Kathrin Weßel
Kathrin Weßel ( native Kathrin Ullrich, born August 14, 1967 in Annaberg- Buchholz) is a former German long-distance runner in the late 1980s and early 1990s was one of the world's best track runners and was later successful in road races.
Your athletic career began in the GDR, in which they 1987-1990 four times each champion in 3000 - and was in the 10,000 -meter run. In 1987, she finished third at the World Athletics Championships 1987 in Rome and presented it with 31:11,34 min on a German record in the 10,000 meters. At the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, she finished fourth over the same distance. In 1989 she stayed with 14:59,01 min as the first German runner over 5000 meters under 15 minutes and at the European Championships in 1990 she finished second in the 10,000 meters.
At the 10,000 - meter race of the IAAF World Championships in Tokyo in 1991, she finished fourth, having previously set up on 30 June 1991 in Frankfurt 31:03,62 min the current German record over this distance. On 10 September of the same year they improved in their Berlin 5000 -meter record at 14:58,71 min. Her first success in the road race, she celebrated at the 25 km from Berlin, where she won in 1991 and 1992 and at their second victory with 1:24:41 h the current German record over this distance aufstellte. In 1992 she won the Swiss women's race, the 1994 Berlin Half Marathon ( in 1:10:47 hours, her personal best over this distance ) and 1995 at the Basel City Run.
In 1998, she was second in the Cologne Marathon and after parental leave in 2001 each Third at Hamburg Marathon and the Berlin Marathon, the latter with her personal best of 2:28:27 h 2002, she won the Regensburg Marathon with the current course record of 2:30:36 h and repeated this victory in 2003. their last marathon victory she managed the 2004 Mannheim Marathon. From 1991 to 1996 she was the sixth consecutive German champion over 10,000 meters and so continued her winning streak in the GDR championships continue. In addition, it was established in 1994 (as total third of the Frankfurt Marathon ) and 2002 ( a total of eighth Berlin Marathon ) German Champion in the marathon.
Kathrin Weßel started to turn for the SC Dynamo Berlin, and later for the SC Charlottenburg Berlin and the OSC. In her playing days, she was 1.69 m tall and weighed 54 kg. On September 25, 1992, she married the long-distance runner André Weßel, with whom she has a daughter. In 2004 she announced her retirement from competitive sport.