Wolfgang Mader (extreme athlete)

Wolfgang Mader

Wolfgang Mader 2011 in Utah.
To person
Date of birth	February 21, 1965
nation	Austria
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	Union Raiffeisen Cycling Team Tirol
Societies)
1981–1983 1980–1983 1988–1995 2002–2006 2006–2007 from 2008	Kyong Myon Lee (TaeKwonDo) Chess Club Völs Turnerschaft Sparkasse Innsbruck, clubless marathon runner Union Steinmayr St. Johann Union Raiffeisen Radteam Tirol
Last updated: November 30, 2011

Wolfgang Mader (born February 21, 1965 in Innsbruck , Tyrol ) is an Austrian extreme athlete .

Life

Mader grew up with his parents Helmut and Edeltraud Mader in Innsbruck , Tyrol . He attended the Mariahilf elementary school from 1971 to 1975 and graduated from the Adolf Pichler Platz secondary school in 1983 . After graduating from high school and completing military service , Mader joined the Tyrolean hydropower plant in 1985 , where he has been head of the PR and communications department since 2001. From September 1997 to September 1999 Mader completed a degree in political science (Mag. Phil.) At the University of Innsbruck and obtained a doctorate in the same major in early 2001. His minor subjects were social psychology , pedagogy and journalism . In 1986 he married Ulrike, with whom he has three children.

Athletic career

In his youth, Mader was mainly active as a track and field athlete ( 100-meter and 200-meter run and long jump ) and in the sports of taekwondo and soccer . As a chess player he achieved several Tyrolean team championship titles from 1980 to 1982. During this time Mader experimented in various sports such as ice hockey , ski racing , climbing and tennis .

After a four-year sporty break due to the multiple stresses of work, family and studies, Mader got back into sport in 2001 and switched from the sprint disciplines to the long distance. From 2002 to 2006 Mader completed marathons in Florence , Prague , Vienna , Frankfurt and New York . He finished all runs in less than 3 hours and 30 minutes, his best time was 3 hours and 17 minutes in Prague 2004. Due to a chronic Achilles tendon and bursitis , Mader switched to racing bikes in 2006.

At the end of 2009, Mader decided, based on his experience in active cycling in the first three years, to switch to the better and more promising long distances and, subsequently, to the ultra-long distance races. In 2010 he took 3rd place with his racing bike in the Glocknerman ultramarathon and 5th place in the Swiss cycling marathon . With the victory in Bern, Mader qualified for the Race Across America . In June 2011 Mader had to cancel a solo charity project after 30 hours of driving and 13,000 meters of altitude due to the far too high risk of going downhill at night. On September 9-11 September 2011 (Friday - Sunday 12 noon) followed the official Guinness world record in the "most climbed meters in 48 hours": 25,346 meters in altitude through 46 ascents from Telfs to Mösern, each 551 meters in altitude on about 6 km ascent, i.e. 9, 2% average gradient of the ascent. This was broken on April 21, 2012 by compatriot Jacob Zurl .

On June 13, 2012, Wolfgang Mader stood at the start of the Race Across America 2012 in San Diego , California . He finished this in 16th place in a time of 11 days, 16 hours and 19 minutes. Mader is the third Tyrolean finisher after Hansjörg Franz (2000) and Franz Venier (2002). He was the 16th of 18 athletes who completed this race in 2012. 23 drivers gave up. In September 2013 he suffered a twisted thigh fracture that had to be operated on. In October 2013, he took part in the Crocodile Trophy mountain bike race in Australia. In 2014, he failed when trying to complete the Ötztal Cycle Marathon ten times in ten days .

Success as a cyclist

Wolfgang Mader with the Guinness World Record certificate 48-hour altitude record (2011).

year	run	distance	Altitude	Average speed	Travel time	rank	source
2007	Hunger races
	Lienz Dolomites Marathon
2008	Lienz Dolomites Marathon
	Masters World Cup
	World Cup in St. Johann
2009	Six-hour cycle marathon from Schwanenstadt	228 km	2,200	38 km / h		Rank 20 out of 60 drivers
	Masters tour in Tyrol	540 km	5,000			Rank 64 out of 100
	Milan - San Remo	307 km	1,800	37 km / h		Rank 41 out of 1,100 starters
	Lienz Dolomite bike tour	112 km	2,400			Rank 129 out of 1,200 starters
	Jeanntex Tour TransAlp	900 km	18,600			Rank 19
	Ötztal cycling marathon	238 km	5,500		9 hours, 30 minutes	among the first 20% of starters of all ages
2010	Glocknerman	836 km	12,012		37 hours, 56 minutes	3rd place overall; 1st place age group 40–50
	Switzerland marathon	840 km	8,000		26 hours, 57 minutes	5th place overall, age group 40–50 1st place
2011	Quadruple marathon - solo project	1160 km	25,400		30 hours	Termination after 30 hours (540 km, 15,500 m ascent) due to the weather conditions and the excessive risks on the descents
	48-hour altitude difference world record	552 km	25,346		48 hours	World record
2012	Race Across America	4,809 km	58,000		11 days 16 hours 19 minutes	16th place out of 41 races that started, 18 finished
2013	Crocodile Trophy	815 km	14,050		1 day 22 hours 12 minutes 16 sec	Rank 50

Web links

• Website (no longer available) Web.archive.org from August 13, 2013 [2]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Result list of the Glocknerman 2010 ( memento of the original from January 15, 2012 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.  
2. ↑ Results list of the Switzerland Marathon 2010 ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ World record brought 5,500 euros highlights of Tyrolean sports 2011, Steinacher, 2012, accessed May 29, 2017.
4. ↑ World record broken , mein district.at, September 11, 2011
5. ↑ Cycling - most vertical meters in 48 hours. (No longer available online.) In: Guinness World Records. Archived from the original on May 9, 2016 ; accessed on May 9, 2016 . 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.  
6. ↑ Results list of the Race Across America 2012 ( memento of the original from September 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Leisure time: Innsbruck - Augsburg - Annapolis , Augsburger Allgemeine , March 26, 2013
8. ^ ^{A b} Within 16 months of RAAM and the Crocodile Trophy , mein district.at, October 11, 2013
9. ↑ ^{a b} “The search for the border never ends” , interview with Wolfgang Mader, Echo Online, accessed on January 21, 2018
10. ↑ Extreme cycling: Nadja Prieling - ten times the route of the Ötztal cycling marathon in ten days , radsport-rennrad.de, August 2, 2017
11. ↑ Result list 6h Schwanenstadt Cycle Marathon 2009 (PDF; 321 kB)
12. ↑ Result list Masters Tour in Tyrol 2009
13. ↑ Result list Lienzer Dolomitenrundfahrt 2009  ( 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. (PDF; 405 kB) (no longer available)  
14. ↑ Result list Tour TransAlp 2009 (PDF; 438 kB) (no longer available) web.archive.org of June 27, 2014 [1]
15. ↑ Result list Ötztal Radmarathon 2009
16. ↑ Result list of the Glocknerman 2010 ( memento of the original from January 15, 2012 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.  
17. ↑ Results list of the Switzerland Marathon 2010 ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
18. ↑ Results list of the Race Across America 2012 ( memento of the original from September 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
19. ^ Result list of the Crocodile Trophy 2013