List of German champions in the marathon
In the athletics discipline of the marathon , German champions have actually only been determined since 1925. Since 1898, however, there was an event that was advertised as a German marathon and which took place annually from 1905 with the exception of 1909 and the war years from 1914 to 1918 and 1919. The results are listed here because of the importance of this event.
The two marathons in Leipzig , which were held in 1897 and 1898, were the first on German soil. The second of them was advertised as a German marathon. The next event did not take place until 1905. Since the exact route for a marathon was not finally determined until 1921, the German marathons before the First World War usually ran on a somewhat shorter route.
In 1925, the election meeting of the German Sports Authority for Athletics (predecessor organization of the German Athletics Association ) decided to convert the event into a German championship , after the route had not officially been part of the championship program.
Due to the Second World War , the championships for the marathon were canceled in the years from 1943 to 1945 and were held in 1942, 1946, 1947 and 1948 on shorter distances with different lengths.
In 1950, the GDR established its own long-distance championship, initially over 30 kilometers, and since 1951 over the marathon distance.
In 1975, the DLV , the second national athletics association in the world, held a women's marathon championship for the first time. Its venue was the Black Forest Marathon , which made history because it was the first marathon worldwide to open to women when it premiered in 1968. The DVfL did not follow until 1982 and now took the discipline - initially unofficially and officially from 1983 - into the championship program of the GDR when it became clear that the women's marathon would become an integral part of the international championships and the Olympic Games . In 1990, separate championships for the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany took place for the last time .
Various factors play a role in evaluating the performance achieved at the German Championships. The competition was held again and again until 1987 in the summer, which meant that the athletes could not achieve their full potential due to the heat. But that changed from 1988 onwards. The competition from high-value city marathons has recently made the championships less attractive for professional runners and top German athletes often prefer these city marathons. Recently, the championships have been held regularly as part of one of the city marathons in a German city.
There are also team ratings in this discipline. For the first time in 1933, teams were also rated for men. For women, this was the case in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1976, the second year in which marathon championships were held for women. In 1977 there was no women's team rating, in 1978 the result was unofficial as only one club was included in the rating. In the GDR there were additional team ratings for the men from 1951 to 1965. The best three of their runners came into the rating of a team. In the first few years, as in the forest run / cross-country run, the clubs were ranked according to the positions achieved by the individual runners. In later years, as in the road races, the times of the three best individual runners were added up over other distances.
German championship record men: 2:08:33 h Arne Gabius ( LT Haspa Marathon Hamburg ) - Frankfurt am Main , October 25, 2015
German championship record women: 2:26:01 h Luminita Zaituc ( LG Braunschweig ) - Frankfurt am Main, 28 October 2015 October 2001
All-German champions since 1991 ( DLV )
Champion in the Federal Republic of Germany and the Trizone from 1948 to 1990 ( DLV )
Master in the GDR or the Soviet Zone from 1951 to 1990 ( DVfL )
German champions 1925 to 1947 ( DLV )
In those years the marathon was only run for men.
year | place | date | route | Athletes | Time [h] |
