February 5, 2010
It took Thomas Dold 10 minutes and 16 seconds to earn his record-tying fifth consecutive win in the Empire State Building Run-Up to the top of New York’s tallest building.
Grimacing as he lunged across the finish line on the 86th floor observation deck, the 25-year-old from Stuttgart (Germany) beat fellow German Matthias Jahn (10:56min) up the 1,576 steps by 40 seconds. “I’m so tired … It was quite hard,” Dold said. He is the third person to win the race five times. His only loss was a photo finish in his 2005 debut.
First women was Melissa Moon, 40, of Wellington (New Zealand) in 13 minutes 13 seconds. She finished panting, but smiling. “Oh, look at that view!” she said at the top.
The unorthodox race has been run 33 times since 1978. Competitors start in the lobby, where they take just a few strides before squeezing through a doorway and into a stairwell for the long climb.
February 3, 2010
Todays indoor athletics meeting will be broadcasted live on Eurosport from 19.10-21.00 (CET-central european time). A live online coverage can be found here.
Six olympic champions will compete in Düsseldorf; Dayron Robles, Allen Johnson, Tomasz Majewski, Chandra Sturrup, Yuriy Borzakovsky and Dwight Phillips will face strong fields.
January 21, 2010
The Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon 2010 will be broadcasted live by Dubai Sports Channel. Online streams might be accessible on this page or here. Starting time is at 6.30AM local Dubai time, i.e. 2.30AM GMT.
Let’s see if Haile can bring down the world record once again.
January 18, 2010
The German U23-teams were head and shoulders above the Swiss Team in the U23-Cross-Team-Challenge last Saturday (16.01.2010) in Lausanne/SUI.
The womens race (6K) was dominated by the 20-year old Anna Hahner (22:59 min). On the deep course she soon left her opponents behind and had a comfortable 35 seconds lead in the finish. Mareike Schrulle (23:34 min) secured the double victory and underlined that her 13th place in the U23-race of the European Cross-Country Championships was no coincidence. Maren Kock (24:47 min) and Ulla Gatzweiler (25:25 min) completed the German team with 8th and 11th place.
The fastest men on the 8K-distance were also Germans. Musa Roba-Kinkal (27:15 min), 9th place finisher in the U23-division of the European Cross Country Championships 2009, was 8 seconds faster than Alexander Hahn (27:23 min). The 20-year old Hahn had to miss the European Championships last december due to illness but seems to be back in shape. Also the other German participants could satisfy the German coaches with Fynn Schwiegelsohn (27:41 min) in 7th and Florian Pehrs (27:58 min) in 10th.
January 18, 2010
German steeple chase record holder (9:18,54 min) Antje Möldner is not competing in this years indoor season due to illness.
The 25-year old was supposed to open her indoor season last weekend but her coach Beate Conrad reported that she is not going to participate in the weekends 1.500m race and that the indoor season is over for her, before it even started. Möldner was in a 10-day training camp in Spain with several German top athletes at the beginning of 2010.
Möldner is now planning to get healthy and to be ready for an altitude training camp in Flagstaff/USA at the beginning of March.
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