Gesa Felicitas Krause

Gesa Felicitas Krause
Gesa Krause at the German Championships 2018
nation	Germany
birthday	3rd August 1992 (age 28)
place of birth	Ehringshausen ,  Germany
size	167 cm
Weight	50 kg
job	Sports soldier
Career
discipline	3000 m obstacle , 5000 m , 1500 m , 800 m
Best performance	3000 m obstacle: 9: 03.30 min 5000 m: 15: 24.53 min 1500 m: 4: 06.99 min 800 m: 2: 03.09 min
society	New Year's Eve run Trier
Trainer	Wolfgang Heinig
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 0 × 2 × European championships 2 × 0 × 1 × U23 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × German championships 6 × 1 × 0 × German indoor championships 1 × 3 × 1 ×
World championships bronze Beijing 2015 3000 m obstacle bronze Doha 2019 3000 m obstacle  European championships bronze Helsinki 2012 3000 m obstacle gold Amsterdam 2016 3000 m obstacle gold Berlin 2018 3000 m obstacle  U23 European Championships gold Tampere 2013 3000 m obstacle  Junior European Championships gold Tallinn 2011 3000 m obstacle  German championships silver Ulm 2014 3000 m obstacle gold Nuremberg 2015 3000 m obstacle gold Kassel 2016 3000 m obstacle gold Erfurt 2017 3000 m obstacle gold Erfurt 2017 5000 m gold Nuremberg 2018 3000 m obstacle gold Berlin 2019 3000 m obstacle  German indoor championships bronze Karlsruhe 2012 1500 m gold Karlsruhe 2015 3000 m silver Leipzig 2017 3000 m silver Dortmund 2018 3000 m silver Leipzig 2019 1500 m
last change: May 4, 2020

Gesa Krause celebrates her world best over 2000 meters obstacle at the ISTAF Berlin 2019.

Gesa Felicitas Krause (born August 3, 1992 in Ehringshausen , Lahn-Dill-Kreis , Hessen ) is a German athlete . Her specialty is the 3,000 meter obstacle course , in which she has held the German record since 2016. Her greatest successes are the two European championships in 2016 and 2018 as well as winning the bronze medal at the World Championships in 2015 and 2019 .

career path

In 2011 Gesa Krause graduated from high school. In October 2012 she began to study international business at the accadis Hochschule Bad Homburg , which, however, could not be combined with a sports career. In 2013 she completed her basic training as a sports soldier , after which she took up a distance learning course in business psychology, which she later gave up.

Athletic career

Gesa Krause started athletics when she was eight. It quickly became clear that she had great talent , especially in the running area . After she was always at the forefront in the youth field in the national field, she won her first international medal on the track at the end of July 2011 and was U20 European champion in the 3000 meter obstacle course in Tallinn . In her world championship debut in September 2011 at the world championships in Daegu ( South Korea ), she reached the final in the 3000 meter obstacle course as third in her heat, in which she set a new personal best of 9: 32.74 minutes after the disqualification of the Russian doping offender Julija Saripowa took eighth place, a U20 European record that was narrowly undercut five years later at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro by the Danish Anna Emilie Møller (9: 32.68 min). Gesa Felicitas Krause also temporarily held the German youth record over 2000 meters obstacle.

In addition to eighth place at the 2011 World Championships and the U20 European Champion title in the same year, Gesa Felicitas Krause achieved other international placements in the obstacle course: in 2010 she was fourth at the U20 World Championships, and in 2009 seventh at the U18 World Championships. In 2010 she won the national title of youth champion. In 2008 and 2009 she was the German B youth champion in the obstacle course, in 2009 even over 1500 m.

At the European Championships in Helsinki in 2012 , she took fourth place in the 3000-meter obstacle course. After the second-placed Ukrainian doping sinner Switlana Schmidt was subsequently disqualified in 2015, Krause also moved up to third place in this ranking. At the Olympic Games in London she won her lead in a new personal best of 9: 24.91 minutes, which she increased in the final as eighth to 9: 23.52 minutes.

At the U23 European Championships in Tampere in 2013 , she won the gold medal in a new championship record time of 9: 38.91 minutes. In 2014 she finished fifth at the European Championships in Zurich . She also came in fifth at the 2015 European Indoor Championships in Prague , where she started over 1500 meters.

On August 26, 2015, Krause won the bronze medal behind Hyvin Kiyeng Jepkemoi and Habiba Ghribi at the World Championships in Beijing with a personal best (9: 19.25 min) . This was the first German individual running medal since the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton , when Ingo Schultz won silver in the 400-meter run.

At the European Championships in Amsterdam in 2016 , she won the title with a new personal best of 9: 18.85 min. In the 3000 meter obstacle final of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , she finished sixth in a new German record time of 9: 18.41 minutes.

In 2017, Krause became the European team champion in Lille in northern France , to which she contributed by winning the 3,000-meter obstacle course . At the World Championships in London , she fought her way in the final after falling over a runner who had fallen directly in front of her, in which she was kicked on the ankle, and she was also hit in the head, which is why she initially ran on slightly dazed from the end of the Field in ninth place. On August 27, she set a new German record over 3000 m obstacle at the ISTAF in Berlin with 9: 11.85 min. On September 6th, Krause improved her personal best over 800 m at the evening sports festival in Pfungstadt by more than two seconds to 2: 03.09 min.

