German track and field national records

Marita Koch (left) and Marlies Göhr (right) hold most of the German records in the sprint area.

The German national track and field records are the best performances of German athletes who have been set up in disciplines of track and field .

The records listed here only take into account top performances for which the international athletics association IAAF holds official world records. The following lists do not differentiate according to whether a German athlete started at the time the respective record was set for the Federation of the Federal Republic of Germany ( DLV ) or the German Democratic Republic ( DVfL ). Achievements that are also current world or European records are marked with corresponding pictograms ( and ).

Top performances in the context of the German athletics championships are listed there.

Doping issue

In response to the move by Ines Geipel , who deleted her name from the German club record for the 4-by-100-meter relay because of her involuntary involvement in the doping system of the GDR , the DLV added a preamble to its official statistics in 2006:

“In the following record list, according to current knowledge, some record holders are suspected of having violated the anti-doping rules during their competitive sports career. In addition, some of the records were set on the basis of forced doping and doping in the form of criminally relevant bodily harm. [...] It is not possible to delete such records for legal reasons. "

The association refers to the book Doping as sources . From Research to fraud by Brigitte Berendonk (1991), in which the state-organized doping in the GDR on the basis of dissertations and Stasi was reconstructed -Proceedings, as well as the 2006 published work doping in professional sports and Andreas Singler and Gerhard Treutlein where the forms of doping practiced at the same time in the Federal Republic of Germany were documented using the example of athletics and other sports.

The opinion of the DLV that the cancellation of doping-laden records is not legally possible, contradicted the sports lawyers Christoph Wüterich and Marius Breucker in an expert opinion. The then chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Richard Pound shared this view.

In 2010 Gesine Walther (now Tettenborn) had her name removed from the 4 x 400 meter relay record because it was achieved through doping. In an interview, she said that if she had continued to tolerate her name being listed there, she would be “partly responsible for young athletes who dope because they are motivated to break this record”.

Olympic disciplines

Outdoor records, men

discipline	power	Athlete / athletes	date	place
100 m	10.01 s (+1.8)	Julian Reus	07/29/2016	Mannheim
200 m	20.20 s (+0.7)	Tobias Unger	07/03/2005	Wattenscheid
400 m	44.33 s	Thomas Schönlebe	09/03/1987	Rome
800 m	1: 43.65 min	Willi Wuelbeck	08/09/1983	Helsinki
1500 m	3: 31.58 min	Thomas Wessinghage	08/27/1980	Koblenz
5000 m	12: 54.70 min	Dieter Baumann	08/13/1997	Zurich
10,000 m	27: 21.53 min	Dieter Baumann	04/05/1997	Barakaldo
marathon	2:08:33 h	Arne Gabius	25/10/2015	Frankfurt am Main
110 m hurdles	13.05 s (−0.8)	Florian Schwarthoff	07/02/1995	Bremen
400 m hurdles	47.48 s	Harald Schmid	09/08/1982	Athens
3000 m obstacle	8: 09.48 min	Damian Kallabis	08/11/1999	Zurich
high jump	2.37 m	Carlo Thränhardt	09/02/1984	Rieti
Pole vault	6.01 m	Bjorn Otto	05.09.2012	Aachen
Long jump	8.54 m (+0.9)	Lutz Dombrowski	07/28/1980	Moscow
Triple jump	17.66 m (+1.7)	Ralf Jaros	06/30/1991	Frankfurt am Main
Shot put	23.06 m	Ulf Timmermann	May 22, 1988	Chania
Discus throw	74.08 m	Jürgen Schult	06/06/1986	Neubrandenburg
Hammer throw	83.40 m	Ralf Haber	May 16, 1988	Athens
Javelin throw	94.44 m (new spear) 104.80 m (old spear)	Johannes cousin Uwe Hohn	07/11/2017 07/20/1984	Lucerne Berlin
Decathlon	8832 points	Jürgen Hingsen	06/09/1984	Mannheim
	1st day: 10.70 s (100 m) - 7.76 m (long jump) - 16.42 m (ball) - 2.07 m (high jump) - 48.05 s (400 m) 2nd day: 14 , 07 s (110 m H) - 49.36 m (discus) - 4.90 m (pole vault) - 59.86 m (javelin) - 4: 19.75 min (1500 m)
20 km walk (road)	1:18:42 h	Andreas Erm	06/17/2000	Eisenhüttenstadt
50 km walk (road)	3:37:46 h	Andreas Erm	08/27/2003	Paris
4 × 100 m relay	38.02 s	DLV selection team ( Julian Reus , Tobias Unger , Alexander Kosenkow , Lucas Jakubczyk )	07/27/2012	Weinheim
4 × 400 m relay	2: 59.86 min	DVfL selection team ( Frank Möller , Mathias Schersing , Jens Carlowitz , Thomas Schönlebe )	06/23/1985	Erfurt

