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Place of Birth: Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Wolfgang Schwerk
- Madhupran Wolfgang Schwerk is an ultra-marathon runner, born July 28, 1955 and now living in Solingen, Germany.
- He was a trained retail-salesman, baritone opera singer, farmer, carpenter, and poultry breeder before becoming a house-husband in 1984.
- He has been married to opera singer Cornelia Berger-Schwerk since 1981 and they have one daughter. He is a highly respected multiday runner and was the 3100 mile World Record holder for nine years until Ashprihanal Aalto broke his record in 2015.
- Wolfgang also finished the Trans-Australia Race in 2001 (2,900 miles) and placed third in the Lisbon-Moscow race in 2003.
- In 2002 Schwerk impressed the running world with a tremendous victory in 42 days+13:24:03 (WR).This also established 74 new distance records, from 1400 miles up to 5000 km.
- His performance was so dominating, averaging 72.8 miles (117.2 km) per day, that he led the world, that year, with the fastest 1000 mile time - a split of 13 days, 5 hours 1. In the summer of 2006, he broke his own time of 42 days 13:24:03 set in 2002 with a new record of 41 days 08:16:29, averaging 75.111 miles per day. Schwerk is also ranked second all time at the 24-hour distance with 171.628 miles.
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