After the fast Start you cool and proves at the end of the race strength of will to stay: Gesa Krause holt at the world athletics Championships 3000 m obstacle, the first medal for Germany and stirred for the Coach to tears.
The coach tears flow. Wolfgang Heinig slaps his hands to his face and shines at the same time. Moments before, he had banned followed the strong finish from Gesa Krause. Only on the last half lap, had pushed the 27-Year-old to the competitors over, and the German Team, the first medal given. “What tonight is going on,“ and he could say nothing, no longer gushes out of it in the TV Interview out of him, “only that you interviewed me today at midnight is better.” Krause enjoys at the same time, their joy at the bottom of the tartan track. With the German Flag, it shows the photographer, distributed Kisses and seems to be happy.
Krause remains cool
The race began with a Demonstration of strength. World-record holder in the Beatrice Chepkoech of Kenya stormed off after the starting gun and crack immediately a gap of 60 to 70 meters, which they defended to the finish, seemingly effortlessly. Behind her, a chase group was formed at the end of Krause positioned. Round and round it went, it looked long, as you’d have to tear it down. “I was surprised how bad it was for me,” explains Krause this stage of the race in which they lost patience, “but my strength is towards the end when the other is slacking, still pull it off.”
Best performance of the day X: Krause rejoices in the target with the second-placed Emma Coburn (USA)
In the last two laps of the race, the group fell apart rapidly. Slowly Krause pushed to the front. Coach Heinig in the stands, the tension was hardly, he screamed and gestured. 300 meters before the finish, the American Emma Coburn broke up. Before Krause Winfred shew, a native Kenyan who starts for Bahrain, the last ditch approached. It is the Moment of decision: is bolted to yavi, Krause caught up with the obstacle perfectly and pushed on the third rank. The joy of this repeat success, after Bronze at the world Championships in 2015, break out meters before the finish line from her. Smiling, she fell in front of her placed Coburn around the neck. Your time: 9:03,30 minutes – that is Krause’s has improved its only a month old German record by almost four seconds. “I have to pull everything out of me,” she says, “I can’t put into words. I dreamed I wanted to.” It showed in Training since the end of October of 2018, a student of business psychology, took a no free day. “This is a probably really unimaginable.” With the world Cup-Bronze in the Luggage, it’s out in the holidays and then again on the tartan track. Next destination: the Olympic games in Tokyo.