November 3, 2008
On last Sunday, November 2nd Alexander Lubina stepped back from his career in competitive sports. The 28-year old that was troubled with several injuries in recent years said, he does not see a chance anymore to compete in next year’s “home” world championships in Berlin after another stress fracture which was discovered one week ahead of his planned start in the Frankfurt marathon.
In spring 2003 Alex suffered his first stress fracture and since this time he could not train continuously for one year. Altogether he suffered 5 or 6 stress fractures. Until recently, it looked as like he is on a good way back. In the Essen marathon he paced the leaders for 30km (at 2:18h pace) without bigger problems and was motivated to compete in the Frankfurt marathon. However, a MRI few days before the race showed another fracture.
The decision to quit his career was also influenced by an attractive job offer. Alex will still continue running, but on another level: “My second love is orienteering and maybe I can improve in this direction.”. Furthermore he wants to improve his marathon PB of 2:21:27 after 1-2 years recovery to a sub 2:20 time.
The PB’s of Alexander Lubina:
3000m 7:54 Rhede
5000m 13:38 Kassel
10000m 28:29,15 Camaiore, ITA
10km 29:02 Bad Liebenzell
Halfmarathon 64:20 Bad Liebenzell
October 5, 2008
There will be a live online-stream of the Cologne marathon 2008. Even if there is no live-broadcast of the marathon in German television there will be an internet stream on the webpages of the WDR. The webcast will start at 11.00 German time (i.e. 9.00 GMT).
UPDATE: Videos of the Cologne marathon can be found here.
October 4, 2008
German distance hope André Pollmächer is ready for his comeback. After winning the European Cup 10.000m title in 2007 and running a PB of 27:55,56 the same year, he struggled with several injuries, that forced him to cancel the World Championships 2007 in Osaka and the Olympics 2008. Now he is concentrating more on the road events and wants to qualify for the marathon of the World Championships 2009 in Berlin. That’s why he is running his marathon-debut this year on October, 26th in Frankfurt and is aiming for the A-standard of 2:13:00. As a preparation he will compete in the Berlin Asics Grand 10 on October, 12th.
The marathon debut will for sure be eagerly anticipated, because when Andre Pollmächer is running in a competition (normally he is not running more than 5-6 races a year) he usually produces high-class performances.
October 1, 2008
The 35th real,- BERLIN-MARATHON in the German capital, which was held on September, 28th will be remembered for a long, long time because of several records that were broken in the event.
35.913 runners and walkers reached the finish line short behind the Brandenburg gate. This is an improvement of 3.300 finishers compared to last year and makes this years Berlin marathon the 5th biggest worldwide marathon ever (behind New York 05, 06 and 07 and Boston 96). Furthermore on no other course there have been set so many world records – Haile Gebrselassie’s 2008 world record was already the 7th in the history of Berlin. Counting the 10 fastest times of one marathon (and different years) together, Berlin regained the 1st place from London again (Berlin: avg of 2:05:33,6h vs. London: avg of 2:05:57,6h).
Men’s race
The race of the men started off fast from the very beginning. Apart from Haile Gebrselassie and his four pacemakers the lead group also included Kenyans James Kwambai and Charles Kamathi. The pace moved to world record pace quickly and stayed there all the way. The 7-men leading group went through the halfmarathon mark in 62:04min and after this point the pacemaker dropped out one by one. The last pacemaker could lead Haile and his last opponent James Kwambai until km 32. Charles Kamathi was dropped after 25km but eventually came home 3rd in 2:07:48h. It was not until km 37 that Haile was on his own and James Kwambai could not maintain world record pace anymore, coming home second in 2:05:36. Haile continued with the blistering pace and achieved his big aim of becoming the first human to run sub 2:04h. He set his 27th world record (20 official +7 inofficial distances) clocking 2:03:59h.
Also the German marathon runners used the perfect conditions (almost no wind, mild temperatures) and Falk Cierpinski improved his personal best once again, now being at 2:13:30h. Cierpinski ran to almost even splits for the halfmarathons (01:06:21+1:07:09) and got 9th place overall. Second German was Stefan Koch in 12th place overall. Koch also had a pretty perfect day. Although he ran most of the race alone after the pacemaker dropped out at around 25k, Koch clocked a negative split (01:07:59+01:07:39) to run a PB of 02:15:38h. Third German (21st overall) was marathonscene.com-man Erik Haß in 2:22:16 (1:09:52+1:12:18), who was on sub 2:20-pace until km 38 and then hit the wall, requiring 8:20 for the last 2,195km. Several other Germans (e.g. Christian Seiler, Denis Pyka, Jens Bormann) started out strong but hit the wall strongly or even had to drop out.
