Steeplechaser Steffen Uliczka wins bronce medal in World University Games

July 12, 2009

Germany got an unexpected medal in the distance events of the 25th World University Games (Universiade) 2009 in Belgrade. In the mens 3000m steeple chase Steffen Uliczka took more than 6 seconds off his previous best (8:32,79 min/2007) to win the bronce medal in 8:26,18min. The 24-year old was beaten only by Ion Luchianov (Mol; 8:25,79 min) and Halik Akkas (Tur; 8:25,80 min).

With his time he just missed the German B-standard of 8:26,00 for the home world championships this year by a margin of 18 hundreds of a second! Let’s hope that there will be another fast race for him and we will see a German participant in the steeplechase in Berlin.