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Rolf Majcen (born 1966) is a

Lower Austria Lower Austria (german: Niederösterreich; Austro-Bavarian: ''Niedaöstareich'', ''Niedaestareich'') is one of the nine states of Austria, located in the northeastern corner of the country. Since 1986, the capital of Lower Austria has been Sankt P ...

n economist-lawyer, writer and extreme sports athlete.

Biography

Majcen was born in

Johannesburg Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Dem ...

. He is the grandnephew of Karl Majcen, the former General-Inspector of the Austrian

Bundesheer The Austrian Armed Forces (german: Bundesheer, lit=Federal Army) are the combined military forces of the Republic of Austria. The military consists of 22,050 active-duty personnel and 125,600 reservists. The military budget is 0.74% of natio ...

. He earned a doctoral degree in law and served as an officer in the Bundesheer from 1985 to 1998. While serving in the Bundesheer he completed air rescuer and army mountain guide assistant training. Majcen published several juridical economy and sports contributions in Europe, America and Asia. His first book ''Sieg in den Bergen'' (''victory in the mountains''), published in 2002, was awarded by the

Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme The International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation, commonly known by its French name Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (UIAA, lit. ''International Union of Alpine Clubs''), was founded in August 1932 in Chamonix, France ...

(UIAA). He also took part in several sports competitions.Rolf Macjen
''Wettkampfübersicht 1999-2007''
He was the first Austrian, who competed in all the three classical ski mountaineering events, the

Patrouille des Glaciers The Patrouille des Glaciers (PDG) is a ski mountaineering race organised every two years by the Swiss Armed Forces, in which military and civilian teams compete. It takes place once every two years at the end of April, in the south part of the ca ...

(2000 and 2004), the

Pierra Menta The Pierra Menta has been an annual competition of ski mountaineering at Arêches-Beaufort in the region of Beaufort, Savoie south-eastern France since 1986. The Pierra Menta is one of the three best known races of the Alps (''les grandes trois d ...

(2001) and the

Trofeo Mezzalama The Mezzalama Trophy ( it, Trofeo Mezzalama, french: Trophée Mezzalama, a.k.a. ''white marathon''

(2003). In 2004, Majcen and Hermann Kofler were the first Austrian athletes who gained World Cup points in ski mountaineering for their country.

Selected results

Ski mountaineering

* 2002: ** 7th, International Vlado-Tatarka memory race, Hrebienok (together with Franz Hausmann) * 2004: ** 1st, Lower Austrian Championship ** 6th, International Turnosmučarski-Rallye,

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(together with Franz Hausmann) ** 7th and Austrian record, Patrouille des Glaciers "seniors II" class ranking (together with Hermann Kofler and

Johann Wieland Johann Wieland (born 1 January 1972) is an Austrian ski mountaineer. Wieland started ski mountaineering in 1984 and competed first in the ''Preberlauf'' event in 1999. He has been member of the ASKIMO national team since 2008 and lives in Tamsw ...

) * 2005: ** 1st, Lower Austrian Championship * 2007: ** 1st, Lower Austrian Championship

Stair running

* 1st, Judenburg-tower race * 1999: ** 1st, Royal Mutual Funds

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Stair Climb, Toronto * 2000: ** 8th, Empire State Building Run Up * 2001: ** 1st, Magdeburger Uni-Hochhaus race,

Magdeburg Magdeburg (; nds, label=Low Saxon, Meideborg ) is the capital and second-largest city of the German state Saxony-Anhalt. The city is situated at the Elbe river. Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archdiocese of Magdebu ...

** 9th, Empire State Building Run Up ** 14th, Ostankino Tower race * 2002: ** 2nd, Original Schlossberg race ** 3rd,

Donauturm The Donauturm ( en, Danube Tower) is a tower in Vienna, the tallest structure in Austria at , and is the 68th tallest tower in the world. Opening in April 1964, the tower is located near the north bank of the Danube River in the district of ...

race * 2007: ** 5th, Donauturm race * 2008: ** 3rd, Frankfurt Messeturm race ** 6th, Donauturm race ** 7th, "Go Vertical Chicago",

Sears Tower The Willis Tower (originally the Sears Tower) is a 108- story, skyscraper in the Loop community area of Chicago in Illinois, United States. Designed by architect Bruce Graham and engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM ...

** 7th, "Hustle up the Hankock",

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** 12th,

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race

References

External links

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Official Website

, Mountain2b-Redaktion, November 5, 2003 {{DEFAULTSORT:Majcen, Rolf 1966 births Living people Austrian male ski mountaineers Austrian jurists Austrian soldiers Austrian male writers Sportspeople from Johannesburg Austrian male long-distance runners Tower runners