STRAHL Martina

European Championships

Year	Location	Marathon	Marathon Team
2018	Berlin, GER	7th (2:28:07)	5th (7:54:04)

World Marathon Majors

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
9	Marathon	2018/2019	Berlin, GER	2:31:24

Gold Label Road Races

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
6	Marathon	2016	Frankfurt am Main, GER	2:30:58

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

Spending time outdoors, shopping, socialising with friends, baking, sports. (martinastraehl.ch, 01 Apr 2020)

Teacher

Psychology - University of Bern , Switzerland

German

LV Langenthal [Switzerland]

Fritz Hani [personal], SUI

She has represented Switzerland in mountain running, and won the 2015 world long-distance title in the sport. (martinastraehl.ch, 01 Jan 2015, 26 Jan 2015; solothurnerzeitung.ch, 11 Feb 2016)

She was unable to run from November 2018 until May 2019 due to pain in her pelvis, back, buttocks and Achilles tendon. (martinastraehl.ch, 24 May 2018)

She was hospitalised in mid-2017 due to severe stomach bleeding that caused her to lose two-thirds of her blood. She resumed training in late 2017. (fitforlife.ch, 01 Jul 2018; martinastraehl.ch, 02 Sep 2017, 28 Oct 2017, 26 Nov 2017)

She suffered a stress reaction in her sacrum [pelvis] in 2017. (fitforlife.ch, 01 Jul 2018)

She slipped in May 2015 and suffered a contusion to her tailbone. She had to stop running for three weeks and did alternative training sessions during this time. She made her comeback six weeks after the fall at the 2015 World Long-Distance Mountain Running Championships in Zermatt, Switzerland, where she won gold. (bernerzeitung.ch, 04 Jul 2015)

She suffered a stress fracture in early 2013 which caused her to stop running for three months. (solothurnerzeitung.ch, 29 Nov 2013)

An injury prevented her participating at the 2012 European Championships in Helsinki, Finland. (martinastraehl.ch, 05 Jul 2012)

She was introduced to athletics at primary school, and joined the LZ Biberist club in Switzerland at age 12. She took up mountain running in 2005, and began marathon training in 2013. (martinastraehl.ch, 05 Jul 2012; blog.runningcoach.me, 25 Jul 2018)

At a young age she was also involved in gymnastics and rowing before focusing on running. "I've been doing sports all my life. But I felt most comfortable in athletics and so I became a member of LZ Biberist. For a short time I was still active in a rowing club. But that was too time-consuming, and the endurance running was best for me. The feelings that I experience while running are indescribably beautiful and cannot be replaced by any other sport." (solothurnerzeitung.ch, 29 Nov 2013; blog.runningcoach.me, 25 Jul 2018)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (fitforlife.ch, 01 Jul 2018)

She trains between 17 and 23 hours a week. (blog.runningcoach.me, 25 Jul 2018)

"When I run, I feel light like a bird circling high above the earth." (blog.runningcoach.me, 25 Jul 2018)