Sarah Kistner

Sarah Kistner
Sarah Kistner 2016 in Pfungstadt
nation	Germany
birthday	11th December 1997 (age 22)
place of birth	Frankfurt am Main ,  Germany
size	173 cm
Weight	52 kg
job	Student ( mathematics )
Career
society	MTV Kronberg
Trainer	Martin Lütge-Varney
Medal table
European Cross Country Championships 1 × 0 × 1 × Mountain running world championships 2 × 2 × 0 × European Mountain Running Championships 2 × 0 × 0 × German championships 1 × 1 × 2 ×
European Cross Country Championships bronze Samokov 2014 U20 team gold Hyères 2015 U20 team Mountain running world championships silver Casette di Massa 2014 U20 singles gold Casette di Massa 2014 U20 team gold Saparewa Banja 2016 U20 singles silver Saparewa Banja 2016 U20 team  European Mountain Running Championships gold Porto Moniz 2015 U20 singles gold Porto Moniz 2015 U20 team  German championships silver Bergen 2014 Mountain run bronze Schwangau 2016 Mountain run gold Bayerisch Eisenstein 2017 Mountain run bronze Ilsenburg 2018 Mountain run
last change: September 30, 2019

Sarah Kistner (born December 11, 1997 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German long-distance , cross-country and mountain runner .

career path

Kistner passed her Abitur in 2016 with the advanced courses in mathematics and chemistry and then began studying mathematics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Athletic career

Sarah Kistner began her sporting career in 2012 with no competition ambitions together with her mother Sabine Kistner, also a mountain runner, with whom she completed the basic training around Altkönig and Großer Feldberg . In order to start at the German Mountain Running Championships, Kistner joined MTV Kronberg in September 2013 . In 2012 she contested her first competition with the Altköniglauf (20 km; 315 m ascent) and was able to win it straight away. Already in 2014 she was the most successful Hessian young athlete with three medals at international level.

At the 2014 Mountain Running World Championships in Casette di Massa ( Italy ), Kistner and the U20 team won gold in the team and silver in the individual standings. At the 2014 European Cross Country Championships in Samokow ( Bulgaria ), she won the bronze medal with the German U20 team. In addition, Kistner was able to convince with third place at the German Youth Championships over 3000 meters in the U18 age group.

In 2015, Kistner won the gold medal both individually and with the team in the U20 age group at the European Mountain Running Championships in Porto Moniz on Madeira ( Portugal ). 33:38 minutes over 10 kilometers at the Great 10k Berlin meant second place in the German U20 annual best list behind Alina Reh (TSV Erbach).

In 2016 her greatest success to date was the victory at the World Mountain Running Championships in Saparewa Banja ( Bulgaria ) in the individual standings, plus silver in the team standings (age group U20). In October 2016, Kistner made her debut on the half-marathon distance at the Great Scottish Run in Glasgow . With a time of 1:13:41 h she exceeded both the German U20 youth record and the Hessian U23 best. At the end of January 2017, however, it was announced that the course was found to be too short for about 150 meters during follow-up measurements. Thus all times lose their validity. Extrapolated, however, Kistner would have covered the remaining distance in a little more than 30 seconds and would therefore still have remained well below both top performances.

In 2017, after a torn tendon in her foot, Kistner had to cancel her planned spring races at the 10 km road race "Around the Bayer Cross" and the Berlin half marathon , so that she could only enter the season at the 2017 German Mountain Running Championships . On the 13.8 km long route with 887 meters difference in altitude from Bayerisch Eisenstein to the Großer Arber , she won her first German championship title. A week later she finished second in the Aletsch Half Marathon , the highest half marathon in Europe, but had to do without a start at the 2017 European Mountain Running Championships in Kamnik , Slovenia due to an injury due to tendon irritation.

At the regular election of their spokespersons in mid-March 2018, the mountain running team athletes elected Kistner as their spokesperson for two years, who will participate in the newly established mountain running commission.

In 2019, she had to cancel the 2019 European Mountain Running Championships in Zermatt ( Switzerland ) because of a cold on the day of the competition. As part of the classic Eschborn – Frankfurt bike tour, Kistner took part in the Škoda Velotour over 100 kilometers and won the title of TISSOT Mountain Queen in the mountain classification on the Großer Feldberg .

