German Indoor Athletics Championships 2016 in Leipzig – Klosterhalfen and Reus celebrate records

It has been a month to remember for Germany’s Konstanze Klosterhalfen who is fast proving to be Europe's leading junior distance runner.

Three weeks after setting the European Athletics Junior 1500m indoor record time, she now has the 3000m time to her name after a brilliant run at the national championships in Leipzig.

Klosterhalfen, 19, the SPAR European Cross Country champion junior champion, triumphed this weekend in 8:56.36 to beat Alina Reh (9:00.58) as they both broke the previous record (9:06.27) held by Poland’s Sofia Ennaoui since 2014.

It might be more than seven months away, but Klosterhalfen is one of the early contenders for the Rising Star title at this year’s European Athletics Golden Tracks awards, such is her consistency and success.

History was very much in the air in Leipzig as Julian Reus made German athletics history on Saturday by finally breaking the indoor 60m record that had stood since 1988.

Twice this winter, with runs of 6.53, Reus, 27, had matched the mark set by Sven Matthes and now the time is his own after a brilliant 6.52.

A bronze medallist at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Prague a year ago, Reus has shown magnificent consistency during this campaign and after his momentous Saturday, he then completed the sprint double less than 24 hours later when he won the 200m (20.55).

It is a European lead and the impact of the performance might also be felt in the summer when he transfers this speed to the 100m where he will be among the favourites at the European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam.

It was an impressive championships for German sprinting as Tatjana Pinto, 23, made her mark.

Her 60m victory (7.07) moved her to equal-third on the German all-time list with Marlies Gohr and to joint-second on this year’s European rankings for a sprinter who won gold in the 4x100m relay at the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki 2012.

In the 60m hurdles, Cindy Roleder ran the quickest time by a European this year (7.88).

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Results

Männer:

60 m: 1. Julian Reus (Wattenscheid) 6,52 Sek. (DR); 2. Christian Blum (Wattenscheid) 6,60; 3. Robert Hering (Leipzig) 6,69 200 m: 1. Julian Reus (Wattenscheid) 20,55 Sek.; 2. Robert Hering (Leipzig) 20,88; 3. Robin Erewa (Wattenscheid) 21,12 400 m: 1. Eric Krüger (Magdeburg) 47,11 Sek.; 2. Marc Koch (Berlin) 47,30; 3. Robert Hind (Saarbrücken) 47,76 800 m: 1. Jan Riedel (Dresden) 1:49,86 Min.; 2. Sören Ludolph (Braunschweig) 1:50,27; 3. Christoph Kessler (Karslruhe) 1:50,76 1500 m: 1. Florian Orth (Regensburg) 3:51,20 Min.; 2. Marius Probst (Watterscheid) 3:51,54; 3. Steffan Hettich (Gomaringen) 3:51,60 3000 m: 1. Florian Orth (Regensburg) 8:07,39 Min.; 2. Timo Benitz (Dornstetten) 8:08,32; 4. Clemens Bleistein (München) 8:09,10 60 m Hürden: 1. Erik Balnuweit (Leipzig) 7,61 Sek.; 2. Alexander John (Leipzig) 7,64; 3. Martin Vogel (Chemnitz) 7,67 4 x 200 m: 1. TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen (Aleixo-Platini Menga, Kai Köllmann, Lukas Blechschmidt, Nico Menzel) 1:24,72 Min.; 2. LAZ Saar 05 1:24,88; 3. MTG Mannheim 1:25,89 Hochsprung: 1. Mateusz Przybylko (Leverkusen) 2,29 m; 2. Eike Onnen (Hannover) 2,26; 3. Tom Schenker (Chemnitz) 2,10 Weitsprung: 1. Alyn Camara (Leverkusen) 7,82 m; 2. Julian Howard (Karlsruhe) 7,76; 3. Marcel Kirstges (Neuwied) 7,55 Dreisprung: 1. Max Heß (Chemnitz) 17,00 m; 2. Martin Seiler (Ludwigshafen) 15,85; 3. Marcel Kornhardt (Erfurt) 15,79 Stabhochsprung: 1. Carlo Paech (Leverkusen) 5,60 m; 2. Daniel Clemens (Zweibrücken) 5,50; 3. Florian Gaul (Sindelfingen) 5,50 Kugelstoß: 1. Tobias Dahm (Sindelfingen) 20,00 m; 2. Robert Dippl (Fürth) 18,74; 3. Bodo Göder (Baden-Baden) 18,71

Frauen:

60 m: 1. Tatjana Pinto (Münster) 7,07 Sek; 2. Rebekka Haase (Thum) 7,20; 3. Nadine Gonska (Mannheim) 7,29 200 m: 1. Rebekka Haase (Thum) 23,10 Sek.; 2. Lisa Mayer (Oberkleen) 23,30; 3. Inna Weit (Paderborn) 23,64 400 m: 1. Lara Hoffmann (Köln) 53,41 Sek.; 2. Friederike Möhlenkamp (Köln) 53,45; 3. Frederike Hogrebe (Leverkusen) 54,32 800 m: 1. Christina Hering (München) 2:02,48 Min.; 2. Carolin Walter (Leverkusen) 2:05,47; 3. Tanja Spill (Dormagen) 2:05,59 1500 m: 1. Maren Kock (Regensburg) 4:36,59 Min.; 2. Lena Klaassen (Leverkusen) 4:37,32; 3. Thea Heim (Regensburg) 4:37,69 3000 m: 1. Konstanze Klosterhalfen (Leverkusen) 8:56,36 Min.; 2. Alina Reh (Erbach) 9:00,58; 3. Jana Sussmann (Hamburg) 9:11,07 60 m Hürden: 1. Cindy Roleder (Leipzig) 7,88 Sek.; 2. Nadine Hildebrand (Sindelfingen) 8,01; 3. Ricarda Lobe (Mannheim) 8,10 4 x 200 m: 1. TV Wattenscheid 01 (Esther Cremer, Anne-Christina Haack, Monika Zapalska, Pamela Dutkewicz) 1:35,31 Min. ; 2. LC Paderborn 1:35,97; 3. LT DSHS Köln I 1:36,62 Hochsprung: 1. Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch (Tübingen) 1,95 m; 2. Katarina Mögenburg (Leverkusen) 1,86; 3. Ariane Friedrich (Frankfurt/Main) 1,86 Weitsprung: 1. Alexandra Wester (Mainz) 6,75 m; 2. Maryse Luzolo (Frankfurt) 6,51; 3. Melanie Bauschke (Berlin) 6,42 Dreisprung: 1. Jenny Elbe (Dresden) 14,15 m; 2. Kristin Gierisch (Chemnitz) 13,97; 3. Neele Eckhardt (Göttingen) 13,76 Stabhochsprung: 1. Silke Spiegelburg (Leverkusen) 4,56 m; 2. Martina Strutz (Schwerin) 4,51; 3. Annika Roloff (Holzminden) 4,46 Kugelstoß: 1. Lena Urbaniak (Filstal) 18,32 m; 2. Anna Rüh (Magdeburg) 17,68; 3. Josephine Terlecki (Leipzig) 17,14