In 2018, Krause won the runner-up title over 3000 m at the German Indoor Championships in Dortmund. On August 12, 2018, she was able to successfully defend her European title at the European Championships in Berlin .

At the 2019 World Championships in Doha , Krause took bronze for the second time after 2015 in a new German record time of 9: 03.30 minutes.

Club affiliations

Gesa Krause has been running for the Trier New Year's Eve Association since 2017. When she switched to the sports boarding school at the Carl-von-Weinberg-Schule in Frankfurt am Main as a 16-year-old, she started for LG Eintracht Frankfurt . Your first club was the TV 1843 Dillenburg. Krause is trained by Wolfgang Heinig , husband and former trainer of the former marathon runner Katrin Dörre-Heinig .

Personal bests

• 0800 m: 2: 03.09 min, Pfungstadt , September 6, 2017
• 1000 m: 2: 41.59 min, Wehrheim , July 31, 2011
• 1500 m: 4: 06.99 min, Stockholm ( SWE ), June 16, 2016
• 1500 m (hall): 4: 08.91 min, Karlsruhe , February 6, 2016
• 3000 m: 9: 02.04 min, Hengelo ( NLD ), May 24, 2015
• 3000 m (hall): 8: 49.43 min, Glasgow ( GBR ), February 20, 2016
• 2000 m obstacle: 5: 52.80 min, Berlin , September 1, 2019 (world best)
• 3000 m obstacle: 9: 03.30 min, Doha , September 30, 2019 (German record)
• 5000 m: 15: 24.53 min, Shanghai ( CHN ), May 13, 2017
• 5 km road run : 16:14 min, Trier , December 31, 2015
• 10 km road race: 33:29 min, Paderborn , April 4, 2015
• Half marathon: 1:12:16 h, Berlin , April 8, 2018

Honors

• 2011: Youth lightweight hatlet of the year
• 2011: " Elite student of sport "
• 2015–2017: Athlete of the year
• 2017: Honored at the German Sports Press Ball as "Athlete with a Heart" and awarded the Pegasos Prize .
• 2017: DLV honor badge as the first female athlete
• 2017: Winner for role models in sport in the athlete election of the year
• July 2016 and September 2019: Sportsman of the month

Web links

Commons : Gesa Felicitas Krause  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Gesa Krause own homepage
• Gesa Felicitas Krause in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Team EM 2017 Lille Team brochure of the DLV, p. 31 (pdf 29 MB)
• Athlete portrait by Gesa Felicitas Krause on Leichtathletik.de
• Deutsche Sporthilfe - Interview
• Gesa Felicitas Krause in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gesa Krause: "A year without medals is a year in which I will run out of money in the end" (May 4, 2020)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Team EM 2017 Lille Team brochure of the DLV, p. 31 (pdf 29 MB)
3. ↑ Episode 113: Athlete Gesa Felicitas Krause - The common thread: She takes every hurdle Frankfurter Neue Presse from March 7, 2015
4. ↑ Krause doesn't need a medal to be a champion. In: sueddeutsche.de. August 12, 2017. Retrieved July 27, 2018 . 
5. ↑ IAAF appeals six recent RUSADA decisions athleticsweekly.com March 25, 2015 ; Russian walkers have to hand in medals faz.net March 24, 2016
6. ↑ http://www.endungstadt-leichtathletik.de/wp/?p=358 Accessed on August 31, 2011
7. ↑ Final status EM 2012 ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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.  
8. ↑ Jan-Henner Reitze: EM 2012: Subsequent silver and bronze for DLV-Asse . Leichtathletik.de. May 31, 2015. Accessed May 31, 2015.
9. ↑ http://www.london2012.com/athletics/event/women-3km-steeplechase/phase=atw033100/index.html Accessed August 6, 2012
10. ↑ Bronze! Krause is fulfilling her dream Sportschau.de, accessed on August 26, 2015.
11. ↑ Krause is running a German record - and yet has no chance . RP Online, August 15, 2016
12. ↑ Jan-Henner Reitze: Gesa Felicitas Krause falls and fights her way back - gold for Emma Coburn , WM 2017, from August 11, 2017, accessed August 11, 2017
13. ↑ Gesa Krause moves to Trier . Leichtathletik.de, November 29, 2016
14. ↑ The “Athletes of the Year” 2015: Result of the vote. Leichtathletik.de, accessed on May 2, 2017 . 
15. ↑ Krause, Rosberg and Messner honored at the sports press ball , gala evening, November 5, 2017, accessed on November 6, 2017
16. ↑ Gesa Krause awarded the DLV badge of honor ( Memento from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Association Day of the German Athletics Association in Darmstadt, November 18, 2017, accessed on November 20, 2017
17. ↑ These are the athletes of the year 2017 , athlete election of the year in Baden-Baden, from December 17, 2017, accessed on December 18, 2017