Günther Weidlinger

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Günther Weidlinger athletics

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Günther Weidlinger at the Vienna City Marathon (2009)

nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 5th April 1978 (age 42)
place of birth Braunau am Inn , Austria
size 169 cm
Weight 54 kg
Career
End of career 2014
last change: October 27, 2019

Günther Weidlinger (born April 5, 1978 in Braunau am Inn ) is a former Austrian long-distance and obstacle runner .

Career

1997 Weidlinger became Junior European Champion. In 1999 he won the U23 European Championships and was ninth at the World Championships in Seville over 3000 meters obstacle with the current Austrian record of 8: 10.83 min. At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney he was eighth and twelfth at the 2002 European Championships in Munich. The following year he fell at the World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis .

In the following season he switched to the 5000 meter run and qualified for the Olympic Games in Athens , in which he was eliminated in the preliminary run. In 2005 he returned to the obstacle course and was twelfth at the World Championships in Helsinki . At the European Championships in Gothenburg in 2006 he came in seventh place.

In the hall, Weidlinger was fourth in the 3000 meter run at the 2005 European Championships in Madrid and seventh at the 2007 European Indoor Championships in Birmingham .

In the obstacle course at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, he was eliminated in advance after he stumbled due to a lack of concentration and hit an obstacle head first while falling. He suffered lacerations on his face and a concussion and had to be treated for minutes. Weidlinger never watched the fall himself. Then he finally switched to long-distance running.

At the 2007 road running world championships in Udine, Weidlinger finished 23rd and set an Austrian record in the half marathon with 1:01:42 h . His 20 km run time of 58:38 minutes is also a national record. In previous years he had already celebrated successes in road races with victories at the Basel City Run (2005), the Lucerne City Run (2006) and the Corrida Bulloise (2006) .

In 2008 he won the Great Manchester Run . Shortly before, he had qualified with the Austrian record of 27: 36.46 min for the 10,000-meter run of the Olympic Games in Beijing , in which he finished 27th. At the end of the season he won the Peuerbach New Year's Eve run for the seventh time , which he won for the first time in 2000.

In 2009 he switched to the marathon distance . On his debut, he was ninth in the Vienna City Marathon in 2:12:39 h. In the second attempt he broke Gerhard Hartmann's 23-year-old Austrian record by finishing tenth in the Frankfurt Marathon with 2:10:47 h . A month later, he won the Great Australian Run , beating Olympic marathon champion Samuel Kamau Wanjiru .

At the Vienna City Marathon 2010 he was plagued by leg cramps from kilometer 26, but still fought his way through and finished twelfth in 2:14:05 h. At the heat marathon of the European Championships in Barcelona he stayed in the top group in the first half, but then fell further and further and came in 18th place. On October 30, 2011, the Upper Austrian qualified in the 30th Frankfurt Marathon in 2:12:23 h for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. There he had to give up after only 13 km.

Weidlinger was six times Austrian champion in the 3000 meter obstacle course. In addition, he has so far won four national titles in the 5000, four in the 10,000 meters, three in the 10 km road race, seven in the cross country on the short and six in the long distance as well as one title in the 1500 meters .

In March 2012 Weidlinger was accepted by the Austrian Olympic Committee (ÖOC) for a starting place in the XXX. Nominated for the Olympic Games from July 27th to August 12th in London. He had to give up the Olympic marathon after an injury at 10 km.

On April 28, 2014, Weidlinger announced the end of his international career with the addition that from now on he would only contest national races as a hobby athlete. A few weeks earlier he had to cancel his participation over the half marathon distance in the Linz Marathon due to a weakness in training , where he wanted to undercut the course record.

Personal

Weidlinger was 1.69 m tall and weighed 54 kg when he was active. As a relatively small athlete, he doesn't actually have the ideal figure for the obstacle course, but he compensated for this with his very good technique. The sports soldier is trained by his father Heinrich Weidlinger. In his youth he started for the ATSV Braunau, then for the SU IGLA long life. In August 2010 he was nominated for a four-year period on the European Athletics Athletes Commission . He lives with his wife, whom he married in May 2010, in Weißkirchen an der Traun and they have a son.

Personal bests

  • 1500 m: 3: 34.69 min, June 7, 2000, Kassel (Austrian record)
  • 3000 m: 7: 48.46 min, August 2, 2004, Linz
    • Hall: 7: 44.19 min, February 18, 2003, Stockholm (Austrian record)
  • 5000 m: 13: 13.44 min, July 22, 2005, London (Austrian record)
  • 10,000 m: 27: 36.46 min, May 4, 2008, Palo Alto (Austrian record)
  • 10k road run: 28:10 min, May 18, 2008, Manchester
  • Half marathon: 1:01:42 h, October 14, 2007, Udine
  • Marathon: 2:10:47 h, October 25, 2009, Frankfurt
  • 3000 m obstacle: 8: 10.83 min, August 21, 1999, Seville

Web links

Commons : Günther Weidlinger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ IAAF: Pavey and Weidlinger take confident 10km race victories in Manchester ( Memento from June 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). May 18, 2008.
  2. ↑ German Road Races : All-round runner Günther Weidlinger now also a marathon ace - Wilfried Raatz reports ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.germanroadraces.de archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . October 28, 2009
  3. ↑ IAAF: Weidlinger upstages Wanjiru in Melbourne ( Memento of 7 December 2009 at the Internet Archive ). November 29, 2009.
  4. ↑ Upper Austrian News : Austria's biggest EM debacle ended with Weidlinger's near collapse . August 2, 2010.
  5. ↑ HDsports.at: Weidlinger and Mayr run marathon Olympic limit . October 30, 2011.
  6. ↑ HDsports.at: Weidlinger drops out of the London Marathon! . August 12, 2012.
  7. ↑ ÖOC nominated the first 24 active participants for London  ( 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. (March 12, 2012)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.vol.at  
  8. ↑ Weidlinger ends international career In: Der Standard.
  9. ↑ Weidlinger cancels start after a fit of weakness. In: Kronenzeitung.
  10. ↑ ÖLV : Günther Weidlinger in the athletes' commission of European Athletics ( memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oelv.at 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. . August 30, 2010
  11. ↑ Profile of Günther Weidlinger
personal data
SURNAME Weidlinger, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian obstacle and long distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH April 5th 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunau am Inn