Kerstin Metzler-Mennenga

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Kerstin Metzler-Mennenga (born May 20, 1981 in Chur as Kerstin Mennenga ) is a Liechtenstein long-distance runner .

Life

In 2005 she finished second on the half marathon route of the Tirol Speed ​​Marathon in 1:22:36 h, although this course is not suitable for a record because of the steep gradient. In the same year she finished 58th in 1:25:29 h at the World Half Marathon Championships in Edmonton .

On August 24, 2006, she claims to have set a national record in Munich with a time of 36: 57.24 minutes in the 10,000-meter run , which, however, was revoked at the end of 2007.

At the Berlin Marathon 2007 it was registered with a time of 2:42:21 h, which would also have been a national record. However, it turned out that under the pretext of a scientific study and under a false name, she had induced another runner to attach her ChampionChip to his shoe in addition to his own. This runner reported the discrepancies to the organizer after the run.

At a press conference on October 12, 2007, she admitted that she had already used the same method at the Hamburg Marathon of the same year (where she also supposedly set a national record) to have her qualification for the marathon of the 2007 World Athletics Championships in Osaka, in which she had finished 53rd four weeks before the Berlin Marathon. The Liechtenstein Olympic Sports Association then banned Metzler-Mennenga for life from the Olympic Games and the small state games .

Her case also caused a stir because shortly before the Mexican politician Roberto Madrazo had also been convicted of sports fraud at the Berlin Marathon.

Kerstin Metzler-Mennenga is a physiotherapist and studies sports and movement sciences at the ETH Zurich . She starts for the LC Uster .

In backward running she holds the world best time over the half marathon distance with 2:15:38. Between 2006 and 2009 she also set world records over 5,000 meters, 10,000 meters and the marathon route.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Herbert Steffny : Marathon cheat: Mexican politician and Liechtenstein's "record holder" . Addendum dated December 15, 2007
  2. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: The runner wanted to steal the Olympic qualification . October 13, 2007
  3. ↑ Laufen-in-Hamburg.de: Cheating at the Hamburg Marathon, for the third: Kerstin Metzler-Mennenga cheated on the World Cup qualification
  4. ↑ a b Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : Marathon: Everything just sneakily . October 17, 2007
  5. ^ Liechtensteiner Volksblatt : Metzler-Mennenga has cheated . October 12, 2007
  6. ↑ St. Galler Tagblatt : Hard, but wonderful. Kerstin Metzler-Mennenga 53rd at the World Championship marathon . September 4, 2007
  7. ^ Liechtensteiner Volksblatt : Sanctions against Metzler-Mennenga . October 16, 2007
  8. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Frauds on the marathon route . October 18, 2007
  9. ^ Record club Saxonia: world records in backward running
  10. ^ Liechtensteiner Volksblatt : Mennenga ran a world record . September 10, 2006
  11. ↑ Achim Aretz: Fascination Marathon the other way around: Philosophy, thoughts and knowledge, limited preview in the Google book search
  12. ↑ Tony Lyons: Weirdest and Wackiest World Records limited preview in Google Book Search
personal data
SURNAME Metzler-Mennenga, Kerstin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mennenga, Kerstin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Liechtenstein long-distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Chur