Once a year, the town hall square in Bad Waldsee is turned into an arena and the whole of the spa town is infected with the running bug. Approximately 2,000 passionate runners attended this year’s traditional sports meet, which was held for the 15th time.
Last year, the Handtmann team took part in this running event for the first time with a total of 15 runners. This year, 23 Handtmann Group of Companies employees headed to the starting line on 20th May. Enjoying excellent running weather – dry but not too hot – they joined hundreds of other endurance sportsmen and women on the Waldsee course to battle for the best competition times. All the Handtmann runners managed to complete their races.
In the RSW half marathon, Armin Burkhardt crossed the finishing line after just 01:28:37.9 hours – he therefore came 32nd and was the highest placed member of the team. A total of 712 runners had taken part in the 21.1 kilometre run. Torsten Weiss was the fastest to complete the 10,000 meter run. He reached the finishing line after 00:45:45.0 hours as 79th of a total of 333 runners. The best woman in the Handtmann team was Diana Hiller. With a time of 00:49:15.9 hours she came in 120th place.
Faced the challenge of the half marathon and completed it successfully (from left): Armin Burkhardt (Metallgusswerk), Jürgen Lerner (Metallgusswerk), Simon Schilling (Service), Fabian Wachter (Systemtechnik), Markus Kraft (Metallgusswerk), Markus Barth (Systemtechnik), Stefan Mohr (Metallgusswerk), Philip Winter (Elteka), René Schweidler (Systemtechnik) and Armin Traub (Elteka).
Achieved excellent performances in the 10,000 metre run (from left): Johannes Probst (Service), Thomas Raudies (Armaturenfabrik), Jörg Kuhbandner (Maschinenfabrik), Nina Heinz (Service), Diana Hiller (Metallgusswerk), Christoph Link (Metallgusswerk), John-Philip Hammersen (Systemtechnik), Nadine Rimmele (Metallgusswerk), Giovani Turturro (Metallgusswerk), Sonja Lingnau (Service), Torsten Weiss (Metallgusswerk) and Michael Kletsch (Service). Not on the photo: Hermann Hahn (Service).
Source: Carolin Bleher