October 27, 2011
The 2011 edition of the Frankfurt Marathon will be streamed live on the internet. A German TV broadcasting company is going to provide the pictures including German comments.
An online live stream will be available on the internet via this website. The coverage will last from 10AM-2PM local time (UTC + 1 hour – remember to change your clocks before/summer-time is officially over). The broadcast should be available worldwide for free.
March 31, 2011
Sad news came in this week from Lanzarote where Peter Seifert was in a training camp. Peter was hit by a car on a training run and was brought to the hospital in Lanzarote and afterwards directly transported to Las Palmas/Gran Canaria already on 15th of March. Fortunately Peter was running with a fellow runner, who immediately gave first aid and informed emergency medical service. Because of severe head injuries, doctors had to place him into an artificial coma. Currently, Peter is still in an artificial coma but is getting better slowly.
Peter Seifert set a new German 50K record this March with a time of 2:52:14h in Marburg, winning the German National Championships at the same time. Only a couple of days after his victory he started his training camp to prepare for the upcoming events (most of all the qualification for the World Championships 100K). Of course those races are of minor importance now.
We all wish a good and fast recovery!!
November 14, 2010
The German athletics association DLV nominated the mens and womens team for the marathon season 2011. Only Sabrina Mockenhaupt was selected into the A-squad. Altogether 7 women and 3 men were selected. As a side-note it can be stated, that only 4 of the 7 women (Sabrina Mockenhaupt, Irina Mockenhaupt, Melanie Kraus, Katharina Heinig) and 1 of the 3 men (Falk Cierpinski) finished a marathon in 2010.
The nominees are:
Women
A – Mockenhaupt Sabrina (Kölner Verein für Marathon)
B – Hahn Susanne (SV Schlau.com Saar 05 Saarbrücken)
B – Heinig Katharina (LG Eintracht Frankfurt)
B – Jaschke Lisa (ASV Köln)
B – Kraus Melanie (TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen)
B – Mikitenko Irina (TV Wattenscheid 01)
B – Restle Simret (PSV Grün-Weiß Kassel)
Men
B – Cierpinski Falk (SG Spergau 1891)
B – Fitschen Jan (TV Wattenscheid 01)
B – Pollmächer André (LAC Erdgas Chemnitz)
October 28, 2010
The 2010 Commerzbank Frankfurt Marathon, which will take place on Sunday 31st of October is going to be broadcasted by German television broadcasting company “Hessischer Rundfunk”.
An online live stream will be available on the internet via this website. The coverage will last from 10AM-2PM local time (UTC + 1 hour – remember to change your clocks before/summer-time is officially over). The broadcast should be available worldwide for free.
September 25, 2010
The marathon autumn is heating up with the 37th real,- Berlin-Marathon 2010 on Sunday, 26th of September 2010. The marathon race for men and women will be started at 9.00AM local time (CEST, UTC + 1h)
The race will be broadcasted worldwide. Eurosport is broadcasting from 8.45-11.30 AM and German TV-station n-tv from 8.30-12.00AM.
An internet live stream of the n-tv coverage will be available online here.
July 1, 2010
Carsten Schlangen is the first German Miler who ran faster than the 3:37,00 that are required to be nominated for the European Championships this year.
On June 29th he clocked a 3:36,37 to win a meeting in Metz/FRA. Schlangen stated: “After 1.000m I was alone already. The first pacemaker did a very good job but the second one was too slow so I had to pass him early already. However, one the final stretch I had a much better kick than in my last race in Wattenscheid.”
Fellow Germans Moritz Waldmann (3:41,71 min/7th), Christoph Lohse (3:43,06 min/9th) and Georg Eberhardt (3:44,29 min/10th) were further back in the field.
May 31, 2010
Steeplechaser Steffen Uliczka surprisingly ran a 8:26,44 in his first 3.000m steeple-race of the season to qualify for the European Championships in Barcelona 2010.
