September 17, 2009
Around 6.000 visitors wanted to see the German Road Running Championships that took place on a flat 2k-loop in Otterndorf. The races had a great atmospere because they were started in the evening hours on 12th of September.
Mens race:
In the mens race Arne Gabius took the National title as expected. With his victory he demonstrated that he is one of the fastest distance runners in Germany. However, Gabius the race was decided on the last 200 meters, with Arne Gabius, Sebastian Hallmann and Filmon Ghirmai running together for the most part of the race. In the final sprint, Gabius could had the strongest kick and finished with a time of 29:16. Only three seconds later Sebastian Hallmann (29:19) crossed the line, outkicking Filmon Ghirmai (29:20). The trio was challenged for the first five kilometers by the first Junior, Philipp Pflieger, who eventually took 4tth place overall in a fine 29:35min.
Womens race:
After Sabrina Mockenhaupt withdrew from the German Championships to prepare for a halfmarathon one week later, the way was free for Susanne Hahn. For Hahn it was the first national title in the 10K. After placing 34th in the 2009 IAAF World Championships Marathon, Hahn was unchallenged and stormed to victory with a time of 33:43. Luminita Zaituc, who did not finish the World Championships Marathon, was overtaken by eventual silver medalist Ingalena Heuck (34:00). Zaituc could only hold on for 3rd place in 34:08min.
Results were published already earlier.
September 11, 2009
Next Saturday, 12th of September, the German National Championships in 10K Roas Running will take place in Otterndorf close to the German North Sea.The race will take place on a flat and fast 2,053km city-loop.
In the mens race Arne Gabius, 5.000m-World Championships 2009 participant and already honoured with 3 German National titles is the hot favourite. Main contenders should be Filmon Ghirmai, Sebastian Hallmann and defending champion Falk Cierpinski (if he will compete). Also the U23-Juniors Matti Markowski, Philipp Pflieger, Musa Roba-Kinkal and Geronimo von Wartburg might have a chance to run into the TOP-10. However, there are several contenders for the spot on the top and a lot of sub-30 and sub-31minutes times can be expected on the fast course in Otterndorf.
The shining star in the womens field is Sabrina Mockenhaupt. After becoming 17th in the World Championships marathon in Berlin this year and a 32:20minutes 10K only two weeks later she will almost certainly earn another National title – especially because Irina Mikitenko is in St.Moritz for preparing a possible autumn marathon and will not run the Championships. The spots behind Mockenhaupt will most likely be decided out of a bigger group that might include: Susanne Hahn, Simret Restle, Stephanie Beckmann, Ingalena Heuck, Julia Viellehner, Heike Bienstein, Birte Bultmann, Luminita Zaituc, Susi Lutz and Julia Hiller.
Complete entry lists are available here.
Marathonscene will also publish reults and reports of the races.
September 9, 2009
The German team could not cause big surprises in the World Mountain Running Championships 2009 that were held in Campodolciono/ITA on 6th of September.
The race was held on a lap, i.e. on an uphill-downhill course. One lap was 4.3km long with a 275m difference in altitude. The junior women ran one lap, junior men and senior women ran 2 laps and senior men ran 3 laps. The start was 1750m above sea level, which made the races even more difficult for the athletes having to run at altitude. The course required many changes in rhythm since the surface was changing from grassy to rocky terrain.
The best placement for Germany was achieved by René Stöckert in the junior mens race with a 8th place, 2:24min behind eventual winner Xavier Chevrier (ITA).
In the junior category, Germany sent two complete teams and both junior men and women took 13th place.
In the senior womens category, Natascha Schmitt disappointed with 55th place out of 69 finishers and also in the mens category Uli Steidl (54th) and Manuel Stöckert (59th) could not fulfil the expectations in the field of 138 runners. Uli Steidl was World Mountain Running Champion in the Junior category in 1991 and last time he competed for the German Mountain Running team was in 2001, before running the IAAF World Championships Marathon in Osaka 2007. Now the 37-year old might find the way back to his roots. Manuel Stöckert is quite the opposite, being one of the strongest European runners on the mountain running circuit in the junior category of the last years, he could not make the optimal transition into the senior men category.
Timo Zeiler, the currently strongest German mountain runner, decided already at the beginning of the year that he is not going to run those Championships on a uphill-downhill-course and therefore the biggest German hope did not even start the race.
