Martina Strähl

Martina Strähl
Martina Strähl at the Berlin Marathon 2015
nation	Switzerland
birthday	7th May 1987 (age 33)
size	167 cm
Weight	48 kg
Career
Best performance	16: 30.91 min (5000 m) 33: 11.21 min (10'000 m) 32:13 min (10 km road) 1:09:29 h (half marathon) 2:28:07 h (marathon)
society	LV Langenthal
status	active
Medal table
World championships 1 × 2 × 1 × European championships 2 × 0 × 0 × Swiss championships 2 × 1 × 0 ×
Mountain running world championships silver Bursa 2006 singles silver Crans-Montana 2008 team bronze Kamnik 2010 singles gold Zermatt 2015 Single long distance  European Mountain Running Championships gold Telfes im Stubai 2009 singles gold Bursa 2011 singles Swiss championships gold Lugano 2010 5000 meters gold Basel 2011 5000 meters silver Geneva 2016 5000 meters
last change: August 13, 2018

Martina Strähl (born May 7, 1987 ) is a Swiss mountain and long-distance runner . In 2015 she became world champion at the mountain running long-distance world championships.

Career

At the age of 19 she won the silver medal at the World Mountain Running Championships in 2006 , the gold medal at the European Mountain Running Championships in 2009 and 2011 and the bronze medal at the 2010 World Mountain Running Championships . She is also a multiple Swiss mountain run champion and winner of the 2007 Hochfellnberg run .

In 2009 she finished three races as the best Swiss woman in the Swiss Post Cup and won the overall ranking.

In 2010 she was able to achieve her first successes on the track: At the German championships in the 10,000 meter run , she undercut the limit for the European Athletics Championships in Barcelona in 2010 , where she reached eleventh place. Inga Eduardowna Abitowa (rank 2) and Meryem Erdoğan (rank 5) were subsequently disqualified for violating the doping regulations, so that Strähl moved up to ninth place.

In 2010 she also won the title of Swiss champion in the 5000 meter run which she was able to defend the following year.

In July 2015, she won the Zermatt Marathon with a new course record , making her long-distance mountain running world champion.

On September 10, 2016, she won the Jungfrau Marathon in a new record time.

At the Grand Prix of Bern (run over ten miles through downtown Bern), the 31-year-old from Solothurn celebrated a superior victory in 53: 49.6 minutes in May 2018, the best time ever achieved by a Swiss woman, ahead of Maja Neuenschwander .

Martina Strähl is a psychologist with a master’s degree, works as a curative teacher and starts for the LV Langenthal.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish)

Personal best

• 5000 meter run : 16:30, 91 min, July 17, 2010 in Lugano
• 10,000 meter run : 33: 11.21 min, May 1st, 2010 in Ohrdruf
• 10 km road run : 32:13 min, April 8, 2018 in Berlin (intermediate time)
• Half marathon : 1:09:29 h, April 8, 2018 in Berlin
• Marathon : 2:28:07 h, August 12, 2018 in Berlin

Web links

• Official website
• Martina Strähl in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Profile on asicsfrontrunner.runnersworld.de
• Martina Strähl is European mountain running champion Article on swiss-athletics.ch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martina Strähl sets a new course record . Report of the Berner Zeitung from September 10, 2016.
2. ↑ Great atmosphere and pure excitement at the Jungfrau Marathon (September 11, 2016)
3. ↑ Martina Strähl clearly undercuts the EM limit ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2015 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. 
4. ↑ Martina Strähl wins the 25th Weissenstein Run