July 17, 2009
German athletes achieved strong performances in the first middle and long distance races of the European Athletics U23-Championships in Kaunas/LIT.
In the mens 5.000m race Rico Schwarz was close to winning a medal but eventually had to settle with 5th place and a new PB of 14:04.15. The two other German participants Philipp Pflieger (14:09,13 min; 8th place) and Musa Roba-Kinkal (14:11,44 min; 10th place) completed the good performance.
In the heats of the mens 800m, all 3 German athletes qualified for the final, that will be held Saturday afternoon. Sören Ludolph won his heat with the fastest time overall (1:47,99 min). Also Robin Schembera won his heat (1:49,33 min) and stated afterwards that he saved some energy. Sebastian Keiners (1:49,66 min) advancement was not as easy as expected as he could hardly maintain the 2nd place in his heat.
In the womens 800m, Annett Horna represented Germany but was a bit unlucky. Being 3rd in her heat was not enough and running a PB of 2:03.46min she was the fastest women to not make it to the final.
A bit more lucky was Denise Krebs in the womens 1.500m heat, as she qualified with a 4th place (4:19.87min) for the final.
selected results:
800m men – heat 1
1 KSZCZOT, Adam POL 1:49.60 Q
2 KEINER, Sebastian GER 1:49.66 Q
3 BRADSHAW, Paul GBR 1:49.68
4 PALACIOS, David ESP 1:49.77
800m men – heat 2
1 SCHEMBERA, Robin GER 1:49.33 Q
2 OSTROWSKI, Artur POL 1:49.43 Q
3 OSAGIE, Andrew GBR 1:49.47
4 HOLUSA, Jakub CZE 1:49.63
800m men – heat 3
1 LUDOLPH, Sören GER 1:47.99 Q
2 JURKEVICS, Dmitrijs LAT 1:48.14 Q
3 LEWANDOWSKI, Marcin POL 1:48.24 q
4 LASTENNET, Jeff FRA 1:48.41 q
800m women – heat 1
1 CRISTEA, Olga MDA 2:03.05 Q SB
2 UVAROVA, Aleksandra RUS 2:03.16 Q
3 YEKYMENKO, Olha UKR 2:03.33 q
4 HORNA, Annett GER 2:03.46 PB
1.500m women – heat 2
1 HAYDAR, Sultan TUR 4:17.07 Q
2 FESENKO, Yelena RUS 4:17.46 Q
3 DE GRANDE, Lindsey BEL 4:17.95 Q PB
4 KREBS, Denise GER 4:19.87 Q
5 COSTANZA, Valentina ITA 4:19.96 q
6 STRAUSA, Agata LAT 4:20.76 PB
5.000m men – final
1 ELBENDIR, Mohamed ESP 13:55.10
2 SMAÏL, Noureddine FRA 13:59.23 SB
3 MCCARTHY, David IRL 14:00.78
4 NAGEEYE, Abdi NED 14:03.87
5 SCHWARZ, Rico GER 14:04.15 PB
6 CHABIARAK, Siarhei BLR 14:04.79 PB
7 KRYVONIS, Maksym UKR 14:07.62
8 PFLIEGER, Philipp GER 14:09.13
9 BAYRAK, Selim TUR 14:10.10
10 ROBA-KINKAL, Musa GER 14:11.44
11 GARCÍA, Javier ESP 14:12.70
12 SEPPI, Andrea ITA 14:13.85
13 TAYLOR, Jonathan GBR 14:15.00
14 WIGGERS, Tom NED 14:19.52
15 SÖDERBERG, Alexander SWE 14:21.18
full results of the championships sportresult.com
July 13, 2009
The German team could not fulfil the expectations in the European Mountain Running Championships that were held in Telfes/AUT this weekend.
The biggest medal hope, Timo Zeiler, lost the bronce medal in the mens individual race in the final, very steep climb of the 11,0km-course with 1.400 altitude difference. After controlling the pace until halfway, the German was gapped by Ahmet Arslan (TUR/1st in 58:26) and Marco de Gasperiin (ITA/2nd in 59:09) the steep part and also was passed by Sebastién Epiney (SUI/ 3rd in 59:19) on the later stages. Despite the somewhat unlucky 4th place in 59:31, it was the best placement of Zeiler in a European Championship Race and he was not unlucky, stating that he was “absolutely satisfied”.
