July 18, 2009
The athletics meeting in Heusden/BEL is well known for the good performances in the distance events and two Germans followed this reputation to go for the qualifying marks for the home world championships in Berlin this year.
Steeple-chaser Filmon Ghirmai was not yet running aiming for fast times this year and concentrated on winning some competitions, including the German Track and Field Championships. In Heusden he was chasing the standard of 8:23,00 for the first time but failed. Running a brave race, he clocked a 8:28.70min and took 8th place.
In the 5.000m race Arne Gabius wanted to run 13:20,00min, which is the A-standard. However, with his time of 13:28.45min (9th place in the B-section) he was even outside of the B-standard of 13:25,00.
selected results with German participation:
3.000m steeple men
1 MUBARAK TAHER BRN 8:15.83
2 KITUM SILAS KEN 8:21.75
3 MCADAMS JOSH USA 8:22.83
4 DESMET PIETER BEL 8:23.81
5 BRUCE BEN USA 8:26.60
6 WATSON ROB CAN 8:28.24
7 KRISTENSEN BJORNAR USTAD NOR 8:28.57
8 GHIRMAI FILMON GER 8:28.70
9 NGETICH CALEB KEN 8:29.91
10 VAN KOOLWIJK KRIJN BEL 8:30.42
5.000m men (B-section)
1 GONZALEZ JONAY MIGUEL ESP 13:21.65
2 KIBET MOSES UGA 13:24.87
3 NELSON TIM USA 13:24.94
4 ABDIRAHMAN ABDI USA 13:26.27
5 VAUGHN BRENT USA 13:26.50
6 QUIGLEY SEAN USA 13:28.07
7 NAKAO YUSEI JPN 13:28.16
8 FORREST SHAWN AUS 13:28.31
9 GABIUS ARNE GER 13:28.45
10 TASAMA DAME ETH 13:28.92
full results of the meeting sport.be
July 18, 2009
On the 3rd day of the European Athletics U23-Championships in Kaunas/LIT the German distance runners could win their first medal.
In the mens 800m final 3 Germans were present. However, only Robin Schembera could encroach in the fight for the medals. With a time of 1:46,63min he secured bronze behind the two Poles Adam Kszczot (1:45,81 min) and Marcin Lewandowski (1:46,52 min). After the race he stated: “I just had no energy left in the final 50meters. I wanted to get a medal and I achieved this aim.” Sören Ludolph (1:48,31 min) and Sebastian Keiner (1:48,73 min) in 7th and 8th place were far off from the medals.
In the mens 10.000m race Matti Markowski took 4th place in 30:30,46 min. After winning the silver medal in the European U20-Championships two years ago in Hengelo he now missed a medal by some 22 seconds.
Another 4th place came from Christopher Linke in the 20km race walk. With a strong performance he improved his PB to 1:24:29h but was 1:30min behind bronce medalist Matteo Giupponi.
selected results:
800m men – final
1 KSZCZOT, Adam POL 1:45.81
2 LEWANDOWSKI, Marcin POL 1:46.52
3 SCHEMBERA, Robin GER 1:46.63
4 JURKEVICS, Dmitrijs LAT 1:47.24 SB
5 OSTROWSKI, Artur POL 1:48.17
6 LASTENNET, Jeff FRA 1:48.22
7 LUDOLPH, Sören GER 1:48.31
8 KEINER, Sebastian GER 1:48.73
10.000m men – final
1 BAYRAK, Selim TUR 29:47.15
2 LALLI, Andrea ITA 29:49.80
3 LASHYN, Dmytro UKR 30:08.44
4 MARKOWSKI, Matti GER 30:30.46
5 FERNÁNDEZ, Iván ESP 30:37.77
6 EKVALL, Mikael SWE 30:47.10
7 NAERT, Koen BEL 31:00.73
8 ZWAMA, Paul NED 31:03.94
9 JOKINEN, Tuomas FIN 31:13.26
10 LOZANO, Álvaro ESP 31:33.63
20km race walk men – final
1 LÓPEZ, Miguel Ángel ESP 1:22:23 PB
2 SIMANOVICH, Dzianis BLR 1:22:57
3 GIUPPONI, Matteo ITA 1:23:00 PB
4 LINKE, Christopher GER 1:24:29 PB
5 BARTSAYKIN, Aleksey RUS 1:25:01
6 PAPAMIHAÍL, Aléxandros GRE 1:25:06 PB
7 TOMALA, Dawid POL 1:25:26
8 MOULINET, Bertrand FRA 1:25:30 PB
9 KOVALENKO, Nazar UKR 1:25:47
10 ADRAGNA, Andrea ITA 1:25:54 PB
full results of the championships sportresult.com
July 17, 2009
German athletes achieved strong performances in the first middle and long distance races of the European Athletics U23-Championships in Kaunas/LIT.
