Klosterhalfen impressively reflects after a hard year - KICKE

After the great eighth place in the brutally hard Olympic 10,000-m race of Tokyo, Germany squatted the best runner completely exhausted and despite the gloss heat in the cold trembling in the mixed zone and did not want to stop crying.

"I'm so thankful that I can be here. So thankful to all who brought me here," sobbed the 24-year-old. A journalist separated himself from his shirt, cloisterhallen slipped into it to warm up their freezing to 1.74 m distributed 48 kilos. "It was very pressing, but at some point I have never been really cold," she said.

Klosternhallen had to go to the boundaries and beyond. In a year in which she could hardly run for stubborn pelvic problems, she managed to get it in 31: 01.97 minutes to 26 hundredths of her own German record.

"Olympia as an entry" - monastery globes pride and happy

"Eighth - that makes me really proud and happy," said the World Cup third over 5000 m in ZDF, when the last powers were rendered for a few accounting sentences: "For eight weeks of training, I can take that. Olympia as an entry - me Looking forward to the upcoming season. "

Against the more experienced and ultimately overpowering competition sold Klosterhallen expensive, but of course could not intervene in the medal fight. The Dutchman Sifan Hassan won in 29: 55.32 minutes her second gold after the 5000 m, so she is the first second runner after the Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba 2008, who succeeded in this double. Silver went to Kalkidan Ezahegne (Bahrain / 29: 56:18) in front of world recorder Letensee Giday (Ethiopia / 30: 01.71).

Klosterhallen kept 4000 m long at the end of the top group until they left after a pace sharpening, it did not look good in this phase for them. But they bite through. In February she improved in the US, its life and training center, the German record to 31: 01.71 minutes.

It was followed by the worst weeks and months of her career, in which monastery wanted, but the body did not play along. Only shortly before Olympia she was again competitive. It is all the higher to class eight over the 10,000 m.

The German medal winners of Tokyo