17. Vattenfall City-Nacht in Berlin, 2.8.08 – German marathon Olympians Hahn and Kraus with last tune up while Dutchman surprises German men

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