Julia Hiller and Susi Lutz take Silver and Bronce in the steeple of the European Athletics U23-Championships 2009

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