September 3, 2008
The German athletics association (DLV) announced the team for this year’s World Mountain Running Trophy. Those inofficial world championships for mountain runners are going to take place in Crans Montana (Switzerland) on September, 14th.
The men will run 12 km with a climb of about 950m. Women and Juniors are going to run shorter distances. Germany will have a team in the Men’s and Women’s race as well as in the Junior Women category. Only in the Junior Men Category, René Stöckert (4th place in European Mountain Running Championships 2008) will run wihtout any compatriots.
The complete German team includes:
Men:
Timo Zeiler (TSV Trochtelfingen), Markus Jenne (USC Freiburg), Josef Beha (FCA Unterkirnach), Manuel Stöckert (TSV Ostheim/Rhön)
Women:
Veronika Ulrich (LG Telis Finanz Regensburg), Kerstin Straub, Lisa Reisinger (both SSC Hanau/Rodenbach), Annette Bendig (TG Nürtingen)
Juniors Men:
René Stöckert (TSV Ostheim/Rhön)
Juniors Women:
Lina Scherzer (LAZ Salamander Kornwestheim/Ludwigsburg), Carolin Tuch (LAC Erdgas Chemnitz), Barbara Abler (SC Ainring)
original enclosure (in German) deutscher-leichtathletik-verband.de
September 1, 2008
The best result of the 8th Hunsrück marathon from Emmelshausen to Simmern (close to the airport Frankfurt/Hahn) was without doubt the winning time from Marco Diehl in the men’s marathon race (2:32:37h). The second runner crossed the line almost 15 minutes later. The women’s race was won by an ever bigger margin of around 20minutes. Iris Walter won the 42,195km in 3:16:02 ahead of Gaby Heidemann.
Lead results were as follows:
marathon men:
1 Diehl, Marco (DEU) M35 TSV Friedberg-Fauerbach 02:32:37
2 Wickenhöfer, Olaf (DEU) M30 02:46:11
3 Christ, Peter (DEU) M40 X-SPORT Kastellaun 02:48:20
4 Veith, Dietmar (DEU) M40 TSV Dettingen 02:51:31
5 Wickert, Heinz (DEU) M45 X-SPORT Kastellaun 02:52:57
6 Caspar, Markus (GER) M40 Team Globers 02:54:01
7 Hoffmann, Roman (DEU) M35 TG Konz 02:55:08
8 Mulrine, Stephen (GBR) M35 Garscube Harriers 02:58:23
9 Langer, Sylvio (DEU) M40 LG Eppstein-Hornau 03:04:11
10 Karl, Dirk (DEU) M40 TSG Grünstadt 03:04:37
marathon women:
1 Walter, Iris (DEU) W40 TV 1848 Meisenheim 03:16:02
2 Heidemann, Gaby (DEU) W35 03:36:07
3 Steinborn, Gulja (RUS) W30 LG Einrich Katzenelnbogen 03:44:03
4 Barthel, Nelia (DEU) W50 SCC Berlin 03:50:25
5 Parker, Sabina (DEU) W50 Alfterer SC 03:50:59
6 Günther, Jasmin (DEU) W35 LG Mülheim-Kärlich 03:52:55
7 Schumacher, Gabi (DEU) W45 LT Alpenrod-Lochum 03:56:07
8 Wahl, Nadja (DEU) W30 04:01:33
9 Klatt, Meggie (DEU) W45 Kattisclan 04:17:13
10 Mehler, Katja (DEU) W45 Mombacher TV 04:18:57
halfmarathon men:
1 Klingenhöfer, Hannes (DEU) MHK TV Bad Brückenau 01:19:29
2 Martin, Oliver (DEU) M30 BBC Koblenz-Horchheim 01:19:57
3 Huth, Oliver (DEU) M30 Hunsrück-Marathon e.V. 01:20:29
4 Kaiser, Markus (DEU) MHK Running Team Bad Ems 01:20:46
5 Martin, Marcel (DEU) MHK Running Team Bad Ems 01:20:56
6 Brockamp, Carlheinz (DEU) M40 X-SPORT Kastellaun 01:21:03
7 Paulus, Marc (DEU) MHK Team Scherer 01:21:55
8 Weber, Marco (DEU) M30 Dany Sports Club 01:22:24
9 Neubrech, Mike (DEU) M30 01:22:27
10 Gray, Donnie (USA) M40 US AF Ramstein AB 01:23:02
halfmarathon women:
1 Boehm, Nicole (DEU) WHK FFF Koblenz 01:29:11
2 Lennartz, Birgit (DEU) W40 LLG St. Augustin 01:30:28
3 Rasbach, Dagmar (DEU) W35 LA TuS Mayen 01:35:38
4 Liesenfeld, Jenny (DEU) WHK Wolf + Leo 01:36:28
5 Härter, Jennifer (DEU) W30 X-SPORT Kastellaun 01:36:39
6 Prieß, Elfi (DEU) W35 LA TuS Mayen 01:36:56
7 Müller, Friederike (DEU) W30 Running Team Bad Ems 01:37:26
8 Schaden, Martina (DEU) W45 LA TuS Mayen 01:39:13
9 Baltes, Theresia (DEU) W40 Feuerwehrlaufgruppe Ediger 01:39:46
10 Renzler, Vera (GER) W30 DJK Rheinwicht Oberwesel 01:40:05
full results of the race results.mikatiming.de
September 1, 2008
Last Sunday, 31st of August, the 17th edition of the Altötting halfmarathon (with 6km and 1,5km-competitions) took place in warm, but chilly conditions. Altogether 1838 participants finished in one of the 3 events.
