Bremen marathon

swb marathon Bremen
venue	Bremen Germany Germany
First run	1983, again in 2005
distance	42.195 kilometers

Website	Official website

A group of runners during the Bremen Marathon 2013.

Oliver Sebrantke crossed the finish line at the Bremen Marathon 2012. He won the events in 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.

The Bremen Marathon (full name swb-Marathon Bremen after the main sponsor swb AG ) is a marathon run in the north-west German city of Bremen , which is held annually at the end of September or beginning of October. It functions at the same time as the Lower Saxony and Bremen championships in this discipline. It took place for the first time in 1983 under the name of the Bremen Marathon through town and country , but was discontinued in 1992. It took until 2005 before a new edition with a different route could be realized. It currently takes place annually.

The supporting program of the competition has been a 10,000 meter run since 1986 and a half marathon since 2006 . There is also a children's run.

history

Forerunner and first edition

The history of competition-oriented marathons in Bremen goes back to the early post-war period . In August 1949, the German championship in this discipline was held in the Hanseatic city . The runners of the Reichsbahn SV Stuttgart dominated and Willi Bürklein won the individual title in 2:53:11 h. Seventeen years later, over 3800 athletes took part in the first North German fun run in Bremen in 1965 .

Finally, it came in the early 1980s - with a fundamental commitment of Heinz Spies (* 1937) from Post SV, which also served as race director - of the establishment of the Bremen-marathons, initially under the name Bremen-marathon through town and country was renamed . The organization of the first event took over two years and cost 150,000 Deutschmarks . The Bremen Senate provided a guarantee of 35,000 D-Marks for this. With an entry fee of 25 D-Marks, 6,000 registrations would have been required to make the event cost-effective. In fact, on the morning of April 24, 1983, around 2,800 runners competed. Among them were Lutz Philipp and Manfred Steffny , Bremen politicians Henning Scherf (Sports Seneator), Reinhard Hoffmann (Head of the Sports Office), Wolfgang Kahrs (Justice Senator) and Udo Wille ( Member of Parliament ). Michael Spöttel , the Swede Kjell-Erik Ståhl and the Briton Chris Stewart entered the race as favorites , who in the end actually made the first three places among themselves when Ståhl won.

At the second event in 1984 3280 starters (including around 500 women) were registered; In 1985 there were 3,222. The structure of the awards and prize money has been very inconsistent over the years. So the male winner and the male and female Bremer Champion 1987, for example, with a trip to Marathon in Chinese Dalian rewarded. In 1989 the women’s winner, Dagmar Knudsen, received a small car and the men’s winner, Andreas Wüstefeld , received 3,000 D-Marks. Boay Gurgo secured prize money of 10,000 D-Marks as the winner in 1991. In addition, bonuses were sometimes distributed based on the time achieved. Well-known international runners also received some impressive inaugural bonuses in order to increase the radiance of the Bremen Marathon. However, this was only partially successful.

In 1986 Erich Vellage , women's marathon trainer in the German Athletics Association , praised the event in the highest tones up to the point of saying “For me the Bremen Marathon is currently the top event in Germany.” However, there were also strongly opposing opinions. This is how the winner Udo Grimm from Neuss expressed himself in 1987 with the words:

“I actually wanted to finish under 2:17 here in Bremen. But how can that work if there are no other strong runners at the start? Times around 2:30 will soon be running here. If this continues, the Bremen Marathon will soon reach the athletic level of the Black Forest Marathon . "

Above all, he criticized the fact that insufficient bonuses would not create an incentive for stronger runners and that the third-placed only received a beer mug as a reward. After the race in 1988, which the Tanzanian Agapius Masong was able to win, he renewed his criticism:

“[It] is simply missing the top here in Bremen. Most of them ran all alone, so good times are not possible. [...] With the many Poles you cannot replace the missing top people. They don't run for time, they just want to win prizes. The organizers have to show their colors whether they want the elite or a fun run. "

In the same year, the women's winner, Angelika Dunke, made a similar statement:

“I ran the entire 42 kilometers alone. It's not a real race. "

Masong's manager Volker Wagner also agreed to the criticism:

“Agapius only came to the Hanseatic city through friendly relations from Marion Poppen . [...] Normally such a top talent is simply not to be had without money. "

Boay Gurgo (center), here during his victorious run in 1991, was the last winner of a Bremen marathon for almost a decade and a half.

