July 29, 2009
Missing motivation: 800m-runner Nils Schumann retires after several injuries. The “all of a sudden” olympic champion of the 2000 Sydney Olympic wants to concentrate on other tasks after missing the qualification for the 2009 IAAF World Championships on home ground in Berlin.
“Some day you have to be a realist and set new goals in live” the 31-year old stated to German press. He now wants to emphasis more on his company that offers motivational training and nutritional consultation. “It was getting more and more difficult to come back after those injuries and setbacks.” he tries to explain himself.
Schumann was the first Olympic Champion at the 800 meter for Germany and beat world record holder Wilson Kipketerin a tactical race with an incredible kick at the end of the final stretch. Schumann set his PB of 1:44,20min two years after the Sydney Olympics and won bronce medal in the European Championships in 2002. He also took the European Titles in the 800m (indoor and outdoor) in 1998. In recent years Schumann suffered several injuries and also two operations on his achilles tendon were undertaken. In this years German Championships he ran his last competition and clocked a 1:47,28min as a seasons best.
July 28, 2009
With three days to go to the Finnish Championships / Kalevan Kisat in Espoo I made my last fast exercise today. 4×1.000m on the track with 400m jog recovery was on the “menu” and it went not as bad as some of the exercises in the recent past.
The times for the 1.000m-repeats were 3:02/3:02/3:00/2:58min. Nothing too special and if I would be in a really good shape I should have run 5 seconds faster because the conditions were pretty perfect (almost no wind, 20°C, cloudy). From now on the training will be decreased in terms of both quality and quantity. Monday was the last day I did 30km (11K in the morning + 19K evening). Now it’s time to get the legs and also the mind fresh for the race. Let’s hope that this way the shape will improve and I can run a good time.
July 27, 2009
More than 1.000 runners competed in a scenic race close to the German Alps.
Lead results were as follows:
marathon men:
1 Kosgei, Titus (KEN) HK SSV Ulm 1848 02:24:31
2 Diehl, Marco (DEU) 40 LaufArena-LaufkultTour 02:39:29
3 Singer, Markus (DEU) 35 TSV Marktoberdorf 02:51:12
4 Nessenzia, Luigino (ITA) 50 ITALIA 02:53:25
5 Fröhlich, Alexander (DEU) 40 LaufsportSaukel 02:55:33
6 Kutter, Markus (DEU) 35 02:55:43
7 Ksciuk-Haf, Ralf (DEU) 45 SV Lohhof 02:55:50
8 Königsmaier, Bernhard (AUT) 40 Nurmis Enkel 02:57:52
9 Huppmann, Matthias (DEU) 45 LGV Marathon Giessen 02:58:01
10 Prof. Walther, Markus (DEU) 40 02:58:32
11 Groß, Patrick (DEU) HK 02:59:04
12 Kranixfeld, Hannes (AUT) 35 MSC Rogner Bad Blumov 02:59:14
13 Menin, Cristiano (ITA) 35 ITALIA 03:01:40
14 Overlöper, Norbert (DEU) 40 marathon dinslaken 03:01:45
15 Stockinger, Stefan (DEU) 40 LaufArena-LaufkultTour 03:01:56
marathon women:
1 Heiß, Mikki (DEU) 35 LG TELIS FINANZ Regensburg 02:53:40
2 Hajek, Branka (DEU) HK 03:01:59
3 Weiblen, Iris (DEU) 40 Stahl Sport Shop Team 03:14:32
4 Bendl-Tschiedel, Carola (AUT) 30 LG Wien 03:19:37
5 Krause, Antje (DEU) 35 USC Marburg/LaufArena 03:23:02
6 Raabe, Inge (DEU) 45 Remscheider Röntgen Sportclub 03:25:22
7 Spachmueller, Andrea (DEU) 30 03:26:10
8 Rokitta, Kathrin (DEU) 35 LG Laufarena Allgäu 03:27:06
9 Lutzenberger, Karin (DEU) 30 MRRC München 03:27:22
10 Helgesen, Britt (NOR) 40 Kvafjord idrettslag 03:28:31
11 Rodenbeck-Hellert, Brigitte (DEU) 55 LG-Braunschweig 03:38:28
12 Berchtold, Karin (DEU) HK LG Reischenau Zusamtal 03:39:02
13 Halt, Daniela (DEU) HK 03:39:44