The German mens team with Timo Zeiler, Josef Beha (63:42 min; 28th) and Thomas Göpfert (66:35 min; 45th) “only” took 8th place and could not establish themselves as one of the top-nations.
In the womens race, Lisa Reisinger was the best German in 14th place (66:06 min). Also the womens team took 8th place in the team category.
In the junior mens race, Germany also had a medal candidate with René Stöckert. However, the 4th-place finisher from last years championships lost his shoe after 5 km due to a kick from his opponent and consequently lost contact to the front group. He came in 20th place with 55:40 in the Junior mens race (9,4km with 940m altitude difference).
Selected results:
Men individual (11km/1.400m altitude difference):
1. ARSLAN, Ahmet TUR 0:58:26
2. DE GASPERI, Marco ITA 0:59:09
3. EPINEY, Sébastien SUI 0:59:19
4. ZEILER, Timo GER 0:59:31
5. FONTAINE, Raymond FRA 0:59:37
28. BEHA, Josef GER 1:03:42
45. GÖPFERT, Thomas GER 1:06:35
49. STURM, Marco GER 1:07:23
Women individual (9,4km/940m altitude difference):
1. STRÄHL, Martina SUI 0:54:39
2. BELOTTI, Valentina ITA 0:55:28
3. MAYR, Andrea AUT 0:56:55
4. RUNGGER, Renate ITA 0:57:17
5. LEONTYEVA, Natalia RUS 0:57:29
14. REISINGER, Lisa GER 1:00:06
22. ULRICH, Veronika GER 1:01:45
40. HEILIG-DUVENTÄSTER, Marie-Luise GER 1:04:20
53. BÄUSCHER, Lea GER 1:08:14
Junior Men individual (9,4km/940m altitude difference):
1. ALICI, Yusuf TUR 0:50:29
2. CHEVRIER, Xavier ITA 0:50:44
3. PRALONG, Candide SUI 0:51:39
4. BAJZA, Jakub CZE 0:52:58
5. MCDONALD, Scott GBR 0:53:06
20. STÖCKERT, René GER 0:55:40
27. EBNER, Lukas GER 0:56:55
38. ALRAUN, Fabian GER 0:58:24
48. MAI, Christian GER 1:01:21
Junior Women individual (4km/400m altitude difference):
1. ALTINTAS, Derya TUR 0:23:15
2. KARABULUT, Elif TUR 0:23:20
3. CAN, Yasemin TUR 0:23:29
4. OLOGU, Andra Loredana ROU 0:23:39
5. PROROKOVA, Tatiana RUS 0:23:43
20. CORNELSEN, Sarah GER 0:25:43
36. SCHÄFER, Lena GER 0:28:40
Team classification of the German team:
Men: 8th place (77 points)
Women: 8th place (76 points)
Junior Men: 9th place (85 points)
Junior Women: 13th place (56 points)
full results of the championships emrc2009telfes.org
July 12, 2009
Germany got an unexpected medal in the distance events of the 25th World University Games (Universiade) 2009 in Belgrade. In the mens 3000m steeple chase Steffen Uliczka took more than 6 seconds off his previous best (8:32,79 min/2007) to win the bronce medal in 8:26,18min. The 24-year old was beaten only by Ion Luchianov (Mol; 8:25,79 min) and Halik Akkas (Tur; 8:25,80 min).
With his time he just missed the German B-standard of 8:26,00 for the home world championships this year by a margin of 18 hundreds of a second! Let’s hope that there will be another fast race for him and we will see a German participant in the steeplechase in Berlin.
July 11, 2009
With an impressive performance Hagen Pohle of Germany won the 10.000m race walking of the 6th IAAF World Youth Championships in Brixen/Bressanone (ITA). With his winning time of 41:35.99min he also bettered the previous championships record (41:49.91min from Russia’s Stanislav Emelyanov achieved in Ostrava two years ago).
Pohle went out aggressive, clocking 4:03 for the first km and went through 5.000m in 20:43.37. Building a 40m gap after the first quarter of the race, the 17-year old went on to secure a “wire-to-wire” victory, with Dementiy Cheparev (41:53,76 min) becoming second.
“I had no special tactics today, but I was wondering why nobody followed me” he stated after the race.
