Freya Hoffmeister

Freya Hoffmeister ( born May 10, 1964 in the village of Heike, Schleswig -Holstein ) is a German businesswoman and canoe athlete from Husum.

Life

First, they completed a training officer for the elevated service. The former participant in a Miss Germany contest, in which she finished sixth, took advantage of an inheritance, to make himself at age 22 with an ice cream shop in Husum independently. Over the years it expanded its business to a chain of seven ice cream parlors and a salad bar; 2012, it operates two ice cream parlors and a large Christmas shop. Two managers and 40 employees take care of the business.

Hoffmeister operation for many years competition gymnastics, bodybuilding and skydiving. She completed over 1500 jumps, including 500 as a tandem jump with passengers. One of the highlights was a tandem jump over the North Pole from an Ilyushin. As Hoffmeister 1996 became pregnant, resorted to kayak. From 1997, they paddled - with her little son in the baggage hatch - on waters near Husum. When she is not traveling, Freya Hoffmeister lives in Husum.

Kayak services

2003 Hoffmeister took their first sea tour along the German and Danish coast. You won the Arctic Sea Kayak Marathon in Norway 2004; in the 300 - km race around Fyn 2006, she came 2nd. In the same year she was the overall winner of the women at the 2006 Greenland National Championships. With a total of eight winners medals she is the most successful international Wettkampfkanutin at ocean race.

Records continued Hoffmeister even at extreme long distances. In 2007 she managed jointly with Greg Stamer within 33 days, the fastest circumnavigation of Iceland in a kayak. Later, she completed the first circumnavigation of the South Island of New Zealand as a woman - and a fourth man at all - again, in record time.

In 2009 she circumnavigated Australia in a single engine, the first woman and the second person ever after the New Zealander Paul Caffyn ( 1981-82 ). Hoffmeister required for the 13,714 km long circumnavigation of 332 days and a 29 days less than Caffyn. Hiking around they crossed the Gulf of Carpentaria in a six-day stage, Slade Point in the north of Cape York Peninsula to Cape Arnhem in the east of Arnhem Land 530 km over the open sea.

On 30 August 2011 she began in Buenos Aires, the approximately 22,000 km circumnavigation of South America, they perform in three individual stages and wants to finish her ​​50th birthday. The first section led them over a distance of 7676 km to Valparaíso in Chile, which she reached on May 5, 2012. They rounded Cape Horn on New Year's Eve 2011.