46th RWE marathon “Rund um den Baldeneysee” in Essen report + results, 12.10.2008

October 13, 2008

Around 1.900 runners participated in the 46 Essen marathon “Around the Lake Baldeney”. Tobias Sauter used the good weather conditions to record a PR of 2:18:24. This performance lifts him to third position in the German TOP performances of 2008.
After a group of 3 runners plus pacemaker Alexander Lubina were running together the first half in approx. 1:09:20, Tobia Sauter was the only one to run a negative split (2nd half in 1:09:04). Manuel Mayer took second place in the race with a time of 2:21:12, which places him 6th in the German TOP 10 of 2008. Marathon debutant Zelalem Martel faded quite badly in the second half and eventually secured 3rd place in 2:29:32, only 3 seconds ahead of Sebastian Lüning. It remains to be seen if the 22-year old Martel will learn from this experience and can convert his speed (this year he ran 10.000m in 28:34,24min and 5.000m in 13:38,10) to the marathon.
In the womens race Silvia Krull took the victory with a time of 2:38:21 ahead of Birgitt Bohn in 2:43:04. With those performances the 2 women went to 6th and 7th place in the German TOP 10 2008.

Lead results were as follows:

marathon men:
1 Sauter, Tobias (DEU) TSV Eltingen 20 02:18:24
2 Meyer, Manuel (DEU) TV Wattenscheid 20 02:21:12
3 Martel, Zelalem (DEU) LG Neckar-Enz 20 02:29:32
4 Lüning, Sebastian (DEU) LG Bremen-Nord 35 02:29:35
5 Haaver, Knut (DEU) TSV Weeze 40 02:32:01
6 Hegmann, Tobias (DEU) TSG Kleinostheim 30 02:32:38
7 Schroer, Christoph (DEU) Moerser TV 20 02:32:46
8 Rottler, Andreas (DEU) TuS Deuz 40 02:34:32
9 Bruns, Detlev (DEU) LSF Münster 40 02:39:56
10 Läpple, Gerhard (DEU) TSV Hildrizhausen 45 02:41:16
11 Giesen, Hartmut (DEU) TV Roetgen 40 02:41:18
12 Strothmann, Jörn (DEU) LC Solbad Ravensberg 35 02:41:48
13 Nedderhoff, Bernd (DEU) LC Solbad Ravensberg 45 02:42:01
14 Ernst, Uwe (DEU) EVONIK 40 02:42:53
15 Fink, Ralf (DEU) LAC Mausbach 40 02:43:19

marathon women:
1 Krull, Silvia (DEU) LG Lage Detmold 30 02:38:21
2 Bohn, Birgitt (DEU) Spiridon Frankfurt 35 02:43:04
3 Jedras, Barbara (DEU) Tusem Essen 35 02:57:37
4 Dr. Heckmann, Kirsten (DEU) SV Brackwede 30 02:58:45
5 Gayk, Svenja (DEU) 30 03:04:05
6 Angel, Heike (DEU) LC Saucony Saar 45 03:12:53
7 Nachtwey, Claudia (DEU) EVONIK 40 03:14:30
8 Krieg, Ulrike (DEU) Alfterer SC 35 03:14:37
9 Hansch, Vera (DEU) Adler-Langlauf Bottrop 20 03:15:46
10 Wimmer, Tanja (DEU) ASC Rosellen Neuss 20 03:15:47
11 Musielak, Heike (DEU) 40 03:16:58
12 Tünnermann, Ina (DEU) SV Brackwede 35 03:18:06
13 Nowottny-hupka, Rita (DEU) LT Wischlingen Dortmund 45 03:18:58
14 Miedtank, Anja (DEU) 35 03:20:01
15 Kiss, Christine (DEU) LGO Bochum 20 03:23:10

full results of the race results.mikatiming.de