Arne Gabius and Filmon Ghirmai closely miss qualifying marks for IAAF world championships in Berlin at the KBC Nacht in Heusden/BEL

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