Because of the warm and windy conditions the course record in the halfmarathon (1:01:47, in 2006) was not challenged and the Kenyan winner Daniel Keitany had to settle with a rather disappointing time of 1:04:19. Fastest German was Tobias Schreindl in 6th place (1:11:47).
The women’s race was won by Petra Kaminkova (CZE) in 1:16:47. Fastest German women was 55-year old Inge Dilger in 1:26:29h.
Lead results were as follows:
HM men:
1 Keitany, Daniel MHK 01:04:19
2 Keny, Felix MHK 01:06:34
3 Njoroge, Stephen (KEN) MJA 01:09:46
4 Bekkali, Omar (BEL) M30 01:11:06
5 COTOV, Ivan M40 SC MARATHON PLZEN 01:11:32
6 Schreindl, Tobias MHK TV-Hauzenberg 01:11:47
7 Wagner, Dominik MHK LG TELIS FINANZ Regensburg 01:13:44
8 Bayer, Thomas M35 LG Stadtwerke München 01:13:57
9 Schütz, Christian M40 TSV Ergoldsbach 01:14:15
10 Dumm, Martin M35 TSV Regen 01:14:34
11 Estermaier, Klaus M35 SV Wacker Burghausen 01:15:49
12 Schlesag, Bernhard M45 LC Bayern 01:16:25
13 SROUBEK, Vlastimil M45 SC MARATHON PLZEN 01:16:44
14 Lieberz, Martin M30 mysporty team 01:16:58
15 Lendner, Johann M50 MRRC München 01:17:42
16 Rohracker, Klaus M45 SV Wacker Burghausen 01:17:44
17 Bauderer, Manuel M35 SV Landshut-Münchnerau 01:18:01
18 Rennertseder, Daniel MJA SV Gendorf-Burgkirchen 01:18:15
19 Korytar, Jan M55 AC Falcon Rokycany 01:18:21
20 Ostermaier, Markus MHK TuS Steisslingen 01:18:48
HM women:
1 Kaminkova, Petra W35 AK USK Praha 01:16:47
2 Kovacs, Ida (HUN) W30 01:18:21
3 Dilger, Inge W55 FTSV Straubing 01:26:29
4 Githuka, Pauline (KEN) WHK 01:26:42
5 Esefeld, Katrin WHK LG Mettenheim 01:27:07
6 Wolf, Lisa W40 SV Wacker Burghausen 01:34:11
7 Pöschl, Petra W45 Lauftreff Katzbach-Michelsdorf 01:34:36
8 Huber, Sabine W40 LG Mettenheim 01:34:49
9 Hofmann, Michaela W35 LG Stadtbergen 01:35:04
10 WIMMER, PATRIZIA W35 ATSV Braunau 01:35:43
full results of the race results.mikatiming.de
August 28, 2008
A group of the best German distance runners competed in Klagenfurt (AUT) last weekend in the „Kärnten läuft“-halfmarathon. Fastest German and at the same time fastest European was Stefan Koch in 6th position with a time of 1:04:50h. Alexander Lubina took 13th place in 1:06:54h and reigning German marathon champion Martin Beckmann finished in 1:07:54h (16th place) in the race that was won by Francis Kiprop (KEN) with a new course record of 1:00:59h.
