Wolfgang Schwerk

Madhupran Schwerk Wolfgang is a German ultramarathon runner ( born July 28, 1955) from Solingen. Professionally, he is a trained retail salesman, he has also worked as a baritone opera singer, farmer, carpenter and poultry breeders before 1984 Haussmann. Wolfgang Schwerk feeds Vegetarian. He is married since 1981 with the opera singer Cornelia Berger Schwerk, with whom he has a daughter.

Career

When the German army in 1971, he was untrained 5000 m in the time of 18 minutes. In 1987 at the Sri Chinmoy 24 - hour run in Cologne, he improved the German record the remains unchallenged and 276 km. From 1989 to 1995, he laid out for family reasons a break from competition. Thereafter, he focused more on multi-day ultra runs. In 2001 he graduated from the trans -Australia race (2900 miles, 4247 km ). In 2002, he presented the world record of the 3100 - mile race on, he has broken even in 2006: 41 days, 8 hours and 16 minutes. He also reached 74 new world records from 1400 miles to 5000 km.

" There is no limit as long as the spirit is stronger than the body. "