Deelnemerslijst 100km en 50km 2015

SELF-TRANSCENDENCE 100 KM

Naam	Woonplaats	Land	Categorie
Linda Voets	Amsterdam	NED	Vrouwen
Esther Devilee	Leiden	NED	Vrouwen
Veerle Beernaert	Bissegem	BEL	Vrouwen
Els Annegarn	Amsterdam	NED	Vrouwen 50
Christiaan van Meurs	Nijverdal	NED	Mannen
Tobias Lundgren	Amsterdam	S	Mannen
Theo Slump	Groningen	NED	Mannen
Frits Bovenberg	Oegstgeest	NED	Mannen
Henk Derudder	Ichtegem	BEL	Mannen
Hideo Sugawara	Tokyo	JAP	Mannen
Ove Hansen	Laksevåg	NOR	Mannen 50
Tom Keij	Arnhem	NED	Mannen 50
Bob Verbrugge	Zoetermeer	NED	Mannen 50
Bob Bock	Amsterdam	NED	Mannen 50
Alex Michiels	Brugge	BEL	Mannen 50
Xavier Verbruggen	Zulte	BEL	Mannen 50
Sjaak Bus	Raamsdonksveer	NED	Mannen 50
Mo idrissi	Heemskerk	NED	Mannen 60

SELF TRANSCENDENCE 50 KM
Nina curre	Rijkevoort	NED	Vrouwen
Emily Shultz	Amsterdam	NED	Vrouwen
Jacolien Schreuder	Haarlem	NED	Vrouwen
Ann van Samang	Brugge	BEL	Vrouwen
Annie van Rossum	Vianen Ut	NED	Vrouwen 50
Johanna van der Schaft	Amsterdam	NED	Vrouwen 50
Ineke Scheffer	Leens	NED	Vrouwen 50
Kim ove Hansen	Sprang-CapelleLaksev	NOR	Mannen
Les Wilson	Amsterdam	NED	Mannen
Jesse Toet	Amsterdam	NED	Mannen
Jos Markusse	Vlaardingen	NED	Mannen
Pieter den Edel	Wassenaar	NED	Mannen
Dirk Stangneth	Oberhausen	D	Mannen
Johan Watthy	Gistel	BEL	Mannen
Vincent Meers	Gentbrugge	BEL	Mannen
François Flisijn	Julianadorp	NED	Mannen 50
Gerik Mik	Sint Annen	NED	Mannen 50
Jean-Pierre Merken	Dilsen-Stokkem	BEL	Mannen 50
Gert Mertens	Schoten	BEL	Mannen 50
Rudy van Daele	Sint Niklaas	BEL	Mannen 50
Dirk Adriaenssens	Sint Niklaas	BEL	Mannen 50
Martino Corneille	Moorslede	BEL	Mannen 50
Simon Pols	Duivendrecht	NED	Mannen 60

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Tejvan organises short-distance running and cycling races for the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team in his home city of Oxford. He is also a very good cyclist, having won the National hill climb championships in 2013 and finished 3rd in the National 100 Mile Time Trials in 2014.

Impossibility Challenger was an event founded in 1982 by Sri Chinmoy with the idea to give people the chance to transcend their limitations and make an effort to set a new world record or personal best. The event is organised by members of the Sri Chinmoy Centre and, in the past few decades, has been held in several cities around the world The unique event attracts a diverse range of participants who are keen to test themselves in the friendly and welcoming atmosphere of 'Impossibility Challenger'.

This years edition was held in Den Haag, Netherlands, and attracted a range of record breakers from quickest time to solve a Rubik's cube and tests of memory - to physical challenges such as the fastest running whilst skipping.

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Sri Chinmoy encouraged this event because he felt that the personal effort and discipline of trying to better oneself could give a more meaningful understanding of our latent capacities and this effort to reach new achievements would give a genuine sense of happiness. Sri Chinmoy often described this effort of challenging ourself as a philosophy of 'self-transcendence'.

Either forget impossibility’s challenge
Or challenge impossibility’s pride
To become truly happy.

- Sri Chinmoy

At this year's event, one of the participants was Ashrita Furman, who holds the Guinness World Record for having the most world records. In a record-breaking career, since 1979, he has set over 700 Guinness Records and currently holds more than 200. At this event, he set a new record for cutting 59 kiwis in a minute and also - completing 66 rounds of juggling a burning torch, within one minute.

The event attracted a range of self-transcendence feats - including push-ups, paper folding, skipping, sack racing and fastest one-handed hand-clap. It also included an epic feat of poetry recital. American Mahiruha Klein recited, over a period of several hours, 1,000 poems of Sri Chinmoy from the poetry series "The Golden Boat" He later commented that he recited from memory 965 absolutely correct, with just a few slips in the other 35 poems. For Mahiruha, the long period of the recital was not about the outer display of memory, but a very rewarding inner experience to become immersed in a world of spiritual poetry.

The event attracted substantial media coverage from the local Dutch press who covered the unique challenges of the event.

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Impossibility Challenger website

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On April 7th, the three fastest male runners of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team came together the Rotterdam marathon, which is well known for producing fast times. Samalya Schäfer (Germany), Vajin Armstrong (New Zealand) and Abhinabha Tangerman (The Netherlands) have all broken the elusive barrier of two hours and thirty minutes for the marathon distance. The three runners are good friends and regularly head off together for runs and training camps, but this was the first time they had toed the line together in the same marathon.

Of the three, Abhinabha finished first in 2:31:17, followed by Samalya in 2:31:48. Vajin, who has represented New Zealand and won some of trail running's most prestigious races in the past few years, experienced some hamstring problems this time around and finished in 2:34:21. Also running in Rotterdam were two other members of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team who both set personal bests - Sadanand Magee from Ireland in 2:50:34 and Himadri Kavai from Hungary with 3:36:35.

Since the late 1970s, members of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team have completed numerous marathons following in the footsteps of founder Sri Chinmoy, who ran 22 marathons and encouraged others to test themselves physically, mentally and spiritually at this iconic distance.

“Self-transcendence gives us joy in boundless measure. When we transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We do not compete with the rest of the world, but at every moment we compete with ourselves. We compete only with our previous achievements. And each time we surpass our previous achievements, we get joy.”

– Sri Chinmoy

Aside from the success of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team members, this edition of the Rotterdam marathon also saw a new course record in 2:04:1, set by Marius Kipserem from Kenya, as well as a new Dutch national record in 2:06:17 set by Abdi Nageeye.

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