PI Ceramic Celebrates Successful Participation in Local Race
At the beginning of September 2023, a total of forty-one athletes from PI Ceramic took part in the forty-seventh race through the “Holzland” area in Hermsdorf in Thuringia, Germany, and won the company ranking by covering a total of 414 kilometers!
In bright sunshine, first of all, Markus Stephan and the future dual curriculum student Anton Klotz started the twenty-two-kilometer run in the morning. Then, a total of thirty-two PI Ceramic participants started the eleven-kilometer course - which they either ran or completed by Nordic walking. Eight PI Ceramic athletes competed in the five-kilometer race.
All the participants gave positive feedback on the mostly shady woodland track to the swamps. In earlier times, the peat for the peat baths in Bad Klosterlausnitz in Thuringia, was extracted from these swamps. Everybody who started the race successfully reached the finish line. Also, our “Nordic Walking Singing Group” made up of Anke Reinhardt, Sabine Hempel, Thomas Jäkel, Laura Züllich, and Manuela Pilling jointly marched across the finishing line after two and a quarter hours, whilst passionately singing.
At the award ceremony that followed, the athletes from PI Ceramic proudly accepted the winner's trophy for the company ranking. In the twenty-two-kilometer race, Anton Klonz reached first place and Markus Stephan reached second place in their respective age groups. Heiko Schönecker, who had completed the eleven-kilometer run, was happy about ranking third in his age group.
Finally, the participants went to the promised winners' party at the house of Dr. Patrick Pertsch together.
My thanks go to the whole PI Ceramic “Holzland Race” team for successfully taking part. I am very proud of our appearance at the race, our cross-company team experience, and of winning the company ranking together.
Contact persons:
The organization team
- Melina Ramakic, Marketing Project Manager Piezo Technology
- Manja Tatschke, Assistant to Director Sales - Piezo Technology
- Constanze Löffler, Professional Front Office