Carsten Eich

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Carsten Eich ( Lothar Carsten Eich ; born January 9, 1970 in Leipzig ) is a former German long-distance runner who achieved his greatest successes in road runs .

Life

In 1989, Eich became European Junior Champion in the 5000 meter run . In 1990 he started at the European Championships in Split over 10,000 meters and was 22nd. In 1992 he took part in the Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​but did not reach the finals.

In 1993 Carsten Eich set a European record in 1:00:34 h at the Berlin half marathon . This time would even have been a world record if the day before the race the Kenyan Moses Tanui in Milan had not been the first person to cover the 21.0975 km in less than an hour with 59:47 minutes. A few days later, Eich not only set a course record of 27:47 minutes at the Paderborn Easter run over 10 km, which still exists (as of 2013), but also a current German record over this distance. In the same year he was third in the Hamburg Marathon .

At the European Championships in Helsinki in 1994 , Eich started the marathon and finished 35th. At the World Half Marathon Championships in the same year, he was 15th. Two years later, he finished 60th at the World Half Marathon Championships . In 1997, he started at the World Championships in Athens back on the 10,000 meter distance and reached the finals.

In 1998, Eich firmly decided to run on the road and won the Cologne Marathon . In 1999 he was second overall and German champion in his best time of 2:10:22 h at the Hamburg Marathon. He qualified for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney , where he only finished 54th. In 2002 he won the Leipzig Marathon and 2004 the Düsseldorf Marathon .

In 1989, Eich was GDR champion over 5000 and 10,000 meters. He was German champion in the 10,000 meter run (1992), 10 km road run (2003, 2004, 2006), half marathon (1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006) and marathon (1999) . On New Year's Eve 2007 he retired from competitive sports.

Carsten Eich had a competition weight of 65 kg with a height of 1.90 m. He started in 1981 as a middle-distance runner at SG Dynamo Leipzig before he was delegated to SC DHfK Leipzig in 1984 . From then on he trained there under Wolfgang Heinig . In 1992 he moved to SG MoGoNo . Then he moved back to SC DHfK Leipzig in 1993. He stayed there until 1996. In 1997, Eich moved to LAC Quelle . In 2002 Eich went to the LG Braunschweig , where he stayed until 2004. He then started for the rheinmarathon düsseldorf eV. His trainer had been Axel Krippschock since 1995 , who was once a successful runner himself.

Eich works in sports and health management. In 2012 he became the trainer of Sabrina Mockenhaupt .

Best times

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.

Web links

Individual proof

  1. ↑ 950th place in the all-time world best list (Peter Larsson, All-time men's best half-marathon, March 31, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Eich, Carsten
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eich, Lothar Carsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German long-distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig , German Democratic Republic