Silke Optekamp
Silke Optekamp 
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| birthday | 31st October 1978 (age 41) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| society | LG Mönchengladbach (until 2009) PSV Grün-Weiß Kassel (2010-2015) LG Mönchengladbach (since 2016) |
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Silke Optekamp (born October 31, 1978 ) is a German marathon runner and four-time German champion (2011-2014).
Career
In 2006, the sportswoman , who lives in Mönchengladbach , switched from dressage to long-distance running .
In 2009 she set a course record at 1:19:17 h at the adventure half marathon in Cologne, was West German and Westphalian runner-up in the half marathon and came second in 2:48:30 h in the marathon around the Baldeneysee . At the end of the year she moved from Mönchengladbach LG to PSV Grün-Weiß Kassel .
In the following season she was fourth in the Kassel Marathon , fifth in the half marathon competition of the Cologne Marathon and was the best German in the Frankfurt Marathon in twelfth place.
In 2011 she was third in the 10 km road race around the Bayerkreuz and won the half marathon competition of the Kassel Marathon. At the German championships in 10 km road running she came sixth and won the team title with Simret Restle and Stefanie Wiesmair. She crowned the season with a 20th place in the Berlin Marathon .
The following year, she was fifth in the Rund um das Bayerkreuz and ninth in the Berlin Half Marathon . As fifth overall in the Kassel Marathon, she won the Hessian championship title over this distance. In autumn she won the Rund um den Baldeneysee.
In 2013 she set a course record for the half marathon distance of 1:17:59 h at the Kassel Marathon , which Melat Yisak Kejeta only broke in 2017 . As the overall winner of the Munich marathon , she became German marathon champion in October 2013 .
Since 2016 Optekamp has been starting again for the team of LG Mönchengladbach (LGM), where they are starting in the age group from 40 years. In October 2018 she won the 16-kilometer distance at the Silkworm Cross, where she was second behind Rike Westermann in 2017. In April 2019, she won the half marathon at the Neuss Easter run .
Personal bests
- 5000 m : 16: 54.29 min, June 16, 2012, Wattenscheid
- 10,000 m : 36: 02.33 min, May 1st 2010, Ohrdruf
- 10 km road race: 34:48 min, March 5, 2012, Leverkusen
- Half marathon: 1:16:17 h, October 3, 2010, Cologne
- Marathon: 2:37:17 h, September 25, 2011, Berlin
Web links
- Silke Optekamp in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Marathon runner Silke Optekamp: “I don't count calories” , interview with Martin Scholz in the Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine , April 29, 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Leichtathletik.de: Heike Bienstein strikes in the end . September 7, 2009
- ↑ Paul Offermanns: Ex-national coach makes Silke afloat . In: Rheinische Post . November 25, 2009
- ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Frankfurt Marathon - That's how it went nationally . October 31, 2010
- ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Silke Optekamp - Die Spätberufene . September 27, 2011
- ↑ German Road Races : Goosebumps: Marathon rocks Kassel ( Memento from December 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). May 21, 2012
- ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Schauer and Optekamp win marathon titles . October 13, 2013
- ↑ Katja Kanditt returns to LGM December 28, 2017
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| SURNAME | Optekamp, Silke |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German marathon runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1978 |