Gesa Felicitas Krause

Gesa Felicitas Krause at the Hessian obstacle championships 2011 in Pfungstadt

Gesa Felicitas Krause ( born August 3, 1992 Ehringhausen ) is a German track and field athlete. Your special disciplines are the obstacle course and the medium range.

In July 2011, she was in Tallinn at the Athletics Junior Championships in 2011 over 3000 meter steeplechase U20 European Champion. In her world championship debut at the World Athletics Championships 2011 in Daegu, South Korea, the athlete from the LG Eintracht Frankfurt in the final 3000 meters reached as third in her heat steeplechase in which they a new personal best time of 9:32,74 min ninth place went to. This time she is the owner of the U20 European cup record over this distance. Gesa Felicitas Krause held temporarily beyond the German Youth record over 2000 meter steeplechase.

In addition to the ninth place finish at the 2011 World Championships and the U20 European Championship in the same year Gesa Felicitas Krause reached more international rankings: 2010, she finished fourth at the U20 World Championships, 2009 Seventh European U18 Championships, in each case in the obstacle course. National she obtained in 2010 the title of Junior Champion. 2008 and 2009, they were each B- German Youth Champion Steeplechase, 2009 even additionally over 1500 meters. The European Athletics Championships 2012 in Helsinki she finished fourth in the 3000 meters steeplechase. At the Olympic Games in London, she won her lead in a new personal best of 9:24,91 min, they improved in the final to 9:23,52 min and reached there in eighth goal.

In the U23 European Championships in 2013 in Tampere, she won in a new championship record time of 9:38,91 min the gold medal.

Since October 2012, she studied at the Hochschule Bad Homburg accadis marketing and event management.

Gesa Felicitas Krause is trained by Wolfgang Heinig, husband, and already coach of the German marathon runner Katrin Dorre - Heinig.

Personal Best

  • 800 m: 2:05,25 min, Rehlinger, Germany, July 13, 2011
  • 1000 m: 2:44,68 min, Pliezhausen, Germany 16 May, 2010
  • 1500 m: 4:11,94 min, Bochum, Germany, July 17, 2012
  • 2000 m steeplechase: 6:22,45 min, Pfungstadt, Germany 25 May, 2011
  • 3000m steeplechase: 9:23,52 min, London, UK, August 6, 2012
2011 European Athletics Junior Championships 2013 European Athletics U23 Championships
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