Selected results:
Men (13,020 km; +-825 m):
individual:
1. Geoffrey Kusuro (Uga) 54:51
2. Azerya Teklay Weldemariam (Eri) 55:45
3. James Kibet (Uga) 55:54
4. Bernard Dematteis (Ita) 56:02
5. Zemichael Andemichael Tesfamichael (Eri) 56:08
6. Debesay Tsige Behlbi (Eri) 56:17
7. Jean Baptiste Simukeka (Rwa) 56:17
8. Marco de Gasperi (Ita) 56:20
9. Martin Dematteis (Ita) 56:34
10. Ahmet Arslan (Tur) 56:34
…
54. Uli Steidl (Ger/ SSC Hanau-Rodenbach) 1:02:34
59. Manuel Stöckert (Ger/ TSV Ostheim) 1:02:55
(138 finishers)
Women (8,680 km; +-550 m):
individual:
1. Elisa Desco (Ita) 43:39
2. Valentina Belotti (Ita) 44:03
3. Maria Gracia Roberti (Ita) 44:23
4. Saraqh Tunstall (Gbr) 44:48
5. Hulya Bastug (Tur) 44:57
6. Anna Pichrtova (Cze) 44:59
7. Katie Ingram (Gbr) 44:59
8. Janna Vokueva (Rus) 45:21
9. Mateja Kosovelj (Slo) 45:23
10. Brandy Erholtz (USA) 45:23
…
55. Natascha Schmitt (Ger/LG Eintracht Frankfurt) 52:53
(69 finishers)
Junior Men (8,680 km; +-550 m):
individual:
1. Xavier Chevrier (Ita) 38:26
2. Muzaffer Bayram (Tur) 39:22
3. Alper Demir (Tur) 39:32
4. Brandon Lord (USA) 39:51
5. Luca Cagnati (Ita) 40:00
6. Jakub Bajza (Cze) 40:09
7. Candide Pralong (Sui) 40:12
8. Rene Stöckert (Ger/ TSV Ostheim) 40.50
9. Nuri Kömür (Tur) 40:59
10. Kelemu Crippa (Ita) 41:23
…
45. Fabian Alraun (Ger/ LC Steigenberger Laufteam) 44:55
52. Dominik Karl (Ger/ TV Ochsenfurt) 45:33
57. Philipp Reiter (Ger/ SC Ainring) 47:03
(68 finishers)
Team
1. Tur 14
2. Ita 16
3. Gbr 52
…
13. Germany 105
(16 nations overall)
Junior Women (4,340 km; +-275 m):
individual:
1. Yasemin Can (Tur) 22:18
2. Megan Morgan (USA) 22:35
3. Angelika Mach (Pol) 22:56
4. Zeynep Yok (Tur) 23:05
5. Özlem Kaya (Tur) 23:15
6. Racula Morjan (Rom) 23:20
7. Andrea Ioredana Ologu (Rom) 23:38
8. Katerina Berouskova (Cze) 23:40
…
38. Nora Coenen (Ger/ LG Krofdorf-Gleiberg) 28:02
39. Franziska Hühn (Ger/ LG Eintracht Frankfurt) 28:22
40. Klar Hildt (Ger/ TuS Eintracht Wiesbaden) 29:14
(42 finishers)
Team
1. Tur 5
2. Rom 13
3. Pol 20
…
13. Germany 77
(14 nations overall)
September 8, 2009
German Marathon runner Tobias Sauter, who ran far under his possibilities in the Berlin World Championships marathon was already injured in the race in the German capital. Two weeks before the marathon Sauter started to get problems and a MRI that was taken now in the university hospital Tübingen revealed that the semimembranosus muscle is ruptured and a disc prostrution with several edema in the thigh muscles exists.
A training break of several weeks is needed and even an operation might be required.
Tobias Sauter has a PB of 2:17:27h (Düsseldorf 2008) and placed 66th with a time of 2:35:43h in the IAAF World Championships 2009 in Berlin.
Marathonscene wishes “Tobi” a good recovery and a strong comeback for 2010.
September 7, 2009
Sabrina Mockenhaupt announced that she will run the full marathon distance at the “13. Köln Marathon” that will take place only 6 weeks after the World Championships Marathon, where she also competed in the marathon.
In the IAAF world championships marathon in the German capital Berlin she was the fastest German marathon participant with a time of 2:30:07h and 17th place overall.