In the mens 5.000m race Rico Schwarz was close to winning a medal but eventually had to settle with 5th place and a new PB of 14:04.15. The two other German participants Philipp Pflieger (14:09,13 min; 8th place) and Musa Roba-Kinkal (14:11,44 min; 10th place) completed the good performance.
In the heats of the mens 800m, all 3 German athletes qualified for the final, that will be held Saturday afternoon. Sören Ludolph won his heat with the fastest time overall (1:47,99 min). Also Robin Schembera won his heat (1:49,33 min) and stated afterwards that he saved some energy. Sebastian Keiners (1:49,66 min) advancement was not as easy as expected as he could hardly maintain the 2nd place in his heat.
In the womens 800m, Annett Horna represented Germany but was a bit unlucky. Being 3rd in her heat was not enough and running a PB of 2:03.46min she was the fastest women to not make it to the final.
A bit more lucky was Denise Krebs in the womens 1.500m heat, as she qualified with a 4th place (4:19.87min) for the final.
selected results:
800m men – heat 1
1 KSZCZOT, Adam POL 1:49.60 Q
2 KEINER, Sebastian GER 1:49.66 Q
3 BRADSHAW, Paul GBR 1:49.68
4 PALACIOS, David ESP 1:49.77
800m men – heat 2
1 SCHEMBERA, Robin GER 1:49.33 Q
2 OSTROWSKI, Artur POL 1:49.43 Q
3 OSAGIE, Andrew GBR 1:49.47
4 HOLUSA, Jakub CZE 1:49.63
800m men – heat 3
1 LUDOLPH, Sören GER 1:47.99 Q
2 JURKEVICS, Dmitrijs LAT 1:48.14 Q
3 LEWANDOWSKI, Marcin POL 1:48.24 q
4 LASTENNET, Jeff FRA 1:48.41 q
800m women – heat 1
1 CRISTEA, Olga MDA 2:03.05 Q SB
2 UVAROVA, Aleksandra RUS 2:03.16 Q
3 YEKYMENKO, Olha UKR 2:03.33 q
4 HORNA, Annett GER 2:03.46 PB
1.500m women – heat 2
1 HAYDAR, Sultan TUR 4:17.07 Q
2 FESENKO, Yelena RUS 4:17.46 Q
3 DE GRANDE, Lindsey BEL 4:17.95 Q PB
4 KREBS, Denise GER 4:19.87 Q
5 COSTANZA, Valentina ITA 4:19.96 q
6 STRAUSA, Agata LAT 4:20.76 PB
5.000m men – final
1 ELBENDIR, Mohamed ESP 13:55.10
2 SMAÏL, Noureddine FRA 13:59.23 SB
3 MCCARTHY, David IRL 14:00.78
4 NAGEEYE, Abdi NED 14:03.87
5 SCHWARZ, Rico GER 14:04.15 PB
6 CHABIARAK, Siarhei BLR 14:04.79 PB
7 KRYVONIS, Maksym UKR 14:07.62
8 PFLIEGER, Philipp GER 14:09.13
9 BAYRAK, Selim TUR 14:10.10
10 ROBA-KINKAL, Musa GER 14:11.44
11 GARCÍA, Javier ESP 14:12.70
12 SEPPI, Andrea ITA 14:13.85
13 TAYLOR, Jonathan GBR 14:15.00
14 WIGGERS, Tom NED 14:19.52
15 SÖDERBERG, Alexander SWE 14:21.18
full results of the championships sportresult.com
July 13, 2009
The German team could not fulfil the expectations in the European Mountain Running Championships that were held in Telfes/AUT this weekend.
The biggest medal hope, Timo Zeiler, lost the bronce medal in the mens individual race in the final, very steep climb of the 11,0km-course with 1.400 altitude difference. After controlling the pace until halfway, the German was gapped by Ahmet Arslan (TUR/1st in 58:26) and Marco de Gasperiin (ITA/2nd in 59:09) the steep part and also was passed by Sebastién Epiney (SUI/ 3rd in 59:19) on the later stages. Despite the somewhat unlucky 4th place in 59:31, it was the best placement of Zeiler in a European Championship Race and he was not unlucky, stating that he was “absolutely satisfied”.
