The Trans Europe Foot Race is a multiday long-distance

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that consists of running across

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2003 race

The 2003 Trans Europe Foot Race was organized by Ingo Schultze. It ran from

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in 64 days and covered approximately . Out of 44 starters, there were 22 finishers including one wheelchair athlete, with Mariko Sakamoto the only woman to finish. The event was won by Robert Wimmer from Germany.

2009 race

The 2009 Trans Europe Foot Race was also organized by Ingo Schultze. Th
route
started in

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, Italy and finished in North Cape, Norway. It mostly avoided big cities and passed for example

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before using the ferry

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, and then passing for example

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. Again this was a 64-day race. The total distance was . The race began on April 19, 2009 and ended on June 21, 2009. The male winner was Rainer Koch from Germany with a running time of 378 hours and 12 minutes. The female winner was Takako Furuyama from Japan, with a running time of 529 hours and 6 minutes. 45 runners finished the race.

List of competitors for 2009 race

From Germany: *Hermann Böhm (Weiherhammer) *Hans Damm (Neu-Isenburg) *Sigrid Eichner (Berlin) ''Female'' *Dagmar Großheim (Gräfenberg) ''Female'' *Joachim Hauser (Dettenhausen) *Martina Hausmann (Würzburg) ''Female'' * Marcel Heinig (Cottbus) *Achim Heukemes (Gräfenberg) *Richard Hofbauer (Rosenheim) *Theo Huhnholt (Waldkraiburg) *Heinz Jäckel (Hennef) *Rainer Koch (Dettelbach) *Jörg Koenig (Stade) *Klaus Neumann (Stuttgart) *Heike Pawzik (Rostock) ''Female'' *Hans-Jürgen Schlotter (Horb-Bittelbronn) *Werner Selch (Amberg) *Elke Streicher (Gerlingen) ''Female'' *René Strosny (Filderstadt) *Bernd Wagner (Duisburg) *Klaus Wanner (Holzgerlingen) *Robert Wimmer (Nürnberg / Bayern) *Tom Wolter-Roessler (Ulm-Böfingen) *Ullrich Zach (Rödental) *Jürgen Zuth (Siegelsbach) From Finland: *Janne Kankaansyrjä (Järvenpää) From France: *Gèrard Denis (Fouesnant) *Jean-Herve Duchesne (Saint-Germain) *Alain Lemarchand (Neuric sur I'Isle) *Christophe Midelet (Gizy / Aisne) *Stephane Pelissier (Lanta) *Fabrice Viaud (Rezè) *Roger Warenghem (Le Touvet) From Japan: *Kenji Hara (Utsunomiya, Tochigi) *Kazuhiko Horiguchi (Kitakata, Fukushima) *Kazuko Kaihata (Kurashiki, Okayama) ''Female'' *Yasuo Kanai (Yokohama, Kanagawa) *Saeko Kishimoto (Gunma) ''Female'' *Shoji Konoeda (Osaka) *Shigeru Mitsuhashi (Sapporo, Hokkaido) *Koji Nakamura (Higashi Yodagawa) *Yasumasa Namikoshi (Osaka) *Hiroko Okiyama (Fussa, Tokio) ''Female'' *Takasumi Senoo (Yokohama) *Tsuyoshi Sugawara (Hasuda, Saitama) *Furuyama Takako (Tokyo) ''Female'' *Okuno Tomoko (Tokyo) ''Female'' From Korea: *Ahn Byeung Sik (Seogwipo) From Netherlands: *Ria Buiten (Biddinghuize) ''Female'' *Theo Cloosterman (Veldhoven) *Jenni De Groot (Leeuwarden) ''Female'' *Ubel Dijk (Drachten) *Theo Kuijpers (Westerbeek) *Jan Nabuurs (Westerbeck) *Cor Westhuis (Dalfsen) From Norway: *Eiolf Eivindsen (Mosjøen) *Trond Sjavik (Mosjøen) *Henry Wehder (Nordre Toten/Nordli) From Sweden: *Matthias Bramstång (Halmstad) *Andreas Falk (Sollentuna) From Switzerland: *Markus Bernhard (Thunstetten) *Christian Fatton (Noiraigue) *Christian Marti (Zürich) *Martin Wagen (Biel-Benke) From Taiwan: *Ching-Hui Chen (Taipei) From Turkey: *Mike Friedl (Istanbul) From USA: *Russell Secker (Austin,Texas)

2012 race

The race was run again in 2012. It went from

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, Denmark to

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, St-Pons-de-Thomieres,

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. The total distance was 4175 km and the race took 64 days. The male winner was Peter Bartel from Germany with 354:25:21, and the female winner was

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from the Netherlands with 504:18:29.

2021 race

In 2021 a new edition of this multiday event, the Race Across Europe (RAE), will take place. The event is organised by Oliver Witzke and is 64 stages from Tallinn to Lisbon and approximately 4750 km.

References

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External links

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