Outdoor records, women

discipline	power	Athletes	date	place
100 m	10.81 s (+1.7)	Marlies Goehr	06/08/1983	Berlin
200 m	21.71 s (+0.7) 21.71 s (+0.3) 21.71 s (+1.2) 21.71 s (−0.8)	Marita Koch Marita Koch Heike Drechsler Heike Drechsler	10.06.1979 07.21.1984 29.06.1986 29.08.1986	Karl-Marx-Stadt Potsdam Jena Stuttgart
400 m	47.60 s	Marita Koch	06.10.1985	Canberra
800 m	1: 55.26 min	Sigrun Wodars	08/31/1987	Rome
1500 m	3: 57.71 min	Christiane Wartenberg	08/01/1980	Moscow
5000 m	14: 26.76 min	Konstanze Klosterhalfen	08/03/2019	Berlin
10,000 m	31: 03.62 min	Kathrin Ullrich	06/30/1991	Frankfurt am Main
marathon	2:19:19 h	Irina Mikitenko	09/28/2008	Berlin
100 m hurdles	12.42 s (+1.8)	Bettine Jahn	06/08/1983	Berlin
400 m hurdles	53.24 s	Sabine Busch	08/21/1987	Potsdam
3000 m obstacle	9: 03.30 min	Gesa Felicitas Krause	09/30/2019	Doha
high jump	2.06 m	Ariane Friedrich	06/14/2009	Berlin
Pole vault	4.82 m	Silke Spiegelburg	07/20/2012	Monaco
Long jump	7.48 m (+1.2)	Heike Drechsler	07/09/1988	Neubrandenburg
Triple jump	14.61 m (−0.4)	Kristin Gierisch	06/02/2019	Garbsen
Shot put	22.45 m	Ilona Slupianek	05/11/1980	Potsdam
Discus throw	76.80 m	Gabriele Reinsch	07/09/1988	Neubrandenburg
Hammer throw	79.42 m	Betty Heidler	05/21/2011	Halle (Saale)
Javelin throw	70.20 m (new spear) 80.00 m (old spear)	Christina Obergföll Petra Felke	23.06.2007 09.09.1988	Munich Potsdam
Heptathlon	6,985 points	Sabine Braun	05/31/1992	Götzis
	1st day: 13.11 s (100 m H) - 1.93 m (high jump) - 14.84 m (ball) - 23.65 s (200 m) 2nd day: 6.63 m (long jump) - 51.62 m (Speer) - 2: 12.67 min (800 m)
20 km walk (road)	1:27:56 h	Sabine Zimmer	06/05/2004	Hildesheim
4 × 100 m relay	41.37 s	DVfL selection team ( Silke Gladisch , Sabine Rieger , Ingrid Auerswald , Marlies Göhr )	06.10.1985	Canberra
4 × 400 m relay	3: 15.92 min	DVfL selection team (*, Sabine Busch , Dagmar Neubauer , Marita Koch )	06/03/1984	Erfurt

