Despite a difficult winter in Germany, the limits for the participation of the Berlin Marathon are almost reached. The 40.000 places on the entry list for the 37th real Berlin Marathon will be fully booked by next week it seems. On Thursday, April 15th, only 2.500 places were left.
There are some 1.000 more places for charity runners, but those include a starting fee of 142,195 Euro.
The race will take place on September 26th this year.
Kenyan Serem Philemon grabbed the course record in the Freiburg marathon 2010 with a 2:25:17h. Some two minutes later Nils Schallner crossed the line, missing his PB by only 1 minute. The womens marathon was won by Sonja von Opel in 2:53:33h, with last years winner Annette Götz (2:59:48h) coming home in second (and for the first time in sub-3h).
The mens halfmarathon was won by former German Marathon Champion Dr. Matthias Körner in 1:10:46h. In the womens race local Anja Schnabel repeated last years victory in 1:17:09h.
Conditions in Freiburg were windy, with around 10°C. 1670 runners competed in the marathon, while the halfmarathon distance was run by 6500 runners.
Lead results were as follows:
marathon men:
1 Kipketer, Serem Philemon (KEN) M35 02:25:17
2 Schallner, Nils (DE) M30 PTSV Jahn Freiburg 02:27:24
3 Keinath, Peter (DE) MHK SV Ohmenhausen 02:34:05
4 Ruopp, Markus (DE) M30 02:34:45
5 Saier, Matthias (DE) M45 02:35:48
6 Marweg, Einar M35 Lahr 02:37:14
7 Frei, Max (DEU) M30 PTSV Jahn Freiburg 02:40:30
8 Stephane, Wenger (FR) M35 ANA SG LA Wantzenau 02:42:46
9 Tobias, Frühholz (D) M30 Team do scbau her 02:43:33
10 Alfaia-furtado, Euclides (DE) M45 02:44:08
11 Flesch, Herbert (DE) M40 PSD Bank-Team 02:46:00
12 Leroy, Bruno (FR) M30 00:43:53 01:15:58 01:30:11 02:46:10 02:46:09
13 Brengartner, Frank (DE) M35 SC Münstertal 02:46:47
14 Ruzic, Christophe (FR) M45 Hukla Möbel GmbH 02:47:39
15 Saar, Martin (D) M40 Lfv Schutterwald 02:47:51
marathon women:
1 Von Opel, Sonja (DE) W30 02:53:33
2 Götz, Annette (DE) W35 02:59:48
3 Rybak, Gabriele (DEU) W45 LT Winnenden 03:03:33
4 Hellstern, Ann-katrin (DE) WHK Sportprinz Fitnessclubs 03:04:05
5 Kym, Sandra (CH) W30 Laufgruppe Fricktal 03:04:52
6 Pernumian, Claudia (IT) W30 Padova 03:10:09
7 Townsend, Amanda (GB) W30 03:11:36
8 Kenkenberg, Gabriele (DE) W40 LC Olympia Wiesbaden 03:12:39
9 Benning, Nicole (DE) W35 EK Schwaikheim 03:13:21
10 Lennartz, Birgit (DE) W45 LLG St. Augustin 03:14:31
11 Staubach, Astrid (DE) W35 LG Vogelsberg 03:14:49
12 Kusch, Anna (DE) WHK TSG Eisenberg 03:15:33
13 Karau, Anja W40 Triathlon TSV Frickenhausen 03:17:17
14 Most, Yvonne (DE) W45 RV Zwenkau diespeiche.de 03:18:18
15 Reiss, Sandra (DE) W40 Schwitz-Schwestern 03:18:37
halfmarathon men:
1 Körner, Matthias (DE) M40 RocheRunners 01:10:46
2 Hämmerling, Jan Oliver (DEU) M40 TSG Bergendorf 01:10:53
3 Reichert, Holger (DE) M35 LG Badenova Nordschwarzwald 01:11:53
4 Ulrich, Dominik (D) MHK Usc Freiburg 01:14:15
5 Müller, Andreas (DE) M40 LG Welfen 01:14:49
6 Theiß, Erik (DE) M35 Grojos LTF Elversberg 01:14:55
7 Müller, Jochen (DEU) M35 01:15:03
8 Utz, Marco M35 Laufarena-Ortenau Running Team 01:15:09
9 Schultz, Roman (DE) MHK Walter-Eucken-Gymnasium 01:15:12
10 Groß, Frank M35 LG Offenburg 01:15:29
11 Dr. Braun, Moritz Christian M40 LG Offenburg 01:15:29
