{"id":316,"date":"2019-03-08T10:32:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T10:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/de\/?p=316"},"modified":"2019-03-08T10:32:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T10:32:41","slug":"gabius-and-scherl-for-hannover-marathon-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/de\/pre-event\/gabius-and-scherl-for-hannover-marathon-2019","title":{"rendered":"Gabius and Scherl for Hannover Marathon 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Gabius<\/a><\/p>\n

Germany\u2019s Arne Gabius and Anja Scherl hope to challenge the favourites from Kenya and Ethiopia at the HAJ Hannover Marathon on 7 April. <\/p>\n

Gabius and Scherl hope to challenge African favourites in Hannover<\/p>\n

The race has developed into one of Germany\u2019s leading international marathons and is an IAAF Silver Label Road Race. Including other events staged parallel to the marathon organisers expect a total entry figure of more than 25,000 runners. Online entry for all races is still possible at: www.marathon-hannover.de<\/p>\n

National marathon record holder Arne Gabius will hope to finish on the podium of a marathon for the first time in his career. The 37 year-old came very close in Frankfurt in 2015, when he finished fourth, breaking the 27 year-old German record with a time of 2:08:33. Hannover\u2019s six year-old course record from Lusapho April of South Africa<\/a> is just one second faster than Gabius\u2019 personal best. \u201eHannover is one of three spring marathon races where I have to put things right,\u201c said Arne Gabius, who dropped out of the HAJ Hannover Marathon close to the 33k mark two years ago due to an achilles tendon problem.<\/p>\n

Arne Gabius is the second fastest on the current start list behind Duncan Koech. The Kenyan was third in Hannover last year with 2:10:19 and holds a personal record of 2:07:53 from Cologne in 2012. The 37 year-old was fourth in the Vienna City Marathon in 2013 with 2:09:17. Samwel Maswai is another Kenyan who features a PB of sub 2:09. While he ran 2:08:52 in the 2013 Berlin Marathon where he finished fifth he was third in Vienna last year with 2:11:08 in very warm weather conditions.<\/p>\n

Four more runners who feature personal bests of sub 2:10 are on the current start list for the 29th edition of the HAJ Hannover Marathon: Kenyans Edwin Kimaiyo (2:09:12), Paul Kangogo (2:09:20) and Josphat Leting (2:09:34) as well as Ethiopia\u2019s Alebachew Wale (2:09:40).<\/p>\n

In the women\u2019s race Anja Scherl hopes to bounce back after a year to forget in 2018. Back in 2016 she ran the best race of her career, when she finished third in the Hamburg Marathon and improved her PB by a staggering margin of more than eight minutes to 2:27:50. Scherl then was the best German runner in the Olympic Games marathon with a 44th place. She ran two good marathons in quick succession in 2017 and 2018: In November 2017 Scherl was fifth in Valencia with 2:28:54, the second fastest in her career. Little more than two months later she took fourth in Osaka in 2:29:29. However injuries then stopped her and she could not compete at the European Championships in Berlin.<\/p>\n

There are two athletes who have run faster than 32 year-old Anja Scherl. Karolina Nadolska is the fastest on the start list. The Polish runner holds a personal best of 2:26:32 with which she was second in Osaka in 2014. Ethiopia\u2019s Tigist Memuye Gebeyahu has competed in China a number of times. Her biggest career win came when she took the Zhengzhou Marathon two years ago, improving her personal best by more than nine minutes to 2:27:39. Kenya\u2019s Racheal Mutgaa will be among the favourites on 7 April as well. She ran 2:28:39 in last year\u2019s Hefei Marathon (China), breaking 2:30 for the first time and placing second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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