German milers with impressive performances in Hengelo

June 1, 2009

3 Germans men were present in the middle distance races of the Fanny Blankers-Koen Games in Hengelo/NED on 1st of June. Given the fact that the season is still young the performances were pretty good and raise hopes that there will be several middle distance runners in the home World Championships in Berlin.

In the 1.500m race Stefan Eberhardt clocked a 3:37,10min for 5th place in a competitive race which was won by Olympic Silver medallist Asbel Kiprop (KEN) in 3:34,45min. This time is a new personal best for the reigning German 1500m Indoor Champion. However, he just missed out the A-qualifier of 3:36,20min that was set from German Athletics Federation (DLV).

In the 800m-race the youngsters Robin Schembera (20) and Sebastian Keiner (19) represented Germany. Robin Schembera ran a PB of 1:45,63min for 6th place in his first individual race since July 2008! He only missed the A-standard (1:45,40min) by 23 hundreds of a second. Sebastian Keiner came home in 8th place with a time of 1:46,30min and missed his PB by only half a second. Both definitely have the talent to make the German team for the World Championships.