full results of the race pentek-timing.at
August 19, 2008
On August, 16th Leizig the 50 and 100km race “Lauf am Auensee” took place in Leipzig. On the mostly shadowy and windless 10km-loop a lot of new and experienced ultra runners used good conditions to run good times. Lead results were as follows:
100km:
Women:
1 Schulz, Britta GER HSG Uni Greifswald 1971 8:51:02
2 Zehrer, Christiane GER Braunschweig 1980 8:54:00
3 Schmidt, Juana GER Bautzener LV Rot-Weiß 90 1977 9:43:36
4 Timmler, Chris-Eleonore GER SC DHfK Leipzig 1960 10:17:40
5 Michel, Petra GER SV Post Telekom Sachsen 1962 10:23:45
6 Muzyka, Barbara POL Kopytko 1970 10:26:17
7 Keelan, Bettina GER LT Bernd Hübner Berlin 1957 10:41:36
8 Churavy, Sabine GER Weisser Ring Krefeld 1969 11:20:20
9 Dilling, Daniela GER KSC Strausberg 1962 11:49:14
10 Pilarova, Ivana CZE SK Jizera 1963 11:53:16
Men:
1 Pirotta, Mario ITA Runners Bergamo 1957 7:48:30
2 Rice, Michael IRL Athenry AC 1966 7:50:49
3 Wimmer, Robert GER TSV Zirndorf 1965 7:55:10
4 Beha, Dr.Daniel GER CIS Amberg 1965 7:58:43
5 Lavarda, Remo ITA Atletica Vicentina 1967 8:11:49
6 Jänicke, Marc Cornelius GER Berlin 1973 8:15:38
7 Di Meo, Gianluca ITA Atletica Calderara 1975 8:22:18
8 Schinkel, Christian GER Post SV Nürnberg 1980 8:23:14
9 Otto, Jan GER USC Marburg 1977 8:24:14
10 Malik, Haroun GER Gut Heil Itzehoe 1958 8:25:23
50km:
Women:
1 Stöppler Simone GER SSC Hanau-Rodenbach 3:46:46
2 Fedler Anett GER Leipzig 4:31:31
3 Maschke Sabine GER SCC Berlin 4:32:23
4 Plaumann Beate GER LATV Plauen 4:33:44
5 Schmittner Monika GER SC Pfettrach 4:34:56
6 Samse Anja GER Marathon-Club Menden 4:37:34
7 Köhler Bärbel GER LC Auensee Leipzig 4:49:52
8 Graf Angela GER Schkeuditz 5:03:55
9 Borowska Sylwia POL Warszawa 5:05:22
10 Schinabeck Teresa-Maria GER TV Münchberg 5:07:27
Men:
1 Giebel Jörg GER SC DHfK Leipzig 3:17:19
2 Weinhold Knut GER LTV Erfurt 3:26:18
3 Herget Thomas GER LG Fulda 3:27:42
4 Matthesius Ronald GER Eisenach 3:33:40
5 Speer Ronald GER LG eXa Leipzig 3:38:27
6 Giesen Frank GER HSG Uni Greifswald 3:47:45
7 Heinig Dietmar GER SG Olympia 1896 Leipzig 3:51:59
8 Stockmann Frank GER LC Auensee Leipzig 3:52:58
9 Siebert Dirk GER Leipzig Marathon e.V. 3:54:43
10 Schramm Sören GER Anaberger TC Blau 4:04:42
full results of the race 100kmleipzig.de
August 19, 2008
In the 1500m-semifinal German Carsten Schlangen just missed the final by a close margin. After a tactical clever race, in which he mostly ran on 5th position (first 5 runners+2fastest times were qualified for the final) he finished 7th in 3:37,94min. This was just 17 hundreds of a second too slow to advance to the final. Schlangen stated: “it was a tactical race that started quite slowly. I felt good. As the pace quickened I had to react and I regretted that on the last 80meters, when I could not increase the pace anymore.” Schlangen is now optimistic for the World Championships 2009 in Berlin: “I just started running 3 years ago and just wanted to get German Champion. Now I could run in the Olympics and I enjoyed it. It was not enough for the final but may be it will work out next year in Berlin”.
