European Athletics Championships 2018/3000 m obstacle women

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discipline 3000 meter obstacle course for women
city GermanyGermany Berlin
place Olympiastadion Berlin
Participants 33 athletes from 20 countries
Competition phase August 10, 2018 (preliminary)
August 12, 2018 (final)
Medalists
gold gold Gesa Felicitas Krause ( GER ) GermanyGermany 
Silver medals silver Fabienne Schlumpf ( SUI ) SwitzerlandSwitzerland 
Bronze medals bronze Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal ( NOR ) NorwayNorway 

The 3000 meter obstacle course for women at the European Athletics Championships 2018 took place on August 10th and 12th in the Olympic Stadium in the German capital Berlin .

The German Gesa Felicitas Krause became European champion . The Swiss Fabienne Schlumpf won the silver medal. Bronze went to the Norwegian Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal .

Records

WR KenyaKenya Beatrice Chepkoech 8: 44.32 min Monaco 20th July 2018
HE RussiaRussia Gulnara Galkina 8: 58.81 min Summer Olympic Games in Beijing , People's Republic of China August 17, 2008
CR RussiaRussia Yulia Saripova 9: 17.57 min EM in Barcelona , Spain July 30, 2010

Prelims

First run ( from left to right ): Caroline Högardh (15th, eliminated) / Antje Möldner-Schmidt (14th, eliminated) / Irene van der Reijken (16th, eliminated) / Lucie Sekanová (12th, eliminated)
The Irish Kerry O'Flaherty was eliminated in the preliminary round as seventeenth of her preliminary round
Ninth place in her preliminary run was not enough for German Jana Sussmann to take part in the final

From the two preliminary races, the top five of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the five fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Run 1

August 10, 2018, 12:25 p.m. CEST

space Athlete country Time (min)
1 Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal NorwayNorway Norway 9: 34.23
2 Anna Emilie Møller DenmarkDenmark Denmark 9: 34.46 SB
3 Ophélie Claude-Boxberger FranceFrance France 9: 34.50
4th Elena Burkard GermanyGermany Germany 9: 34.63
5 Irene Sánchez-Escribano SpainSpain Spain 9: 34.69 PB
6th Natalia Strebkova UkraineUkraine Ukraine 9: 37.28 PB
7th Viktória Gyürkés HungaryHungary Hungary 9: 38.56
8th Martina Merlo ItalyItaly Italy 9: 41.05 PB
9 Alicja Konieczek PolandPoland Poland 9: 41.16 PB
10 Chiara Scherrer SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 9: 47.46
11 Svyatlana Kudselitsch BelarusBelarus Belarus 9: 47.89 SB
12 Lucie Sekanová Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 9: 50.38 SB
13 Özlem Kaya TurkeyTurkey Turkey 9: 50.80
14th Antje Möldner-Schmidt GermanyGermany Germany 9: 52.79
15th Caroline Högardh SwedenSweden Sweden 9: 55.61
16 Irene van der Reijken NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 9: 57.10
17th Kerry O'Flaherty IrelandIreland Ireland 10: 09.81

Run 2

August 10, 2018, 12:41 p.m. CEST

space Athlete country Time (min)
1 Fabienne Smurf SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 9: 32.32 SB
2 Luiza Gega AlbaniaAlbania Albania 9: 33.11
3 Gesa Felicitas Krause GermanyGermany Germany 9: 33.51 SB
4th Rosie Clarke United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 9: 33.78
5 Isabel Mattuzzi ItalyItaly Italy 9: 34.02 PB
6th Maruša Mišmaš SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia 9: 34.28 NO
7th Adva Cohen IsraelIsrael Israel 9: 36,13 NO
8th Emma Oudiou FranceFrance France 9: 36.15 PB
9 Jana Sussmann GermanyGermany Germany 9: 41.18
10 Janica Rauma FinlandFinland Finland 9: 41.70 PB
11 María José Pérez SpainSpain Spain 9: 44.72
12 Francesca Bertoni ItalyItaly Italy 9: 47.75
13 Matylda Szlęzak PolandPoland Poland 9: 49.27
14th Zita Kácser HungaryHungary Hungary 9: 53.36 SB
15th Katarzyna Kowalska PolandPoland Poland 9: 54.83
16 Michelle Finn IrelandIreland Ireland 10: 10.93

final

August 12, 2018, 8:55 p.m. CEST

The only European who was able to stand up to the Africans and Americans as a world class runner in recent years was the German Gesa Felicitas Krause, who was third in the 2017 World Cup and European champion in 2016 . However, Krause had a few problems getting to the top of her performance this season. After good results, the Swiss Fabienne Schlumpf was seen as one of the toughest competitors. Other medal candidates were the Albanian Vice European Champion from 2016 Luiza Gega and the Turkish European Championship third from 2016 Özlem Kaya, who had already been eliminated in the run-up.

At the beginning, the Slovenian Maruša Mišmaš sat at the head of the field, but was soon replaced by Schlumpf. The Swiss showed a brisk pace. She covered the first kilometer in 3: 05.79 minutes. In the further course, Schlumpf stayed in front, and although it was a little slower - second kilometer: 3: 09.53 min - there were gradually clear gaps in the field of runners. With two laps to go, the Swiss was ahead, three meters behind her a three-man chasing group with Krause, the Norwegian Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal and Gega had formed. In the penultimate lap, Krause caught up with Schlumpf, with the Norwegian still following in third place a few meters behind. There was also a small gap between her and fourth-placed Gega.

So it went into the last round. The other chasers from fifth place onwards had nothing to do with the outcome of the race, they were about twenty meters behind Gega. On the last crossing of the moat, Krause attacked. With a clear increase in tempo, she passed Schlumpf and quickly ran out of an increasingly larger lead. At the finish, Gesa Felicitas Krause defended her title and became European champion for the second time. The order behind her didn't change anymore. Fabienne Schlumpf won the silver medal ahead of Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal and Luiza Gega. Fifth was the Israeli Adva Cohen, who set a new national record. The German Elena Burkard came in sixth place. The Danish seventh Anna Emilie Møller also set a new national record. The Spaniard Irene Sánchez-Escribano finished eighth.

space Athlete country Time (min)
Gold medal icon.svg Gesa Felicitas Krause GermanyGermany Germany 9: 19.80 SB
Silver medal icon.svg Fabienne Smurf SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 9: 22.29 SB
Bronze medal icon.svg Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal NorwayNorway Norway 9: 24.46
4th Luiza Gega AlbaniaAlbania Albania 9: 24.78
5 Adva Cohen IsraelIsrael Israel 9: 29.74 NO
6th Elena Burkard GermanyGermany Germany 9: 29.76 PB
7th Anna Emilie Møller DenmarkDenmark Denmark 9: 31.66 NO
8th Irene Sánchez-Escribano SpainSpain Spain 9: 31.84 PB
9 Ophélie Claude-Boxberger FranceFrance France 9: 31.84 PB
10 Rosie Clarke United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 9: 32.15
11 Maruša Mišmaš SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia 9: 34.50
12 Natalia Strebkova UkraineUkraine Ukraine 9: 40.03
13 Viktória Gyürkés HungaryHungary Hungary 9: 40.41
14th Emma Oudiou FranceFrance France 9: 43.26
15th Isabel Mattuzzi ItalyItaly Italy 9: 43.90

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