UNICON 19 – Unicycling World Championships

About 15km north-east of Ansan at Mount Suri, a Mountain, popular with mountain bikers, with a height of about 500 metres, those two outdoor-competitions were held.

The race of 400m took place at 5 pm, where Michael competed. With 1:11.783, he was second behind Andreas Rodler. The Results of the girls U15 were fascinating to us. The winner had a time of under a minute, eight young Japaneses stayed under 1:05. Respect!

In Coasting, she managed 120 metres. She had never managed to get this far in a competition before. That’s the third place in Expert Female and the first place in U15.

One of the power days during the UNICON with a densely packed schedule of competitions at different facilities – track races, X-Style, Speedtrail, plattform jumps

This morning at seven o’clock, all the competitors of Downhill gathered at Mount Suam. After a short opportunity to survey the track, The Advanced-race started at 9 am. In the end, the track was judged by the riders to be too short and not worthy for a UNICON.

That’s nothing we could have reckoned with! With 2nd place – maybe, but not with the win of the finals. The winning distance was 2.45m. She only barely missed 2.50m.

There were more than 50 degrees Celsius over the Tartan, when Henriette competed at Long Lump at 1.30 pm. These were tiring conditions, in which hardly any top performance could be made. The result are 2.25m, more just wasn’t possible.

Videos of UNICON 19 freestyle competitions ready for download.

In the afternoon there was the parade and the official opening of the World Cup. In the outdoor theater of Hwarang Park, the unicyclists experienced the performance of martial arts groups and dancers.

The sun shined down from a clear sky today. The thermometer showed about 40 degrees. After the Korean breakfast with meat, fish and Kimchi, but luckily also with toast and marmalade, an hour of workshop was scheduled.

What a climate! Taking the first step out of the air-conditioned airport – wow, our breath is caught in our throats. That hot and a that high humidity at once – in our climes you can only find such weather in the tropic house of a zoo.

Right now, we are at an altitude of 11,211m between Irkutsk and Ulanbator. Outside, there are freezing -55 degrees. With about 1,000 km/h we move fast south-east in the direction of the Korean Peninsula.