Wolfgang Schwerk
Madhupran Wolfgang Schwerk (* 28. July 1955 ) is a German Ultra Marathon - Runners from Solingen . Professionally, he is a trained retail salesman , he has also served as baritone - opera singer , farmer , carpenter and poultry breeders worked before he became 1984 Haussmann. Wolfgang Schwerk is a vegetarian . He has been married to the opera singer Cornelia Berger-Schwerk since 1981, with whom he has a daughter.
Career
In the Bundeswehr in 1971 he ran untrained 5000 m in a time of 18 minutes. At the Sri Chinmoy 24-hour race in Cologne in 1987, he improved the German record, which is still unbroken today, to 276 km. From 1989 to 1995 he took a break from competition for family reasons. After that, he focused more on multi-day ultra runs. In 2001 he completed the Trans-Australia race (2900 miles , 4247 km). In 2002 he won the 3,100 mile race with a world record time. In March 2006 he was first on the 6-hour run in Nuremberg. In August 2006 he broke his own record in the Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race with a time of 41 days, 8 hours and 16 minutes. With this he set 74 new world records from 1400 miles to 5000 km.
"There is no limit as long as the mind is stronger than the body."
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Die Welt : Three athletes from North Rhine-Westphalia run from Lisbon to Moscow On: June 18, 2003.
- ^ A b Hubert Beck: The big book of the ultramarathon , pp. 123–127, Copress Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-7679-1153-6 .
- ↑ a b DUV : Ultra Marathon Statistics Retrieved on: January 22, 2013.
- ↑ FAZ : "After 2000 miles you reach your limits" On: August 8, 2002.
- ↑ Handelsblatt : Longest official race in the world: German sets world record in ultramarathon On: August 7, 2002.
- ^ Report on Wolfgang Schwerk . In Runner's World , February 2007, accessed on May 23, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schwerk, Wolfgang |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Madhupran |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ultra runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 28, 1955 |