12 Hinze, David (DEU) M30 SF Dornstadt 01:15:35
13 Stegerer, Thomas (DE) M30 FC Unterkirnach 01:15:51
14 Becker, Marko (DE) MHK 01:15:56
15 Lorenz, Daniel (DE) M35 PULZ Freiburg 01:15:56
halfmarathon women:
1 Schnabel, Anja (DE) WHK LAZ Kornwestheim-Ludwigsburg 01:17:09
2 Utz, Verena (DE) WHK AOK Running Team 01:21:20
3 Doll, Stefanie (DE) WHK 01:23:40
4 Iseler, Judith (DEU) W30 Fun Altin Team Boden See 01:23:53
5 Kaltenmeier, Rebecca (D) WHK Team City Sport Freiburg 01:27:41
6 Imgraben, Barbara (DE) W45 TV Britzingen 01:28:29
7 Rogler, Christina (DE) WHK IfL Hof 01:28:29
8 Egger, Beatrice (CH) W40 LV Wettingen Baden 01:29:16
9 Tunkel, Christine (DE) W40 TV Lahr 01:29:32
10 Heimerl, Manuela (DE) WHK LTC Wangen 01:29:33
11 Schirmer, Gabi (DE) W50 P&G Running 01:30:10
12 Gölz, Susanne (DE) WHK 01:30:49
13 Ikker, Gudrun (DE) W35 01:30:52
14 Schneider, Annique (CH) W30 DJK Singen 01:31:19
15 Ingrao, Vita (IT) W45 TSV Rottweil 01:31:20
full results of the race frielingsdorf-datenservice.de
German 3000m steeple champion Antje Möldner will not be able to compete in 2010. That also means she will not participate in the European Championships in Barcelona. Möldner has a lymphoid cells disorder which requires long-term treatment. Her return to training will most probably be in November 2010. The German hope was 9th in the Berlin World Championships last year with a German record of 9:18.54 min.
It took Thomas Dold 10 minutes and 16 seconds to earn his record-tying fifth consecutive win in the Empire State Building Run-Up to the top of New York’s tallest building.
Grimacing as he lunged across the finish line on the 86th floor observation deck, the 25-year-old from Stuttgart (Germany) beat fellow German Matthias Jahn (10:56min) up the 1,576 steps by 40 seconds. “I’m so tired … It was quite hard,” Dold said. He is the third person to win the race five times. His only loss was a photo finish in his 2005 debut.
First women was Melissa Moon, 40, of Wellington (New Zealand) in 13 minutes 13 seconds. She finished panting, but smiling. “Oh, look at that view!” she said at the top.
The unorthodox race has been run 33 times since 1978. Competitors start in the lobby, where they take just a few strides before squeezing through a doorway and into a stairwell for the long climb.
Todays indoor athletics meeting will be broadcasted live on Eurosport from 19.10-21.00 (CET-central european time). A live online coverage can be found here.
Six olympic champions will compete in Düsseldorf; Dayron Robles, Allen Johnson, Tomasz Majewski, Chandra Sturrup, Yuriy Borzakovsky and Dwight Phillips will face strong fields.
The German U23-teams were head and shoulders above the Swiss Team in the U23-Cross-Team-Challenge last Saturday (16.01.2010) in Lausanne/SUI.
The womens race (6K) was dominated by the 20-year old Anna Hahner (22:59 min). On the deep course she soon left her opponents behind and had a comfortable 35 seconds lead in the finish. Mareike Schrulle (23:34 min) secured the double victory and underlined that her 13th place in the U23-race of the European Cross-Country Championships was no coincidence. Maren Kock (24:47 min) and Ulla Gatzweiler (25:25 min) completed the German team with 8th and 11th place.
