{"id":16293,"date":"2019-05-11T12:06:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T10:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjuractive.com\/?p=16293"},"modified":"2019-10-18T11:10:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T09:10:09","slug":"elmar-sprink-the-fittest-heart-transplantee-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pjuractive.com\/au\/blog\/elmar-sprink-the-fittest-heart-transplantee-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Elmar Sprink \u2013 the Fittest Heart Transplantee in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

We, at pjuractive,<\/em> have worked together with Elmar for quite a few years and our collaboration is not without reason. His story is hard to believe: Although he was physically active and did sports, his heart got weak in 2010 and he had to spend a lot of time in the hospital and in rehabilitation centers. Initially he was fitted with two heart pumps, but all the medical interventions did not help and he needed a new heart. Then in 2012 he received the good news that there was a donor heart available for him. On June 9, 2012 he celebrated his second anniversary with his new heart. After spending 189 days lying in the hospital, he finally could be discharged at the end of July 2012\u2013still weak, but with a healthy heart. Instead of taking it easy, he worked his way back to doing sports and in 2014 he was the first person who had received a heart transplant to finish the Ironman competition in Hawaii. For this reason, he is considered the fittest person with a heart transplant in the world. He supports the issue of organ transplants and participates successfully in triathlons on a regular basis. At the beginning of the year, he even qualified for Ironman 70.3 WC, which will be held in Nice, France.<\/p>\n

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But we wanted a better idea of who exactly Elmar Sprink is, so we not only asked him some personal questions, but also inquired about his training habits.<\/p>\n