Sonja Oberem

0 Sonja Oberem
Personal information
Date of birth	24th February 1973 (age 47)
place of birth	Rheydt , Germany
size	170 cm
societies
Until 2007	TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen
successes
1990-1992	3 × junior world champion on the short distance triathlon
1992, 1994	2 × European champion triathlon short distance
1993, 1994	2 × German champion triathlon short distance
1996	8th place Olympic Games marathon
1997	German champion 10,000 m
2002	3rd place European Athletics Championships Marathon
status
Resigned in 2007

Sonja Upper (* 24. February 1973 in Rheydt as Sonja Krolik ) is a former German triathlete and long-distance runner . She is a three-time junior world champion on the short-distance triathlon (1990, 1991, 1992) and a two-time Olympian (1996, 2000).

Career

Triathlon until 1994

As a child, Sonja Krolik first started swimming ; as a teenager, for example, she achieved third place in West German championships.

Klaus Oberem , a youngster from the newly founded triathlon department of the SSV Rheydt and later husband of Sonja Krolik, as well as Hans Segschneider , her former principal at the primary school Pahlkestrasse and at the same time chairman and trainer of the SSV Rheydt , brought her to the triathlon. In the first year of 1989, Sonja Krolik won the German championship on the sprint distance among the juniors. From 1990 she won the Junior World Championships three times in a row. In the women's class, there were two European (1992 and 1994) and two German championship titles on the Olympic distance (1993 and 1994). Sonja Krolik ended her triathlon career
after a serious fall at an indoor triathlon in Paris as well as her abandonment after the first discipline at the World Championships in November 1994 in Wellington .

Marathon run from 1995

After Sonja Krolik ran her first two marathons in Berlin in 1993 and 1994, parallel to competitive triathlon sport, with top 10 placings and thus qualified for the 1995 World Athletics Championships in Gothenburg , from 1995 onwards she concentrated on a desired participation in the Olympics on running. In the 1996 Olympics a marathon race for women was provided, however, should triathlon until 2000 part of the Olympic competition program are. At the 1995 World Championships, Krolik was eighth, but with 2:32:17 h was still over the necessary qualification time of 2:29:59 h for an Olympic participation in the following year. The following spring, she was able to undercut this by 29 seconds in fourth place at the Boston Marathon - at the same time as third.

At the marathon of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , Sonja Krolik finished eighth around three months later. The following year Sonja Krolik was seventh at the 1997 World Championships in Athens , sixth at the 1999 World Championships in Seville and fifth at the 2001 World Championships .

Her second participation in the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 was a disappointment for Sonja Oberem: an uncured thigh strain from the training camp was noticeable from kilometer 15, and she finally crossed the finish line in 24th.

In 2001 she won the Hamburg Marathon in a personal best with 2:26:13 h. In the same year she also won the Athens Marathon . She was able to repeat both victories in the following year. She also won the bronze medal at the European Athletics Championships in Munich in 2002 . In preparation for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, a fatigue fracture in the groin forced her to take a six-month break from training in 2003 . Although she achieved third place in the Vienna City Marathon in 2004 under difficult weather conditions (wind and wet roads) in 2:30:58 h, she missed the qualification norm by 58 seconds.
One month later, Oberem ran on the half-marathon route in Leverkusen that was softened by heavy rain in 1:14:17 h, again 17 seconds too slow for a regular qualification. The National Olympic Committee rejected a hardship application from the German Athletics Association . Sonja Oberem then started the Berlin Marathon in autumn , where she finished third and in 2:26:53 h just missed her personal best by a few seconds. She then announced her retirement from competitive sports and became the mother of a son in December 2005. In 2006 she tried a comeback at the Berlin Marathon, but had to give up the race due to an injury. In 2007 she won the Nürburgring race and then the organizers of the Berlin Marathon announced another attempt at comeback.

The 1.70 m tall athlete with a competition weight of 48 kg competed for TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen until 2007 , where she was trained by Paul-Heinz Wellmann . In December 2007 it was announced that she will start another comeback attempt with the team Rhein-Marathon Düsseldorf with the aim of qualifying for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing . A flu prevented adequate preparation, so that Sonja Oberem was fifth in the Düsseldorf Marathon in 2:47 h and missed the qualification time (just like the winner Melanie Kraus ) and thus ended her sporting career for good. But also as a recreational runner she was able to secure the third podium in the following year in the same place, and Sonja Oberem also won the Mallorca Marathon three times (2010, 2011, 2013).

