Athletics World Championships: Gesa Felicitas Krause wins bronze – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

      

 
 
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
         

 
 
 
 
 
          Bronze is almost like gold: Gesa Felicitas Krause after the biggest success of her career
     

 
                                              

 
 
     
     
     
         
         
                                                             

The Frankfurterin Gesa Felicitas Krause won surprisingly the bronze medal over 3000 meters obstacle to the IAAF World Championships in Beijing. In the personal best of 9: 19.25 minutes she came on Wednesday gossamer behind the Tunisian Habiba Ghribi (9: 19.24) as well as the new world champion Hyvin Jepkemoi from Kenya (9: 19.11 minutes) to the finish and beat the stunned hands over his face. “Of course I’m overjoyed. These are moments of which one dreams that take place in hard workouts in the head, “Krause told ZDF television.

                         
         
         
                                                                                            
         
         
                                                             
                                 

The Hessian showed a courageous race and always kept in the elimination race in front of the field. Were on the last 500 meters, seven athletes in the top flight, the last ditch five. On the home stretch came only three of the medals in question, after the last obstacle results Krause even briefly, had to give in the final sprint but still beaten the two rivals.

                         
         
         
                                                             

For the 23-year-old, it is the biggest success of her career. The German record the Antje Möldner had set up in 2009 at the World Championships in Berlin in 9:18:54, she just missed. Krause, a protege of national coach Wolfgang Heinig, is the only German long-distance runner in Beijing. The top talent already denied their third World Cup and came at the 2012 Olympics in London in eighth place.

                         
         
         
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

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