German distance runners with good performances in the first 2 days of the 7th European Athletics U23-Championships

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