Functionary and entrepreneur since 2011

In December 2011 Sonja Oberem was elected President of the North Rhine-Westphalian Triathlon Association (NRWTV). Until 2013 she headed the largest national association of the German Triathlon Union (DTU).

In May 2012, Oberem was appointed to the Executive Board of the European Triathlon Union (ETU) for two years .

At the end of November 2012, Sonja Oberem founded Oberem Sport Service GmbH , which from 2013 acted as the organizer of the T ³ Triathlon Düsseldorf previously organized by the North Rhine-Westphalian Triathlon Association (NRWTV) . In addition, Oberem's agency also hosted the Extreme Man Triathlon in Düren , which was canceled for 2015. In addition, she is involved in the organization of the company run in Neuss , for example , and she works in sales for a Hamburg provider of barriers, transition area structures, etc. work for sporting events and events.

Since 2018 Oberem has been managing director of rhein-marathon düsseldorf GmbH , which belongs to the Golazo Group.

Personal

Sonja Upper initially visited the primary school Pahlke Street in Moenchengladbach and made 1992 the Hugo-Junkers-Gymnasium her high school . She completed her studies in business administration at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences in 1999 with a degree in business administration .

In 1997 she married her husband Klaus Oberem. Together, in the fourth generation, they ran a hardware and wood wholesaler owned by their parents since 1905.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish)

Publications

• with Wolfgang Feil , Andrea Reichenauer-Feil: Nutrition Coach. More performance in sport. More muscles, less fat - no more weak spots on tendons, muscles and joints - for more fun and success. Haug, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8304-2184-2 .
• with Doris Mendlewitsch: Running is fun. Wellbeing training for women. Goldmann, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-442-16827-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Sonja Oberem in the catalog of the German National Library
• Sonja Upper in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr (French)
• Marathon as self-therapy , article by Gunnar Meinhardt in der Welt , September 20, 2006
• Leverkusen who's who
• Profile and results of Sonja Krolik in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on April 4, 2020 (English).
• Profile for Sonja Krolik at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Sonja Krolik-Oberem in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Sonja Oberem the marathon woman in: Rheinische Post from April 10, 2012
2. ↑ ^{a b} Pencil or eraser In: Der Spiegel from February 27, 1995
3. ↑ ^{a b} Inquiry: Sonja Oberem In: TriTime magazine from June 1, 2015
4. ↑ Sonja Oberem is still tying up her running shoes
5. ↑ At the marathon, Oberem brings self-confidence for the World Championships In: Die Welt on April 21, 2001
6. ↑ The Olympia from runner Sonja Oberem In: Berliner Zeitung of July 21, 2004
7. ↑ Sonja Oberem says goodbye to the marathon In: Leichtathletik.de of September 27, 2004
8. ↑ Oberem is making its comeback in Berlin In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger from September 22, 2006
9. ↑ Sonia O'Sullivan and Sonja Oberem start at the real, - BERLIN MARATHON press release of the Berlin Marathon on September 10, 2007
10. ↑ Trainer with a hand for women ( Memento from March 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Spiridon issue 4/2008
11. ↑ Sonja Oberem starts for Rhein-Marathon Düsseldorf In: Rheinische Post from December 4th 2007
12. ↑ There was no top time in : Rheinische Post from May 2, 2008
13. ↑ ^{a b} Tui marathon: Sonja Oberem and Miguel Capó cannot be defeated
14. ↑ Oliver Kubanek: Sonja Oberem new President of the Triathlon State Association in North Rhine-Westphalia. DTU, December 4, 2011, accessed December 24, 2015 . 
15. ↑ President Sonja Oberem is not available for re-election at the Association Day. November 18, 2013, archived from the original on July 21, 2015 ; Retrieved July 19, 2015 . 
16. ↑ Oliver Kubanek: Sonja Oberem new DTU representative in the ETU. DTU, May 14, 2012, accessed December 24, 2015 . 
17. ↑ Ralph Schick: Association day in Kamen. triathlon.de, December 6, 2012, accessed on July 19, 2015 . 
18. ^ Organization team company run Neuss
19. ↑ What is Sonja Oberem doing?
20. ^ Dammann barriers ( memento from July 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
21. ↑ Sonja Oberem new at the helm of rhein-marathon düsseldorf. In: Sports City Düsseldorf. July 24, 2018, accessed on September 25, 2019 (German). 
22. ↑ This is where Mönchengladbach is in: Family businesses introduce themselves In: Rheinische Post
23. ↑ Home game for marathon star
24. ↑ Shoulder to shoulder enema like on the middle distance In: Die Welt from April 14, 1997