The fastest men on the 8K-distance were also Germans. Musa Roba-Kinkal (27:15 min), 9th place finisher in the U23-division of the European Cross Country Championships 2009, was 8 seconds faster than Alexander Hahn (27:23 min). The 20-year old Hahn had to miss the European Championships last december due to illness but seems to be back in shape. Also the other German participants could satisfy the German coaches with Fynn Schwiegelsohn (27:41 min) in 7th and Florian Pehrs (27:58 min) in 10th.
German steeple chase record holder (9:18,54 min) Antje Möldner is not competing in this years indoor season due to illness.
The 25-year old was supposed to open her indoor season last weekend but her coach Beate Conrad reported that she is not going to participate in the weekends 1.500m race and that the indoor season is over for her, before it even started. Möldner was in a 10-day training camp in Spain with several German top athletes at the beginning of 2010.
Möldner is now planning to get healthy and to be ready for an altitude training camp in Flagstaff/USA at the beginning of March.
The German elite race walker Melanie Seeger competed last Saturday (16.01.2010) in Berlin. For her it was the first competition after giving birth to a daughter last summer.
The 33-year old won the 3.000m race walk event in a time of 13:21,59 min. Even if this time is pretty far under her previous level, it shows that she is progressing in her comeback-plans. In the German Indoor Championships (27./28.02 in Karlsruhe) Seeger will face stronger opponents than in Berlin, where Christin Elß took second in 14:06,53 min. The aim for the young mother will be the European Championships in Barcelona this year.
Also on the mens side, two race walkers with chances to reach the European Championships competed in Berlin. Christopher Linke, previously 4th place in U23-European Championships won the 5.000m race in 19:58,91 min with Carsten Schmidt (20:13,50 min) in second.
The German Athletics Federation DLV will send 12 athletes to the U23-Cross-Team-Challenge next Saturday in Lausanne/SUI. The German team won the last two editions of the international match against Switzerland.
The complete German team:
Men
Musa Roba-Kinkal (TV Wattenscheid 01)
Alexander Hahn (TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen)
Florian Pehrs (TuS Gildehaus)
Max Betsch (LAZ Leipzig)
Michael Schramm (TuS Lörrach-Stetten)
Fynn Schwiegelshohn (LG Olympia Dortmund)
Women
Maren Kock (LG Emstal/Dörpen)
Ursula Gatzweiler (LG ASV/DSHS Köln)
Christiane Danner (LG Telis Finanz Regensburg)
Mareike Schrulle (LG ASV/DSHS Köln)
Anna Hahner (PSV Grün-Weiß Kassel)
Lisa Hahner (PSV Grün-Weiß Kassel)
After the TOP 20 list for the marathon women, finally also the mens list is published today.
marathon men:
2:13:08 Pollmächer, Andre 83 LAC Erdgas Chemnitz
2:13:41 Beckmann, Martin 77 LG Leinfelden/Echterdingen
2:17:12 Cierpinski, Falk 78 SG Spergau
2:17:26 Sauter, Tobias 83 SG Spergau
2:18:11 Seiler, Christian 83 Laufclub Erfurt
2:18:44 Justus, Steffen 82 LAC Elm
2:19:14 Pyka, Dennis 72 LG Telis Finanz Regensburg
2:19:42 Steidl, Ulrich 72 SSC Hanau-Rodenbach
2:20:34 Koch, Stefan 84 LG Braunschweig
2:20:51 Meyer, Manuel 81 TV Wattenscheid
2:21:39 Haß, Erik 82 SV Vorwärts Zwickau
2:21:50 Sansar, Elias 80 LG Lage/Detmold
2:23:16 Rodewald, Peter 83 LSV Lok Arnstadt
2:23:59 Karl, David 86 Spiridon Frankfurt
2:25:00 Bresser, Carsten 72 TuS Heltersberg
2:24:52 Schmidt, Daniel 86 LG Remscheid
2:26:03 Heil, Benedikt 82 TSV Friedberg-Fauerbach
2:26:04 Hakenes, Christoph 73 Eintracht Obergriesheim
2:26:20 Bartholome, Thomas 69 TSV Kirchdorf
2:26:25 Schwarzbach, Dirk 81 TSV Kirchdorf