14 Wiesner, Doris (DEU) 40 LT SV Pfatter 03:39:46
15 Pinnow, Heike (DEU) 45 TSV Neustadt/Rems 03:40:22
halfmarathon men:
1 Ratz, Philipp (DEU) 30 LaufArena/LaufkultTour 01:12:13
2 Sitienei, Andrew (DEU) 30 SSV Ulm 1846 01:15:31
3 Hilpert, Patrick (DEU) HK rbb laufbewegung 01:17:00
4 Straub, Steffen (DEU) 30 Heart+Sole 01:18:57
5 Thurner, Stephan (AUT) HK SC Breitenwang 01:19:51
6 Ruf, Andreas (DEU) 35 01:20:11
7 Forster, Frank (DEU) 45 LAG Siegen 01:20:11
8 Kerle, Christian (AUT) 45 LG Sparkasse Reutte 01:22:59
9 Ferri, Alfred (DEU) 45 LG Wehringen 01:24:21
10 Vereckt, Jef (LUX) 35 DW166TZ 01:24:28
halfmarathon women:
1 Weber, Roswitha (DEU) 50 TSG Leutkirch 01:28:02
2 Richter, Elke (DEU) 40 OSC Berlin 01:29:20
3 Schütz, Annette (DEU) HK LG Erlangen 01:29:34
4 Schmitzberger, Andrea (AUT) 35 LAG Genböck Haus Ried 01:34:21
5 Hailer, Nadine (DEU) 30 TSV Moosbach 01:34:27
6 Hürrich, Steffi (DEU) HK 01:35:19
7 Kostron, Jutta (DEU) 35 01:41:17
8 Ferri, Simona (DEU) HK LG Wehringen 01:41:47
9 Gradhand, Ulrike (DEU) 30 01:41:55
10 Maier, Karin (DEU) 50 Allgäuer Laufbande 01:43:10
full results of the race mikatiming.de
July 25, 2009
Around 30.000 runners participated in the 6th B2Run in Munich this year and in the mens category some well-known German runners toed the line.
Lead results were as follows:
6750m men:
1 Seiler, Christian HVB Club 0:20:34,8
2 Dietz, Oliver E.ON Energie AG 0:20:36,1
3 Pyka, Dennis IPK 0:21:00,5
4 Green, Andre Stadtwerke München 0:21:05,0
5 Hillebrand, Johannes Fünf Flotte Beamte 0:21:12,0
6 Middelhoff, Heiko MBDA Runners 0:21:20,0
7 Heger, Sebastian www.runningcompany.de 0:21:55,9
8 Mooney, John TÜV SÜD 0:22:02,7
9 Hehn, German Giesecke & Devrient 0:22:07,4
10 Huber, Benedikt Run for BSH 0:22:13,3
11 Bscheidl, Marco msg systems 0:22:15,3
12 Ewender, Matthias Stadtwerke München 0:22:15,3
13 Hobmaier, Reinmund HM3 Solutions 0:22:21,5
14 Macias, Paulino TÜV SÜD 0:22:23,1
15 Herrmann, Hans-Joachim Baxter Deutschland GmbH 0:22:35,8
6750m women:
1 Fiedler, Christine Schedler/Herzog 0:24:11,6
2 Meyer, Bianca www.runningcompany.de 0:24:59,8
3 Stöckmann, Petra Stadtwerke München 0:25:44,3
4 OLeary, Mary Giesecke & Devrient 0:26:18,0
5 Kaiser, Monika Siemens 0:26:22,3
6 Kleiner, Yvonne LAVEGO 0:26:30,4
7 Hartig, Kerstin BMS running team 0:26:36,2
8 Fischer, Monika Allianz AG 0:26:51,8
9 Häuser, Kristina CMS Runners 0:27:11,5
10 Eiband, Alexandra Die Onkos 0:27:15,0
11 von Opel, Sonja Kreissparkasse München Starnberg 0:27:15,9
12 Götz, Carola Städtisches Klinikum München 0:27:27,0
13 Mayer, Juditha Laufend Gute Laune 0:27:29,9
14 Hummert, Renate GSK-Sprinter 0:27:32,9
15 Eichermüller-Käser, Kerstin Ernst & Young 0:27:34,5
full results of the race bibchip.de
July 22, 2009
The top two distance runners of Austria, Andrea Mayr and Günther Weidlinger announced that they will not compete in this years World Championships in Berlin (15th-23th of August) because of health related issues.
Andrea Mayr stated that the preparation time for a marathon would be too short after a tendon operation that was undertaken in April this year. Nevertheless, Mayr recently took 3rd place in the European Mountain Running Championship.
Günther Weidlinger suffered several injuries in the last week and currently has to take a break because of am inflammation in his pelvis. Weidlinger will most probably run in the Frankfurt Marathon this year and is going to attack the Austrian Record after just missing the mark in his debut run in Vienna.
July 21, 2009
A big team of 94 German athletes is going to compete in the 20th edition of the European Athletics Junior (U20) Championships from 23-26th of July.
