Konstanze Klosterhalfen

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Konstanze Klosterhalfen athletics

Konstanze Klosterhalfen (2018)
Klosterhalfen in Kortrijk 2018

nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 18th February 1997 (age 23)
place of birth BonnGermany
size 174 cm
Weight 48 kg
job Student (Sports Journalism)
Career
discipline 800 m , 1500 m , 3000 m , 5000 m
society SSG Königswinter (2002 to 2007)
TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen (since 2008)
Nike Oregon Project (2019)
Trainer Pete Julian , Sebastian Weiß , formerly: Sigrid Bühler
Medal table
World championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Junior World Championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
European Indoor Championships 0 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
European Cross Country Championships 3 × gold 3 × silver 1 × bronze
U23 European Championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
German championships 4 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
German indoor championships 5 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
IAAF logo World championships
bronze Doha 2019 5000 m
IAAF logo Junior World Championships
bronze Bydgoszcz 2016 3000 m
EAA logo European Indoor Championships
silver Belgrade 2017 1500 m
silver Glasgow 2019 3000 m
EAA logo European Cross Country Championships
bronze Samokov 2014 Junior team
gold Hyères 2015 Juniors singles
gold Hyères 2015 Junior team
gold Chia 2016 Juniors singles
silver Chia 2016 Junior team
silver Šamorín 2017 U23 singles
silver Šamorín 2017 U23 team
EAA logo U23 European Championships
gold Bydgoszcz 2017 1500 m
DLV logo German championships
silver Nuremberg 2015 1500 m
gold Kassel 2016 1500 m
gold Erfurt 2017 1500 m
gold Nuremberg 2018 1500 m
gold Berlin 2019 5000 m
DLV logo German indoor championships
silver Karlsruhe 2015 1500 m
gold Leipzig 2016 3000 m
gold Leipzig 2017 1500 m
gold Sindelfingen 2017 3 × 800 m
gold Dortmund 2018 3000 m
gold Leipzig 2019 3000 m
last change: February 28, 2020

Konstanze Klosterhalfen (born February 18, 1997 in Bonn ) is a German medium and long-distance runner . In addition to several German youth and junior records and European youth records, it also holds the German records in the 3000 and 5000 meter run .

Personal

Klosterhalfen grew up in Königswinter - Bockeroth , her father is a lawyer and her mother a teacher. In her youth she was an altar boy and took part in Berlin Fashion Week twice as a model . After graduating from high school in 2015 at the Oelberg high school , she began studying sports journalism at the German Sport University Cologne .

Athletic career

At the age of 5, Klosterhalfens started his track and field career at SSG Königswinter with general athletics. In 2008 she specialized in running, initially training twice a week.

Since Klosterhalfen ran over 800 meters at 2: 38.42 minutes at the age of twelve, she has continuously improved.

In 2012, Klosterhalfen took part in the German Youth Championships for the first time . Over 800 meters she reached the final in the female youth U18 and achieved seventh place there. About a year later, Klosterhalfen was able to improve and again took second place over the 800-meter course at the 2013 German Youth Championships in a time of 2: 07.52 minutes. In 2014 she again secured silver at the German Cross Country Championships over 4.36 km of the U18 behind the superior victorious Alina Reh . Later that year, Klosterhalfen became German U18 champion in the 1,500 meter run . In the same year she achieved her first significant international result with fourth place over 1500 meters at the Summer Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing .

In 2015 she won in the U20 age group at the German Championships both indoors and outdoors. In the active class, she took second place behind Maren Kock . Klosterhalfen won the first international medal of the year at the U20 European Championships in Eskilstuna , Sweden , where she was third in the 1500 m. In August she ran 3000 meters in a mixed race in Bergisch Gladbach in 8: 53.21 min, making her over four seconds faster than Ursula Sauer , who set the German U20 record over this distance in 1979. In November, Klosterhalfen surprised at the cross-country run in Pforzheim when she defeated two-time U20 European champion Alina Reh in a narrow decision in the U20 race. So she qualified for the European Cross Country Championships in Hyères . At the European Cross Country Championships, she won the junior race, leading the German team around Alina Reh, Sarah Kistner and Franziska Reng to victory in the team classification.