Non-Olympic disciplines

Outdoor records, men

discipline	power	Athlete / athletes	date	place
1000 m	2: 14.53 min	Willi Wuelbeck	07/01/1980	Oslo
1 mile	3: 49.22 min	Jens-Peter Herold	07/02/1988	Oslo
2000 m	4: 52.20 min	Thomas Wessinghage	08/31/1982	Ingelheim am Rhein
3000 m	7: 30.50 min	Dieter Baumann	08/08/1998	Monaco
20,000 m	58: 30.2 min	Werner Schildhauer	04/29/1983	cottbus
1 hour	20,536 m	Werner Schildhauer	04/29/1983	cottbus
25,000 m	1: 13: 57.6 h	Stéphane Franke	03/30/1999	Walnut
30,000 m	1: 33: 35.6 h	Stéphane Franke	03/30/1999	Walnut
10 km road run	27:47 min	Carsten Eich	04/10/1993	Paderborn
15 km road run	43:40 min	Richard Ringer	11/18/2018	Nijmegen
20 km road run	59:00 min	Stephan Freilang	03/13/1994	Alphen aan den Rijn
half marathon	1:00:34 h	Carsten Eich	04/04/1993	Berlin
25 km road run	1:13:58 h	Karl Fleschen	04/16/1978	Frankenberg
30 km road race	1:32:27 h	Steffen Dittmann	02/21/1993	Ōme
100 km road run	6:24:29 h	Kazimierz Bak	06/26/1994	Saroma
4 × 200 m relay	1: 21.26 min	DLV national relay ( Maurice Huke , Patrick Domogala , Aleixo-Platini Menga , Robin Erewa )	05/12/2019	Yokohama
4 × 800 m relay	7: 08.6 min	DLV national relay ( Manfred Kinder , Walter Adams , Dieter Bogatzki , Franz-Josef Kemper )	08/13/1966	Wiesbaden
4 × 1500 m relay	14: 38.8 min	DLV national relay ( Thomas Wessinghage , Harald Hudak , Michael Lederer , Karl Fleschen )	08/17/1977	Cologne
20,000 m walking (track)	1:19:18.3 h	Ronald Weigel	May 26, 1990	Mountains
30,000 m walking (track)	2: 11: 52.8 h	Robert Ihly	09/04/1992	Biesheim
50,000 m walking (track)	3: 52: 46.6 h	Robert Ihly	09/29/1996	Héricourt

Outdoor records, women

discipline	power	Athletes	date	place
1000 m	2: 30.67 min	Christine Wachtel	08/17/1990	Berlin
1 mile	4: 21.11 min	Konstanze Klosterhalfen	08/18/2019	Birmingham
2000 m	5: 37.62 min	Ulrike Bruns	09/22/1985	Berlin
3000 m	8: 20.07 min	Konstanze Klosterhalfen	06/30/2019	Stanford
1 hour	17,709 m	Katrin Dörre	07/07/1988	Leipzig
10 km road run	30:57 min	Irina Mikitenko	09/13/2008	Karlsruhe
15 km road run	48:44 min	Uta Pippig	10/13/1991	Nieuwegein
20 km road run	1:08:21 h	Luminita Zaituc	03/11/2001	Alphen aan den Rijn
half marathon	1:07:58 h	Uta Pippig	03/19/1995	Kyoto
25 km road run	1:23:07 h	Irina Mikitenko	09/28/2008	Berlin
30 km road race	1:39:34 h	Irina Mikitenko	09/28/2008	Berlin
100 km road run	7:18:57 h	Birgit Lennartz	April 28, 1990	Hanau
4 × 200 m relay	1: 28.15 min	DVfL selection team ( Marlies Göhr , Romy Müller , Bärbel Wöckel , Marita Koch )	08/09/1980	Jena
4 × 800 m relay	7: 54.2 min	DVfL selection team ( Elfi Zinn , Gunhild Hoffmeister , Anita Weiß , Ulrike Klapezynski )	08/06/1976	Karl Marx City
10,000 m walking (track)	42: 11.5 min	Sabine Zimmer	07/02/2005	Wattenscheid
20,000 m walking (track)	1: 40: 42.0 h	Beate Anders	06/27/1993	Lapinlahti
Decathlon	7,885 points	Mona Steigauf	09/22/1997	Awls
	1st day: 12.15 s (100 m) - 5.93 m (long jump) - 12.49 m (ball) - 1.73 m (high jump) - 55.34 s (400 m) 2nd day: 13 , 75 s (100 m H) - 34.68 m (discus) - 3.10 m (pole vault) - 42.24 m (javelin) - 5: 07.95 min (1500 m)