Women’s race
As by most specialist expected the women’s race was won by German Irina Mikitenko. However, the way she won the race was rather unexpected and surprised both spectators, race organisers and marathon specialists.
Early in the race the Ethiopian (Askale Tafa Magarsa, Shuru Deriba ) and Kenyan (Helena Kirop, Rose Cheruiyot) women set a high pace with Mikitenko applying a more defensive tactic. The lead pack started the first 10k in 32:49 (2:18:30-pace) with Mikitenko some 20 seconds behind. After Magarsa and Kirop passed halfway in 69:37 and Mikitenko in 70:05, Mikitenko started to close the gap and at around 25k she was in leading position of the women’s race. In the last kilometers Mikitenko could increase the pace and finished a new German Record of 2:19:19h. This means she is now the 4th-fastest women ever and the first German women sub 2:20. Askale Magarsa ran a top-class time of 2:21:31h to become second place, with Helena Kirop in 2:25:01h closing in third.
Second and third German’s in the women’s race were Dr. Susanne Bog (02:48:48) and Beata Baginska (02:48:56) in 15th and 16th place.
Lead results were as follows:
marathon men:
1 Gebrselassie, Haile (ETH) M35 02:03:59
2 Kwambai, James (KEN) MH 02:05:36
3 Kamathi, Charles (KEN) M30 02:07:48
4 Kipchumba, Mariko (KEN) M30 edCompany 02:09:03
5 Ademasu, Mesfin (ETH) MH 02:12:02
6 Ngolepus, Joseph (KEN) M30 02:12:07
7 Jitsui, Kenjiro (JPN) M40 02:12:48
8 Suwa, Toshinari (JPN) M30 02:13:04
9 Cierpinski, Falk (GER) M30 SG Spergau 02:13:30
10 Kiprop, Francis (KEN) MH 02:14:30
11 Limo, Andrew (KEN) MH 02:15:30
12 Koch, Stefan (GER) MH TV Wattenscheid 02:15:38
13 Nigusse, Tola Ketema (ETH) MH 02:15:45
14 Keiyo, Josphat (KEN) MH 02:18:06
15 Farsöht, Jeppe (DNK) M30 Herning Loebeklub 02:19:23
16 Wudage, Zevadia (ISR) M35 02:19:40
17 Achmüller, Hermann (ITA) M35 Südtiroler Laufverein 02:19:45
18 Bialk, Jan (POL) MH 02:19:53
19 Awada, Hussein (LIB) M30 02:20:36
20 Tola Debele, Gudeta (ETH) MH 02:21:31
21 Haß, Erik (GER) MH SV Vorwärts Zwickau 02:22:16
22 Gebremeskel, Kidus (ETH) MH edCompany 02:22:30
23 Whitby, Benedict (GBR) M30 WSE & HOUNSLOW 02:22:37
24 Takala, Miika (FIN) M30 Jyväskylän Kenttäurheilijat 02:23:19
25 Brunner, Georg (ITA) M30 Südtiroler Laufverein 02:23:45
26 Martelletti, Paul (NZL) MH Victoria Park Harriers & Tower Hamlets AC 02:23:53
27 Parchi, Noan Haim (ISR) MH Brooks Running Team 02:24:18
28 Ingraham, Todd (AUS) M30 02:24:27
29 Issa, Omar (LIB) M30 02:24:36
30 Nawrocki, Philipp (GER) M30 Aachener TG/ Takeda Team 02:24:49
marathon women:
1 Mikitenko, Irina (GER) W35 TV Wattenscheid 02:19:19
2 Magarsa, Askale Tafa (ETH) WH 02:21:31
3 Kirop, Helena (KEN) W30 02:25:01
4 Cheruiyot, Rose (KEN) W30 02:26:25
5 Vigovskaya, Gulnara (RUS) WH 02:30:03
6 Deriba, Shuru (ETH) WH 02:31:20
7 Lewandoswka, Edyta (POL) WH 02:33:00
8 Kimuria, Evelyne (KEN) WH 02:35:53
9 Cirlan, Daniela (ROM) WH 02:36:18
10 Balciunaite, Zivile (LTU) WH 02:36:40
11 Aagaard, Anne-Mette (DNK) W35 Copenhagen 02:37:04
12 Neuenschwander, Maja (SUI) WH 02:38:53
13 Worku, Tsege (ETH) WH 02:46:03