The German mens team with Timo Zeiler, Josef Beha (63:42 min; 28th) and Thomas Göpfert (66:35 min; 45th) “only” took 8th place and could not establish themselves as one of the top-nations.
In the womens race, Lisa Reisinger was the best German in 14th place (66:06 min). Also the womens team took 8th place in the team category.
In the junior mens race, Germany also had a medal candidate with René Stöckert. However, the 4th-place finisher from last years championships lost his shoe after 5 km due to a kick from his opponent and consequently lost contact to the front group. He came in 20th place with 55:40 in the Junior mens race (9,4km with 940m altitude difference).
Selected results:
Men individual (11km/1.400m altitude difference):
1. ARSLAN, Ahmet TUR 0:58:26
2. DE GASPERI, Marco ITA 0:59:09
3. EPINEY, Sébastien SUI 0:59:19
4. ZEILER, Timo GER 0:59:31
5. FONTAINE, Raymond FRA 0:59:37
28. BEHA, Josef GER 1:03:42
45. GÖPFERT, Thomas GER 1:06:35
49. STURM, Marco GER 1:07:23
Women individual (9,4km/940m altitude difference):
1. STRÄHL, Martina SUI 0:54:39
2. BELOTTI, Valentina ITA 0:55:28
3. MAYR, Andrea AUT 0:56:55
4. RUNGGER, Renate ITA 0:57:17
5. LEONTYEVA, Natalia RUS 0:57:29
14. REISINGER, Lisa GER 1:00:06
22. ULRICH, Veronika GER 1:01:45
40. HEILIG-DUVENTÄSTER, Marie-Luise GER 1:04:20
53. BÄUSCHER, Lea GER 1:08:14
Junior Men individual (9,4km/940m altitude difference):
1. ALICI, Yusuf TUR 0:50:29
2. CHEVRIER, Xavier ITA 0:50:44
3. PRALONG, Candide SUI 0:51:39
4. BAJZA, Jakub CZE 0:52:58
5. MCDONALD, Scott GBR 0:53:06
20. STÖCKERT, René GER 0:55:40
27. EBNER, Lukas GER 0:56:55
38. ALRAUN, Fabian GER 0:58:24
48. MAI, Christian GER 1:01:21
Junior Women individual (4km/400m altitude difference):
1. ALTINTAS, Derya TUR 0:23:15
2. KARABULUT, Elif TUR 0:23:20
3. CAN, Yasemin TUR 0:23:29
4. OLOGU, Andra Loredana ROU 0:23:39
5. PROROKOVA, Tatiana RUS 0:23:43
20. CORNELSEN, Sarah GER 0:25:43
36. SCHÄFER, Lena GER 0:28:40
Team classification of the German team:
Men: 8th place (77 points)
Women: 8th place (76 points)
Junior Men: 9th place (85 points)
Junior Women: 13th place (56 points)
full results of the championships emrc2009telfes.org
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.
July 12, 2009
Lead results were as follows:
10K men:
1 Beckmann, Martin KFO Team Dr. Fuchs 1977 M30 1. 0:30:14
2 Cierpinski, Falk SG Spergau 1978 M30 2. 0:30:15
3 Sauter, Tobias SG Spergau 1983 Männer 1. 0:30:15
4 Pfeiffer, Michael LG Neckar-Enz 1982 Männer 2. 0:31:12
5 Hauber, Markus Wohnungsbau Ludwigsburg GmbH 1986 Männer 3. 0:31:53
6 Illg, Jürgen LG Weinstadt 1969 M40 1. 0:32:04
7 Himmelsbach, Ralf Wohnbau Layher GmbH & Co. KG 1975 M30 3. 0:32:19
8 Heckhausen, Philipp Wohnungsbau Ludwigsburg GmbH 1989 Männer 4. 0:32:32
9 Elbeshausen, Mischa LAC Pliezhausen 1980 Männer 5. 0:32:39
10 von Borstel, Matthias Team Silla Hopp 1990 m. Jugend A 1. 0:33:00
11 Macias, Paulino 1972 M35 1. 0:33:03
12 Dülsen, Marc Volksbank Ludwigsburg eG 1985 Männer 6. 0:33:07
13 Lafrenz, Fabian Team Roy Sports 1966 M40 2. 0:33:29
14 Thulmann, Frank Landratsamt Ludwigsburg 1972 M35 2. 0:33:32
15 Kimmann, Michael LG Neckar-Enz 1966 M40 3. 0:33:35
16 Löffler, Klaus TRUMPF 1965 M40 4. 0:33:39
17 Johannes, Weingärtner KFO Team Dr. Fuchs 1984 Männer 7. 0:33:44
18 Mayer, Markus LG Limes-Rems 1979 M30 4. 0:33:45
19 Michel, Jürgen KFO Team Dr. Fuchs 1965 M40 5. 0:34:01
20 Grübel, Sven TSV Neustadt 1992 m. Jugend B 1. 0:34:02
10K men:
1 Beckmann, Stephanie KFO Team Dr. Fuchs 1979 W30 1. 0:33:20