On February 6, 2016, Klosterhalfen in Karlsruhe set an indoor European record over 1500 meters in the U20 age group with a time of 4: 08.38 minutes. On February 21, she won the 800 m championship at the German Youth Indoor Championships and improved the 36-year-old German U20 indoor record with a winning time of 2: 03.37 min. On February 28, she won the German Indoor Championships in Leipzig in the 3000 meter run and thus won her first title in the active class. With her winning time of 8: 56.36 min, she set a new indoor European record in the U20 age group, previously held by Sofia Ennaoui from Poland (9: 06.27 min). At the beginning of March, Klosterhalfen won the 10-kilometer road race “Around the Bayer Cross” in Leverkusen and ran the German U20 record in 32:24 minutes.

On May 20, 2016, at the Golden Spike Meeting in Ostrava , Klosterhalfen again set a personal best with 4: 06.91 minutes over 1500 meters and achieved the Olympic standard. A little later she became German champion in Kassel . Thanks to the norm she achieved, she secured participation in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she was eliminated in tenth place with 4: 07.26 minutes. At the Junior World Championships in Bydgoszcz she won the bronze medal over 3000 meters with a German U20 record. At the end of the year she was the outstanding U20 runner at the European Cross Country Championships in Chia, Sardinia, and won the gold medal by a large margin. She also won silver with the German U20 team.

In 2017, Klosterhalfen set a personal best time of 8: 51.75 minutes at the Karlsruhe indoor meeting over 3000 meters and thus also met the norm for the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade . In Leipzig she was also the German indoor champion with a personal best over 1500 meters in 4: 04.91 min . Here, too, she clearly set the standard for Belgrade, where she only had to admit defeat to the British record holder Laura Muir and became European indoor champion . In doing so, Klosterhalfen set a new German U23 indoor record by improving their own over 1500 meters to 4: 04.45 min.

The 2nd Long Running Night - Runners Track Night on May 19, 2017 in Karlsruhe was also very successful for Klosterhalfen: The woman from Leverkusen beat the U23 record with 14: 51.38 min in the 5000 meter run (14: 59.01 min ) by Kathrin Ullrich from 1989 and now took second place in the all-time DLV women's best list behind the German record holder Irina Mikitenko (14: 42.03 min). In addition, Klosterhalfen undercut the norm (15: 22.00 min) for the World Championships in London by half a minute. She achieved another standard for the World Championships on June 3rd at the running gala in Pfungstadt with a personal best over 800 meters and with a time of 1: 59.65 minutes she stayed under two minutes for the first time. Five days later, Klosterhalfen had success at the Diamond League meeting in Rome on June 8th by not only running a personal best over 1500 meters with 3: 59.30 minutes and meeting another standard for the World Championships, but also a new one set the German U23 record and became the sixth German middle distance athlete to break the four-minute limit over 1500 meters.

This made her the youngest runner in the world to achieve the “triple” of 800 meters under two minutes, 1500 meters under four minutes and 5000 meters under 15 minutes.

She was nominated by the DLV for the 2017 European Team Championship and competed there in the 1,500 meter run . She won her competition ahead of Angelika Cichocka from Poland and Natalija Pryschtschepa from Ukraine . She became European team champion with the German team. At the German Championships in Erfurt , she defended her title from the previous year and with 3: 59.58 minutes undercut Jan Merrill's 40-year-old championship record by almost seven seconds. On July 16, she won the U23 European Championships in Bydgoszcz in 4: 10.30 minutes over the 1500 meters.

The German Athletics Association nominated them for the World Championships in London in the 1,500 and 5,000 meters. After the 1500 meter lead, she announced that she would not start over the 5000 meters. Over 1500 meters she was eliminated in the semifinals after she was unable to maintain the pace after trying to break away two laps before the end and was overrun by several runners on the last lap. At the European Team Championships and the U23 European Championships, Klosterhalfen had successfully blown the field with this tactic.

