Madhupran Wolfgang Schwerk

Madhupran Wolfgang Schwerk,50, Solingen,Germany

The 3100 Mile World Record holder, Madhupran returns to New York for the fourth time to test his abilities once again. In 2002 he shocked the world with a tremendous victory in 42 days+13:24:03 (WR), as well as establishing 74 new distance records, from1400 miles right up to 5000 km. His performance was so dominating,averaging 72.8 miles(117.13 km) per day, that he led the world that year with the fastest 1000 mile time-( a split-13 days, 5 hours), and even became fifth ranked alltime at 1300 miles. In over 20 years of  running, Madhupran has run over 40 ultras events. He is still ranked second alltime at 24 hours (276.209 km-171.628 miles) and 200 km-(16 hours 20 min). He won the Trans Germany stage race in 1998, finished sixth in the Trans-Australia Race of Fire in 2001, and finished third in the 2003 Trans -Europe stage race. Recently he won the Surgeres 48 hour in German record fashion, running 392 km(243 miles). He is a woodworker and instument maker back home, as well as a fine opera singer.