The complete German Team:
Men:
100 m: Florian FÖSTL, Felix GÖLTL, Robert HERING
200 m: Martin BRIEGER, Robert HERING, Roy SCHMIDT
400m: Marco KAISER, Niklas ZENDER
800m: Ronny HECK, Andreas LANGE; Decathlon: Maximilian GILDE, Kai KAZMIREK
5000m: Christoph HINTZ
10,000 m: Carl DOHMANN
110m H: Maximilian BAYER, Richard BIENASCH, Julian MARQUART
400m H: Marc John DOMBROWSKI, Tobias GIEHL, Björn SCHÜLER
3000m Steeple: Mohammed Wurie BAH, Benedikt KARUS, Daniel KRÜGER
4x100m: Martin BRIEGER, Michael FISCHER, Florian FÖSTL, Felix GÖLTL, Florian HÜBNER, Roy SCHMIDT
4x400m: Sascha EDER, Benjamin JONAS, Alexander JURETZKO, Marco KAISER, Philipp KLEEMANN, Niklas ZENDER
Discus: Thomas MÜLLER, Michael SALZER, Gordon WOLF, David WROBEL
High Jump: Oliver BRÄUTIGAM, Hendrik MEIER, Sven TARNOWSKI
Hammer: Johannes BICHLER, Richard OLBRICH
Javelin: Maik DOLCH; Andreas HOFMANN, Till WÖSCHLER
Long Jump: Marcel KIRSTGES, Patrick RÄDLER
Pole Vault: Pascal KOEHL, Tom KONRAD, Leo LOHRE, Nico WEILER
Shot: Mario LABISCH, Hendrik MÜLLER, David STORL, Thomas TANDEL
Triple Jump: Manuel ZIEGLER
Women:
100m: Nadja BAHL, Leena GÜNTHER, Yasmin KWADWO, Jessica WENZEL
200m: Ruth Sophia SPELMEYER
400m: Maral FEIZBAKHSH, Daniela FERENZ
800m: Sarah BIEDERMANN, Corinna HARRER, Jessica ZEIDLER
1500m: Corinna HARRER; Diana SUJEW; Elina SUJEW, Jana SUSSMANN
3000m: Maren KOCK
100 mH: Nora BÄCKER, Jenna PLETSCH, Carina SCHÖCKEL
400m H: Anja BORK, Laura HANSEN, Christiane KLOPSCH, Inga MÜLLER
3000 m Steeple: Sarah CORNELSEN, Jana HIRSCHHÄUSER , Julia KICK
4x100m: Nadja BAHL, Leena GÜNTHER, Yasmin KWADWO, Stefanie PÄHLER, Ruth Sophia SPELMEYER, Jessica WENTZEL
4x400m: Janina BALKE, Maral FEIZBAKHSH, Daniela FERENZ , Laura HANSEN, Juline STEIN
Discus: Antje BORMANN, Julia FISCHER, Maylin WEDER
Hepthalon: Carolin SCHÄFER, Ina Tabea SKWORZOW
High Jump: Charlotte BRAUCH, Marie-Laurence JUNGFLEISCH
Hammer: Mareike NANNEN, Carolin PAESLER
Javelin: Sabine KOPPLIN; Sarah MAYER
Long Jump: Christin MENGE, Anja SCHULZ, Lisa STEINKAMP
Pole Vault: Natascha BENNER, Annika ROLOFF, Martina SCHULTZE, Victoria VON EYNATTEN
Shot: Samira BURKHARDT, Sophie KLEEBERG, Maylin WEDER
Triple: Jenny ELBE, Kristin GIERISCH
July 21, 2009
With two months to go to the Berlin marathon, which will pretty much open the marathon autumn this year, most of the top male marathoners have decided where they want to run (unless they are running the World Championships in Berlin).
In the 36th real,- Berlin marathon (20th of September 2009) Haile Gebrselassie will face strong competition, even though the race organisers could not afford a showdown between Haile and Samuel Wanjiru. However, the 2nd fastest ever-marathon runner Duncan Kibet will join “Mr Long Distance” Haile Gebrselassie in the chase for the new world record on the fast course in Berlin. Kibet won the Amsterdam Marathon in April this year with a time of 2:04:27h. Only Haile himself was faster already over the 42,195km distance. Last year he set the current World Record with a clocking of 2:03:59h in Berlin.
Earlier this year there was some confusion about a possible clash between World Record Gebrselassie and Olympic Champion Wanjiru, but Wanjiru’s statement that he would like to face Geb could not be fulfilled.
Sami Wanjiru is now running the 2009 Bank of America Chicago Marathon (11th October) as several media reported. On the fast course he wants to attack the world record and will face competition from previos Chicago marathon winners Evans Cheruiyot (2008 winner) and Patrick Ivuti (2007 winner).
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
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