GERMAN MEETINGS: KARLSRUHE – Rotor field on the medium-range promises spectacle – Fast-paced race on the oval track at INDOOR MEETING on 1 February 2014

On the circular path of the Europa Halle is at the 30th INDOOR MEETING on 1 February 2014 the post office depart. Since Arne Gabius is in the wake of absolute world class to Bernard Lagat, Augustine Choge and Edwin Soi – the way the entire 3000-meter podium the last World Indoor Athletics Championships – try the German record of Dieter Baumann to crack.

But even among women fast times are expected. About 1500 meters takes Genzebe Dibaba for the third time start to stay for the first time under four minutes. When INDOOR MEETING 2012 she lacked gerademal 13 hundredths of a second. In 4:00,13 minutes, the watch remained after 1500 meters are. For a time, which meant new meeting record and still the sixth fastest time ever run in the hall over this distance.

At the meeting last year, the younger sister of the multiple Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba repeated her victory from last year, but even then scraped just past the four-minute limit. Now takes the 22-year-old Ethiopian, a new approach to the four-minute break and wants this triumph also for the third time in a row in the Europa Halle. Both are possible, especially as the world indoor champion has already shown from 2012 last year how quickly she is about 1500 meters.

In May 2013, it ran in Doha with 3:57,54 minutes in the open air, a new personal best. With Anett Horna also the reigning German champion hall is at the start. The 26-year-old from Magdeburg, the start for Bayer Leverkusen, has fond memories of the Europa Halle. Here she was at the meeting last year in 4:14,95 minutes, a new personal Hallenbestzeit about 1500 meters.

Twice the distance is too much occupied with the women. As the 3000 meters of the women were held in 2010 at the INDOOR MEETING for the first time, was the premiere winner Sylvia Kibet Chibiwott. The 29 year-old Kenyan is on all routes of the 1500 meters, including a half marathon at home and has been exhibiting some success in her remarkable career. She won at the 2009 Outdoor World Championships in Berlin and 2011 in Daegu each silver medal in the 5000 meters.

Now Kibet is again at the meeting at the start and would like to repeat their first victory of 2010 like after a second place in 2012. They want to prevent some. Including her one year older compatriot Viola Kibiwot, the 2011 cross-country running already proved next to winning a silver medal at the African Championships and the attic versatility of the medium distances, as a fifth place on the 3000 meters at the World Indoor Championships in 2007 is in Osaka.

Some ago Corinna Harrer, who has already shown over this distance, what it can bear. Last year, when Meseret Defar set a new meeting record, the young German ran with the help of the frenetic accentuation of the audience as second in a new personal best time of 8:51,04 minutes to the finish.

The 23-year-old from Regensburg was that it lasted so inspired during the weeks of this run that they shortly afterwards not only won their second German indoor title in a row, but also at the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg with second place was able to celebrate their biggest international success and was rewarded with the silver medal.

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