Initially “Mocki” planned to run the halfmarathon at the event in Köln/Cologne but as she is in good fitness and wants to win in front of the home crowd she changed her plans. Her coach Heinz Weber said that the recovery time was extraordinary and believes that she can break the course record in Cologne. Until now Angelina Kanana was the fastest women in the race in 1997 with a time of 2:27:27. Sabrina Mockenhaupt recorded her PB in last years Frankfurt Marathon, where she won with the time of 2:26:22h.
July 29, 2009
Missing motivation: 800m-runner Nils Schumann retires after several injuries. The “all of a sudden” olympic champion of the 2000 Sydney Olympic wants to concentrate on other tasks after missing the qualification for the 2009 IAAF World Championships on home ground in Berlin.
“Some day you have to be a realist and set new goals in live” the 31-year old stated to German press. He now wants to emphasis more on his company that offers motivational training and nutritional consultation. “It was getting more and more difficult to come back after those injuries and setbacks.” he tries to explain himself.
Schumann was the first Olympic Champion at the 800 meter for Germany and beat world record holder Wilson Kipketerin a tactical race with an incredible kick at the end of the final stretch. Schumann set his PB of 1:44,20min two years after the Sydney Olympics and won bronce medal in the European Championships in 2002. He also took the European Titles in the 800m (indoor and outdoor) in 1998. In recent years Schumann suffered several injuries and also two operations on his achilles tendon were undertaken. In this years German Championships he ran his last competition and clocked a 1:47,28min as a seasons best.
July 21, 2009
A big team of 94 German athletes is going to compete in the 20th edition of the European Athletics Junior (U20) Championships from 23-26th of July.
The complete German Team:
Men:
100 m: Florian FÖSTL, Felix GÖLTL, Robert HERING
200 m: Martin BRIEGER, Robert HERING, Roy SCHMIDT
400m: Marco KAISER, Niklas ZENDER
800m: Ronny HECK, Andreas LANGE; Decathlon: Maximilian GILDE, Kai KAZMIREK
5000m: Christoph HINTZ
10,000 m: Carl DOHMANN
110m H: Maximilian BAYER, Richard BIENASCH, Julian MARQUART
400m H: Marc John DOMBROWSKI, Tobias GIEHL, Björn SCHÜLER
3000m Steeple: Mohammed Wurie BAH, Benedikt KARUS, Daniel KRÜGER
4x100m: Martin BRIEGER, Michael FISCHER, Florian FÖSTL, Felix GÖLTL, Florian HÜBNER, Roy SCHMIDT
4x400m: Sascha EDER, Benjamin JONAS, Alexander JURETZKO, Marco KAISER, Philipp KLEEMANN, Niklas ZENDER
Discus: Thomas MÜLLER, Michael SALZER, Gordon WOLF, David WROBEL
High Jump: Oliver BRÄUTIGAM, Hendrik MEIER, Sven TARNOWSKI
Hammer: Johannes BICHLER, Richard OLBRICH
Javelin: Maik DOLCH; Andreas HOFMANN, Till WÖSCHLER
Long Jump: Marcel KIRSTGES, Patrick RÄDLER
Pole Vault: Pascal KOEHL, Tom KONRAD, Leo LOHRE, Nico WEILER
Shot: Mario LABISCH, Hendrik MÜLLER, David STORL, Thomas TANDEL
Triple Jump: Manuel ZIEGLER
Women:
100m: Nadja BAHL, Leena GÜNTHER, Yasmin KWADWO, Jessica WENZEL
200m: Ruth Sophia SPELMEYER
400m: Maral FEIZBAKHSH, Daniela FERENZ
800m: Sarah BIEDERMANN, Corinna HARRER, Jessica ZEIDLER
1500m: Corinna HARRER; Diana SUJEW; Elina SUJEW, Jana SUSSMANN
3000m: Maren KOCK
100 mH: Nora BÄCKER, Jenna PLETSCH, Carina SCHÖCKEL
400m H: Anja BORK, Laura HANSEN, Christiane KLOPSCH, Inga MÜLLER
3000 m Steeple: Sarah CORNELSEN, Jana HIRSCHHÄUSER , Julia KICK
4x100m: Nadja BAHL, Leena GÜNTHER, Yasmin KWADWO, Stefanie PÄHLER, Ruth Sophia SPELMEYER, Jessica WENTZEL
4x400m: Janina BALKE, Maral FEIZBAKHSH, Daniela FERENZ , Laura HANSEN, Juline STEIN
Discus: Antje BORMANN, Julia FISCHER, Maylin WEDER
Hepthalon: Carolin SCHÄFER, Ina Tabea SKWORZOW
High Jump: Charlotte BRAUCH, Marie-Laurence JUNGFLEISCH
Hammer: Mareike NANNEN, Carolin PAESLER
Javelin: Sabine KOPPLIN; Sarah MAYER
Long Jump: Christin MENGE, Anja SCHULZ, Lisa STEINKAMP
Pole Vault: Natascha BENNER, Annika ROLOFF, Martina SCHULTZE, Victoria VON EYNATTEN
Shot: Samira BURKHARDT, Sophie KLEEBERG, Maylin WEDER
Triple: Jenny ELBE, Kristin GIERISCH
July 19, 2009
On the last day of the 7th European Athletics U23-Championships in Kaunas/LIT the German women were the ones that secured further medals for the middle and long distance squad.
