As of: February 28, 2024, 8:45 a.m
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In a good mood at high speed: Maria Legelli (in front, here shortly after the start) used the marathon in Seville to “get into the 2024 running year”.
Her trademark are the pink running socks.
© Patrick Korb
Maria Legelli from Böbing completed her first marathon in Seville in 2024.
She shone as the second best German - in a race in which records tumbled.
Seville
– Maria Legelli was at the start of a really cracking race.
At the marathon in Seville, held for the first time in 1985 and traditionally an important running competition, the records just tumbled.
First of all, there was the winner among the men: The Ethiopian Deresa Geleta Ulfata set a world record for the year with 2:03:27 hours for the 42.195 kilometers.
At the same time, he significantly improved the previous course record (2:04:43/run in 2022).
Second place, Frenchman Morhad Amdouni (2:03:47), set a national record.
The 35-year-old – who was European champion in the 10,000 meters in Berlin in 2018 – only missed the European record by eleven seconds.
Maria Legelli runs marathon in Seville in 2:48 hours
In total, a list on the running portal hdsports shows, eight national records (2 x France, Israel, Italy, Sweden, Argentina, Chile, North Macedonia) were set by male and female athletes in Seville this year.
Among the men, 41 runners stayed under the 2:10 hour mark, including the German Haftom Welday (2:08:27/21st place) from TB Hamburg Eilbeck, who is ranked third in the current DLV best list .
Maria Legelli
didn't have a record
in mind when she set out from Maria Luisa Park on the completely flat route.
“Get into the running year 2024,” was the motto of the long-distance specialist from Böbing.
Of course, the 32-year-old had set herself an ambitious goal: it had to be a time of under 2:50 hours.
And Legelli, who has lived in Füssen with her husband for several years, managed this with ease.
The clock stopped for her at 2:48:26 hours.
Top level at the top of the marathon in Seville
In the women's overall ranking, she took 65th place in a very strong field.
Legelli was “very satisfied with the performance and can build on it.”
The athlete has already set her sights on the next competitions.
In April Legelli would like to take part in the German marathon championships in Hanover.
In preparation for this, she works with sports therapist Michael Hiemeyer.
At official championships, Legelli competes for the LG Laufarena Allgäu based in Nesselwang, otherwise she appears in the result lists as a member of the “Brooks Road Runners”.
She has a collaboration with the shoe brand.
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Last year, the woman from Füssen was one of the 30 fastest German women in Germany.
At the end of the season, she was in 22nd place in the DLV best list for 2023 with her personal best of 2:45:36 hours (run in Berlin in September).
The fastest time was recorded by Domenika Mayer from LG Telis Finanz Regensburg, who ran the classic long distance in Berlin in 2:23:47 hours.
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Maria Legelli at the 2024 marathon in Seville.
© Patrick Korb
As far as the local district is concerned, Legelli is one of the very fast women.
A look back:
Steffi Volke
(Huglfing), German marathon champion in 2011 and 2014, once had a best time of 2:41:47 hours.
The top time of
Mikki Heiß
(Iffeldorf), multiple medal winner at the German marathon championships, is 2:44:39 hours.
Maria Legelli is in the top 30 in Germany
In total, Legelli improved her house record five times last year and celebrated three victories.
A highlight was
winning the Bavarian championship title
in the marathon: in Regensburg she left all other competitors behind with a time of 2:50:04 hours, just three weeks after her victory at the Oberelbmarathon in Dresden.
Legelli celebrated her third victory of the day
at the “home game” in Füssen
, where she set a course record with 2:48:03 hours.
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Such achievements are no coincidence, especially since Legelli plays the sport on the side and “works full-time, as she says.
The last few months have been “very busy” in this regard, reports the 32-year-old.
Legelli has held a new position since last November; she is head of the department that takes care of IT at the city of Sonthofen.
That's 120 kilometers of travel there and back every day.
“Discipline and organization are required if you want to run a marathon successfully,” says the athlete.
On weekdays, five times a week, she completes her 90-minute workout before work, getting up at 4:45 a.m.
The appearance in Seville showed that the effort was definitely worth it.
After all, she was the second best German woman.
Lisa Felicitas Rihm from the Berlin Track Club was two minutes faster and crossed the finish line two places ahead of her.
Legelli ran the first ten kilometers in 39:03 minutes, and the half marathon mark was reached after 1:23:15 hours.
The woman from Füssen passed the 35-kilometer mark after 2:19:38 hours.
When Legelli reached the finish, she was traveling at an average speed of 15 km/h.
She ran each kilometer in 3:59 minutes.