Birgit Jerschabek

Birgit Jerschabek (today: Jerschabek-Keipke ; born May 17, 1969 in Ludwigslust ) is a former German long-distance runner .

At the Junior European Championships in Birmingham , starting for the GDR , she won the gold medal on August 7, 1987 in the women's 10,000 meters, which was held for the first time, in 33: 44.37 minutes.

In 1990 Jerschabek came in 16th at the European Athletics Championships in Split over 10,000 meters and was eighth in the Berlin Marathon . The following year she became German champion in the 15 km road race and seventh in the Berlin marathon.

In 1992 she won the Kassel City Run . As the overall winner of the Hanover marathon in 2:31:42 h, she became German marathon champion and qualified for the Olympic Games in Barcelona , where she came in 15th. At the World Half Marathon Championships held as part of the Great North Run in 1992 , she was eighth and set a German best time of 1:10:53 h.

In 1993 she was ninth in the Osaka Women's Marathon and German champion in the half marathon . On April 18, 1993, she won the Hanover Marathon in 2:30:34 h and thus became German champion. At the marathon of the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart , she did not reach the goal.

In 1995 she was eighth in the Nagoya Marathon , but had to give up again at the marathon of the World Athletics Championships in Gothenburg . At the end of the year she won the Lisbon Marathon with her personal best of 2:28:02 h.

In 1997 she was German champion in the half marathon for the third time and second in the Hamburg marathon in 2: 30: 34h. The following year she came in 48th place at the World Half Marathon Championships in Uster and came fifth in the Frankfurt Marathon .

The 1.63 m tall athlete started for the Schweriner SC (until 1990), the LG Sieg (1991-1993) and ABC Ludwigshafen (from 1994). Today she is active as a hobby runner in the FHSG Stralsund .

Personal bests

• 1500 m : 4: 14.81 min, June 30, 1990, Cottbus
• 3000 m : 9: 05.04 min, June 13, 1990, Potsdam
• 5000 m : 15: 53.06 min, June 23, 1990, Rostock
• 10,000 m: 32: 14.75 min, June 27, 1990, Helsinki
• Half marathon: 1:10:53, September 20, 1992, South Shields
• Marathon: 2:28:02 h, November 26, 1995, Lisbon

literature

• Karl Lennartz : marathon run. Volume 3. Verlag Werbung UM Sport, Lohmar 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811512-1-3 , p. 1162 f.

Web links

• Birgit Jerschabek in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Birgit Jerschabek in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )