"Pseudo-religious passion ways in which you anything, but everything hurts. In the end, however, beckon luck and redemption." No man of the church, but Eike Emrich, DLV vice president and sports scientist, said the German journalist, in his witty, visually stunning way on Saturday morning, the 50 km walk and the marathon. Two of the toughest challenges in the World Championships in Athletics 2009 in Berlin.Well two hours later, sent the starter against the impressive backdrop of the Brandenburg Gate, the world's best athlete on the classical 42.195 kilometers, among them André Pollmächer of LAC Erdgas Chemnitz. And the 26-year-old hurt after the last competitive race of his career a lot. But his legs as heavy as lead and muscles as hard as concrete could get over the face of a very good race. "I am totally satisfied. The shape is perfectly tuned, because my trainer has it just on it. It was the best course of my life," said Bernd Dießner protege, who landed in 2:15,36 hours to place 18th The best result of a German, since the World Cup in 1995 in Gothenburg, when Conrad Dobler (Germaringen) petitioned to 14th.
Bolstered by hundreds of thousands of spectators, officially, there were said to be 700,000, along the 10-km loop, which was to run four times, and the detour around Alexanderplatz around it, its native Riesaer in the "final sprint" position by position. "In the last five kilometers, I had only a roaring in my head, so the people have raved," describes the axis of the volume on the track. The enthusiasm carried him as the fifth best European finish. The Kenyans Abel Kirui reached with the World Cup record of 2:06,54 hours as the first. With joy and amazement of the audience, he just laid still a nifty little dance on the pavement. Second was his compatriot Emmanuel Mutai before the Ethiopians Tsegay Kebebe. The 27-year-old Kirui won with his team-mates including the Marathon World Cup. The German trio with Martin Beckmann (35./LG Leinfelden-Echterdingen) and Falk Cierpinski (51./Spergau), the son of two-time Olympic champion Waldemar Cierpinski, came into the team to a respectable ninth place.
Significant proportion of this was Pollmächer, who has been long together with Beckmann go. However, at kilometer 32 parted ways. "In a beverage base, I made a small advance, and suddenly Martin was gone. That was not really planned," said the blond, who single-handedly pushed ever further forward. In the last meters cheered him alongside friends and acquaintances, including his parents Frank and Heidrun. "Many have come, but when running, I had no eyes for her remains," said André Pollmächer at his final farewell race. In the future he will be working in Chemnitz as a coach. Or is it considered the current best German Marathonist yet again? "No, I do not want to discuss about it. The decision has been made," he reaffirmed his decision. Then he said, exhausted but smiling, in pain, but happy: "Now I feel I'm at the limit."
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