Indoor records

Indoor records, men

discipline	power	Athlete / athletes	date	place
50 m	5.61 s	Manfred Kokot	02/04/1973	Berlin
60 m	6.52 s	Julian Reus	02/27/2016	Leipzig
200 m	20.42 s	Sebastian Ernst	02/27/2011	Leipzig
400 m	45.05 s	Thomas Schönlebe	02/05/1988	Sindelfingen
800 m	1: 44.88 min	Nico Motchebon	02/05/1995	Stuttgart
1000 m	2: 17.09 min	Jens-Peter Herold	02/05/1993	Berlin
1500 m	3: 34.13 min	Homiyu Tesfaye	02/19/2015	Stockholm
1 mile	3: 53.74 min	Jens-Peter Herold	03/01/1993	Karlsruhe
3000 m	7: 37.51 min	Dieter Baumann	02/12/1995	Karlsruhe
5000 m	13: 27.53 min	Arne Gabius	01/29/2015	Dusseldorf
50 m hurdles	6.45 s	Thomas Munkelt	02/10/1979	Ottawa
60 m hurdles	7.41 s	Falk Balzer	01/29/1999	Chemnitz
high jump	2.42 m	Carlo Thränhardt	02/26/1988	Berlin
Pole vault	6.00 m	Danny Ecker	02/11/2001	Dortmund
Long jump	8.71 m	Sebastian Bayer	03/08/2009	Turin
Triple jump	17.52 m	Max Hess	03.03.2017	Belgrade
Shot put	22.55 m	Ulf Timmermann	02/11/1989	Senftenberg
Heptathlon	6,291 points	Frank Busemann	02/03/2002	Tallinn
	1st day: 6.96 s (60 m) - 7.77 m (long jump) - 14.57 m (ball) - 2.10 m (high jump) 2nd day: 7.91 s (60 m H) - 4.85 m (pole vault) - 2: 40.93 min (1000 m)
5000 m walking	18: 11.41 min	Ronald Weigel	02/13/1988	Vienna
4 × 200 m relay	1: 23.51 min	TV Wattenscheid ( Julian Reus , Robin Erewa , Sebastian Ernst , Alexander Kosenkow )	02/23/2014	Leipzig
4 × 400 m relay	3: 03.05 min	DLV national relay ( Rico Lieder , Jens Carlowitz , Karsten Just , Thomas Schönlebe )	03/10/1991	Seville
3 × 1000 m relay	6: 59.95 min	SC Charlottenburg ( Nico Motchebon , John-Henry May , Jens-Peter Herold )	02/21/1993	Dortmund

Indoor records, women

discipline	power	Athletes	date	place
50 m	6.11 s	Marita Koch	02/02/1980	Grenoble
60 m	7.04 s	Marita Koch	02/16/1985	Senftenberg
200 m	22.27 s	Heike Drechsler	07.03.1987	Indianapolis
400 m	50.01 s	Sabine Busch	02/02/1984	Vienna
800 m	1: 56.40 min	Christine Wachtel	02/13/1988	Vienna
1000 m	2: 34.8 min	Brigitte Kraus	02/19/1978	Dortmund
1500 m	3: 59.87 min	Konstanze Klosterhalfen	02/09/2020	New York City
1 mile	4: 17.26 min	Konstanze Klosterhalfen	02/09/2020	New York City
3000 m	8: 32.47 min	Konstanze Klosterhalfen	02/16/2019	Leipzig
5000 m	14: 55.99 min	Irina Mikitenko	02/11/2001	Dortmund
50 m hurdles	6.58 s	Cornelia Oschkenat	02/20/1988	Berlin
60 m hurdles	7.73 s	Cornelia Oschkenat	02/25/1989	Vienna
high jump	2.07 m	Heike Henkel	02/08/1992	Karlsruhe
Pole vault	4.77 m	Silke Spiegelburg	January 15, 2012	Leverkusen
Long jump	7.37 m	Heike Drechsler	02/13/1988	Vienna
Triple jump	14.59 m	Kristin Gierisch	02/10/2019	Chemnitz
Shot put	21.59 m	Ilona Slupianek	01/24/1979	Berlin
Pentathlon	4,780 points	Sabine Braun	03/07/1997	Paris
	8.11 s (60 m H) - 1.86 m (high jump) - 14.39 m (ball) - 6.40 m (long jump) - 2: 19.74 min (800 m)
3000 m walking	11: 50.48 min	Melanie Seeger	02/21/2004	Dortmund
4 × 200 m relay	1: 32.55 min	SC Eintracht Hamm ( Helga Arendt , Silke-Beate Knoll , Mechthild Kluth , Gisela Kinzel )	02/20/1988	Dortmund
4 × 400 m relay	3: 27.22 min	DLV national relay ( Sandra Seuser , Katrin Schreiter , Annett Hesselbarth , Grit Breuer )	03/10/1991	Seville

