Elisabeth Rust

Elisabeth Rust
nation	Austria
birthday	June 14, 1958
place of birth	Austria
date of death	November 22, 2004
Career
discipline	Long distance and mountain running
Best performance	2:43:36 h (marathon)
society	Post SV Graz and LAC Salzburg
Medal table
Austrian championships 6 × 0 × 0 ×
Austrian championship gold Pinkafeld 1993 half marathon gold 1993 Mountain run gold Schönkirchen 1994 half marathon gold 1994 Mountain run gold Graz 1995 marathon gold Graz 1998 marathon
last change: November 13, 2018

Elisabeth Rust (née Zöscher ; born June 14, 1958 ; † November 22, 2004 ) was an Austrian long-distance and mountain runner .

Career

She won the Graz Marathon three times : in 1994, 1995 and 1998, with the last two victories also making her Austrian marathon champion. In 1993 and 1994 she was Austrian champion in half marathon and mountain running; two further national titles in mountain running were added in 2000 and 2001.

A total of five times she came in the top 10 at mountain running world championships , with a seventh place in 1990 as the best placement.
Her personal best in the marathon of 2:43:36 hours was achieved in 2000 at the Vienna City Marathon . In September 2000 she set a course record in the Schneeberglauf , which was only broken in 2008 by Andrea Mayr . In 2001 she won the Upper Elbe Marathon .

Elisabeth Rust started for the Post SV Graz and the LAC Salzburg. In 1991 and 1993 she was awarded the Dottermann Prize as the best Styrian athlete . She died on November 22, 2004 at the age of 46.

Sporting successes

Personal records

• 3000 m : 9: 40.52 min, June 6, 1993, Kapfenberg
• 5000 m : 17: 22.39 min, September 2, 1995, Kapfenberg
• 10,000 m : 35: 32.61 min, May 22, 1993, Dornbirn (10th place in the Austrian all-time best list, as of June 2009)
• Half marathon: 1:16:56 h, September 5, 1993, Pinkafeld (10th place in the Austrian all-time best list, as of June 2009)
• Marathon: 2:43:36 h, May 21, 2000, Vienna (10th place in the Austrian all-time best list, as of June 2009)

Web links

• Athlete portrait on the ÖLV website
• Reproduction of the obituary notice on the Styrian Athletics Association's website (PDF file; 96 kB)
• Obituary Elisabeth Rust by Maximilian Erker, Styrian running sport coordinator, on the ÖLV website, November 25, 2004

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Styrian Athletics Association: Dottermann Prize  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Obituary by Elisabeth Rust ( Memento of the original from May 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Schneeberglauf - Hall of Fame ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2015 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.