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1947 | Braunschweig | 21st September | 20 km | Josef Legge ( VfL Bochum ) | 1:09:28 |
1946 | Braunschweig | September 29th | 20 km | Wilhelm Borns ( FSV Frankfurt ) | 1:09:36 |
1944 + 1945 | --- | --- | --- | No championships due to the war | --- |
1943 | --- | --- | --- | Longest running distance of these championships: 5000 m | --- |
1942 | Berlin | August 30th | 30 km | Ernst Weber ( Air Force SV Berlin ) | 1: 48: 33.6 |
1941 | Berlin | August 24th | 42.195 km | Wilhelm Borgsen ( Police SV Berlin ) | 2: 33: 30.8 |
1940 | Berlin | 18th of August | 42.195 km | Erich Puch ( VfL Potsdamer Sportfreunde ) | 2:35:04 |
Leipzig | 1939 | 30th July | 42.195 km | Ernst Weber ( Air Force SV Berlin ) | 2: 47: 19.2 |
1938 | Wroclaw | 30th July | 42.195 km | Eugen Bertsch ( State Railroad and Post SG Stuttgart ) | 2:37:25 |
1937 | Berlin | July 25th | 42.195 km | Werner Gnädig ( SV Ullstein Berlin ) | 2: 46: 44.2 |
1936 | Berlin | June 21st | 42.195 km | Franz Barsicke ( PSG Stephan Breslau ) | 2: 51: 22.2 |
1935 | Berlin | 4th of August | 42.195 km | Heinrich Brauch ( Police SV Berlin ) | 2:39:20 |
1934 | Nuremberg | July 28th | 41.085 km | Heinrich Brauch ( Police SV Berlin ) | 2: 36: 12.0 |
1933 | Cologne | 13 August | 42.195 km | Heinrich Brauch ( SV Osram Berlin ) | 2: 35: 46.0 |
1932 | Hanover | 3rd of July | 42.195 km | Heinrich Brauch ( Police SV Berlin ) | 2: 41: 34.8 |
1931 | Berlin | August 1st | 42.195 km | Paul de Bruyn ( Berlin SC ) | 2: 47: 19.3 |
1930 | Berlin | 3rd August | 42.195 km | Erich Geisler ( SCC Berlin ) | 2: 50: 21.2 |
1929 | Wroclaw | 21 July | 42.195 km | Franz Wanderer ( VfL Potsdamer Sportfreunde ) | 3: 07: 15.8 |
1928 | Dusseldorf | 15th of July | 42.195 km | Franz Wanderer ( VfL Potsdamer Sportfreunde ) | 2:48:57 |
1927 | Wroclaw | August 7th | 42.195 km | Franz Wanderer ( VfL Potsdamer Sportfreunde ) | 2: 58: 30.0 |
1926 | Braunschweig | August 22nd | 42.195 km | Artur Reichmann ( Sportfreunde Siegen ) | 2: 41: 12.0 |
1925 | Leipzig | September 6th | 42.195 km | Paul Hempel ( SCC Berlin ) | 2: 48: 25.5 |
Winner of the German Marathon from 1898 to 1924 ( DLV )
In those years the marathon was only run for men.
year | place | date | route | Athletes | Time [h] |
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1924 | Berlin | July 26th | 42.195 km | Paul Hempel ( SCC Berlin ) | 2: 47: 05.2 |
1923 | Berlin | July 28th | 42.195 km | Paul Hempel ( SCC Berlin ) | 2: 52: 22.3 |
1922 | Berlin | 2nd July | 42.195 km | Max Wils ( Berlin AK 07 ) | 2: 58: 44.4 |
1921 | Berlin | 17th July | 42.195 km | Max Wils ( Berlin AK 07 ) | 3: 11: 21.8 |
1920 | Berlin | July 25th | 42.195 km | Max Wils ( ASC Marathon Berlin ) | 2: 51: 49.2 |
1915-1919 | --- | --- | --- | Marathon not run | --- |
1914 | --- | --- | --- | No championships due to the war | --- |
1913 | Berlin | October 26th | 40.2 km | Hermann Lüdecke ( Mittweida ) | 2: 34: 12.2 |
1912 | Berlin | November 3rd | 42 km | Johannes Christensen ( ) | 2: 48: 55.5 |
1911 | Frankfurt am Main | 13 August | 40 km | Max Wils ( ASC Marathon Berlin ) | 2: 45: 17.1 |
1910 | Frankfurt am Main | June 13 | 42.195 km | Julius Rieß ( Berlin Sports Club ) | 2: 49: 13.8 |
1909 | --- | --- | --- | Marathon not run | --- |
1908 | Berlin | May 20th | --- | Paul Nettelbeck ( SC Charlottenburg ) | 3:10:00 |
1907 | Berlin | May 20th | 40 km | Johannes Böge ( SC Komet Berlin ) | 2:40:30 |
1906 | Berlin | April 15th | 40 km | Max Jurischka ( ASC Marathon Berlin ) | 3: 02: 15.1 |
1905 | Berlin | 9th April | 40 km | Robert Petermann ( Teutonia 99 Berlin ) | 3:05:52 |
1899-1904 | --- | --- | --- | Marathon not run | --- |
1898 | Leipzig | 3rd of July | 40 km | Arthur Techtow ( Arminia-Urania Berlin ) | 3:19:50 |
Team ranking: All-German champions since 1991 ( DLV )
Team classification: champions in the Federal Republic of Germany or the Trizone from 1948 to 1990 ( DLV )
Team ranking: champions in the GDR or the Soviet zone from 1951 to 1965 ( DVfL )
Team classification: German champions 1933 to 1947 ( DLV )
In those years the marathon was only run for men.