Race walker Andre Höhne announced that he will also compete in the olympic 50km race walk on Friday. After a rather disappointing 25th place (1:23:13) in the 20km he decided on Tuesday that he has recovered well and that he will have another try in the longest distance in the track&field competitions. Höhne is the last male German distance athlete that will compete in Beijing. On the women’s side Sabine Zimmer and Melanie Seeger will compete in the 20km race walk on Thursday.
August 17, 2008
In the Olympic women’s marathon in Beijing the two remaining (after the withdrawal of Irina Mikitenko) Germans both successfully finished the race, which was won by Romanian Constantina Tomescu in 2:26:44 ahead of the favourites Catherine Ndereba (KEN; 2:27:06h) and Zhou Chunxiu (CHN; 2:27:07h).
Melanie Kraus (left) and Susanne Hahn in August 2008 (picture provided from Frank Hahn)
Frankfurt marathon winner Melanie Kraus ran 2:35:17 to take 38rd place: “The conditions were not as difficult as in last year’s world championships in Osaka”. “I ran very defensive until kilometer 25 as it was the plan. If 37 others were better I have to accept that.” Kraus also stated that the atmosphere on the course was like in Osaka and the crowd cheered a lot.
The higher rated, currently reigning German marathon champion, Susanne Hahn led the field through the first kilometer alongside Paula Radcliffe but faded in the later stages of the race and had to be medicated after the finish because of severe stomach problems.
After 30 minutes both Germans were in the back of the field and followed the race plan of their coaches. After 15km both ran approx. 1:40min behind the leaders and this margin extended to approx. 4:45min after 25km. After 35km Melanie Kraus had a deficit of 7:17min with Susanne Hahn further 1:28min behind. The Germans finished the marathon 8:27min (Kraus) and 11:47 (Hahn) after lucky Gold medalist.
After all the performances are reasonable and pretty much as expected – Congratulations to both.
August 16, 2008
After the morning session of the 2nd day of the track&field events half of the German middle and long distance athletes already completed their events. The results were mostly better as expected since the distance women ran personal records. In particular the performances were as follows:
Carsten Schlangen (1.500m heat): 3:36,34
In the last heat of the first round, Carsten Schlangen placed 6th and qualified as the fastest lucky looser with a time of 3:36,34 minutes. “It was an amazing feeling to toe the line in front of a crowd of 90.000 spectators” Schlangen said afterwards. “There was pressure from the very beginning of the race and the pace was high immediately.” Schlangen achieved his minimum aim by qualifying for the semi-finals on Sunday. If he would make it to the final it would be a pretty big surprise. For sure he has the abilities, but against a top-class field with a lot of experience he obviously is not more than a black horse.
Antje Möldner (3.000m heat): 9:29,86
In the heat of the women’s 3.000m steeple 24-year old Antje Möldner ran an impressive race but missed to qualify for the final by only a small margin. Only 1,34 seconds were missing for a big surprise, i.e. the qualification for the final. However, the time of 9:29,86 represent a new German Record by almost 5 seconds (previous record: 9:34,21, also A. Möldner). With a bit more experience – it was only the 4th steeple race of the former 1.500m specialist – the final would have been possible. Also Möldner herself said: “I had a huge respect for this event. If I would have started my final sprint a little bit earlier, I might have done it.” It was her first international championship and in the future (maybe already in the Berlin World Championships 2009) we can expect some good progress from this young, talented athlete.
Sabrina Mockenhaupt (10.000m final): 31:14.21
With a new personal best of 31:14.21min Sabrina Mockenhaupt took 13rd place in an amazimg 10.000m race. Even if all the experts (also the wanna-be experts) expected rather slow times in the distance events the race saw an Olympic Record , European Record, American Record and World U20-Record.
In a tactical clever race Mockenhaupt found her own pace early in the race and caught a lot of runners in the later stage of the race. With Eyegayehu Dibaba (ETH, former olympic silver medalist), Hilda Kibet (NED), etc. she left several well-known runners behind and could improve her 15th place from the Athens Olympics 2004. Mockenhaupt was happy after the race: “I am really lucky. I never thought to take 13rd place in such a quality-field of 32 athletes.” … ” Finally it was a race after my fancy – my nicest so far.” The 27-year old also said that it was the right decision to go back to her old coach and her familiar environment only 2 months before the Olympics. This way she “prepared for this event like for no one ever before”.
