Eva-Maria Westphal

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Eva-Maria Westphal athletics
nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday January 14, 1918
job Dental assistant
date of death 1996
Career
discipline Ultra marathon
society VfL 93 Hamburg
last change: November 15, 2019

Eva-Maria Westphal (born January 14, 1918 ; † 1996 ) was a German marathon and ultramarathon runner . She is considered a pioneer in long-distance running and was the first woman to hold the German record in the 100 km run from 1970 to 1974 .

The dental assistant from Hamburg , not necessarily blessed with a runner figure, won the 100 km of Biel in 1969 and 1971 , one of the largest ultramarathons in the world , at the age of over fifty . There she set the first German record over 100 km on June 14, 1969 in 12:24:00 h . At the 100 km run in Unna she won four times in a row from 1969 to 1972 and when she won on September 5, 1971, she beat her own German record in a personal best with a time of 10:11:51 h . This record was improved on September 11, 1974 by Christel Vollmerhausen in Unna to 10:09:17 h . Westphal competed in her favorite discipline, the 100 km run, between the ages of 48 and 70, a total of 21 times in Biel , Switzerland , 15 times in Unna, 7 times in Hamm and once in Hartola, Finland .

In 1972 Westphal came second in 3:52:30 h in the Black Forest Marathon , the first ever to be advertised for women and at the time the largest marathon in the world, after missing out on the overall victory of 71 participants last year just a few seconds behind Elfriede Rapp. She won the 1973 Wolfsburg Marathon with a time of 3:55:17 h . Eva-Maria Westphal was the oldest starter at the age of 54 (13th place, 3:47:34 hrs ) in the first international marathon in Waldniel, organized by Ernst van Aaken as the unofficial world championship , and also in the second event in 1974, the was accompanied by the ZDF sports report. In 1974 Westphal also won the Sensenstein Marathon near Nieste in March in 4:00:10 h , finished third in the Wolfsburg Marathon in 3:24:54 h in May and in October became the first woman ever to win the Athens Marathon with one time from 3:55:56 h .

Web links

  • Athlete profile in the statistics of the German Ultramarathon Association
  • Athlete profile with the Association of Road Racing Statisticians
  • ZDF sports report from 1974 about the 2nd Int. Waldniel women's marathon, youtube.com

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Günter Krehl: Bräunlingen - cradle of the women's marathon. In: Laufreport.de. October 9, 2011, accessed November 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ The development of the German athletics records. In: Leichtathletik.de. October 1, 2019, accessed November 15, 2019 .
  3. ^ Stefan Limberger-Andris: The Black Forest Marathon - a success story since 1968. In: schwarzwaldmarathon.de. 2007, accessed November 15, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Helmut Grolman won the decathlon . In: HNA . October 11, 1971.
  5. ↑ Great, these marathon women . In: HNA . October 29, 1973.
  6. ↑ "Marafhonese" from 9 to 73! In: HNA . March 25, 1974.
  7. ↑ Horst Milde: 2500 years of the marathon - where the marathon is at home. In: germanroadraces.de. October 27, 2010, accessed November 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Westphal, Eva-Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ultra runner
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1918
DATE OF DEATH 1996