Most of the Bremen Marathon events in the 1980s and early 1990s were accompanied by the discussion that the event lacked a clear profile and that the organizers could not decide whether they wanted to focus on popular or top-class sport. In 1988, the Weser-Kurier stated that the Bremen Marathon had a reputation as a “provincial run”. In the meantime, the organizers have also considered recruiting better runners for the marathon via the Bremen twin cities Riga , Gdansk and Dalian .

1988 - the marathon has meanwhile been organized by the Bremen State Sports Association , the Stadthalle and the Bremen Athletics Association - another major financial gain was recorded. Organizational problems ultimately led to the 1992 event being canceled. There were dates overlapping with the Hanover Marathon and the organizers had to admit that the Bremen Marathon had not developed as hoped. You couldn't prevail against the regional races in Hanover and Hamburg . The 1991 race was a huge failure financially and spectator interest had also decreased noticeably. Initially, it was planned to suspend only one year and then to host a Bremen marathon again in 1993. But it didn't come to that.

Restart

The Bremen Marathon was revived in 2005 and has been held every autumn since then. The organizer is Utz Bertschy with his Sport Ziel running and back center based in the Hanseatic city and the Marathon Club Bremen e. V. At the first new event on September 25, 2005, which was attended by 3100 participants, the fastest athletes from Bremen and the fastest athletes competing for a Bremen club each received a prize of 4219.50 euros . The 2006 winner, Jarosław Cichocki from Poland , received an inaugural bonus of 1,500 euros. Apart from that, however, no more prize money has been distributed since then. As a result, no well-known international runners can be attracted to the Bremen Marathon. Rather, the event, accompanied by the half marathon and the 10,000 meter run, developed into a popular popular run for mass sport. Every year it meets with a great response from the people of Bremen; up to 50,000 spectators regularly line the streets.

The event's patron is Willi Lemke , former manager of Werder Bremen and sports senator for the state of Bremen . He himself took part in the Bremen Marathon for the first time in 1988 and has since completed several races, including the marathon again in 2005 and the half marathon in 2008 and 2010.

route

Old course 1983–1991

The section over the Wümmedeich was notorious for its strong wind.

In the 1980s and early 1990s the route - as the name Bremen Marathon through town and country already suggested - not only led through built-up urban areas, but also for many kilometers through marsh meadows and agricultural areas. This fact was a unique selling point of the Bremen Run and was often positively highlighted. In 1987, in the discussion about the lack of prize and entry fees, Heinz-Helmut Claußen , President of the State Sports Association of Bremen , pointed this out and argued that “after all, Bremen has a super route that should be enough incentive.” The run began on the Bürgerweide , then led through the ramparts into the old town and across the market square . The route then continued on the west side of the Bürgerpark along the peat canal and then bent in a north-westerly direction along the Kleine Wümme into the blockland . At Dammsiel - the confluence of the Kleine Wümme in the Wümme - one turned east onto the Wümmedeich on the left and followed it upstream to the Borgfeld district . There followed a right-hand bend south into Jan-Reiners-Weg . Through the Hollerland , around the Stadtwaldsee and through the Bürgerpark, the route then led back to the city center, where the goal was on the Bürgerweide in front of the town hall . From 1986 the marathon ended inside the town hall in order to create a better atmosphere at the finish line.

New course since 2005

On the habenhauser dike on the south side of the Werdersee, at the level of the Huckelriede cemetery , the runners usually have ten kilometers of the marathon behind them.

From the new edition of the Bremen Marathon in the year, the start of all routes was on Theodor-Heuss-Allee and, as in previous events, on the Bürgerweide. At the central station over the marathon route then led into the old town . After passing the sights on the market square , one walked through Obernstrasse to the Am Brill intersection and through Martinistrasse to the Wilhelm-Kaisen-Brücke . Via this, the runners reached the Neustadt on the left bank of the Weser . After crossing some residential areas, the route ran on the south side of the Kleiner Weser and Werdersee to the habenhausen district . The bridge of the Weser weir led back to the right bank of the Weser. Through the city and districts of Hastedt , Vahr and Horn-Lehe you reached the northernmost point of the route at the campus of the University of Bremen . The marathon continued along and through the Bürgerpark towards Findorff and Walle to Überseestadt . After the fall of the Wall, you could walk along the banks of the Weser, first to the Schlachte and then via the Weser promenade to the Weser Stadium . The last part of the route led over the Osterdeich and the street Am Wall into the station suburb and from there over the Bürgerweide to the destination at the town hall .