In 2020, Kistner was re-elected as athletes spokeswoman at the beginning of April.

Kistner was part of the C-squad of the German Athletics Association (DLV) and was in the junior squad 1 U23 from the competitive sports reform until the 2017/18 season .

Personal bests

(As of March 7, 2018)

• 3000 m : 9: 30.68 min, June 20, 2015, Schweinfurt
• 5000 m : 16: 26.17 min, June 19, 2016, Kassel
• 5 km road run : 16:32 min, December 31, 2015, Trier
• 10 km road race: 33:38 min, October 11, 2015, Berlin
• Half marathon : 1:13:41 h, October 2, 2016, Glasgow

Personal achievements

International

• U20 world champion in mountain running 2016
• U20 European champion in mountain running 2015
• Fifth of the U20 European Championship 2015 (5000 m)
• Sixth European Cross Country U20 2015 (1st in the team)

National

• Sixth of the DM 2016 (5000 m)
• German U20 champion 2015 (5000 m)
• Third of the U20-DM 2015 (3000 m)

Web links

• Sarah Kistner in the database of World Athletics (English)
• U20 EM 2015 Eskilstuna Team brochure of the DLV, p. 21 (pdf 2.1 MB)
• Athlete portrait at Leichtathletik-datenbank.de
• Athlete portrait at ladv.de
• Athlete profile with the Association of Road Racing Statisticians
• Thorsten Remsperger: From the heart of nature

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On the move to great deeds. In: taunus-zeitung.de. January 14, 2016, accessed September 22, 2016 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Carolin Gazmaga: Sarah Kistner and Maximilian Zeus: New Athlete Speakers in Mountain Running, Running, on: Leichtathletik.de, March 19, 2018, accessed March 19, 2018
3. ↑ Tammo Lotz: From hobby runner to world champion. In: hlv.de. January 3, 2015, accessed September 22, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Martin Neumann: Sarah Kistner - Between mountain and rail. In: Leichtathletik.de. October 29, 2015, accessed September 22, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Thorsten Remsperger: From the heart of nature. In: taunus-zeitung.de. September 1, 2017, accessed October 2, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Historic coup thanks to Sarah Kistner. In: taunus-zeitung.de. September 18, 2014, accessed September 22, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Silke Morrissey: EM gold for Sarah Kistner and the U20 team. In: Leichtathletik.de. July 4, 2015, accessed September 22, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Winfried Stinn: Sarah Kistner U20 world champion - DLV men just missed the podium. In: Leichtathletik.de. September 11, 2016, accessed September 22, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Winfried Stinn: Sarah Kistner: "In October the first half marathon". In: Leichtathletik.de. September 16, 2016, accessed September 22, 2016 . 
10. ↑ Christian Fuchs: Sarah Kistner pulverizes German U20 best performance. In: Leichtathletik.de. October 2, 2016, accessed October 2, 2016 . 
11. ↑ ^{a b c} Thomas Kofler: Route too short: Callum Hawkins loses record. January 31, 2017, accessed December 4, 2017 . 
12. ↑ Sarah Kistner injured - spring race in limbo. In: hlv.de. February 12, 2017. Retrieved June 11, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Kurt König: Sarah Kistner dominates, Maximilian Zeus counters. In: Leichtathletik.de. June 10, 2017. Retrieved June 11, 2017 . 
14. ↑ Wilfried Raatz: Andrea Mayr before another European Championship title on July 8, 2017. (No longer available online.) In: germanroadraces.de. July 5, 2017, formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 10, 2017 .  ( 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.    
15. ↑ Laura Rindt: Re-election of the athletes spokespersons in the mountain run: Sarah Kistner and Maximilian Zeus , mountain run, on: Leichtathletik.de, from April 8, 2020, accessed April 8, 2020
16. ↑ Uwe Martin: New Year's Eve Run Frankfurt: Distance 300 meters too short. In: hlv.de. January 1, 2017, accessed January 2, 2017 .