In the womens 3.000m steeple chase Julia Hiller (9:57,44 min) won the silver medal with compatriot Susi Lutz (10:01,87 min) following in 3rd. Only the Romanian Ancuta Bobocel (9:47,90 min) proved to be too strong for the German duo. Former German champion Julia Hiller stated after the race: “I wanted to run faster times this year, but the medal is a good compensation now.” Susi Lutz who won the bronce medal with a new PB and just missed the 10-minutes mark said: “For me the result is totally surprising. On the last round I could pick up one girl after another until only the Romanian and Julia were in front of me.”…”Running a PB in the European Championships is a great thing of course. Sooner or later I will also brake the 10-minutes.”
Germany also had two finishers in the womens 5.000 but Cornelia Schwennen (16:30,09 min) in 8th place and Mareike Schrulle (16:41,55 min) in 11th were pretty far away from the medal places.
In the 1.500m final for the women Denise Krebs was not able to follow the pace of the leaders very long and came home in 11th place with a time of 4:25,99 min.
1.500m women – final
1 HAYDAR, Sultan TUR 4:14.12
2 KHALAYEVA, Kristina RUS 4:14.78
3 FESENKO, Yelena RUS 4:15.86
4 DE GRANDE, Lindsey BEL 4:15.90 PB
5 MAVEAU, Barbara BEL 4:16.06
6 GALLIGAN, Rose-Anne IRL 4:16.15
7 PALLANT, Emma GBR 4:17.23
8 CICHOCKA, Angelika POL 4:17.41
9 COSTANZA, Valentina ITA 4:17.55
10 MICLO, Laura FRA 4:21.22
11 KREBS, Denise GER 4:25.99
12 MAGNANI, Margherita ITA 4:26.62
5.000m women – final
1 POPKOVA, Natalya RUS 15:54.11
2 KUDZELICH, Sviatlana BLR 16:03.85
3 PIDGEON, Emily GBR 16:04.71 SB
4 JORDÁN, Cristina ESP 16:08.36 PB
5 ERDÉLYI, Zsófia HUN 16:09.38 PB
6 GORBUNOVA, Yekaterina RUS 16:13.86
7 NOSENKO, Hanna UKR 16:18.63
8 SCHWENNEN, Cornelia GER 16:30.09
9 FALKMANN, Marieke NED 16:31.63
10 ZUSINAITE, Vaida LTU 16:35.24 PB
11 SCHRULLE, Mareike GER 16:41.55
12 BARCA, Roxana ROU 17:03.84
3.000m steeple women – final
1 BOBOCEL, Ancuta ROU 9:47.90
2 HILLER, Julia GER 9:57.44
3 LUTZ, Susanne GER 10:01.87 PB
4 ERIKSSON, Sandra FIN 10:11.25
5 MINGIR, Gülcan TUR 10:12.53
6 ÖRN, Lena SWE 10:23.00
7 JELIZAROVA, Polina LAT 10:23.17
8 MOCHALOVA, Yuliya RUS 10:29.03
9 JESUS, Solange POR 10:31.98 PB
10 SKYTTÄ, Saara FIN 10:33.19
full results of the championships sportresult.com
July 18, 2009
The athletics meeting in Heusden/BEL is well known for the good performances in the distance events and two Germans followed this reputation to go for the qualifying marks for the home world championships in Berlin this year.