Since 2010, the start and finish of all runs have been on the market square in front of the Bremen town hall in the old town. The aim was to increase the audience impact of the event. From the start , you walk around the city center via Obernstraße , Martinistraße and Am Wall and Altenwall . From the Bürgermeister-Smidt-Brücke the route is the same as the previous one up to the Osterdeich. Since the revision, the last part of the route now leads back to the market square via Martini- and Obernstraße. The half marathon runs past the main train station onto Parkallee , where it joins the marathon route. The 10,000-meter route runs along the Weser initially in the direction of the Stephanibrücke , after which it leads via Schlachte and Osterdeich to the Weserstadion, where the second turning point is. Once again through the city center, the athletes are directed via Martinistraße to the home straight in Obernstraße.

Result statistics

In the following lists the winners of the three most important running disciplines of the event are shown. Both the nationalities and the running times are given, with the respective best times marked in green and the slowest times marked in red . In addition, as far as is known, the number of finishers - i.e. those runners who actually reached the finish line - is also given.

marathon


date	Finisher		Men		Women
date	All in all	Including women	winner	Time in h	winner	Time in h
78200908100 ♠04th Oct 2020	Event canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
78162395750 ♠0Oct 6, 2019	1098	228	Germany Fabian Fiedler	2:28:08	Germany Kristina Ziemons	2:50:50
78123790375 ♠0Oct 7, 2018	906	166	Germany Jan Knutzen	2:26:55	Germany Katharina Preuschoff	3:07:55
78084533825 ♠0Oct. 1, 2017	956	185	Germany Andreas Kuhlen	2:30:06	Germany Katharina Nüser	2:54:30
78045928450 ♠0Oct 2, 2016	1131	226	Germany Oliver Sebrantke - 6 -	2:32:14	Germany Martina Günther	3:06:48
78007416100 ♠0Oct 4, 2015	1015	182	Germany Oliver Sebrantke - 5 -	2:35:26	Germany Anita Ehrhardt	3:11:49
77968810725 ♠0Oct 5, 2014	1194	205	Germany Oliver Sebrantke - 4 -	2:33:01	Germany Sabine Andres	3:14:16
77930205350 ♠0Oct 6, 2013	819	151	Germany Oliver Sebrantke - 3 -	2:32:14	Germany Anna Izabela Böge	3:01:19
77891599975 ♠0Oct 7, 2012	1118	183	Germany René Hunter	2:28:38	Germany Gaby Andres	2:55:33
77852622500 ♠0Oct 4, 2011	933	139	Germany Oliver Sebrantke - 2 -	2:35:56	Germany Frauke Fichtner	3:07:39
77812342675 ♠19 Sep 2010	893	138	Germany Martin Skalsky	2:31:42	Germany Marlies Meyer	2:59:31
77775225700 ♠0Oct 4, 2009	1026	152	Germany Oliver Sebrantke - 1 -	2:38:11	Germany Eva Brinkmann	2:59:29
77735783100 ♠28 Sep 2008	973	122	Switzerland José Manuel Perino	2:32:45	Germany Tanja Hooß	3:04:17
77697270750 ♠Sep 30 2007	1238	167	Germany Rolf Schwabe	2:34:05	Germany Inga Ruhl	2:48:03
77658014200 ♠Sep 24 2006	1585	234	Poland Jarosław Cichocki	2:22:56	Germany Angela Welp	3:14:32
77619408825 ♠25 Sep 2005	2317	330	Poland Marek Dryja	2:25:37	Germany Fakja Hofmann	2:58:34
1992 - 2004 no event
77063026300 ♠Apr 28, 1991	k. A.	k. A.	Tanzania Boay Gurgo	2:15:39	Germany Petra Liebertz	2:38:39
77024420925 ♠Apr 29, 1990	k. A.	k. A.	Germany Andreas Wüstefeld	2:25:06	Germany Dagmar Knudsen	2:46:39
76983862025 ♠0Apr 9, 1989	1466	k. A.	Germany Heinz-Bernhardt citizens	2:16:42	Poland Ewa Wrzosek	2:48:46
76960233675 ♠Sep 11 1988	k. A.	k. A.	Tanzania Agapius Masong	2:17:18	Germany Angelika Dunke	2:39:48
76908883875 ♠0May 3, 1987	k. A.	k. A.	Germany Udo Grimm	2:21:59	Germany Angelika Böttcher	2:59:48
76869441275 ♠Apr. 27, 1986	k. A.	k. A.	Sweden Jozef Machálek	2:15:58	Germany Elke Kramer	2:48:38
76830835900 ♠Apr 28, 1985	k. A.	k. A.	Germany Jürgen Schulze	2:19:49	Germany Gudrun Salomon	2:51:30
76793067750 ♠0May 6, 1984	2745	k. A.	Sweden Kjell-Erik Ståhl - 2 -	2:13:47	Germany Ursula Koether	2:47:32
76753067000 ♠Apr. 24, 1983	k. A.	k. A.	Sweden Kjell-Erik Ståhl - 1 -	2:12:38	Germany Brigitte Lielpopp	2:54:54

