KRAUSE Gesa Felicitas

Date of Birth: 3 Aug 1992

Age: 29

Gender: Female

Place of birth: EHRINGSHAUSEN

Birth Country:

Germany

Place of residence : FRANKFURT AM MAIN

Residence Country:

Germany

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Athletics	Women's 3000m Steeplechase	5

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Women's 3000m Steeplechase Round 1 - Heat 2	Finished
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Women's 3000m Steeplechase Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	3000m SC
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	6th (9:18.41)
2012	London, GBR	7th (9:23.52)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	3000m SC
2019	Doha, QAT	3rd (9:03.30)
2017	London, GBR	9th (9:23.87)
2015	Beijing, CHN	3rd (9:19.25)
2013	Moscow, RUS	9th (9:37.11)
2011	Daegu, KOR	6th (9:32.74)

European Championships

Year	Location	3000m SC
2018	Berlin, GER	1st (9:19.80)

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	5000m	3000m SC
2021	-	1 x 2nd, 1 x 5th, 1 x 7th
2019	-	1 x 5th, 1 x 6th, 1 x 8th
2018	-	1 x 14th
2017	1 x 12th	1 x 1st, 1 x 6th, 1 x 7th

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2017	3000m Steeplechase	Rabat, MAR	9:18.87
2	2021	3000m Steeplechase	Stockholm, SWE	9:09.13
5	2021	3000m Steeplechase	Monaco, MON	9:15.03
5	2019	3000m Steeplechase	Zurich, SUI	9:07.51
6	2019	3000m Steeplechase	Birmingham, GBR	9:20.55
6	2017	3000m Steeplechase	Zurich, SUI	9:15.85
7	2021	3000m Steeplechase	Doha, QAT	9:16.89
7	2017	3000m Steeplechase	Doha, QAT	9:15.70
8	2019	3000m Steeplechase	Oslo, NOR	9:20.31
12	2017	5000m	Shanghai, CHN	15:24.53

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
1	2019	2000m Steeplechase	World Challenge	Berlin, GER	5:52.80
2	2017	3000m Steeplechase	World Challenge	Berlin, GER	9:11.85
12	2018	1500m	World Challenge	Ostrava, CZE	4:14.12
16	2017	1500m	World Challenge	Hengelo, NED	4:10.28

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Cooking, baking, spending time with friends, travelling. (spikes.iaaf.org, 27 Apr 2016; DLV Media Guide, 22 Aug 2015)

Occupation:

Armed Forces, Athlete

Partner Marc Schultz

Languages spoken:

English, German

Silvesterlauf Trier [Germany]

Wolfgang Heinig [personal], GER, from 2009

She took up athletics at age eight, and began to focus on distance running at age 16 after moving to Frankfurt, Germany from her town of Dillenburg, to attend the Carl von Weinburg sports boarding school. (Facebook page, 31 May 2016; iaaf.org, 28 Aug 2015)

"I tried all athletics events when I was younger, except the triple jump and hammer. My favourites were the long jump and hurdles. I actually think my background in hurdles gave me a good grounding in steeplechase. It was when I moved to boarding school in 2008 that I totally focused on distance running." (spikes.iaaf.org, 27 Apr 2016)

To win a medal in the 3000m steeplechase at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (hessenschau.de, 01 Oct 2019)

She runs 150-180 kilometres in training each week, and spends time training at high altitude in Iten, Kenya. "At the beginning of 2020 I was in Iten for the 18th time. I believe training at height is essential. I have always had good experiences with altitude training camps. The best athletes in the world train or live at a high altitude." (sportbuzzer.de, 30 Sep 2019; sportschau.de, 28 Jan 2020; slate.com, 26 Apr 2005; theguardian.com, 22 Jul 2014; leichtathletik.de, 09 Feb 2020; sportbuzzer.de, 30 Sep 2019)

German basketball player Dirk Nowitzki. (teamdeutschland.de, 01 Jan 2019)

Philosophy:

"Never lose sight of your goal, go straight at it." (Facebook profile, 05 Mar 2020)

In 2019 she was named Frankfurt Female Athlete of the Year by the city's sport officials. (sportlerehrung-frankfurt.de, 23 Nov 2019)

In 2019 she was voted the Professional Female Runner of the Year in a poll organised by the German Athletics Association [DLV]. It was the fifth consecutive time that she won the award. (laufen.de, 30 Nov 2019; laufen.de, 15 Nov 2015)

She was named 2015 Sportswoman of the Year by German television channel Sport1. (sport1.de, 07 Jan 2016)

She was named Sportswoman of the Year in Hesse, Germany, in 2013 and 2015. (landessportbund-hessen.de, 11 Oct 2015)

General Interest

General
FOCUSING ON SPORT
After completing high school she began studying at Accadis University of Applied Sciences, but soon realised that she would not be able to combine her sporting career and studies. "It would be of no use to me, if I also went to university. I might have secured something else to fall back on, but I would not have managed to progress in running. I would have had to train less than I needed to. To do both at a decent level seemed impossible to me. So I opted for running. Running is my job and a calling." (fr.de, 26 Sep 2019; sportbuzzer.de, 30 Sep 2019)

TRAINING AT ALTITUDE
In preparation for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo she spent most of her time abroad training at altitude. "I have my whole life in two suitcases. I've never been in Germany, at sea level, for more than three or four weeks at a time. And leading up to the Olympics in Tokyo, I will never not be at altitude for longer than four weeks." (fr.de, 26 Sep 2019; sueddeutsche.de, 03 Sep 2019)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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