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WORLD MEMORY CHAMPIONSHIPS 2006

Twenty year old German law student Clemens Mayer from Brannenburg wins the 2006 World Memory Championships with a record score of 7302 points -over a thousand more than his winning score just one year ago in Oxford.  Repeating last years winning line up, Dr Gunther Karsten received the Silver Medal with 6934 points with an increase of 864 points. Joachim Thaler, from Austria was also once again in the Bronze medal position with a score of 6440, an increase of 858 points from the previous year.

New World Records broken at the 2006 Championships;

Abstract Images Discipline - Dr Gunther Karsten

Binary Digits Discipline - Ben Pridmore

Names and Faces Discipline - Clemens Mayer

Historic Dates Discipline - Ben Pridmore

One Hour Cards Discipline - Ben Pridmore (27 packs!)

Random Words Dsicpline - TWO WORLD RECORDS Boris Konrad (214) and Joachim Thaler (203)

Speed Cards Discipline - Andi Bell 31.16 seconds for one pack

Thirty three competitors from around the world competed although nearly twenty more had registered but were unable to obtain visas to travel to the UK.

It has been announced that the 2007 Worold Memory Championships will be in the UK once again at around the same time in August.

The World Memory Sports Council would like to thank its sponsors for 2006;

The Buzan Organisation,   Speed Stacks, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Learning Technologies, Chris Day Creative Services, Buzan Centres Worldwide plc. Particular thanks to STRATUS for supplying all 500 packs of cards used in the competition


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Background on Clemens Mayer

Clemens has studied memory for the last five years under his mentor, Silver Medalist Dr Gunther Karsten of MemoryXL in Germany. He left school with top grades in 2005 to study law in Munich. He find his memory skills have been a great help to him in his studies. Prior to winning the World Championships for the first time in 2005, he had already won three memory championships in Germany and also the Austrian Open. He held a German Record for speed cards of 36.14 seconds and a world record for Names and Faces with 170, and also in the Number discipline where he recalled 1040 number after just 30 minutes of memorisation.

He believes in Tony Buzan's philosophy for healthy body equals heathly mind and enjoys athletics, running six to seven times a week.



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Dr Gunther Karsten - Siver Medal Winner 2006

Education

Scholarship from Colorado College (USA) (on recommendation of the German government)                  8/81-5/82

Study of chemistry in Hamburg and Heidelberg:    Honoured with the title Dipl. chemist                                    5/88

Attending lectures/seminars in biology, psychology and philosophy                                                         10/82-10/87

Completing the 4-semester study course in biotechnology at the Technical University of Munich                      12/90

Graduation with the Ph.D. in chemistry/biochemistry at the University of Munich

(magna cum laude)           12/91

Completing the diploma exams in „Business Marketing“ at the University of
Hagen            4/97






Professional Activities



Semi-professional photo-model/actor for advertising spots and movies   1989-93

Founder and director of the „Patent translation office Dr. Karsten & partner”  since   5/92

Founder of the coaching company MemoVision "Memory, Mind & Mental Skills"  since   7/98

Memory coach for several companies in Spain/Portugal/Turkey/Norway    since   5/00

Election as chairman of the supervisory board of „Vision Patents     11/00

Writer for the American magazine “The Bulletin” about memory and mental skills     since   1/01

Advisor and cooperation partner of Maximum Recall Consulting SDN BHD in Asia                 5/02-10/03

Author of the beststelling book “Erfolgsgedächtnis” (success memory) published in many countries



Other Activities





Mental coach for the organisation “Promotion of high talented kids”  since   1/95

Member, proctor, and lector of Mensa in Germany e.V.  (Society for high intelligent people)  since   6/85

Member of the advisory board to the “International World Memory Sports Council (WMSC)” since   6/00

President of “MemoryXL” (European society for enhancing memory Capabilities)       since          4/02



Achievements in Memory



Winner of the 2nd to 8th German Memory Championship  7/98-7/04

Bronze medal winner of the Memory World Championship in London   8/98, 8/00, 8/02
Receiving the grandmaster title in memory mind sport (at the Mind Sports Olympiad)   8/99

Victory in the memory competition as coach of the German Junior National Team versus    5/01

Winner of the “ „Prague Open Memory Cup“ in 2001, 2002, and 2003   since 7/01

Vice World Memory Champion     8/01

Winner of the “Austrian open 2002” with 5888  11/02

4-times World Champion in the discipline “binary numbers 30 min”  ´00, ´01, ´02 & ´03

Winner of the “German Open 2004” with 6479 points 7/04



WORLD RECORDS/TITLES in MEMORY SPORT



Guinness world record in the area of mental power (flawless memorizing of a number with 60 digits in 60 )       11/99

(Guinness) world record in „spoken numbers“ with 400 digits (every 2 sec a spoken digit is memorized)          8/00

Former World record holder in the discipline „historic/future dates“ (60 dates of 80 dates memorized in 5 min)      8/04

4times World memory champion in the discipline “binary numbers” (3384 memorized in 30 min)      2000-2003



COACH OF THE FOLLOWING MEMORY CHAMPIONS



Junior Memory World Champion ‘98, Czech Memory Champion ’99, ’00 & ’01, German Female Junior Memory Champion ‘98+’99+’01, German Junior Memory Champion ‘00, German Kid Memory Champion ’01, Junior Female Memory World Champion ’99-’01, Female Memory World Champion ’99-’01, Kid Vize World Champion ´02, Kid World Champion ´04, 4-fold Guinness World Record holder (in memorizing birthdays, Munich/Paris/London/­Stockholm), Junior Guinness World Record holder (memorizing a maze), Junior Guinness World Record holder etc. (memorizing colours)



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Joachim Thaler - Bronze Medal Winner 2006



Biography:

Name: Joachim Thaler
Date of Birth: 17th of December 1987 à 17 years old
Born in Bregenz on the Lake of Constance (in the very west of Austria)
Current place of residence: Wolfurt (village next to Bregenz)
student; just finished 11th school year (4 years of primary school; 7 years of grammar school à one more year)  
Achievements in Memory Sport:

twofold Austrian Junior Champion
finished third in the WMC in 2004
reigning Junior World Memory Champion
current holder of six Junior World Records
number six on the world ranking list
“Grandmaster of Memory”  
My ambitions:

Saying that I don’t have any and that I’ll just have a look at how well I’m going to do at the next WMC would be a lie. Of course I’d be happy to “memorise” myself closer to the top of the world ranking list. Still, there are other things in my life that are important for me too and that I won’t give up just in order to practise memory sport all day. My number one ambition, however, is to stay on the ball as long as possible to have the possibility to enjoy all the wonderful, great and inspiring people that I would never have met without memory sport.



How has the mind sport of memory affected my life?

I learned what unbelievable achievements the human brain is up to.
I got to know some of the most interesting people I have ever met. Generally, it’s the social contacts that I enjoy most about the sport: People don’t fight each other, trying to keep their techniques secret – they support, motivate and give advice to each other. Apart from that, I just love being together with all these like-minded freaks (well, I think that’s the word that describes us memory athletes best) – they are simply cool. And that’s the main reason why I’m looking forward to each event.
I learned how to deal with the media.
I earned money (prize money, memory course for children, performances etc.)
I earned respect and admiration.

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