Eva-Maria Gradwohl
Eva -Maria Gradwohl (born Wilfing; born March 29, 1973) is a former Austrian long- distance runner who specialized in the marathon.
Career
The Styrian operating in their youth cycling and was as 26th in the Junior World Championships 1990 best Austrian. A year later she ended her career in this sport.
In 1998, she started for the first time on the marathon distance and ended the Vienna City Marathon in 3:10 h One year later, she was third at the Graz- Marathon in 2:50 h in 2000 and 2001 they were each Austrian Vice Champion in 5000 - and 10,000 - meter race and in the half marathon.
In 2002 she was Austrian Champion in the half marathon, won the Wachau- marathon on the half marathon course with 1:14:47 hours and won the Graz- Marathon ( should they win the next four years ) in 2:40:39 h. a year later, she won the national title on half-marathon and marathon ( the latter at the Vienna City Marathon in 2:39:48 h) and provided with a national record 1:13:25 hours in the half marathon on.
In 2004, she finished fourth at the Vienna City Marathon in 2:38:04 h and Austrian champion in the 5000 meters. In the following season, she was again national champion in the half marathon, second in the Vienna City Marathon and Ninth at the Berlin Marathon.
2006 she won the Stockholm Marathon second place. In their fifth win of the Graz- Marathon they not only improved the course record, but also their personal best 2:37:32 h
In 2007, she won in quick succession at the Linz Marathon and the Salzburg Marathon, won the national title in the half marathon, screwed in tenth of the Berlin Marathon their personal record to 2:36:21 h and won on the half marathon course of Graz Marathon with course record.
Their greatest success was winning the Linz Marathon 2008 in 2:30:51 h Thus they not only set an Austrian record, but also significantly undercut the limit of 2:33, which the ÖLV for participation in the Olympic Games had set in 2008. At the Olympic marathon in Beijing she ran a rank 57.
In 2009 she won again at the Linz marathon and half marathon in Graz - competition and won the Florence Marathon. 2010 she succeeded her fourth Linz marathon victory in a row.
Eva -Maria Gradwohl is 1.68 m tall, weighs 58 kg, launched for the SV ADA Happy running Anger and was trained by Harald Bauer. She is the mother of a son born in 1994 and lives in Baierdorf in Anger. From 2006 to 2012, the former cross-country skiers and cross-country skiing coach Walter Mayer was her partner.
Doping affair and End of career
On 29 April 2010 a drug test was scheduled with her when she was about to undertake a planned boat trip with friends while vacationing in Medulin ( Croatia) of NADA Austria. There was a scandal in which her partner Walter Mayer berated the DCOs and finally Gradwohl control refused despite a teaching about the consequences. On May 3, Gradwohl was suspended and initiated proceedings for a breach of the Doping Regulations. At the same time, the athlete announced her retirement from competitive sport and justified its action with a frustration over the constrictions, where she was exposed to in their personal lives by the doping control. Walter Mayer apologized on May 6 for his behavior and acknowledged that the envoys of the NADA correct behavior, after he had two days earlier still referred to as " pigs and assholes ." In July 2010, the NADA declared a lockout of the athlete for two years.