14 Erb, Esther (USA) WH Richmond-Va 02:46:15
15 Kvaeven, Wenche Laegraid (NOR) W40 GT International 02:48:40
16 Dr. Bog, Susanne (GER) W35 Ludwigshafen 02:48:48
17 Baginska, Beata (GER) W30 Berlin 02:48:56
18 Fan, Sui Ping (HKG) W35 Hong Kong 02:48:58
19 Qi Hui, Anne (SIN) WH adidas Team 02:50:23
20 Parits, Tina (AUT) WH HSV Kaisersteinbruch 02:51:11
21 Jaccheri, Elena (ITA) W40 Pisa 02:51:48
22 Wright, Megan (GBR) W35 Hunters bog trotters 02:52:37
23 Fox, Ella (GBR) WH London 02:52:53
24 Duus, Lene Kathrine (DNK) W30 Aarhus C 02:53:00
25 Laithwaite, Gill (GBR) W35 Carlisle 02:54:38
26 Steiger, Natalia (AUT) W30 LMB Mittelburgenland 02:54:45
27 Gelder, Emily (GBR) W30 London 02:54:58
28 Plaatzer, Heleen (NED) WH Nijmegen 02:55:02
29 Vielhaber, Felicitas (GER) WH TUSEM Essen 02:55:19
30 Perry, Victoria (GBR) W50 Altrincham Athletic 02:55:30
full results of the race results.real-berlin-marathon.com
September 20, 2008
With Melanie Kraus, Sabrina Mockenhaupt and Claudia Dreher, three of the strongest German marathon women are on the participants list of the Dresdner Kleinwort Frankfurt Marathon 2008 on October 26th.
Defending Champion and Beijing Olympian Melanie Kraus will return to Frankfurt after finishing 38th in the Olympic marathon. The 33-year old won last year’s Frankfurt marathon in 2:28:56h to upset the pre-race favourite Svetlana Zakharova (RUS) and to qualify for the Olympic Games 2008. This year she wants to go sub 2:30h again, which would mean that she would break the qualification time for the Berlin World Championships 2009. So far Melanie Kraus’s PB is 2:27:58 (2000, Berlin).
However, she will have tough competitors. Most of all this will probably be 10.000m-Olympian Sabrina Mockenhaupt, who will run her 2nd marathon. Mockenhaupt proved to be in a good shape this summer, improving both her 10.000m track time (with a 13th place finish at the Beijing Olympics 2008 in 31:14.21min; 15.08.08) and her 10K-road race time (2nd place to Irina Mikitenko in German 10K Road Race Championships; 31:50min; 13.09.08). In her marathon debut in 2007 in Cologne the 27-year old Mockenhaupt ran a 2:29:33h. On the fast course in Frankfurt she aims to improve this PR.
Competition for those two will also come from Claudia Dreher. Even if she is the oldest of the German trio with her 37 years, the chances are good that she will come out as the fastest women. Dreher had a really unlucky start of the 2008 season, when she fell hard in a training session and suffered several severe bruises and effusions in the knee and rip area. The dream of the Olympics was busted. Now that she has recovered from this incident she is focusing on the Berlin 2009 qualification. In 2006, Dreher took 4th place with 2:32:22h in Frankfurt and has a PR of 2:27:55h (1999, Hannover).
The international field will include Norway’s Kirsten Melkevik Otterbu (2nd in Frankfurt 2006 with 2:31:20h and 3rd in Frankfurt 2007 with a PR of 2:29:12h) as well as the Russian twins Olesya and Elena Nurgalieva (1st and 2nd in Frankfurt 2004 in 2:29:48h and 2:29:49h).