July 11, 2009
For the first time in its history, AIMS, the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races, is conferring a one-of-kind honour, ‘The Marathon of the Decade, and named the real,-Berlin Marathon as its first recipient.
AIMS is thus giving recognition to the important achievements of the Berlin Marathon with its unparalleled series of World records over the past decade. Six world records, from 1998 to 2008, document the high quality of the Berlin event – a performance never before achieved by any other Marathon event.
AIMS not only took the quality of the top performances into consideration, but also the incredibly high number of runners (from over 100 countries) who competed. With over 35,000 finishers last year, the Berlin race second in the world in participation.
The Berlin Marathon began in 1974 under the direction of Horst Milde (Race Director until 2004) with 286 runners in the Grunewald Forest; In 1981, the race “moved” to the city with the start at the Reichstag; starting in 1990 after the fall of the Berlin Wall – with a then record number of 25,000 runners (the limit at the time) – and the live television broadcasting in Japan, the marathon joined the ranks of the top events.
“For AIMS, the Berlin Marathon is an excellent event, which we are proud of, which has written international sport history through its success, and which provides an excellent example of how through good cooperation with the institutions in a city, sport can positively affect the lives of its citizens,” said AIMS President Hiroaki Chosa.
July 8, 2009
The German Athletics Federation DLV nominated the team for the U23-European Championships 2009 that will take place in Kaunas (LIT) from 16th to 19th of July. Several medals are expected as, six German athletes currently lead the European Rankings. However in the distance events the expectations are not as high, even if some medals seem to be possible.
The complete German Team:
Women
400 Meter: Sorina Nwachukwu (TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen)
4×400 Meter: Esther Cremer (TV Wattenscheid 01), Sorina Nwachukwu, Fabienne Kohlmann (LG Karlstadt), Janin Lindenberg (LG NIKE Berlin), Lena Schmidt (LG Hilden)
100 Meter H: Cindy Roleder (LAZ Leipzig), Anne-Kathrin Elbe (TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen), Stefanie Saumweber (SSV Ulm)
400 Meter H: Fabienne Kohlmann (LG Karlstadt), Jill Richards (SCC Berlin)
800 Meter: Annett Horna (TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen)
1.500 Meter: Denise Krebs (TV Wattenscheid 01)
5.000 Meter: Mareike Schrulle (LG ASV/DSHS Köln), Cornelia Schwennen (SV Concordia Emsbüren), Susanne Lutz (LG Telis Finanz Regensburg)
3.000 Meter steeple: Julia Hiller (LAC Quelle Fürth/München), Susanne Lutz (LG Telis Finanz Regensburg)
High: Julia Wanner (LAC Berlin), Jennifer Klein (MTG Mannheim), Melanie Bauschke (LG NIKE Berlin)
Pole vault: Elizaveta Ryzih (ABC Ludwigshafen), Denise von Eynatten (LG Leinfelden-Echterdingen)
Long: Anika Leipold (Athletik Team Hamburg), Melanie Bauschke (LG NIKE Berlin), Sosthene Moguenara (TV Wattenscheid 01)
Triple: Ekaterina Menne (LC Paderborn)
Shot put: Denise Hinrichs (TV Wattenscheid 01)
Discus: Anna-Katharina Weller (LG Olympia Dortmund)
Javelin: Sandra Schaffarzik (ESV Nürnberg Rangierbahnhof)
Men
100 Meter: Aleixo Platini Menga (TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen)
200 Meter: Aleixo Platini Menga (TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen)
4×100 Meter: Christian Blum (LAC Quelle Fürth/München), Alwin Flohr (TV Wattenscheid 01), Aleixo Platini Menga (TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen), Maximilian Panthen (LG Stadtwerke München), Kevin Sellke (TV Gladbeck), Jan Quade (TV Wattenscheid 01)
400 Meter: Eric Krüger (SC Magdeburg)
110 Meter H: Eric Balnuweit (LAZ Leipzig), Paul Dittmer (MTV Hanstedt)
400 Meter H: Silvio Schirrmeister (Dresdner SC), David Gollnow (TSV Erding), Stephan Stoll (VfL Sindelfingen)
