Gesa Felicitas Krause wins Bronze: Best time when it matters – SPIEGEL ONLINE

The hands beaten on his head, his eyes in disbelief toward display panel, so Gesa Felicitas Krause stood on the runway at the Bird’s Nest in Beijing, minutes. In between, she took a few clumsy steps that infected 3,000 meter barrier of 23-year-olds still in the legs. 9: 19.25 minutes she needed, a personal best, but especially: Bronze

It was the first German championship medal over this distance, the fifth German medal at these World Championships in Athletics, and certainly the most surprising.. Krause, 1.67 meters tall and just under 50 kilograms, scored already in the target, the tears of joy in his eyes. The Frankfurterin knows her talent, with the third place she had still not counted. “I am overjoyed,” she said. “These are moments of which one dreams that take place in hard workouts in the head.”

Krause’s greatest hits Gold at the Junior World Championships in 2011 and the U23 European Championship 2013. When were previously “adult” -EM 2012 she won bronze. In Beijing she had “thought briefly that could even be gold. But after the last obstacle the others had too long steps.” On the last moat

The other, were the Kenyan Jepkemoi (9:19, 11 minutes) and the Tunisian Habiba Ghribi (9: 19.24), the proprietor of Jahresweltbestzeit. Krause had walked away from the start and showed courage again and again at the top. Also of some tempo attacks the competition she was not impressed – down the stretch was Krause even briefly lead.

Krause often trained in Kenya

The big stage seems to her to lie: At the Olympic Games in London, she won her forward in a new personal best of 9 : 24.91 minutes and came into the finals. Many experts expected the slump there, Krause was too young and inexperienced to withstand the pressure. But she improved her personal best again at 9: 23.52 minutes. Although this was only enough for eighth place, but had plenty of motivation for the runner up Krause quite

Since 2013 focused as a professional soldier to the sport and made in the past few months a significant leap forward -. Also because they repeatedly in Kenya working on their shape. “It’s the attraction to see how the best work,” she says. The conditions there are ideal, even if it “is neither a shopping center or a cool shopping street and cafés around the corner” there. But she’ll take willing to accept, “if such a result comes out here.”

For 14 years, the German Athletics Federation had been waiting for a World Cup individual medal in the running disciplines. 2001 Edmonton took Ingo Schulz silver over 400 meters. Then a disappointment followed another.

One year before the Olympic Games Krause is there a big bright spot – especially since their performance though was surprising in this form, but not inexplicable. Even before the World Cup they had appeared very self-conscious and had managed the qualification sovereign. When DLV they may therefore look forward to Krause’s performances at the Olympic Games, the competition but it can confidently be understood as a threat that Krause said after her bronze running: in Rio she would then “attack right”

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