Petra Wassiluk

Petra Wassiluk
nation	Germany
birthday	27th October 1969 (age 50)
place of birth	Darmstadt
Career
Best performance	1:10:36 h (half marathon) 2:32:59 h marathon
status	resigned
last change: November 19, 2017

Petra Wassiluk (born October 27, 1969 in Darmstadt ) is a former German long-distance runner .

Career

In 1995 Petra Wassiluk became German cross-country champion on the short course . In 1996 she became German champion over 5000 meters . At the Olympic Games in Atlanta she was eliminated over the same distance in the preliminary run, and at the European Cross Country Championships in Charleroi she came in 23rd place.

In 1997 she won the half marathon of the Las Vegas Marathon . At the German Championships over 10,000 meters , she was the first to cross the finish line, but was disqualified because of an inadmissibly high level of caffeine in her blood and was suspended for three months. At the Half Marathon World Championships in Košice , she finished 16th.

The following year she won the Tübingen city run and became German cross-country champion in both the short and long distance. In 1999 she won the Ōme marathon on the 10-kilometer route. In 2000 she became German champion over 10,000 meters and was eliminated in the preliminary round over this distance at the Olympic Games in Sydney .

In 2001 she became German champion in the half marathon and national runner-up over 10,000 meters and in the 10-kilometer road race. At the Paderborn Easter run she was seventh over 10 kilometers, at the Frankfurt Marathon she was fourth and third in the German Marathon Championship . At the end of the season she won the Bietigheim New Year's Eve run .

Petra Wassiluk started for ASC Darmstadt until 2000 and from 2001 for LG Eintracht Frankfurt . The qualified sports teacher was employed at the sports health center of the TU Darmstadt and has been working in the organization office of the Frankfurt Marathon since 2002 .

Today Petra Wassiluk is also active as a trainer. For example, from 2009 to 2011 she looked after the German triathlete Susan Blatt . Since 2011 she has been responsible for running training for triathletes Daniela Sämmler and Christian Sämmler.

Personal bests

• 1500 m : 4: 16.62 min, June 10, 1994, Nuremberg
• 3000 m : 8: 59.56 min, August 7, 1997, Limburgerhof
• 5000 m : 15: 15.17 min, August 16, 1996, Cologne
• 10,000 m : 31: 52.2 min, June 27, 2000, Strasbourg
• 10 km road run : 32:30 min, April 14, 2001, Paderborn
• Half marathon : 1:10:36 h, March 24, 2001, Arnstadt
• Marathon : 2:32:59 h, October 28, 2001, Frankfurt am Main

literature

• Karl Lennartz : marathon run. Part 3. Verlag Werbung UM Sport, Lohmar 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811512-1-3 , p. 1183

Web links

• Petra Wassiluk in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Jogging: Tips from the specialist , article by Steffen Gerth in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 26, 2001
• “Three times a week is a must” ( Memento from April 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), interview in the Frankfurter Neue Presse , April 13, 2011
• Petra Wassiluk in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Confusion about Simret Restle-Apel before her start at the Marathon-DM in Frankfurt hlv.de October 24, 2015 ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2016 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.