year | place | date | route | society | Result |
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1947 | Braunschweig | 21st September | 20 km | SG Friedrichshain Berlin ( Bruno Eisenhardt , Otto Maybaum , Arthur Frisch ) | 3:35:19 h |
1946 | Braunschweig | September 29th | 20 km | MTV Braunschweig ( Willi Mötzung , Karl-Heinz Cruschinski , Bischoff) | 3:43:25 h |
1944 + 1945 | --- | --- | --- | No championships due to the war | --- |
1943 | --- | --- | --- | Longest running distance of these championships: 5000 m | --- |
1942 | Berlin | August 30th | 30 km | Reichsbahn SG Stuttgart ( Hermann Helber , Fritz Helber , Karl Meyer ) | 5:48:57 h |
1941 | Berlin | August 24th | 42.195 km | BTSV 1850 Berlin (Jentzsch, Knuth, Friedrich Blankenburg ) | 8:41:14 h |
1940 | Berlin | 18th of August | 42.195 km | VfL Potsdamer Sportfreunde ( Erich Puch , Willi Trapp , Wilhelm Borns ) | 12 P (seats 1/8/9) |
Leipzig | 1939 | 30th July | 42.195 km | Reichsbahn and Post SG Stuttgart ( Hermann Helber , Bürklein, Fritz Helber ) | 9 P (places 2/6/14) |
1938 | Wroclaw | 30th July | 42.195 km | Sportfreunde Potsdam ( Erich Puch , Hoppe, Trapp) | 23 P (places 2/19/31) |
1937 | Berlin | July 25th | 42.195 km | TSV 1860 Munich ( Max Wiedemann , Wilhelm Zoller , Willi Wolfrum ) | 25 P (seats 3/12/14) |
1936 | Berlin | June 21st | 42.195 km | Berliner SC ( Paul de Bruyn , Seefeld, Bratek) | 14 P (places 2/9 /?) |
1935 | Berlin | 4th of August | 42.195 km | Post SV Stephan Breslau ( Franz Barsicke , R. Barsicke, Engel) | 21 P (seats 9/12 /?) |
1934 | Nuremberg | July 28th | 41.085 km | Police SV Berlin ( Heinrich Brauch , Paul Gerhardt , Richard Boß ) | 8 P (seats 1/2/8) |
1933 | Cologne | 13 August | 42.195 km | SV Osram Berlin ( Heinrich Brauch , Richard Boß , Eduard Bräsecke ) | 6 P (places 1/4/5) |
literature
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Karl Lennartz : marathon run. Volume 8 of the series 100 years of athletics in Germany.
- Part 1: From the beginning to van Aaken. Spiridon, Erkrath 2005, ISBN 392201125X
- Part 2: East and West and all of Germany. Verlag Werbung UM Sport, Lohmar, ISBN 978-3-9811512-0-6
- Part 3: Women - born marathon runners. Verlag Werbung UM Sport, Lohmar, ISBN 978-3-9811512-1-3
- Fritz Steinmetz : 75 years of the German Athletics Championships (1898–1972) . Bartels and Wernitz, Berlin 1973, ISBN 3-87039-956-2
- Fritz Steinmetz : German Athletics Championships Volume 2 1973–1981 . Waldfischbach 1982
- Fritz Steinmetz : German Athletics Championships Volume 3 1982–1987 . Waldfischbach 1988
- Fritz Steinmetz : German Athletics Championships Volume 4 (1988-1993) . Hornberger-Verlag, Waldfischbach 1994
- Fritz Steinmetz : German Athletics Championships Volume 5 (1994–1999) . DDV Copy-GmbH, Kassel 2000
- Leichtathletik magazine, born between 1970 and 2008, issues with lists of results for the various competition results at German athletics championships
Web links
- National Marathon Champions for Germany on arrs.run
- The history of the marathon championships of the German Athletics Association by Fritz Steinmetz, website of the German Road Races (PDF; 9.29 MB)
- German marathon championships until 2012 on the website marathonspiegel.de
- Athletics competition and championship results since 2014 on the website of the magazine Leichtathletik
- Athletics competition and championship results from 2007 to 2013 on the website of the magazine Leichtathletik
- Athletics competition and championship results from 2002 to 2006 on the website of the magazine Leichtathletik
- The German athletics champions since 1995 (PDF)
- Athletics - German Championships (marathon - men) on sport-komplett.de (podium places until 2003)
- Athletics - German Championships (marathon - women) on sport-komplett.de (podium places until 2003)
- Athletics - GDR - championships (marathon - men) on sport-komplett.de (podium places)
- Athletics - GDR - championships (marathon - women) on sport-komplett.de (podium places)
- Wikipedia: GDR Athletics Championships 1979
- Wikipedia: GDR Athletics Championships 1980
- Wikipedia: GDR Athletics Championships 1981
- Wikipedia: GDR Athletics Championships 1982
- Wikipedia: GDR Athletics Championships 1983
- Wikipedia: GDR Athletics Championships 1984
- Wikipedia: GDR Athletics Championships 1985
Individual references and notes
- ↑ The best German was Otto Wagner , who placed second in 2: 51: 37.2
- ↑ unofficial, as only 1 team was included in the rating
- ↑ a b In the team evaluation, the victorious club received the title “Reichssieger” and not “German Champion”.