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Dr. Amit Samarth
ONLY INDIAN RAAM FINISHER AS WELL AS IRONMAN
• Endurance Athlete
• RAAM Solo Finisher – First Indian
Rookie
• 9 Ironman Race finisher
– 1 full Ironman
– 8 Ironman 70.3
• Winner of Thonnur Lake Triathlon
and Chennai Triathlon 2015
• Winner of Power Duathlon 2016 at
Hyderabad Triathlon
• Cycle Race• 3150 miles • Equals to 5040 kms• Non-stop race• It is not a stage race• 12 days x 24 hrs = 288 hours• Once the clock starts it does not stop until
the finish line
RAAM Solo
• Total climbing of 39850 meters
• That is 1,30,741 feet of climbing
• Amounts to climbing Everest 4.5
times
• From Borrego Springs to Cortez is
dry and arid part of RAAM – 1332
kms
• Total desert part is 990 kms from
Borrego Springs to Tuba City
• Maximum climbing is the last third
of the race
• From Time station 43 Chillicothe to
Time station 50 Hancock – 614 kms
Arizona Colorado West Virginia
Total climbing of 39850 metersEquals to climbing Everest 4.5 times
Preparations for Race Across America (RAAM)
Amit Samarth crewed for SeanaHogan in RAAM 2016
Key crew member for Seana Hogan in RAAAM 2016
2700 kms cycling in 5 days 5 hours
Nagpur – Hyderabad –Bangalore – Hubbali –Kolhapur – Pune –Aurangabad - Nagpur
Training in West Virginia
Training in Boulder
Photo Session and vehicle inspection before the race
Team Amit Samarth at Start Line
RAAM Solo is a Team Sport
With Mother, wife and Son
Crew was naive, innocent and novice and absolutely in Love with me
Team Amit Samarth working 24x7
RAAM Mastermind
Bhanu Rajgopalan
Tireless efforts of Nayak Family
RAAM Crew Chief
Vivitt Walve
Unwavering Support of ChetanThate
Team Amit Samarth• Jeetendra Nayak
• Renuka Nayak
• Ravindra Nayak
• Mridula Dunten
• Doug Dunten
• Rishabh Ingle
• Devesh
• Krish Srikanth
• Sachin Palewar
• Sachin Kuthe
• Mukul Tripathi
• Vijaya Samarth
• Suruchi Warwatkar
• Ayaan Samarth
• Anurag Kulkarni
• Anand Supner
• Dinesh Rathi
• Bhanu Rajgopalan
• Nikhil Chauhan
• Vivitt Walve
• Lalith
RAAM is Fun….!
At RAAM PresentationCeremony
From a School boy to RAAM Finisher
Grand Welcome back home….!
Grand Welcome back home….!
Press Coverage for Amit SamarthPost RAAM
Newspaper article written by Dr Swapna Khanzode, my school friend
Motivational Talk shows in schools and colleges