Ulrike Maisch
Ulrike Maisch ( born January 21, 1977 in Stralsund ) is a German long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon.
Your first marathon she ran in 2000, when she finished 18th in 2:40:34 hours at the Berlin Marathon. In 2002, she won her first national title at the Half Marathon Championships, finished second at the National Cross Country Championships and won the Bonn Marathon in 2:35:02 h So she qualified for the marathon of the European Athletics Championships in Munich in 2002, where she won eighth place and took first place in the team standings with the other German runners. Soon after, she was second in the Cologne Marathon.
The next year a third ( cross country ) and a second place ( half marathon ) followed at the national championships a 20th place in the marathon of the World Athletics Championships in Paris in 2003.
In 2004, the runner in the Olympic Games in Athens. After 28 kilometers they had to give up because of pain in his right foot and later undergo surgery the marathon on the historic route.
On 23 April 2006, Ulrike Maisch reported back on the marathon route. She ran in ninth (and best German ) at the Hamburg Marathon, a time of 2:31:56 h, thus securing the European Championship qualifiers. On 12 August 2006 she took then at the European Championships in Gothenburg in Marathon title. At kilometer 25, she had a minute behind the leaders, but then rolled the box from behind and won by 26 seconds ahead in their personal best time of 2:30:01 h
She is the first German European champion over this distance. This success owes Ulrike Maisch also the choice for athlete of the year 2006.
Shortly after this success went to her left foot on an injury that prevented them until well into the 2007 running. They therefore dispensed with to participate in the World Athletics Championships in 2007 and began instead later in the fall at the Frankfurt Marathon, where she finished sixth in 2:32:41 h.
In 2008 she won at the premiere of the Grand 10 Berlin, but refrained because further injury problems to a start on the marathon distance. In 2009 she finished the Hamburg Marathon in 2:34:28 hours in third. Then it was first nominated only as a substitute runner for the marathon at the World Athletics Championships 2009, but then came to the last-minute cancellation Irina Mikitenko used. Pain at the heel, as the cause of a later Haglund 's syndrome was determined, they forced after 32 kilometers to the task.
At the European Athletics Championships in Barcelona 2010 she renounced his own words in a ZDF interview after multiple injuries and visible in anticipation of the first child on a possible title defense.
Ulrike Maisch is 1,70 m tall and weighs 54 kg. She trains at the 1st LAV Rostock under her coach Klaus -Peter Weippert.