Simret Restle-Apel

Simret Restle-Apel
at the European Cross Country Championship 2009 in Dublin
nation	Germany
birthday	4th May 1984 (age 36)
place of birth	Adi Bidel,  Eritrea
size	170 cm
Weight	45 kg
Career
discipline	Long distance running
society	LG Eintracht Frankfurt (until 2010) PSV Grün-Weiß Kassel (2010 to 2016)
status	not active
End of career	2016
Medal table
German championships 3 × 10 × 3 ×
German championships silver Erfurt 2007 5,000 m bronze Zeulenroda 2007 10,000 m silver Mannheim 2007 10 km road run silver Ohrdruf 2007 Cross-country run silver Nuremberg 2008 10,000 m silver Bremen 2009 10,000 m silver Braunschweig 2010 5,000 m silver Ohrdruf 2010 10,000 m gold Ohrdruf 2010 10 km road run silver Kassel 2011 5,000 m bronze Oelde 2011 10 km road run silver Loeningen 2011 Cross-country run silver Marburg 2012 10,000 m gold Griesheim 2012 half marathon bronze Düsseldorf 2014 10 km road run gold Husum 2015 half marathon
last change: March 2nd, 2018

Simret Restle-Apel (born May 4, 1984 in Adi Bidel ( Eritrea ), born Simret Asmerom , later Simret Restle ) is a former German long-distance runner of Eritrean origin.

Career

In the youth field, Restle-Apel started three times for Eritrea at the Cross Country World Championships from 2000 to 2002 and she achieved several titles at the African Championships. She was trained by the Kenyan Paul Ereng (Olympic champion in the 800 meter run, 1988). In 2002 she left the national team and came to Germany, where she was initially looked after by youth coach Tim Restle, with whom she was then married.

In 2006 she became German U23 champion over 5,000 and 10,000 meters and in the 10-kilometer road run . In 2007 she received German citizenship and she was second in the German championships in the adult area, each time second over 5,000 meters, 10 km road run and cross-country run and third over 10,000 m. She also came second in the Paderborn Easter run on the 10-kilometer route.

In 2008 she became German runner-up in the open air over 10,000 meters. In autumn she won the Tübingen city run . In the following year she was again German runner-up in the 10,000m, defended her title in Tübingen, finished third in the Luxembourg half marathon Route du Vin and won the Bietigheim New Year's Eve run .

German champion 2010

In 2010 she won the Frankfurt half marathon , was German runner-up in the 10,000 meter run for the third time and won her first national title at the German championship in the 10-kilometer road race . In autumn she won the Cologne marathon on the half marathon route.

In 2010 she moved from LG Eintracht Frankfurt to PSV Grün-Weiß Kassel , where she is looked after by Winfried Aufenanger . At the 2011 European Cross Country Championships Restle-Apel came in ninth. Simret Restle-Apel has been married to the orthopedic surgeon Rainer Apel since October 2011. The 1.70 m tall and 45 kg heavy athlete, nicknamed "Simi", lives in Wiesbaden and trained herself from 2006 to 2016.

2012 doping ban

In April 2012 Restle-Apel was German champion in the half marathon ahead of Susanne Hahn . Two weeks later in May 2012, Restle-Apel tested positive for the prohibited substance erythropoietin (EPO) during a training control. She justified this with a drug mix-up and decided not to open the B sample . She was banned for two years.

In 2015 she became German champion in the half marathon for the second time and became the first German winner of the Kassel marathon . At the turn of the year 2015/2016 it was planned that Simret Restle-Apel would switch from PSV Grün-Weiß Kassel to LAZ Puma Rhein-Sieg . However, due to the lack of approval from the Kassel association, this change did not take place.

On February 18, 2016, Simret Restle-Apel fell from a height of 15 meters from the roof of a hotel in Wiesbaden and survived seriously injured. Despite a number of broken bones, Simret Restle-Apel was able to walk successfully again after three months of hospitalization.

Personal bests

• 800 m : 2: 07.91 min, June 28, 2009, Rheinau-Freistett
• 1,500 m : 4: 16.07 min, August 10, 2007, Leverkusen
• 3,000 m: 9: 05.99 min, June 6, 2007, Pfungstadt
• 5,000 m: 15: 28.71 min, May 23, 2012, Koblenz
• 10,000 m: 32: 41.50 min, May 5, 2012, Marburg
• 10 km road race: 33:04 min, April 7, 2007, Paderborn
• Half marathon: 1:12:56 h, October 3, 2010, Cologne
• 3000 m obstacle course : 10: 06.61 min, May 10, 2008, Breidenbach
• Marathon 2:37:48 h, May 17, 2015, Kassel

Web links

Commons : Simret Restle-Apel  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website (archive version)
• Simret Restle-Apel in the database of World Athletics (English)

Footnotes

1. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Simret Restle - Over obstacles to success? , April 26, 2008
2. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Simret Restle clearly wins in Frankfurt , March 14, 2010
3. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Jan Fitschen and Simret Restle win , September 11, 2010
4. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Simret Restle runs the best time in Cologne , October 3, 2010
5. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau : Simret Restle: The loneliness of the long-distance runner , March 16, 2010
6. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Simret Restle-Apel beats Susanne Hahn , April 15, 2012
7. ↑ Rumbled up. The Simret Restle-Apel doping case is not just the private problem of a Wiesbaden runner , SZ , June 9, 2012, p. 46
8. ↑ Michael Reinsch: Mix up syringe or patient? In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of June 16, 2012
9. ↑ Michael Reinsch: "I gave myself the syringe and threw it away." In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of June 22, 2012
10. ↑ Eberhard Vollmer: NADA award against Simret Restle-Apel , www.leichtathletik.de, January 14, 2013
11. ↑ Runner Restle-Apel banned for doping (January 14, 2013)
12. ↑ Uwe Martin: What does… Simret Restle-Apel actually do? Difficult times for the runner from GW Kassel. (No longer available online.) Hessian Athletics Association , March 14, 2016, archived from the original on March 24, 2016 ; accessed on March 17, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ↑ Woman falls from the roof on Kaiser-Friedrich-Platz. Wiesbadener Kurier , February 20, 2016, accessed on June 14, 2016 . 
14. ↑ Tobias Goldbrunner: "A real miracle": Athletics ace Simret Restle-Apel from Wiesbaden survived a fall from 15 meters. Wiesbadener Kurier , March 16, 2016, accessed on June 14, 2016 . 
15. ↑ Martin Scholz: runner Simret Restle-Apel: career end after a 15-meter fall. Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine , March 17, 2016, accessed on March 17, 2016 . 
16. ↑ Tobias Goldbrunner: Athletics: Simret Restle-Apel can walk again after a horror fall. Wiesbadener Kurier , June 14, 2016, accessed on June 14, 2016 .