New Year's Eve run from Werl to Soest

New Year's Eve run from Werl to Soest
venue	Werl / Soest Germany
First run	1982
Records
distance	15 kilometers
track record	Men: 43:33 min, 1986 Jean Weijts   Women: 51:00 min, 2019 Laura Hottenrott
Website	Official website

The New Year's Eve run from Werl to Soest is a fun run and with around 6000 participants it is the largest New Year’s run in Germany. The run was launched in 1982 by the Westfalenpost . It leads over the former Bundesstraße 1 from the Werler Stadthalle to the Soest market square.

organization

The route length is 15 kilometers (measured according to the guidelines of the DLV ). Only in the first two years (1982 and 1983) were only 14.6 kilometers run.

The kings of the New Year's Eve run are Sigrid Wulsch ( LG Menden ) with seven and the men Jean Weijts and Ansgar Varnhagen ( LG Olympia Dortmund ) with five wins each.

On December 31, 2018, Fabienne Amrhein and Amanal Petros were able to successfully defend their titles from the previous year. 2019 was the 38th run of the run and Laura Hottenrott improved the course record for women to 51:00 min.

statistics

Course records

The route records of the measured 15 km distance, in 1982 and 1983 the route was only 14.6 km:

• Men: Jean Weijts, 1986, 43:33 min
• Women: Laura Hottenrott, 2019, 51:00 min

Winners list

year	Men	time	Women	time
2019	Hendrik Pfeiffer	44:27	Laura Hottenrott -3-	0:51:00
2018	Amanal Petros -2-	44:39	Fabienne Amrhein -2-	0:51:45
2017	Amanal Petros -1-	45:51	Fabienne Amrhein -1-	0:53:03
2016	Leif Gunkel	47:40	Laura Hottenrott -2-	0:55:00
2015	Ejob Solomun	45:18	Laura Hottenrott -1-	0:53:19
2014	Thorben Dietz	46:05	Annika Gomell	0:53:49
2013	Dominik Fabianowski -2-	47:37	Sabrina Mockenhaupt -2-	0:51:54
2012	Torsten Graw	45:58	Nina Stocker	0:55:16
2011	Dominik Fabianowski -1-	47:47	Sabrina Mockenhaupt -1-	0:53:33
2010	Daniel Schmidt	46:44	Heike Bienstein -4-	0:55:36
2009	Christian Schreiner	48:25	Heike Bienstein -3-	0:55:22
2008	Lars Haferkamp	47:45	Heike Bienstein -2-	0:54:35
2007	Alexander Brushinsky	48:03	Heike Bienstein -1-	0:54:35
2006	Ansgar Varnhagen -5-	46:37	Petra Maak	0:55:56
2005	Ansgar Varnhagen -4-	47:13	Karin Mester	0:58:27
2004	Ansgar Varnhagen -3-	47:26	Eva Maria Stöwer	0:51:53
2003	Ansgar Varnhagen -2-	46:55	Katharina Schley	0:53:56
2002	Ansgar Varnhagen -1-	49:32	Kerstin Meisa	0:57:33
2001	Georg Diettrich -2-	46:27	Waltraud Klostermann -3-	0:56:56
2000	Georg Diettrich -1-	47:00	Elke Saalbach	0:56:32
1999	Lars Hunold -2-	46:50	Waltraud Klostermann -2-	0:56:04
1998	Lars Hunold -1-	46:57	Waltraud Klostermann -1-	0:56:01
1997	Sebastian Bürklein	46:44	Sigrid Wulsch -7-	0:55:10
1996	Christoph Schöning	47:37	Sigrid Wulsch -6-	0:57:20
1995	Mark Ostendarp	46:18	Luminita Zaituc	0:53:12
1994	Jens Wilky -3-	45:24	Sigrid Wulsch -5-	0:53:38
1993	Jens Wilky -2-	45:19	Claudia Metzner -2-	0:51:12
1992	Jens Wilky -1-	45:26	Sigrid Wulsch -4-	0:54:01
1991	Jean Weijts -5-	45:21	Sigrid Wulsch -3-	0:54:44
1990	Volker Welzel & Alfons Struch	45:31	Claudia Metzner -1-	0:52:04
1989	Malcolm Edwards -2-	45:44	Maria Pautmeier	0:54:36
1988	Malcolm Edwards -1-	45:18	Sigrid Wulsch -2-	0:52:44
1987	Jean Weijts -4-	45:17	Sigrid Wulsch -1-	0:52:39
1986	Jean Weijts -3-	43:33	Regina Neuhaus-Goldfinch	0:54:20
1985	Jean Weijts -2-	46:18	Gaby Wolf -3-	0:53:43
1984	Jean Weijts -1-	45:24	Gaby Wolf -2-	0:52:29
1983	Volker Welzel	43:19	Gaby Wolf -1-	0:50:32
1982	Manfred Schoeneberg	46:05	Gertrud Nau	1:03:35

Web links

• Official website
• Presentation of all medals since 1982

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Amanal Petros wins New Year's Eve run from Werl to Soest (December 31, 2018)