September 16, 2008
Women’s race:
Irina Mikitenko was the big story at the German 10K Road Race Championships, that were held on September, 13th in Karlsruhe. Mikitenko destroyed a talented field, including the German Olympians Sabrina Mockenhaupt and Susanne Hahn, finishing with a new German Record and a World-leading time of 30:57 min. With this time she became the 8th fastest runner ever and improved her former German record by 31 seconds (previous record: 31:28min, 2003). After back problems stopped her from competing at the Olympic marathon in Beijing, Mikitenko continued training in St. Moritz (SUI) and came back stronger than before.
Immediately after the start, Mikitenko took charge of the field and only Sabrina Mockenhaupt could follow for the first kilometer. After 2 of the 4 rounds and a 5K-split of 15:27 Mockenhaupt had to decrease the pace but still finished with a PB of 31:50. Mikitenko continued with the record-setting pace and felt good all the way (“I thought I should just try to keep the pace, which went very well. I had no problem.”). In 3rd place Susanne Hahn ran a lonely race, clocking 32:53min with a bigger group finishing 1 1/2 minutes later.
Men’s race:
The competition in the men’s race was much more open and tight. Several runners were in contention until the last round. At the end Falk Cierpinski, son of the double Olympic Marathon champion Waldemar had the best legs and won in 29:14min. Surprising 2nd place was Steffen Uliczka (29:17min) ahead of Alexander Lubina (29:19min). Altogether 8 runners ran sub-30minutes on the flat course with only few corners.
Irina Mikitenko en route to the German 10K-Record in Karlsruhe (13.09.2008)
September 9, 2008
Both 10km-races in the Düsseldorfer Kö-Lauf 2008 were won by Kenyans.
The fastest runner in the mens’ category was Stanley Salil (KEN; 28:55 min) ahead of Joseph Kimisi (KEN; 29:00 min), Stephan Rogat (TAN; 29:04 min) and Vitali Rybak (UKR; 29:15 min). Best German was Alexander Lubina, who came in 5th with a time of 29:51. It was Lubina’s last test before the German 10K-road running championships on September, 13th and he thinks that he will be at least 20seconds faster next weekend.
The womens’ race was won by Pauline Njery in 33:03 min ahead of Alice Mogire (both KEN; 33:11 min). German marathon Olympian Melanie Kraus came home 3rd in 33:17. It seems Kraus has well recovered from the Beijing race and wants to use her good shape to earn some money on the German roads.
Lead results were as follows:
10K men:
1 Salil, Stanley M20 Kenia 00:28:57
2 Kimisi, Joseph M20 Kenia 00:29:01
3 Rogat, Stephen M20 Tansania 00:29:05
4 Rybak, Vitalii M20 Ukraine 00:29:16
5 Lubina, Alexander M20 TV Wattenscheid 01 00:29:51
6 Hedrit, Embaye M30 LG Braunschweig 00:30:13
7 Mutai, Kevin Kipngego M20 Athletes for Athletes 00:30:22
8 Saya, John Nada M30 Tansania 00:30:24
9 Kosgei, James Kiplagat M30 Athletes for Athletes 00:31:03
10 May, Michael M20 TSV Bayer Leverkusen 00:32:03
11 Schmidt, Daniel M20 Lüttringhauser TV 00:32:17
12 Gossmann, Alexander M20 SFD 75 Düsseldorf 00:32:27
13 Njoroge, Stephen Mbure MJA Kenia 00:32:42
14 Eich, Carsten M35 rhein marathon düsseldorf e.V. 00:33:09
15 Wilhelm, Patrick M20 TSV Bayer Leverkusen 00:33:24
16 Krämer, Stefan M20 ASC Düsseldorf 00:33:33
17 Hadamus, Sebastian M30 ART Düsseldorf 00:33:40
18 Jegodtka, Matthias M30 ASC Rosellen Neuss 00:33:43
19 König, Niklas M20 SFD 75 Düsseldorf 00:33:51
20 Müller, Marc M20 LG Mönchengladbach 00:34:14
10K women:
1 Njery, Pauline W20 Kenia 00:33:04
2 Mogire, Alice W20 Kenia 00:33:12
