Stéphane Franke

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Stéphane Franke
medal table

Long distance runner

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European championships
bronze 1994 Helsinki 10,000 meters
bronze 1998 Budapest 10,000 meters

Stéphane Franke (born February 12, 1964 in Versailles , France ; † June 23, 2011 in Potsdam ) was a German athlete and sports reporter who was successful in the 1990s as a long-distance runner , especially in the 10,000 meter run . In European Athletics Championships, he won twice in a row, in 1994 and 1998 , the bronze medal . He was also the German champion in the 10,000 meters in 1993, 1995 and 1996. After the end of his sports career, he worked as a sports commentator and book author, among other things.

Life

Stéphane Franke had both German and French citizenship. At the age of five, he and his parents moved first to Bergisch Gladbach and later to Filderstadt near Stuttgart .

Franke had been active in sports since 1979 and was a successful middle-distance runner as a teenager (PB 800 m: 1: 56.6 min; 1000 m: 2: 35.0 min / 1981; 1500 m: 3: 58.46 min / 1982). In the early 1990s, he specialized in longer distances.

On March 30, 1999 Franke set a European record over 25,000 meters during a 30 kilometer run in Walnut ( USA ). In 2020, this record was broken by Sondre Nordstad Moen during the Covid-19 pandemic at the Impossible Games .

During his own sports career, Stéphane Franke worked as a trainer, including for Damian Kallabis , whom he led to the European championship title in the 3,000 meter obstacle course in 1998 . Both came under suspicion of doping in 1998 without any evidence that they had taken prohibited drugs. Franke also looked after Jirka Arndt , who finished eighth at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney over 5000 meters.

In autumn 2000 Franke ended his sports career. After his active time at Eurosport , he started commenting on marathon events together with Dirk Thiele . In addition, his subject area included all cross-country skiing competitions and various athletics events. In 2001 Franke was the director of the Berlin athletics sports festival ISTAF . Since 2004 he has published several sports guide books on running and walking .

Stéphane Franke initially started for the sports club SV Salamander Kornwestheim , and from 1997 for SC Charlottenburg . In his playing days he was 1.76 m tall and weighed 60 kg.

On June 23, 2011, Stéphane Franke died at the age of 47 in a clinic in Potsdam of complications from a tumor.

Assignments at international highlights

Personal best

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan-Henner Reitze: World best time - Karsten Warholm also cannot be stopped by Corona , "Impossible Games" Oslo, on: Leichtathletik.de, June 11, 2020, accessed June 11, 2020
  2. ↑ Stéphane Franke dies , Eurosport from June 29, 2011, (accessed June 29, 2011)
  3. ^ Former long-distance runner Franke dead ( Memento from April 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Financial Times Deutschland from June 29, 2011 (accessed on June 29, 2011)
  4. ↑ http://www.alltime-athletics.com/men.htm
  5. ↑ http://www.stephane-franke.de/20-0-portrait.html
personal data
SURNAME Franke, Stéphane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete, sports commentator and book author
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Versailles , France
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 2011
Place of death Potsdam