On August 20, 2017, Klosterhalfen took second place behind the Dutchman Sifan Hassan in the 3000 meter race at the British Athletics Birmingham Grand Prix in 8: 29.89 minutes . With her time she undercut the almost 18-year-old German record of Irina Mikitenko by half a second. On August 27th she ran over 1500 m 3: 58.92 min at the ISTAF in Berlin, which not only set her personal best, but also beat her own German U23 record

At the European Cross Country Championships on December 10, 2017 in Šamorín , Slovakia , she won the silver medal in the U23 race behind Alina Reh. Together with Reh and Anna Gehring , she also achieved second place in the team ranking.

Klosterhalfen 2018 on the way to the German championship title over 1500 m ahead of Elena Burkard and Diana Sujew

In 2018, on February 3, at the Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe , Klosterhalfen improved their indoor best time over 1500 meters behind the Ethiopian Genzebe Dibaba to 4: 04.00 min and narrowly missed the German indoor record of 4: 03.64 min. Five days later she started this time again at the indoor meeting in Madrid , but could not improve in 4: 04.72 minutes. On February 18, Klosterhalfen competed at the German Indoor Championships in Dortmund over 3000 meters. After the opening kilometer, which projected to a time of 8:45 min, she was able to increase her pace further in the course of the race and also clearly distanced Gesa Krause , who was initially following her . With the final time of 8: 36.01 min, she undercut the German indoor record set by Kathrin Ullrich in 1988 by more than five seconds. She is also the fastest U23 runner in Europe over the 3000 m, never a runner in her age group has been faster over this distance. In the all-time best list of adults, Klosterhalfen is 11th in Europe and 22nd in the all-time world rankings. She finished the 3000 meter run at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham in 8: 51.79 minutes in seventh place. In preparation for the outdoor season, Klosterhalfen was severely impaired by a knee injury for almost eight weeks in training and was unable to run for four weeks in May. In the first race after the injury, in mid-July, Klosterhalfen reached the European Championship standard over 5000 m with 15: 19.93 min at a meeting in Kortrijk, Belgium , a week later she won the championship title over 1500 m for the fourth time in a row at the German Championships and with 4: 06.34 min was 17 hundredths of a second faster than the personal best running Elena Burkard . At the European Championships in Berlin she competed over 5000 m on August 12 and was fourth after disqualification of the Israeli Lonah Chemtai Salpeter, who was initially placed in front of her . Less than a month later, Klosterhalfen took second place with the European team at the Continental Cup in Ostrava , to which they contributed with fourth place in the individual over 3000 m.

At the end of January 2019, after relocating their training focus to the United States , Klosterhalfen won the 5000-meter run at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in 15: 15.80 minutes ahead of the American Jenny Simpson . On February 9, she also won the 1 mile at the Millrose Games in New York City with a time of 4: 19.98 minutes, which was over eight seconds below the more than 30-year-old German indoor record of Vera Michallek . In addition, she undercut the German indoor record over this distance by just under a second with her 1500-meter running time of 4: 02.70 min. A week later, at the German Indoor Championships in Leipzig , she improved her own German indoor record to 8: 32.47 minutes as the winner over 3000 meters. At the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow in early March , Klosterhalfen won the silver medal behind Britain's Laura Muir with 8: 34.06 min over 3000 m . On June 30th at the Prefontaine Classic in Stanford she ran a new German record over 3000 m in 8: 20.07 minutes behind the Dutchman Sifan Hassan . While Hassan set a European record, Klosterhalfen also stayed below the old record of Gabriela Szabo (8: 21.42 min), at which point she moved up to sixth place in the all- time top list.

Klosterhalfen after winning the bronze medal at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha

At the beginning of August 2019, Klosterhalfen won the German Championships single-handedly over 5000 meters in 14: 26.76 min, which improved Irina Mikitenko's previous German record from 1999 (14: 42.03 min) and her two-year-old best time (14: 51.38 min) undercut. On August 18, she celebrated her first victory in this athletics series at the Diamond League Meeting in Birmingham. In addition, she achieved another national record with 4: 21.11 minutes over the mile, which also meant a meeting record. In October she was third over the 5000 m at the World Athletics Championships in Doha .

