Detlef Oetter

Detlef is the Vice Chairman of the management board at Sparkasse LeerWittmund, a large bank in Germany. He ran his first marathon in November 2011 in his favorite city of New York. His goal was then to run all six Marathon Majors and he ran Boston during the year of the tragic bombing. “Like many others, that encouraged me to stick to my goal, despite all the circumstances,” he says, and he subsequently finished the Marathon Majors at the beginning of 2015. He has since run races in Sydney and Morocco with the goal of running a marathon on all seven continents. Detlef is married and enjoys racing bikes with his daughters when he’s not running.