In the “German Meeting” event in Cottbus he took second behind Kenyan Stephen Kiprotich. the 26-year old Uliczka stated that “the race was tailored for me”.”I’m at the beginning of my first competition period and that’s why I’m pretty surprised to have the qualification in my pocket already.” The qualification standard of the German athletics federation DLV for the steeple was set at 8:28,00min.
May 31, 2010
Five weeks after she dropped out of the London Marathon, German Marathon Record holder Irina Mikitenko ran her first race in Vienna/AUT last weekend. She won the Austrian womens run over 5km. She covered the 5K in 15:39,4 min, which was only 10 seconds slower than the course record.
Mikitenko was joined by Australian Eloise Wellings (15:48,4 min) and Latvian Jeļena Prokopčuka (15:59,6 min).
For the German it was a test for the European Cup 10.000m next Saturday (June 5th) in Maseille/FRA. Mikitenko stated that: “the body is alright, I didn’t have any problems. It was a good test.” Last time she ran 5000m was some four years ago, so it was a short and fast race for her. Now she is optimistic that she can run the qualification for the European Championships in Barcelona in next weeks 10.000.
May 10, 2010
The German Marathon Championships were part of the Mainz Marathon (results published here already). Bernadette Pichlmaier (2:40:58h) repeated last years victory in the womens category, while Dennis Pyka (2:20:09h) won his first individual title.
The 41-year old Pichlmaier started the race with the qualification time (2:33h) for the European Championships) in the back of her mind. With a first half of 1:16:51h she was not too far off and still en route to a new PB (2:35:26h). However, in the second part of the race she had to decrease the pace: After 25km the cool and rainy weather hit her legs and she was concentrating on defending the national title from that point onwards. At the end Pichlmaier still had a comfortable lead over silver and bronce medalists Fakia Hofmann (2:48:23h) and Steffi Volke (2:51:49h).
Also the mens race saw a clear and unchallenged winner. 38-year old Dennis Pyka was the pre-race favorite and won the national title with a lead of around eight minutes. With his winning time of 2:20:09h Pyka was close to his PB (2:19:14h) and ran almost even splits (1:09:35+1:10:34) on a course that has two climbs on the second half. After the race the new German Champion stated that he was also effected by the wet conditions, as he already had wet shoes before the start of the marathon: “That’s the reason why I got blisters pretty fast”. Second place was taken by Bastian Krantz, husband of the elite race walker Sabine Krantz, in 2:28:08h. Philipp Nawrocki (2:28:26h) was a lucky bronce medal winner, as it was the first individual medal for the 33-year old (same goes for Bastian Krantz).
May 9, 2010
The Kenyans Samuel Kosgei and Mary Keitany wrote history in the 30th edition of the BIG 25 in Berlin. Never before a world record was set in mens and womens category in the same road race!
In the best 25K-race ever, the top athletes used the perfect weather conditions of 12-14°C with practically no winds and overcast sky.
In the mens race a big pack of around 20 athletes passed the 5K-mark in 14:29min. After that the pace remained high and the field was reduced step-by-step until kilometer 15 (43:05min). At this point the race was down to a battle between Samuel Kosgei and Gilbert Kirwa (both Kenya). At the end it was Samuel Kosgei who had the best legs and improved the previous world record (1:12:45h, Paul Kosgei in Berlin 2009) by almost one minute to 1:11:50h. Also Gilbert Kirwa broke the previous record by clocking 1:11:58h for second place. The podium was completed by Terefe Maregu (Eth) in 1:13:16h. Altogether nine athletes ran sub-1:15h.
The womens race was dominated by pre-race favorite Mary Keitany. The dominating female road racer of 2009 ran her own race and smashed the previous world record (1:22:13, Mizuki Noguchi in Berlin 2005). Led by two pacemakers she was on course for a sub-1:20h time all the way and crossed the finish line after 1:19:53h. Around five minutes later Alice Timbilili (1:24:38) and Pasalia Kipkoech (both Kenya/1:26:47) came home for 2nd and 3rd place.
Results were published already earlier here.
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