Web links

• German records on the DLV website
• Development of the German records on the DLV website

Footnotes

1. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Geipels name is deleted from the record list . May 5, 2006
2. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Record resolution implemented . May 11, 2006
3. ↑ N24 : “Rather memorials” - 21 GDR records still valid ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . September 28, 2010  
4. ^ Andreas Singler & Gerhard Treutlein: Doping in top sport. Sports science analyzes of national and international performance development. Part 1. Meyer & Meyer Verlag, 2006, ISBN 389899192X
5. ↑ DLV can cut doping records (PDF; 45 kB). Summary on the Wüterich and Breucker website
6. ↑ Grit Hartmann: Dirty record laundry. According to DOSB, the deletion of top doping marks is impossible - but legitimate according to the rules of sport. In: Berliner Zeitung . May 29, 2007, accessed June 19, 2015 . 
7. ↑ Udo Ludwig: I don't want to lie . In: Der Spiegel . No. 4 , 2010, p. 116 ( online ).
8. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m} wind in meters per second; positive value: tail wind, negative value: head wind .
9. ↑ In 1986 new regulations on the design of the spear came into force for men. The distances achieved with a new or old spear are not directly comparable. The distance achieved with the new spear officially counts as the German record. Uwe Hohn's performance was a world record and was no longer surpassed with the old spear.
10. ↑ In 1999 new regulations on the design of the spear came into force for women. The distances achieved with a new or old spear are not directly comparable. The distance achieved with the new spear officially counts as the German record. Petra Felke's performance was a world record and was no longer surpassed with the old spear.
11. ↑ In January 2010 Gesine Walther had her name deleted from the record list because her achievements were achieved with the help of doping.
12. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Interim timing on a longer competition course
13. ↑ ^{a b c d e} The DLV does not hold a record in this discipline.
14. ↑ Richard Ringer brilliant fourth in Joshua Cheptegei's world record. In: Leichtathletik.de , November 18, 2018.
15. ↑ ^{a b c d} Source: Association of Road Racing Statisticians (English). The ARRS does not take into account intermediate times on longer routes.
16. ↑ Karl Fleschen's achievement is not internationally recognized because it was achieved on what is presumably too short a competition route. Otherwise it would be a European record officially held by the Frenchman James Kibocha Theuri with 1:14:20 h - run on April 5, 2009 as an interim time at the Paris Marathon . The best recognized time of a German athlete was 1:15:21 h Rainer Wachenbrunner on May 3, 1992 in Berlin.
17. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} The DLV only holds the record in this discipline unofficially.
18. ↑ The Association of Road Racing Statisticians has a German record of 1:07:59 h, set by Uta Pippig on March 20, 1994 in Kyoto and set by herself on March 19, 1995.
19. ↑ The fastest time in a competition over 25 km was achieved by Kathrin Ullrich on May 3, 1992 in Berlin with 1:24:41 h .
20. ↑ German Athletics Association (Ed.): DLV-Jahrbuch 2009. Justus-von-Liebig-Verlag, Darmstadt 2009, ISBN 978-3-87390-279-4 , page 145.