In 2020, on February 8th, Klosterhalfen started again at the Millrose Games in the city of New York and increased their own German indoor best performance over the mile by two and a half seconds to 4: 17.26 min, whereby they also set their national record over the 1500 meters by almost three Seconds improved to 3: 59.87 minutes, making the track in the hall less than four minutes for the first time. On February 27, Klosterhalfen won the 5000 m in 14: 30.79 min at the Last Chance Invitational indoor meeting in Boston and set a new European indoor record on the rarely run route. She improved the record set by Romanian Gabriela Szabo (14: 47.35 min) in 1999 by more than 16 seconds. On July 17th, at the Bigger Friendly Meet in Portland (Oregon), Klosterhalfen increased her best time over 1,000 meters to 2: 37.05 minutes and thus also improved the almost 46-year-old club record at TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen.

Klosterhalfen has been a member of the Olympic squad (OK) of the German Athletics Association (DLV) since the competitive sports reform . She was previously in the B-squad .

Club affiliations

Klosterhalfen competed for SSG Königswinter until 2007 and has been with TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen since 2008 . There she was trained in the U16 by Sigrid Bühler; Starting in 2012, Sebastian Weiß, who has been a middle-distance runner in the past, will be her trainer. In the USA, Klosterhalfen runs for Nike and trains with Pete Julian on the Nike campus . At the national level, Klosterhalfen continues to work for Leverkusen, where Weiß is her trainer.

Nike Oregon Project

At the end of November 2018, it was announced that Klosterhalfen is separating from Weiß and will train in Portland in the US in the area of ​​the Nike Oregon Project (NOP). Klosterhalfen was not part of the project for the time being, but was supervised by assistant trainer Pete Julian.

At the end of April 2019, she finally became an official project member. The new training environment is controversial. NOP head coach Alberto Salazar was banned from the USADA for four years at the beginning of October 2019 for violating anti-doping regulations and his IAAF accreditation was withdrawn. The former marathon runner had already been accused of doping in the past.

The DLV thereupon rejected doping allegations against Klosterhalfen: “Despite intensive controls, there were no complaints with her and she rejects any unauthorized method.” Klosterhilfe's management announced that she was being looked after by assistant trainer Julian and “decidedly against any kind of prohibited method Substances "is.

In October 2019, Nike ended the controversial project.

Top performances

(As of July 20, 2020)

Top performances in the hall
discipline Time in min place date
800 m 02: 03.37 GermanyGermany Dortmund February 21, 2016
1500 m 03: 59.87 ( DR ) United StatesUnited States New York City February 8, 2020
1 mile 04: 17.26 ( DR ) United StatesUnited States New York City February 8, 2020
3000 m 08: 32.47 ( DR ) GermanyGermany Leipzig 26th February 2019
5000 m 14: 30.79 (ER) United StatesUnited States Boston February 27, 2020
Outdoor best
discipline Time in min place date
800 m 01: 59.65 GermanyGermany Pfungstadt 3rd June 2017
1000 m 02: 37.05 United StatesUnited States Portland 17th July 2020
1500 m 03: 58.92 GermanyGermany Berlin 27th August 2017
1 mile 04: 21.11 ( DR ) United KingdomUnited Kingdom Birmingham 18th August 2019
3000 m 08: 20.07 ( DR ) United StatesUnited States Stanford June 30, 2019
5000 m 14: 26.76 ( DR ) GermanyGermany Berlin 3rd August 2019
5 km 15:34 GermanyGermany trier December 31, 2017
10 km 32:24 GermanyGermany Leverkusen March 6, 2016
4 × 400 m mixed 3: 49.13 United StatesUnited States Portland 17th July 2020

successes

National successes

International success

Awards

Web links

Commons : Konstanze Klosterhalfen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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