2 Bazlen, Svenja VFL Waiblingen 1984 Frauen 1. 0:35:23
3 Hajek, Branka LAZ Salamander Kornwestheim Ludwigsburg 1984 Frauen 2. 0:36:53
4 Birkicht, Sabrina Blumenläufer 1968 W40 1. 0:38:34
5 Benning, Nicole Team Roy Sports 1972 W35 1. 0:38:41
6 Kunberger, Petra Physiopraxis Ossweil 1972 W35 2. 0:40:01
7 Bathmaker, Gillian Volksbank Ludwigsburg eG 1959 W50 1. 0:40:17
8 Krautter, Kathrin (Korntal) 1982 Frauen 3. 0:40:30
9 Holubarsch, Birgit (Geislingen) 1987 Frauen 4. 0:41:02
10 Schweizer, Vanessa (Sachsenheim) 1981 Frauen 5. 0:41:03
11 Schilling, Miriam LAZ Salamander Kornwestheim Ludwigsburg 1981 Frauen 6. 0:41:13
12 Schrode, Birgitt SWLB 1964 W45 1. 0:41:25
13 Stöckel, Ingrid MANN + HUMMEL 1962 W45 2. 0:41:27
14 Heidrich, Margit SWLB 1966 W40 2. 0:41:29
15 Haag, Cathrin Olymp 1963 W45 3. 0:41:34
16 Satlukal, Lara LAZ Salamander Kornwestheim Ludwigsburg 1990 w. Jugend A 1. 0:41:55
17 Tuncay, Yildiz Kleeblatt Pflegeheime gGmbH 1979 W30 2. 0:42:17
18 Scherzer, Lina LAZ Salamander Kornwestheim Ludwigsburg 1990 w. Jugend A 2. 0:42:32
19 David, Conny (Leonberg) 1970 W35 3. 0:42:39
20 Vogel, Annerose MTV Ludwigsburg 1982 Frauen 7. 0:42:44
full results of the race sifi-timing.de
July 11, 2009
With an impressive performance Hagen Pohle of Germany won the 10.000m race walking of the 6th IAAF World Youth Championships in Brixen/Bressanone (ITA). With his winning time of 41:35.99min he also bettered the previous championships record (41:49.91min from Russia’s Stanislav Emelyanov achieved in Ostrava two years ago).
Pohle went out aggressive, clocking 4:03 for the first km and went through 5.000m in 20:43.37. Building a 40m gap after the first quarter of the race, the 17-year old went on to secure a “wire-to-wire” victory, with Dementiy Cheparev (41:53,76 min) becoming second.
“I had no special tactics today, but I was wondering why nobody followed me” he stated after the race.
July 11, 2009
For the first time in its history, AIMS, the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races, is conferring a one-of-kind honour, ‘The Marathon of the Decade, and named the real,-Berlin Marathon as its first recipient.
AIMS is thus giving recognition to the important achievements of the Berlin Marathon with its unparalleled series of World records over the past decade. Six world records, from 1998 to 2008, document the high quality of the Berlin event – a performance never before achieved by any other Marathon event.
AIMS not only took the quality of the top performances into consideration, but also the incredibly high number of runners (from over 100 countries) who competed. With over 35,000 finishers last year, the Berlin race second in the world in participation.
The Berlin Marathon began in 1974 under the direction of Horst Milde (Race Director until 2004) with 286 runners in the Grunewald Forest; In 1981, the race “moved” to the city with the start at the Reichstag; starting in 1990 after the fall of the Berlin Wall – with a then record number of 25,000 runners (the limit at the time) – and the live television broadcasting in Japan, the marathon joined the ranks of the top events.
“For AIMS, the Berlin Marathon is an excellent event, which we are proud of, which has written international sport history through its success, and which provides an excellent example of how through good cooperation with the institutions in a city, sport can positively affect the lives of its citizens,” said AIMS President Hiroaki Chosa.
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