half marathon


date	Finisher		Men		Women
date	All in all	Including women	winner	Time in h	winner	Time in h
78200908100 ♠04th Oct 2020	Event canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
78162395750 ♠0Oct 6, 2019	3294	1159	Germany Christian Güssow	1:15:29	Germany Marie Lienemann	1:21:50
78123790375 ♠0Oct 7, 2018	3376	1132	Finland Jarkko Järvenpää	1:07:13	Germany Jana Baum	1:21:19
78084533825 ♠0Oct. 1, 2017	3235	1058	Eritrea Haftom Weldaj - 2 -	1:08:28	Germany Mareile tickling	1:21:21
78045928450 ♠0Oct 2, 2016	3434	1165	Eritrea Haftom Weldaj - 1 -	1:11:46	Germany Annika Krull - 2 -	1:20:21
78007416100 ♠0Oct 4, 2015	3313	1070	Germany Maik Willbrandt	1:08:56	Germany Annika Krull - 1 -	1:24:52
77968810725 ♠0Oct 5, 2014	3119	1011	Germany Christian Wiese	1:11:46	Germany Nicole Krinke - 3 -	1:22:04
77930205350 ♠0Oct 6, 2013	2888	837	Germany Jan Oliver Hämmerling - 2 -	1:10:50	Germany Nicole Krinke - 2 -	1:20:55
77891599975 ♠0Oct 7, 2012	2789	816	Germany Jan Oliver Hämmerling - 1 -	1:09:48	Germany Katrin Kreil	1:23:08
77852622500 ♠0Oct 4, 2011	2622	781	Germany Thomas Bartholome	1:09:18	Germany Nicole Krinke - 1 -	1:20:16
77812342675 ♠19 Sep 2010	1990	575	Germany Volker Goineau	1:09:55	Germany Marina Hilschenz	1:18:19
77775225700 ♠0Oct 4, 2009	2196	636	Germany Markus Pingpank - 2 -	1:12:57	Germany Sandra Kusserow	1:28:42
77735783100 ♠28 Sep 2008	1747	465	Germany Wilhelm Hofmann	1:16:20	Germany Julia Luck	1:27:07
77697270750 ♠Sep 30 2007	1672	420	Germany Markus Pingpank - 1 -	1:10:21	Germany Carolin Schiff	1:28:16
77658014200 ♠Sep 24 2006	1270	362	Hungary Roland Soltész	1:12:24	Germany Manuela Sporleder	1:25:19
1983 - 2005 no event

10,000 meter run

When it was held for the first time in 1986 and 1987, the 10,000-meter run was called the “mini marathon”. Then it operated as "Rolandlauf" until it was hired in 1991 .


