988-94-3 , also as an audio book
- Mentally fit in everyday life, 2009, publisher: colorama, ISBN 978-3-902692-09-2
- 7 Summits: Experiences - Experiences - Insights, Publisher: egoth, ISBN 978-3-902480-66-8
- NONSTOP - Le Tour Direct - The Tour de France with a difference
- Fire in the head - Race across America, 1997, Publisher: Pustet, ISBN 978-3-702503-69-7
Web links
- official homepage
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Fasching in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Fasching starts his last RAAM
- ↑ Wolfgang Fasching: Throughout Europe in 10 days (REKORD). In: HDsports.at. August 16, 2019, accessed August 16, 2019 .
- ↑ russia_coast_to_coast on fasching.co.at, accessed on August 16, 2014
- ↑ Wolfgang Fasching made the tour of Russia on August 14, 2014 on steiermark.orf.at, accessed on August 16, 2014
- ↑ Race Across America: Wolfgang Fasching wants to set a record with four victories (June 18, 2004)
- ^ Books , accessed August 16, 2014
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Carnival, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian extreme athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Radkersburg , Austria |