2014 Competitors
Havard Bo (NOR)
Havard is a 38-year-old Stavanger-based, engineer who enjoys a challenge. His adventures started with mountain hiking from an early age, and he has conducted numerous hiking trips in the jungles of Asia and South America as well as mountains worldwide. Håvard is aiming to be the first Norwegian to join the Marathon Grand Slam club; i.e. finish a marathon on each of the Seven Continents and on the Arctic Ocean at the North Pole Marathon. After completing the Volcano Marathon, Håvard hopes to become a member of the Club the following week when he takes part in the 2014 Antarctica Ice Marathon.
Ian Egan (IRL)
Ian is a sports injury therapist who holds a marathon PB of 2:43 hrs. He also holds a PB of 25:11 for 8k and a 10k PB of 32:16. Ian completed the North Pole Marathon in 2013 despite suffering from hypothermia during the race, and also completed the 2013 Volcano Marathon. He's back again for more punishment! Ian likes piina coladas and getting caught in the rain, he's not much into health food, he is into champagne.
Enzo Ferrari (CHL)
Enzo is a professional ultra trail runner who has also won shorter events over 5k, 10k and half-marathon distances. He has been based in New Zeland for the past couple of years where he won a couple of 50km races (Bedrock and St. James) and ran the Tarawera 100k twice as well as the North Face 100k in Australia. More recently he took second place in the Endurance Challenge 80k in his native Chile.
Anne-Marie Flammersfeld (GER)
Anne-Marie has won ultrarunning events in the Atacama, Sahara and Gobi deserts as well as in the Antarctic region. A Sports Scientist based in St Moritz, Switzerland, she loves the mountains. In 2013, she was third overall in the Manaslu Trail Race in Nepal and ran from the lowest to the highest point of Switzerland. More recently, she won the 2014 UVU North Pole Marathon in record time and also won the 2014 Zugspitz Ultra Trail Race and Transylvania Trail Run. Anne-Marie is an Ambassador the Paulchen Esperanza Foundationand writes a weekly blog at www.annemariedflammersfeld.blogspot.com.
Frank Fuessl (GER)
Frank is an experienced endurance athlete of 30 years and has finished 9 Ironmen, 26 marathons (best time 2:57:30), 6 roller blade marathons and hundreds of half marathons, 10 k runs and short distance triathlons. He prefers “exotic” marathons such as the Baikal Ice Marathon, Gobi Marathon, Zermatt Marathon and Arctic Circle Marathon compared to the big City Marathons. He also loves trail running. Frank's greatest athletic achievements were a 2nd place finish in the German student’s triathlon championship in 1995 and winning the Gobi Marathon in 2010 and Managua Marathon in 2013. He loves to travel around the world having visited 95 countries and having participated in running competitions in 16 countries on 5 continents, still missing South America.
Graham Gillespie (AUS)
Graham is 54-year-old recreational runner born in Frankston Australia and who now lives at Béziers in the south of France. He started running marathons in 2005 for a bit of a challenge after retiring from the military. Since then, in between working in Africa, he has run the Victoria and Niagara Falls marathons, the Okinawa marathon in Japan and the Rome and Seville Marathons among other events. He additionally completed the North Pole Marathon in 2012 and will run the Antarctic Marathon the week after the Volcano Marathon. Graham is hoping to run a marathon under 4 hours one day and to make it into the Grand Slam club before getting too old to enjoy running.
Cristian Garcia Huidobro (CHL)
Cristian has climbed both Everest and K2, the highest and second highest peaks in the world, respectively. He was the first Chilean to scale both summits and was
awarded the Best National Climber Award in both 1992 and 1996. In July 2007 he also climbed Nanga Parbat, a mythical 8,125 metre peak renowned for its difficulty
and climbing mortality rates. Cristian has participated in numerous ultramarathons in Chile and Argentina, including the 70Kms en Ultra Maratón de Lican Ray, the
80Kms en Ultra Maratón de Los Andes, the 100Kms en Ultra Maratón Cruce de Los Andes, the 160Kms en Ultra Maratón La Misión, and the Atacama Crossing.
Kenneth Krys (CAN)
Ken is an eperienced ultramarathon runner who has run various marathons and ultras including the Antarctic Ice Marathon, Marathon des Sables, NY City Marathon, Jamaica Marathon Philadelphia Marathon, Cross Timbers 50 miler (Texas), Running with the Devil 50 miler (Mohave Desert), Comrades (South Africa) and Off the Beaten Track 50 km (Cayman) among others. Ken is 51 years of age, originally from Canada but now residing in the Caribbean and working as a forensic accountant.
Jorg Lindemann (GER)
Jorg is running the Volcano Marathon with his friend and colleague Christoph Zitzmann. They both started running in 2011 with the German obstacle run 'Braveheart Battle' and have since continued to take part in obstacle runs up to 30km. They had little time for training this year due to their commitments to Europe's exclusive car company: Auto-Zitzmann.com. To compensate for their missedtraining, they expandeded their competitions to ultra trail marathons, including the 100k Fishriver Canyon ultra marathon in Namibia.