Robin Schembera wins 800m-bronze in European U23-Championships

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