Christian Schiester

A top international adventure athlete, Christian won the 2007 Antarctic 100km in a time of 19:58:14. Christian had previously won the Himalayan 100-mile stage race in record time (14:43), finished third in the Jungle Marathon 200km (Brazilian Amazon) and among the top 12 in the legendary Marathon des Sables (Sahara Desert). Although a specialist in adventure racing, Christian also has a marathon PB of 2:29:07 and was two-time Austrian champion at mountain and cross-running. He targeted the 100km event only in the Antarctic.