In September 2012 during her visit to the Berlin Marathon, “Sandy” Sislowitz from the New York City Marathon also paid a visit to the Berlin Sports Museum – AIMS Marathon Museum of Running. She was at the Expo in Berlin to promote not the NYC Marathon, but rather the Haile Gebrselassie Marathon in Ethiopia.

She brought with her diverse documents from the New York Marathon, such as diverse programmes, brochures and even a NYC street banner that adorned the streets of New York.

Sandy Sislowitz, who has helped run the NYC marathon for a long time, was not brought into associated with any other “Sandy’s” from New York in September 2012. A few weeks later, however, “Sandy” had a whole new connotation, as the 19th tropical storm and 10th hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane "Sandy", wrecked havoc in New York and parts of the USA.

The planned ING New York City Marathon was cancelled due to “Sandy”.

The other Sandy was quite impressed with the AIMS MArathon Museum of Running during her visit in September, when Gerd Steins showed her the shelves filled with artefacts and documents from the biggest races in the world, including the New York City Marathon. Sandy admired the multitude of NYC posters from the past decades, and noted that the NYC marathon didn’t even have such good documentation of its own race.

Many Berlin runners, who participated in the NYC Marathon, contributed to this fabulous collection when they parted with their souvenirs and their running “devotionals” and passed them on to the museum.

Sandy Sislowitz not only liked the incredible collection at the Berlin Sports Museum from her own run, she loved it.

And Gerd Steins was able to convince her to procure more items from the NYC Marathon for the Berlin Museum. 

After Hurricane Sandy hit NYC and the organisers had to cancel the race, she quickly started her procurement. Sandy Sislowitz recently sent the museum documents and artefacts from the race that did not happen.

The museum documents other races that didn’t happen as well. The current exhibit displays a poster for the “25 km de Berlin” organised by the French Allies dated 1980!  However, the first time the “25 km de Berlin” took place was May 1981; no one knows why the event did not take place in 1980, but for sure it was not due to a hurricane!

The Berlin Sports Museum is deeply grateful to Sandy Sislowitz for contributing more items from her race to the Berlin collection.

 

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If you would like make any donations to the AIMS Marathon Museum of Running – Berlin Sports Museum, whether monetary or material, we would be delighted to receive them.

Every artifact is important!

 

Here is an overview of the donations received over the past few weeks from friendly contributors. All are naturally now sorted and stored safely at the archives of the Berlin Sports Museum.
 
Hans-Jürgen Blisch/Berlin: Journals, newspapers, souvenirs from various races

Family Karl Merkel/Roth: Newspaper clippings, programmes and brochures from the Rother Triathlon

Volker Keil/Berlin: Estate

Ekkehard Klemke/Berlin: Estate

Michael Reinsch/Berlin: Accreditation from the Olympic Games in London in 2012, Souvenirs from the 2012 Games

Dieter Blaschta/Mommsen Stadium: Old sports equipment and signs

Krumme Lanke Brillen/Berlin: Decoration from adidas

Regina Uth/Berlin: Old spikes

Burkhard Swara/Emsland: Old announcements from the Berlin People’s Races, Hingsen javelin gloves, gear from the London and New York City Marathon, announcements from various races

Heinz Uth/Berlin: Programme from the Taipei Marathon 1987

adidas – Ms. Scheinhardt: German Olympic team outfit from London 2012

Friedhard Teuffel/Berlin: Programmes from the Olympic Games in London 2012

Gesine Milde/Berlin: Diverse brochure, sweatshirt from the Vancouver Marathon

2. Berliner Läufertreffen (running group): Sports equipment, souvenirs, trophies, certificates, prizes from various runners

Sandy Sislowitz/New York City: Street banner from the NYC Marathon, brochures from NYC Marathon

Christoph Kopp/Berlin: Diverse books, trophies, prizes, photos, programmes, and much more

EVL Leverkusen Half Marathon: Collection of t-shirts, medals, posters, race announcement and much more

Jörg Wenig/Berlin:  Collection of books, programmes, results, announcements from many sporting events

Jerusalem Marathon/Miri Fiengold: T-shirts, posters, medals, photos, informational brochures and race numbers

Victah Sailor/New York City: Olympic Games  London 2012 Programmes and tickets, accreditations from races and track & field events

Gérald Lamusse/Berlin: Journals

Ulrich Misgeld/Berlin: Souvenirs from diverse races, t-shirts, medals and running gifts he received for his birthday

Düsseldorf Marathon/Jan Winschermann: Accreditations from Tokyo and New York City Marathon, souvenirs from the Beijing Olympics, DVDs, autograph from Pollmächer, running bag, race announcements, postcards, advertising postcards and much more

Duisburg Marathon/Bernd Düngen: Running bags, t-shirts, medals, gear

The list of donors is not yet complete…more to come!



 

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“The Artefact of the Month” No I. – Rare museum artefacts from the Berlin Sports Museum – AIMS Marathon Museum of Running – The Starting Pistol – Horst Milde reports

 

Artefact of the Month” No. II. – Museum Rarities from the Berlin Sports Museum – AIMS Museum of Running – The New York City Marathon – Current Gifts – Horst Milde Reports

 

“The Artefact of the Month” III. – Rare museum artefacts from the Berlin Sports Museum – AIMS Marathon Museum of Running – Dr. David Martin (Atlanta, GA) and his donations to the Berlin Sports Museum – AIMS Marathon Museum of Running – Current Donations – Horst Milde reports

 

"The Artefact of the Month" IV. – Museum Rarities from the Berlin Sports Museum – AIMS Museum of Running – Wim Verhoorn / NED and his Gifts to the Berlin Sports Museum – AIMS Marathon Museum of Running – Current Gifts – Horst Milde Reports

 

"The Artefact of the Month" V. – Museum Rarities from the Berlin Sports Museum – AIMS Museum of Running – Bernd Hübner / Berlin and his Gifts to the Berlin Sports Museum – AIMS Marathon Museum of Running – Current Gifts – Horst Milde Reports

"The Artefact of the Month" VI. – Museum Rarities from the Berlin Sports Museum – AIMS Marathon Museum of Running – The “Golden Shoe” from the AIMS/ASICS World Athlete of the Year Award. Horst Milde Reports

 

Berlin Sports Museum – "AIMS Marathon Museum of Running" receives the "David E. Martin Collection" – The "Artefact of the Decade"!

 

"The Artifact of the Month" VII. – Museum Rarities from the Berlin Sports Museum – AIMS Marathon Museum of Running – Victah Sailer and his donation. Horst Milde Reports

 

"The Artifact of the Month" VIII. – Museum Rarities from the AIMS Marathon Museum of Running – Berlin Sports Museum – Tokyo Marathon and Athens Classic Marathon – Horst Milde Reports

 

"The Artifact of the Month" IX. – Museum Rarities from the AIMS Marathon Museum of Running – Berlin Sports Museum – The PUMA Sprint Spike from Usain Bolt – Horst Milde Reports

"The Artifact of the Month" X. – Museum Rarities from the AIMS Marathon Museum of Running – "Big guys of running", the World Marathon Majors – Horst Milde Reports

 

"The Artifact of the Month" XI. – Museum Rarities from the AIMS Marathon Museum of Running – The addition for the "David E. Martin Collection" – The "Artefact of the Decade"! – Horst Milde reports

 

"The Artifact of the Month" XII. – Museum Rarities from the AIMS Marathon Museum of Running – Henryk Paskal donates his valuable collection to the Berlin Sports Museum – Horst Milde reports