Marc Lauenstein

Marc Lauenstein (born September 15, 1980 in Cormondréche, Neuchâtel) is a Swiss orienteering competitor and runner. He received a silver medal on the long distance at the 2005 World Orienteering Championships in Aichi, and again in Aarhus in 2006.[1] He earned a bronze medal in 2005 as a member of the Swiss relay team.[1]

Marc Lauenstein

Lauenstein in 2009
Medal record
Men's orienteering
Representing   Switzerland
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2005 Aichi Long
Silver medal – second place 2006 Aarhus Long
Bronze medal – third place 2005 Aichi Relay

Lauenstein won the World Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge in 2009 at the Kaisermarathon.[2] He won the Sierre-Zinal race in 2013,[3] the Pikes Peak Marathon in 2014[4] and the Marathon du Mont Blanc in 2015.[5]

In 2015, Lauenstein became the first runner to complete the Otter Run on South Africa's Otter Trail in under four hours.[6]

He won the Three Peaks Race in 2016 in a time not far outside the long-standing course record, despite snowy conditions on the peaks.[7] Later the same year, he won Giir di Mont from Premana on a route altered by bad weather[8] and followed this with a victory at the Matterhorn Ultraks race in the Skyrunner World Series.[9]

References
  1. World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006 Archived 2011-08-23 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on March 7, 2008)
  2. IAAF: Lauenstein and Pichrtova win Kaisermarathon titles in Söll.
  3. Sierre-Zinal Winners. Archived 2015-12-08 at the Wayback Machine
  4. David Ramsey, "Swiss dentist Marc Lauenstein rules America's Mountain, wins Pikes Peak Marathon", The Gazette (Colorado Springs), 17 Aug 2014.
  5. "A World Line-up on the Podium of the Marathon du Mont-Blanc", Run247, 30 Jun 2015.
  6. "Marc Lauenstein Breaks 'Impossible' Otter Barrier", Trail Magazine South Africa, 20 Oct 2015.
  7. Three Peaks Race Report for 2016.
  8. Classifiche ufficiali Giir di Mont 2016.
  9. Matterhorn Ultraks 46k 2016 Race Summary and Images– Skyrunner® World Series., iancorless.com, 20 Aug 2016.


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