World Championchip Titles

Dr. Gunther Karsten was honoured with the following world champion titles
in memory sport during his professional career since 1998

  Title Discipline Year / Location Result Comments 
1. Memory World Champion Spoken numbers 2000 London 400 max. 400 digits every 2 seconds
2. Memory World Champion Binary numbers 2000 London 2187    
3. Memory World Champion Historic dates 2001 London 38 year of introducing the discipline
4. Memory World Champion Binary digits 2001 London 2613    
5. Memory World Champion Binary digits 2002 London 2889 new world record (previous: 2745)
6. Memory World Champion Historic dates 2002 London 50    
7. Memory World Champion Binary digits 2003 Malaysia 3009    
8. Memory World Champion Binary digits 2005 Oxford 3570    
9. Memory World Champion One hour cards 2005 Oxford 941 equals 18  decks plus  5 cards
10. Memory World Champion One hour numbers 2005 Oxford 1949 new world record
          (previous: 1920)
11. Memory World Champion Abstract Images 2006 London 228 new world record
          (previous: 199)
12. Memory World Champion Abstract images  2007 Bahrain      
13. Memory World Champion  One hour cards  2007 Bahrain  1044 new German record
          (previous: 941)
14.  Memory World Champion  Abstract Images  2008 Bahrain  276  new world record
          (previous 244)
15. Memory World Champion Spoken numbers 2008 Bahrain 202 new world record
          (previous 188)
16. Memory World Champion Abstract Images 2009 London 318 new World record
          (previous 276)
17. Memory World Champion Spoken numbers 2009 London 108    

Team Memory World Champion 2005 (C. Mayer/Dr. G. Karsten/B.-N. Konrad)
Team Memory World Champion 2006 (C. Mayer/Dr. G. Karsten/B.-N. Konrad)
Team Memory World Champion 2007 (Dr. G. Karsten/S. Reinhard/B.-N. Konrad)
Team Memory World Champion 2008 (Dr. G. Karsten/J. Mallow/B.-N. Konrad)
Team Memory World Champion 2009 (J. Mallow/S. Reinhard/Dr. G. Karsten)