European Champion Ulrike Maisch and Martin Beckmann lead German Marathon squad for Osaka

European Marathon Champion Ulrike Maisch and Martin Beckmann lead the German team for the IAAF World Championships in Athletics, Osaka, Japan (25 Aug – 2 Sep 2007).

Maisch, was selected based on her surprising victory at the European Championships last year in Gothenburg with a personal best of 2:30:01.

The rest of women’s squad consists of Luminita Zaituc and Melanie Kraus who met the standard of 2:32:00.

Luminita Zaituc (PB 2:26:01/Frankfurt 2001) met the DLV standard by winning last weekends Düsseldorf marathon, clocking 2:29:37. Melanie Kraus, with a personal best of 2:27:58 from the 2000 Berlin marathon, was runner up in the same race with 2:30:38, also meeting the standard.

29-year-old Martin Beckmann (PB 2:15:06/Berlin 2004) leads the Men’s squad based on his 2:15:22 performance at the Hamburg marathon on April 29th. Mario Kröckert set a new personal best at the Düsseldorf marathon with 2:16:07 hours and was selected to the Osaka squad as well. The final member of the men’s team is oldie Ulrich Steidl (PB 2:13:56/Pyongyang 2000) who was the first German in the Boston marathon, finishing 12th overall.

Additionally Claudia Dreher (PB 2:27:55/Hannover 1999) and Susanne Hahn (PB 2:32:34/Rotterdam 2006) were selected to complete the women’s world cup team. Both met the IAAF team standard of 2:42:00 hours.

Source:
European Athletics (EAA)
https://www.european-athletics.org/
EAA