3 Kraus, Melanie W30 TSV Bayer Leverkusen 00:33:18
4 Barvanova, Ilona W35 Ukraine 00:34:18
5 Kurui, Susan W20 Kenia 00:34:24
6 Ulrich, Veronika W40 LG Telis Finanz Regensburg 00:35:19
7 Githuka, Pauline Wanjiru W20 Kenia 00:36:33
8 Maak, Petra W40 TSV Bayer Dormagen 00:36:39
9 Bingel, Judith W30 USC Bochum 00:40:30
10 Möllensiep, Sybille W45 SUS Schalke 96 00:40:51
11 Takada, Natsuko W45 Hotel Nikko Düsseldorf 00:41:04
12 Körtgen, Theresa W20 Aachener TG 00:41:25
13 Mosler, Stephanie W20 Aachener TG 00:42:03
14 Eyl, Melanie W20 Frisch Verheiratet 00:43:08
15 Hunold, Michaela W35 00:43:10
16 Janßen, Tanja W35 SUS Schalke 96 00:43:17
17 Prost, Doris W40 LAC Mausbach 00:43:31
18 Hünchen, Heike W40 00:43:37
19 Drzymalla, Camilla W20 00:44:37
20 Stodola, Heike W45 LG Rhein-Erft 00:44:10
mile women:
1 Zauber, Falko M20 LG Nord Berlin 00:04:11
2 Stifel, Jonas M20 LG Nord Berlin 00:04:12
3 Lohse, Christoph M20 TV Wattenscheid 01 00:04:12
4 Velychko, Oleksandr M20 00:04:15
5 Riewe, Johannes M20 LG Nord Berlin 00:04:20
6 Gerschler, Kenneth MJA LGO Dortmund 00:04:26
7 Ziob, Julan MJA SFD 75 Düsseldorf 00:04:29
8 Laska, Hardy MJA LGo Dortmund 00:04:37
9 Kukalla, Florian MJB ASC Düsseldorf 00:04:39
10 Knipping, Sebastian MJB SFD 75 Düsseldorf 00:04:51
mile women:
1 Mutune, Agnes W20 00:04:44
2 Restle, Simret W20 00:04:48
3 Juda, Jeanett W20 00:05:02
4 Kramer, Nina WJA LG Hilden 00:05:08
5 Peters, Katrin W20 ART Düsseldorf 00:06:17
full results of the race results.frielingsdorf-datenservice.de
September 4, 2008
The 2009 edition of the Berlin marathon might be run already on September, 20th instead of September, 27th because of the elections for the German Bundestag. Usually the race takes place on the last Sunday in September but to avoid a clash of events the most famous German marathon might be preponed.
September 3, 2008
The German athletics association (DLV) announced the team for this year’s World Mountain Running Trophy. Those inofficial world championships for mountain runners are going to take place in Crans Montana (Switzerland) on September, 14th.
The men will run 12 km with a climb of about 950m. Women and Juniors are going to run shorter distances. Germany will have a team in the Men’s and Women’s race as well as in the Junior Women category. Only in the Junior Men Category, René Stöckert (4th place in European Mountain Running Championships 2008) will run wihtout any compatriots.
The complete German team includes:
Men:
Timo Zeiler (TSV Trochtelfingen), Markus Jenne (USC Freiburg), Josef Beha (FCA Unterkirnach), Manuel Stöckert (TSV Ostheim/Rhön)
Women:
Veronika Ulrich (LG Telis Finanz Regensburg), Kerstin Straub, Lisa Reisinger (both SSC Hanau/Rodenbach), Annette Bendig (TG Nürtingen)
Juniors Men:
René Stöckert (TSV Ostheim/Rhön)
Juniors Women:
Lina Scherzer (LAZ Salamander Kornwestheim/Ludwigsburg), Carolin Tuch (LAC Erdgas Chemnitz), Barbara Abler (SC Ainring)
original enclosure (in German) deutscher-leichtathletik-verband.de
August 28, 2008
A group of the best German distance runners competed in Klagenfurt (AUT) last weekend in the „Kärnten läuft“-halfmarathon. Fastest German and at the same time fastest European was Stefan Koch in 6th position with a time of 1:04:50h. Alexander Lubina took 13th place in 1:06:54h and reigning German marathon champion Martin Beckmann finished in 1:07:54h (16th place) in the race that was won by Francis Kiprop (KEN) with a new course record of 1:00:59h.
full results of the race pentek-timing.at
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