German 3000m steeple champion Antje Möldner will not be able to compete in 2010. That also means she will not participate in the European Championships in Barcelona. Möldner has a lymphoid cells disorder which requires long-term treatment. Her return to training will most probably be in November 2010. The German hope was 9th in the Berlin World Championships last year with a German record of 9:18.54 min.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The German elite race walker Melanie Seeger competed last Saturday (16.01.2010) in Berlin. For her it was the first competition after giving birth to a daughter last summer.
The 33-year old won the 3.000m race walk event in a time of 13:21,59 min. Even if this time is pretty far under her previous level, it shows that she is progressing in her comeback-plans. In the German Indoor Championships (27./28.02 in Karlsruhe) Seeger will face stronger opponents than in Berlin, where Christin Elß took second in 14:06,53 min. The aim for the young mother will be the European Championships in Barcelona this year.
Also on the mens side, two race walkers with chances to reach the European Championships competed in Berlin. Christopher Linke, previously 4th place in U23-European Championships won the 5.000m race in 19:58,91 min with Carsten Schmidt (20:13,50 min) in second.
The German Athletics Federation DLV will send 12 athletes to the U23-Cross-Team-Challenge next Saturday in Lausanne/SUI. The German team won the last two editions of the international match against Switzerland.
The complete German team:
Men
Musa Roba-Kinkal (TV Wattenscheid 01)
Alexander Hahn (TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen)
Florian Pehrs (TuS Gildehaus)
Max Betsch (LAZ Leipzig)
Michael Schramm (TuS Lörrach-Stetten)
Fynn Schwiegelshohn (LG Olympia Dortmund)
Women
Maren Kock (LG Emstal/Dörpen)
Ursula Gatzweiler (LG ASV/DSHS Köln)
Christiane Danner (LG Telis Finanz Regensburg)
Mareike Schrulle (LG ASV/DSHS Köln)
Anna Hahner (PSV Grün-Weiß Kassel)
Lisa Hahner (PSV Grün-Weiß Kassel)
One of the first marathons in Germany 2010 is the one in Kevelaer.
Marathon Men
1 Kaiser, Michael M45 Team belalaSola 2:57:47
2 Linke, Falk MHK TLV Rangsdorf 3:01:04
3 Kehrbusch, Gerd M40 Athletik Waldniel 3:01:46
4 Behlau, Markus MHK LC Duisburg 3:03:24
5 Piechocki, Michael M35 ASV Duisburg 3:05:07
6 Engbers, Michael M30 Team belalaSola 3:05:40
7 Winkler, Ingolf M35 TG Neuss 3:08:16
8 van Dongen, Werner M50 TSV Weeze 3:11:56
9 Lautner, Anton M50 marathon4you.de 3:14:12
10 Domeyer, Thorsten M40 Bayer 08 Uerdingen 3:14:19
Marathon Women
1 Sonnenschein, Kirsten W45 Marathon Dinslaken 3:29:50
2 Möllensiep, Sybille W45 SUS Schalke 96 3:30:06
3 Geltner, Raifa-Gertrud W40 SUS Schalke 96 3:35:26
4 Wiethoff, Conny W40 Renntiere 3:41:45
5 Janßen, Tanja W40 SUS Schalke 96 3:43:21
full results of the race llg-kevelaer.de
Last weeks training:
Mo: AM: 65min easy, PM: 60min easy
Tu: AM: 60min easy, PM: 45min treadmill: 5min@12km/h+10min@15km/h+10min@16km/h+10min@17km/h+10min@14,5km/h
We: AM: medium track session: 400+600+800+1400/1400+1000+600+400 (on snow), traveling 4h, PM: 60min easy
Th: 95min easy
Fr: AM: 65min easy, PM: 55min easy + 1h easy indoor soccer
Sa: 20,7km New Years Run 1:16:51
Su: AM: 75min very easy, PM: 45min easy
After the TOP 20 list for the marathon women, finally also the mens list is published today.
marathon men:
2:13:08 Pollmächer, Andre 83 LAC Erdgas Chemnitz
2:13:41 Beckmann, Martin 77 LG Leinfelden/Echterdingen
2:17:12 Cierpinski, Falk 78 SG Spergau
2:17:26 Sauter, Tobias 83 SG Spergau
2:18:11 Seiler, Christian 83 Laufclub Erfurt
2:18:44 Justus, Steffen 82 LAC Elm
2:19:14 Pyka, Dennis 72 LG Telis Finanz Regensburg
2:19:42 Steidl, Ulrich 72 SSC Hanau-Rodenbach
2:20:34 Koch, Stefan 84 LG Braunschweig
2:20:51 Meyer, Manuel 81 TV Wattenscheid
2:21:39 Haß, Erik 82 SV Vorwärts Zwickau
2:21:50 Sansar, Elias 80 LG Lage/Detmold
2:23:16 Rodewald, Peter 83 LSV Lok Arnstadt
2:23:59 Karl, David 86 Spiridon Frankfurt
2:25:00 Bresser, Carsten 72 TuS Heltersberg
2:24:52 Schmidt, Daniel 86 LG Remscheid
2:26:03 Heil, Benedikt 82 TSV Friedberg-Fauerbach
2:26:04 Hakenes, Christoph 73 Eintracht Obergriesheim
2:26:20 Bartholome, Thomas 69 TSV Kirchdorf
2:26:25 Schwarzbach, Dirk 81 TSV Kirchdorf