Category: marathonDocs

Dagmar Rabensteiner

Dagmar Rabensteiner

Dagmar Rabensteiner (born June 15, 1963 in Innsbruck) is a former Austrian long-distance runner. As an elementary school student, she walked the seven-kilometer route from Sadrach, a district of Innsbruck, to school in the city center every day. As a high school student, she undertook climbing and ski tours, and later, with her husband and young son, she embarked on multi-week trips and trekking tours through jungles in Indonesia or into the highlands of Kashmir, all the way to the base of Mount Read more [...]
Jos Zsombor Gal

Jos Zsombor Gal

1992 – 2005   Magician Robinson Club, Mercedes-Benz, IKEA, and others 2001   Doctors' Tennis World Champion/Evian, France 2011   3rd place Snow Golf European Championships Vulpera/St. Moritz, Switzerland 2012 German Champion Golf-MIDS Team GC St. Leon-Rot 2012 First German Private Astronaut XCOR Space Expeditions 2013 Chess Show Game vs. Anatoly Karpov (Russia), Multiple Chess World Champion 2017 Finisher TCS New York City Marathon 2019 Golf – Hungarian Read more [...]
Gerhard Uhlenbruck

Gerhard Uhlenbruck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQs7mm-g68Q Uhlenbruck's family wasn't supposed to know that their Gerd was running, because to them he was ill (sarcoidosis). So he chose Urbach's GSV Porz, a slightly out-of-town club, as his club. He has completed 36 marathons and a 100km race, which he ran on his birthday. Twice he finished the 42.195km in the age group 70. His personal best of 3:18 hours is astonishing considering his lung history. Once (1984), he even became German Marathon Champion Read more [...]
Thomas Wessinghage

Thomas Wessinghage

Thomas Wessinghage (born 22 February 1952 in Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German former middle- and long-distance runner who won the 1982 European Championships' final over 5000 metres beating the British world-record holder David Moorcroft. Because he was already thirty at the time, and had been an international-level runner for a decade, this victory was a long-awaited one for him. He admitted that he decided to run the 5,000 metres instead Read more [...]
Jürgen Reul

Jürgen Reul

I've been ill since 2014, unfortunately with a rarer form of ALS with extreme spasticity and bulbar symptoms. Unfortunately, I can no longer speak or swallow. I'm quadriplegic and anarthric, and can no longer move anything. Despite this, I still find quality of life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqblNMxH_cE I used to be an extreme athlete and did crazy things.I'm both a doctor and a patient myself. I made the diagnosis myself.I live in a normal family, and we have a young daughter.My Read more [...]
Ernst van Aaken

Ernst van Aaken

Ernst van Aaken (16 May 1910, in Emmerich – 2 April 1984, in Schwalmtal-Waldniel) was a German sports physician and athletics trainer. Van Aaken became known as the "Running Doctor" and was the founder of the training method called the Waldnieler Dauerlauf (German: "Waldniel endurance run"). He is generally recognized as the founder of the long slow distance method of endurance training. As a sports physician, trainer and advocate of new developments he directed himself fanatically Read more [...]
Karl-Heinz Kienle

Karl-Heinz Kienle

Kienle has practised long distance sports as marathon (30 kg. ago...) and has been leading on international level with diving. Besides his musical career in two Jazz bands as trombone player. And collecting severyl things - his doctors office is fully decorated with model ambulances and pace makers. He also loves to ride the tandem bike. (DE): Sportmedizinisch kann er auf eine lange eigene Erfahrung in Ausdauersportarten zurückblicken, "Mein letzter Marathon ist leider mittlerweile dreißig Read more [...]
Melanie Aalburg

Melanie Aalburg

Date of birth: 07.04.1974Place of birth: Berlin (Germany)Place of living: BerlinBetween school and university I worked for several months as a volunteer for the Missionaries of Charity (Mother Teresa) in the slums of Calcutta (India) . The strong impressions encouraged me to study Medicine…1993: I started studying medicine at the Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany)2003: Specialization in Sports Medicine2004: Specialization in Nutritional Medicine2004: PhD Read more [...]