date	Finisher		Men		Women
date	All in all	Including women	winner	Time in min	winner	Time in min
78200908100 ♠04th Oct 2020	Event canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
78162395750 ♠0Oct 6, 2019	2038	973	Germany Lukas Abele	31:19	Germany Merle Wiegand	37:42
78123790375 ♠0Oct 7, 2018	1847	839	Germany Marius Abele	31:32	Germany Anna Riske	37:34
78084533825 ♠0Oct. 1, 2017	1963	883	Finland Jarkko Järvenpää - 4 -	29:46	Germany Valerie Moser	38:06
78045928450 ♠0Oct 2, 2016	2062	943	Finland Jarkko Järvenpää - 3 -	29:48	Poland Sara Szymanska	39:28
78007416100 ♠0Oct 4, 2015	2095	905	Germany Christoph Deppe	32:53	Germany Nicole Krinke - 3 -	37:29
77968810725 ♠0Oct 5, 2014	2187	917	Germany Klaus Eickel	32:59	Germany Mareike Bechtloff	36:42
77930205350 ♠0Oct 6, 2013	1664	640	Finland Jarkko Järvenpää - 2 -	29:10	Germany Ulla Gatzweiler	37:18
77891599975 ♠0Oct 7, 2012	1719	703	Finland Jarkko Järvenpää - 1 -	28:58	Germany Katrin Friedrich	37:52
77852622500 ♠0Oct 4, 2011	1371	577	Germany Stefan Bölke	34:50	Germany Sandra Sahlmann	37:29
77812342675 ♠19 Sep 2010	1108	436	Germany Jan Oude-Aost	33:51	Germany Nicole Krinke - 2 -	38:36
77775225700 ♠0Oct 4, 2009	1298	579	Germany Volker Goineau	33:04	Germany Christine Grammer	39:55
77735783100 ♠28 Sep 2008	1060	407	Germany Daniel Tobry	33:17	Germany Nicole Krinke - 1 -	39:22
77697270750 ♠Sep 30 2007	1045	391	Germany Stephan Immega	31:56	Germany Rebecka Weise-Jung	39:17
77658014200 ♠Sep 24 2006	911	371	Germany Ingo Müller	33:29	Germany Ilona Pfeiffer	38:01
77619408825 ♠25 Sep 2005	953	314	Germany Maik Wollherr	33:00	Germany Daniela Hungermann	37:36
1992 - 2004 no event
77063026300 ♠Apr 28, 1991	k. A.	k. A.	Kenya Jacob Ngunzu - 2 -	30:55	Germany Petra Dieker	39:24
77024420925 ♠Apr 29, 1990	k. A.	k. A.	Kenya Jacob Ngunzu - 1 -	29:45	k. A.	k. A.
76983862025 ♠0Apr 9, 1989	k. A.	k. A.	Germany Dirk Sander	29:58	Poland Ewa Mierzwa	37:54
76960233675 ♠Sep 11 1988	k. A.	k. A.	Poland Dariusz Nawrocky	30:54	Germany Annette Quiet	39:26
76908883875 ♠0May 3, 1987	k. A.	k. A.	Germany Thomas Lange	31:32	Poland Irena Czuta	36:37
76869441275 ♠Apr. 27, 1986	k. A.	k. A.	United Kingdom Alex Rodgers	30:54	Germany Charlotte Teske	34:16
1983 - 1985 no event

Individual evidence

↑ "50 brooms to clean up". In: Weser-Kurier , April 20, 1983, № 91, page 18.
^ "Bremen Marathon: Benefit for the psyche". In: Weser-Kurier , April 22, 1983, № 93, page 30.
↑ "50 brooms to clean up". In: Weser-Kurier , April 20, 1983, № 91, page 18.
↑ "Experts judge: 'Bremen is great!'". In: Weser-Kurier , April 28, 1986, № 98, page 26.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Otto-Ulrich Bals, Bernd Willer: "After the victory, the winner raged". In: Weser-Kurier , May 4, 1987, № 102, page 19.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Volker Junck, Michael Thurm: "Wedding celebration prevented record". In: Weser-Kurier , September 12, 1988, № 211, page 23.
↑ "Bremen-Marathon '92 canceled". In: Weser-Kurier , February 8, 1992, № 33, page 28.
^ "LGN pack chasing Jan Oude-Aost". In: Die Norddeutsche , 23 September 2005, № 222, page 8.
↑ Thorsten Waterkamp: "Lonely Race to Victory". In: Weser-Kurier , September 25, 2006, № 224, page 17.
^ Franz Schwengler: "The" eternal "German marathon hit parade". Retrieved from planet-marathon.de on August 15, 2018.

Web links

Commons : Bremen Marathon - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

[1] "50 brooms to clean up". In: Weser-Kurier , April 20, 1983, № 91, page 18.

[2] "Bremen Marathon: Benefit for the psyche". In: Weser-Kurier , April 22, 1983, № 93, page 30.

[3] "50 brooms to clean up". In: Weser-Kurier , April 20, 1983, № 91, page 18.

[4] "Experts judge: 'Bremen is great!'". In: Weser-Kurier , April 28, 1986, № 98, page 26.

[WK_19-5] Otto-Ulrich Bals, Bernd Willer: "After the victory, the winner raged". In: Weser-Kurier , May 4, 1987, № 102, page 19.

[WK_23-6] Volker Junck, Michael Thurm: "Wedding celebration prevented record". In: Weser-Kurier , September 12, 1988, № 211, page 23.

[7] "Bremen-Marathon '92 canceled". In: Weser-Kurier , February 8, 1992, № 33, page 28.

[8] "LGN pack chasing Jan Oude-Aost". In: Die Norddeutsche , 23 September 2005, № 222, page 8.

[9] Thorsten Waterkamp: "Lonely Race to Victory". In: Weser-Kurier , September 25, 2006, № 224, page 17.

[10] Franz Schwengler: "The" eternal "German marathon hit parade". Retrieved from planet-marathon.de on August 15, 2018.