Jan Fitschen gives up World Championships hopes

May 11, 2009

On Monday May 11th, European 10.000m Champion Jan Fitschen announced that he is not going to run in the home World Championships in Berlin 2009.

After having trouble with the plantar tendon in his right foot for several months he finally realised that he is not going to be fit in time. After several months of alternative training and trials to start running the problems didn’t improve.

The 32-year old stated: „It is the absolute horror. I never thought that it takes such a long time. The situation is still unchanged. Occasionally it got even worse. Now it’s obvious that the foot is not going to be completely fit until summer. It’s useless…”

Fitschen will now take some weeks completely off and only continues with the physiotherapy. He is now planning to run some road races in the autumn season.