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Jonas Deichmann
Jonas Deichmann (born 15 April 1987 in Stuttgart) is a best-selling author, adventurer, extreme athlete, and holder of multiple world records in cycling and endurance. He is a popular motivational speaker at German companies and sports teams. Early life Jonas Deichmann was born on 15 April 1987 in Stuttgart, a city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. During his childhood the family moved to the Black Forest where he grew up in Engelsbrand, Grunbach and Pforzheim and attended economics-oriented Fritz Erler School (Pforzheim), Fritz Erler high school in Pforzheim. After high school, he studied International Business in Sweden, Brazil, Singapore, Denmark and India. He completed a BSc in Business Administration and Economics at Jönköping International Business School in 2012 followed by a master's degree from Copenhagen Business School in 2014. After university he returned to Germany and worked as a sales manager for a Swedish software company in Munich. Family and relat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extreme Athlete
Action sports, adventure sports or extreme sports are physical activity, activities perceived as involving a high degree of risk of injury or death. These activities often involve speed, height, a high level of physical exertion and highly specialized gear. Extreme tourism overlaps with extreme sport. The two share the same main attraction, "adrenaline, adrenaline rush" caused by an element of risk, and differ mostly in the degree of engagement and professionalism. Definition There is no precise definition of an 'extreme sport' and the origin of the term is unclear but it gained popularity in the 1990s when it was picked up by marketing companies to promote the X Games and when the Extreme Sports Channel and Extreme International launched. More recently, the commonly used definition from research is "a competitive (comparison or self-evaluative) activity within which the participant is subjected to natural or unusual physical and mental challenges such as speed, height, depth or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