Andre Höhne (20km race walk): 1:23:13h
German hope Andre Höhne could not fulfil the medal hopes and took 25th place in 1:23:13h. In a race where all the top-walkers were faster on the second 10K, Höhne could only follow the pace until halfway. The 30-year old was quite frustrated after the race: “I am not satisfied with my place. The competition was pretty ok for this conditions. I was as fast as in the World Championships last year but this year I finished the race” (last year Höhne dramatically collapsed in 4th place with only 400m to go) “What the guys on the front did is normally impossible, but they did it.”
Höhne wants to decide later if he also wants to compete in the 50km race walk.
August 13, 2008
On Friday, 15th of August the track&field events are starting at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. The first medals will be given in the women’s 10.000m and Germany will be represented by Sabrina Mockenhaupt. Mockenhaupt arrived in Beijing on Monday (13.08) after a stay at the Team Germany training camp in Shibetsu (JAP). Her last test run – a 4.000m time trial – turned out to be excellent and she ran a personal best for this test. Altogether she ran 120km last week and after the successful test she is confident about delivering a good performance in the 10.000m.
If Mockenhaupt runs a perfect race it should not be impossible to place in the TOP 10.
marathonscene is wishing Sabrina all the Best
August 3, 2008
The women’s 10K-race of the 17th edition of the Berliner City night was won by Susanne Hahn (33:11) ahead of Melanie Kraus (33:56). Both will represent Germany in the Olympic marathon in Beijing and used the competition in the German capital as a last speed-test before going to Asia next Wednesday. After some tough weeks of training the test can be seen as positive and during the training sessions in Hokkaido/JPN (the final preparation training camp of the German squad) only some fine tuning remains to be done.
In the men’s 10K Dutchman Martin Lauret was the fastest man, clocking a 29:07min and leaving the German hopes Falk Cierpinski (29:16) and Stefan Koch (29:21) behind. Falk Cierpinski – son of former two-time olympic marathon gold medalist Waldemar Cierpinski – improved his Personal Best the second time within one week after he ran 29:17min in Cardiff last weekend. Both Cierpinski and Koch are most probably going to run this year’s Berlin marathon.
TOP-15 results
Women 10K
1 Hahn, Susanne DEU W30 SV Schlau.com Saar 05 Saarbrüc 00:33:11
2 Kraus, Melanie DEU W30 TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen 00:33:55
3 Zutt, Barbara NLD WH 00:35:45
4 Schipper, Esther DEU WH 00:36:38
5 Wiesmair, Stefanie DEU WH PSV Grün-Weiß Kassel 00:36:47
6 de Jong, Inger NLD W30 00:37:24
7 Boitz, Sandra DEU W30 SC DHfK Leipzig 00:37:31
8 Tutsch, Claudia DEU WH OSC Berlin 00:37:33
9 Krecklow, Beate DEU W35 Greifswalder SV 04 00:37:38
10 Buchhauser, Mares-Elaine DEU WH Berliner SV 1892 00:37:46
11 Haas, Elisabeth Maria DEU WH Union Salzburg LA 00:38:11
12 Penning de Vries, Marloes NLD WH Spiridon Frankfurt 00:38:24
13 Parsiegla, Karsta DEU W45 SCC Berlin 00:38:28
14 Schipp, Carina DEU WH SC DHFK Leipzig.e.V. 00:38:58
15 Opt-Eynde, Laura DEU WH jk running 00:39:17
Men 10K
1 Lauret, Martin NLD M35 00:29:07
2 Cierpinski, Falk DEU M30 SG Spergau 00:29:16
3 Koch, Stefan DEU MH TV Wattenscheid 00:29:22
4 Lubina, Alexander DEU MH TV Wattenscheid 00:30:02
5 Seiler, Christian DEU MH LC Erfurt 00:30:14
6 Sponar, Lennart DEU MH Brooks Running Team 00:30:19
7 Schröer, Ronald DEU MH 00:30:20
8 Ton, Robert NLD MH Niederlande 00:30:43
9 Biele, Christian DEU MH LC Erfurt 00:30:47
10 Lindner, Benjamin DEU MH SG Spergau 00:30:48
11 Krebs, Robert DEU MJA LG Nike Berlin 00:30:53
12 Hedrit, Embaye DEU M30 LG Braunschweig 00:31:08
13 Weyer, Sven DEU MH SC DHfK Leipzig 00:31:10
14 Schulze, Marc DEU MH TSV Dresden 00:31:11
15 Lindner, Sören DEU MH SG TSV Kronshagen/Kieler TB 00:31:15
full results of the race scc-events.com
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