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Doris Autengruber is 39 years old. She works at the Academy for Environment and Nature as an accountant and lives in Linz, the European capitol of culture this year. When her children leave her some time, she spends most of her leisure time with doing sports in nature. She rides her racing and mountain bikes a lot, but there are several other nature sports listed in her program: running, cross-country skiing, and hiking, canyoning, swimming, diving, skating, and skiing. Why is Doris the right one for Naturathlon? As a social all-round athlete she does not give up easily, is politically active and “simply enjoys action in the nature.” |
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Roman Reiter is 24 years old and lives in the city Wolfurt, which is in the western province Voralberg. He works as an authorized expert in an administrative office of the Federal Government in Voralberg. The former rowing professional is now a trainer and rides his racing bike for a few hours several times a week. Besides he still rows a bit, jogs and likes to help his family in the garden at home. Roman loves to ride his racing bike in a group through the countryside and sees himself as a part of a team which belongs together and has the same goal. Not just the sporty achievements count for him, but also the human ones. |
Robert Schlacher is 47 years old and lives in the city Gleisdorf in Styria. He is a biologist and works as an expert with the regional government authorites. Robert rides his racing or mountain bike two to three times a week and plays ping pong weekly. He loves cycling in the nature and rejoices in the diversity of county sides and animals.
"Naturathlon 2009 gives me the opportunity to share this joy with the other participants at a historical interesting locations and to serve in this way as a multiplicator for the conservation of these areas. When exercising sports in nature you have always to consider that we, as human beings have to take better care of the environment and not just use nature being a nice background scenery." |
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Peter Zulka is 49 years old, lives in Klosterneunburg near Wien and works as a zoologist. He rides his bike four times a week and in addition he runs twice. Another important hobby is classical music. He listens to Sebastian Bach, Frédéric Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven and Sergej Rachmaninow. Besides he is engaged in renewable energy sources. There are several reasons, why Peter has to be part of Naturathlon: “I never owned a car in my life, instead I try to cover as many ways as possible by bike. I performed the field work for my dissertation in the Austrian March-Auen, near the Slovakian border within the Green Belt. Also my later biological projects always took me to the border regions of Austria, like “Seewinkel” or the marshes of Mühlviertel. This way I spent a substantial part of my occupational life within the Green Belt and learned to value the beauty of nature. Currently, within the program proVision, I coordinate a project about bio fuels. This project shows that in the future mobility seems to be less a question of the mode of driving but rather a problem of raise of efficiency. Of course, the bicycle performs way better than the automobile at this point: Instead of two tons of iron sheet and 300 kW, just ten kilograms of aluminum and 250 W of power suffice, and yet one often arrives in a place faster by bike than by car.” |
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Slovakia
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