WaveSpring
In comparison to his opponent, John Mwangangi like inconspicuous occur with his 157 cm and 50 kg: his sensational success in the past Months but actually prove that he has an outstanding career and with which in SPIRA shoes of integrated WaveSpringTM John Mwangangis chances of technology which allows a better and faster recovery time, are anything but small. Fact sheet: residing Machakos / Kenya size born 1.11.1990 157cm weight 50 kg 10,000 meters in 28:36:6 (Basel City run 28.11.2009, 1st) 5000 m in 13:32 min (Mauritius, African Junior Championships 2009) most important international triumphs – Luxembourg, half marathon, 1:00:36 (1st place) – African Junior Championships in Mauritius August 2009, achievements in the Switzerland (2nd): Grand Prix Bern 2009, 10 miles 47:41 (1st place) 20 km de Lausanne 2009; with the new track record of 1:00:29 (1st place) Greifenseelauf 2008; Greifenseelauf 2009, 13.1 miles in 1:05:42 (1st place) Morat 2008; Morat 2009 11.0 miles in 52:37:3 (1st place) lock barrel Rapperswil-Jona, 9 km in 26:36:6 (1st place) corrida Bulloise, 8 km in 23:15:2 (1.Platz) Basel City run, 10 km in 28:36:6 (1st place) origin John Mwangangi grew up as the youngest of four children in extremely poor conditions, 200km outside Kenya’s capital of Nairobi in the village at Mwingi in Eastern province. With his first prize money from Europe, he acquired a private mountain bike and bought a water pump his mother to irrigate the fields. As the living in Kenya for now 3 years Swiss athletes coach Peter Pfister in 2006 for the first time saw the then only just under 16-year-old John Mwangangi, train athlete, he noticed this immediately as extraordinarily diligent, already at that time though a head smaller than that could keep others easily with the pace of the older athletes in training. At this time John Mwangangi lived with his uncle in Machakos and the fate would have it, that Peter Pfister was at that time also much in Machakos. Peter Pfister, a skilled businessman, comes originally from the Uster in Zurich and started an Afro-shop until the year 2006.
Now cared he 12 young athletes in Kenya, he participates with its athletes regularly race in of Switzerland and the rest part of Europe and already the definitive leap 5 of his proteges to Europe. ABOUT SPIRA at the brand of SPIRA is an American shoe brand with a patented and very innovative, integrated WaveSpringTM technology differently than traditional brands this technology is based on the principle of metal wave springs in the midsole and promises several advantages over other spring – and damping elements. So one of the outstanding features of WaveSpringTM is combined with an outstanding energy return actually the optimal absorption of impact energy. Appropriate in Michigan/United States dating back to 2001 studies, returning the Dampfungs energy absorbed to 87% to 96%. This is the highest rendered energy recovery of a midsole material that was ever tested. In addition, the WaveSpringTM technology allows a faster and better recovery time and excellence as a result within the shortest time again. Gabi Mahajani, Spira Swiss
