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Konstanze Klosterhalfen (archive)
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At the end of the long Olympic season, runner Konstanze Klosterhalfen, as hoped, cracked the ancient German record of 2000 meters.
The 24-year-old completed the rarely run route in Trier in 5: 34.53 minutes and was a good three seconds below the previous record: 36 years ago, Ulrike Bruns, then GDR runner, covered the two kilometers in 5: 37.62 minutes ran.
Klosterhalfen, Olympic eighth over 10,000 meters, held the national records in the open air over the mile, 3000, 5000 and 10,000 meters.
The Leverkusen resident lives in the USA and last Sunday ran at the ISTAF in Berlin for the first time after 771 days in Germany.
Gesa Felicitas Krause also started in Trier on an "exotic route", but remained well above her own world record over the 2000 meter obstacle.
In 6: 10.91 minutes she won the run confidently, but in 2019 at the ISTAF she only needed 5: 52.80 minutes.
Official world records are not set on the "orchid routes".
The meeting in Trier, however, served a good cause: the income from the Moselle stadium will benefit those who were damaged by the flood disaster.
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