Renate Rungger

Renate Rungger (born September 6, 1979 in Bolzano ) is an Italian long-distance runner . Rungger lives in the Sarntal community .

The athlete, who comes from a family of enthusiastic runners, achieved her first major success when she set a South Tyrolean national record in the half marathon in Udine in 1:13:28 h in 2002 .

After that, they focused on rail passes , in 2005 Italian champion in the 10,000-meter race and finished a year later over the same distance at the European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg the 18th Place.

In 2007 she turned back to road running , improved her national record to 1:13:08 h as the winner of the Turin Half Marathon and set another South Tyrolean record at her premiere over the full distance as sixth of the Venice Marathon with 2:41:06 h on, remaining under Edith Niederfriniger's old brand for over six minutes .

In 2008, after finishing second in the South Tyrolean Spring Half Marathon, she surprisingly became vice world champion in mountain running behind the Austrian Andrea Mayr . At the Maratona d'Italia she was sixth overall and fourth in the Italian marathon championship and achieved a time of 2:39:59 h on the route that was not suitable for the best in the list because of its gradient.

The athlete, nicknamed "Reni", is 1.66 m and weighs 50 kg. After her graduation, she worked as an editor at Athesia , before she became a professional runner. She is the mother of a daughter and a son and is in a relationship with the long-distance runner Eduard Lahner. Like her runner colleague Silvia Weissteiner , she is employed by the forest guard.

Personal bests

• 1500 m : 4: 12.29 min, May 26, 2006, Conegliano
• 5000 m : 15: 32.83 min, June 4th 2006, Florence
• 10,000 m: 32: 38.17 min, August 7, 2006, Gothenburg
• Half marathon: 1:13:08 h, September 23, 2007, Turin
• Marathon: 2:41:06 h, October 28, 2008, Venice

Web links

• Renate Rungger in the database of World Athletics (English)

Footnotes

1. ↑ sportnews.bz: Renate Rungger improves the national half marathon record in Turin to 1: 13.18 hours  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  September 23, 2007
2. ↑ running.bz.it: Renate Rungger - a new record straight away . October 29, 2007
3. ↑ sportnews.bz: Renate Rungger vice world champion in mountain running  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  September 14, 2008
4. ↑ sportnews.bz: Renate Rungger sets a new national record in the marathon: 2: 39.59 hours  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  October 12, 2008