800 Meter: Robin Schembera (TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen), Sebastian Keiner (Erfurter LAC), Sören Ludolph (LG Braunschweig)
5.000 Meter: Rico Schwarz (ASV Erfurt), Philipp Pflieger (LG Telis Finanz Regensburg), Musa Roba-Kinkel (TV Gelnhausen)
10.000 Meter: Matti Markowski (OSC Berlin), Musa Roba-Kinkel (TV Gelnhausen)
20 Kilometer race walking: Christopher Linke (SC Potsdam)
Pole vault: Karsten Dilla (LAV Bayer Uerdingen-Dormagen), Raphael Holzdeppe (LAZ Zweibrücken)
Long: Mario Kral (Hallesche LA Freunde), Timo Kirchenberger (SCC Berlin)
Shot put: Tobias Hepperle (VfB Stuttgart), Markus Bandekow (SCC Berlin)
Discus: Martin Wierig (SC Magdeburg)
Hammer: Alexander Ziegler (LG Staufen), Benjamin Hedermann (TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen)
Javelin: Matthias de Zordo (SV Schlau.com Saar 05 Saarbrücken), Maximilian Buchholz (SC Magdeburg)
Decathlon: Rico Freimuth (Hallesche LA Freunde), Steffen Kahlert (TuS Wunsdorf), Matthias Prey (Hamburger SV)
July 8, 2009
After the German Championships took place in Ulm last weekend, the German Athletics Federation (DLV) nominated further athletes for the home world championships in Berlin this year. The last nomination will take place on August 2nd and until then there is still time to achieve qualifying performances. In the distance events there are still hopes on the mens side, whereas on the womens side it seems that only over 800m there are realistic chances. The most important meet for the German runners will be in Heusden/NED. Arne Gabius is chasing the 5.000m standard of 13:25min and also 1.500m-hope Wolfram Müller is expected to follow the already qualified 1.500m-runners Carsten Schlangen and Stefan Eberhardt.
The German team as of 07.07.2009:
M e n
200 Meter: Aleixio Platini Menga (TSV Bayer Leverkusen)
4×100 Meter: Marius Broening (LAV asics Tübingen), Tobias Unger (LAZ Salamander Kornwestheim/Ludwigsburg), Stefan Schwab (TSV Schwarzenbek), Alexander Kosenkow (TV Wattenscheid 01), Martin Keller (LAC Erdgas Chemnitz)
4×400 Meter: Martin Grothkopp (Dresdner SC 1898), Jonas Plass (asics Team Wendelstein), Ruwen Faller (SC Magdeburg), Thomas Schneider (SC Potsdam), Eric Krüger (SC Magdeburg)
1.500 Meter: Carsten Schlangen (LG Nord Berlin), Stefan Eberhardt (Laufclub Erfurt)
Marathon: André Pollmächer (LAC Erdgas Chemnitz), Martin Beckmann (LG Leinfelden-Echterdingen), Falk Cierpinski (SG Spergau), Tobias Sauter (SG Spergau), Stefan Koch (LG Braunschweig)
110 Meter H: Matthias Bühler (LG Offenburg), Helge Schwarzer (Hamburger SV), Alexander John (LAZ Leipzig)
400 Meter H: Thomas Goller (TV Wattenscheid 01)
20 Kilometer race walking: André Höhne (SCC Berlin)
50 Kilometer race walking: André Höhne (SCC Berlin)
High: Raul Spank (Dresdner SC 1898)
Pole vault: Alexander Straub (LG Filstal), Malte Mohr (TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen), Tobias Scherbarth (TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen)
Long: Sebastian Bayer (Bremer LT)
Shot put: Ralf Bartels (SC Neubrandenburg), Peter Sack (LAZ Leipzig)
Discus: Robert Harting (SCC Berlin)
Hammer: Markus Esser (TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen), Sergej Litvinov (LG Eintracht Frankfurt)
Javelin: Mark Frank (1.LAV Rostock)
Decathlon: Michael Schrader (LAV Bayer Uerdingen/Dormagen), Pascal Behrenbruch (LG Eintracht Frankfurt), Norman Müller (Hallesche LAF)
W o m e n
4×100 Meter: Verena Sailer (MTG Mannheim), Marion Wagner (USC Mainz), Anne Möllinger (MTG Mannheim), Cathleen Tschirch (TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen), Lisa Schorr (SV Schlau.com Saar 05 Saarbrücken)
4×400 Meter: Sorina Nwachukwu (TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen), Claudia Hoffmann (SC Potsdam), Esther Cremer (TV Wattenscheid 01), Jonna Tilgner (Bremer LT)
10.000 Meter: Sabrina Mockenhaupt (Kölner Verein für Marathon)
Marathon: Sabrina Mockenhaupt (Kölner Verein für Marathon), Irina Mikitenko (TV Wattenscheid 01), Susanne Hahn (SV Schlau.com Saar 05 Saarbrücken), Melanie Kraus (TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen), Luminita Zaituc (LG Braunschweig)