Steeple-chaser Filmon Ghirmai was not yet running aiming for fast times this year and concentrated on winning some competitions, including the German Track and Field Championships. In Heusden he was chasing the standard of 8:23,00 for the first time but failed. Running a brave race, he clocked a 8:28.70min and took 8th place.
In the 5.000m race Arne Gabius wanted to run 13:20,00min, which is the A-standard. However, with his time of 13:28.45min (9th place in the B-section) he was even outside of the B-standard of 13:25,00.
selected results with German participation:
3.000m steeple men
1 MUBARAK TAHER BRN 8:15.83
2 KITUM SILAS KEN 8:21.75
3 MCADAMS JOSH USA 8:22.83
4 DESMET PIETER BEL 8:23.81
5 BRUCE BEN USA 8:26.60
6 WATSON ROB CAN 8:28.24
7 KRISTENSEN BJORNAR USTAD NOR 8:28.57
8 GHIRMAI FILMON GER 8:28.70
9 NGETICH CALEB KEN 8:29.91
10 VAN KOOLWIJK KRIJN BEL 8:30.42
5.000m men (B-section)
1 GONZALEZ JONAY MIGUEL ESP 13:21.65
2 KIBET MOSES UGA 13:24.87
3 NELSON TIM USA 13:24.94
4 ABDIRAHMAN ABDI USA 13:26.27
5 VAUGHN BRENT USA 13:26.50
6 QUIGLEY SEAN USA 13:28.07
7 NAKAO YUSEI JPN 13:28.16
8 FORREST SHAWN AUS 13:28.31
9 GABIUS ARNE GER 13:28.45
10 TASAMA DAME ETH 13:28.92
full results of the meeting sport.be
July 18, 2009
On the 3rd day of the European Athletics U23-Championships in Kaunas/LIT the German distance runners could win their first medal.
In the mens 800m final 3 Germans were present. However, only Robin Schembera could encroach in the fight for the medals. With a time of 1:46,63min he secured bronze behind the two Poles Adam Kszczot (1:45,81 min) and Marcin Lewandowski (1:46,52 min). After the race he stated: “I just had no energy left in the final 50meters. I wanted to get a medal and I achieved this aim.” Sören Ludolph (1:48,31 min) and Sebastian Keiner (1:48,73 min) in 7th and 8th place were far off from the medals.
In the mens 10.000m race Matti Markowski took 4th place in 30:30,46 min. After winning the silver medal in the European U20-Championships two years ago in Hengelo he now missed a medal by some 22 seconds.
Another 4th place came from Christopher Linke in the 20km race walk. With a strong performance he improved his PB to 1:24:29h but was 1:30min behind bronce medalist Matteo Giupponi.
selected results:
800m men – final
1 KSZCZOT, Adam POL 1:45.81
2 LEWANDOWSKI, Marcin POL 1:46.52
3 SCHEMBERA, Robin GER 1:46.63
4 JURKEVICS, Dmitrijs LAT 1:47.24 SB
5 OSTROWSKI, Artur POL 1:48.17
6 LASTENNET, Jeff FRA 1:48.22
7 LUDOLPH, Sören GER 1:48.31
8 KEINER, Sebastian GER 1:48.73
10.000m men – final
1 BAYRAK, Selim TUR 29:47.15
2 LALLI, Andrea ITA 29:49.80
3 LASHYN, Dmytro UKR 30:08.44
4 MARKOWSKI, Matti GER 30:30.46
5 FERNÁNDEZ, Iván ESP 30:37.77
6 EKVALL, Mikael SWE 30:47.10
7 NAERT, Koen BEL 31:00.73
8 ZWAMA, Paul NED 31:03.94
9 JOKINEN, Tuomas FIN 31:13.26
10 LOZANO, Álvaro ESP 31:33.63
20km race walk men – final
1 LÓPEZ, Miguel Ángel ESP 1:22:23 PB
2 SIMANOVICH, Dzianis BLR 1:22:57
3 GIUPPONI, Matteo ITA 1:23:00 PB
4 LINKE, Christopher GER 1:24:29 PB
5 BARTSAYKIN, Aleksey RUS 1:25:01
6 PAPAMIHAÍL, Aléxandros GRE 1:25:06 PB
7 TOMALA, Dawid POL 1:25:26
8 MOULINET, Bertrand FRA 1:25:30 PB
9 KOVALENKO, Nazar UKR 1:25:47
10 ADRAGNA, Andrea ITA 1:25:54 PB
full results of the championships sportresult.com
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