UROŠ STOKLAS

The red thread of my life is competition with myself. I live by pushing inhumane boundaries!

I consider myself a “born athlete”, despite the fact that I have had to try myself in many disciplines. At first I trained in skiing (generation of Roko Petrovič and Tomaž Čižman), but a year before the Sarajevo Olympics, I broke my leg. My career went wrong and although I persisted as a ski coach for quite some time, later, like my compatriot and outstanding cyclist Primož Roglič, I was tempted by the passion for competition and achieving the highest results. In order to fulfill my own high aspirations, I devoted myself to ultramarathon cycling and bowling. With nine bowling championship titles, I am by far the most successful professional bowler.

I met RAAM (Race across America) for the first time in 2007, when Fredi Virago and I drove the entire route from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast of the USA in 8 days. I still face the passion and challenge of overcoming the most difficult cycling race in the “solo” competition. Maybe it’s right for me because it’s the toughest and most attractive endurance race in the world!

See you at the next start of RAAM 2023!