3.000 Meter steeple: Antje Möldner (SC Potsdam)
20 Kilometer race walking: Sabine Krantz (TV Wattenscheid 01)
High: Ariane Friedrich (LG Eintracht Frankfurt)
Pole vault: Silke Spiegelburg (TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen), Kristina Gadschiew (LAZ Zweibrücken), Anna Battke (USC Mainz)
Long: Bianca Kappler (LC asics Rehlingen), Beatrice Marscheck (LAZ Gießen)
Triple: Katja Demut (TuS Jena)
Shot put: Nadine Kleinert (SC Magdeburg), Denise Hinrichs (TV Wattenscheid 01), Christina Schwanitz (SV Neckarsulm)
Discus: Nadine Müller (Hallesche LAF), Franka Dietzsch (SC Neubrandenburg)
Hammer: Betty Heidler (LG Eintracht Frankfurt), Kathrin Klaas (LG Eintracht Frankfurt), Andrea Bunjes (LG Eintracht Frankfurt)
Javelin: Christina Obergföll (LG Offenburg), Steffi Nerius (TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen), Linda Stahl (TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen)
Heptathlon: Jennifer Oeser (TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen), Lilli Schwarzkopf (LG Paderborn), Julia Mächtig (SC Neubrandenburg)
July 6, 2009
The race favourites took the National titles in a hot and sunny German Championship in Ulm. With 5.000m being the longest distance of the meet, qualifying times for the IAAF World Championships in Berlin 2009 were – as expected – out of reach.
In the womens race Sabrina Mockenhaupt dominated the race from the beginning, even the pace of 3:15min/km was rather slow. Mockenhaupt just wanted to defend her title without spending too much energy. She will need the energy in the next weeks, when she is preparing for the World Championships where she is probably running the 10.000m and the marathon. Mockenhaupts winning time was 16:15,65min. Second place went to Birte Bultmann (16:27,82) ahead of marathon runner Ulrike Maisch (16:28,23).
In the mens race Arne Gabius went to the front after the passing the early leader Sebastian Hallmann at around halfway. With two round to go he went clear of his closest competitors and won with a time of 13:50,48 min ahead of Musa Roba-Kinkal (13:59,11). Christian Glatting, who ran for Germany in the European Team Championships in Leiria got third in 14:01,37min. Gabius now wants to break the required 13:25min mark to qualify for the World Championships at a race in Heusden/NED in two weeks.
July 6, 2009
German race walker Melanie Seeger probably experienced her season highlight last week, giving birth to a daughter named Helena. As reported earlier, Seeger will miss the home World Championships but is planning to come back in 2010.
June 16, 2009
Two 1500m-runners were the positive German surprise in the running events of last weekends Golden league meeting (ISTAF) in Berlin. Both Stefan Eberhardt and Carsten Schlangen set new personal bests in a race that was won with a world leading 3:29,47min by Augustine Kiprono Choge.
Stefan Eberhardt came into the race with a PB of 3:37,51 and improved to a great time of 3:33,92min (5th place in the race). With this time he went straight to 8th place in the German 1500m All-time list. At the same time it was the best performance since the era of Dieter Baumann some 12 years ago. “Right from the gun just everything was perfect” he commented the race.
For Carsten Schlangen the ISTAF was again a good place. After improving to 3:34,99min in last years race he could now cut off another 0,39 seconds to come home in 3:34,60 for 10th place overall. “The training went well and I just needed the right race to run the PB” he stated afterwards.
Both have now ran faster than the required world championship qualification mark of 3:36,20 min and are almost qualified. Wolfram Müller will for sure be motivated as well by the times of his two compatriots but still it remains to be seen if he can match those performances and qualify for the home world championships.
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