Gesa Krause had to take a break after her broken ribs and forego the German championships. Now the obstacle runner wants to go to the final at the World Championships in Tokyo.
A rib (New Year’s Run Trier eV) broke a rib due to a fall at the Diamond League Meeting in Oslo in mid -June in Oslo. The ambitious athlete was just eight days later at the next competition in Paris and, despite injury, undercut the confirmation standard for the World Championships in Tokyo despite injury. “As an athlete, you are so polished that you get up quickly and continue”, “ Rememberes Krause of the first few weeks after the fall.
But fighting against pain and the injury was not without consequences. “My fall triggered a number of chain reactions. For a long time, I fought against it, instead of accepting that my body cannot bring a top performance”explains the Dillenburg native on her social media channel. At the Diamond League race in Eugene in early July, Gesa Krause had to cancel the race. Instead of continuing to compete, she pulled the ripcord and approved a break.
Gesa Krause pulls ripcord: no competitions, no social media
The experienced obstacle runner had brought several follow -up injuries to the Achilles tendon and on the pool. For them, a break was the only chance to get fit again to the World Cup: “This impact drove down my complete system. I can’t just continue and maneuver myself from one to the next problem.” Therefore, she also had to cancel her start at the ISTAF in Berlin and the German Championships in Dresden.
For some time, the European champion from 2018 has sealed off: no competitions and no media. She took the time to recover: “My focus was on healing internally and externally and carefully training.” The mental component in particular has bound to the successful athlete. “I can put a lot of physically, but throwing all my plans over the pile, that was mentally the harder part for me”she reveals. The decision for the time -out was just right for her: “That took the ballast away from my shoulders and I was able to look ahead positively.”
Gesa Krause juggles family and competitive sports: “Lola keeps us all going to trot”
In April 2023, Gesas daughter Lola was born. Since then, her everyday life has turned upside down. It was still clear to her that she wanted to get competitive sports and family life under one roof: “The first year was the most difficult because it was a completely new situation.” In the meantime everything has settled down. Together with a childminder and her family, Gesa Krause manages her sports and private life. “Of course it is still different if you also travel to such a training camp as a mom. You have a different responsibility and have to master logistical challenges”, the top athlete tells. So her interview with SWR Sport is so timed that daughter Lola takes her afternoon nap at the same time and that training and lunch has already been done.
“The older she gets, the more Lola keeps us all trot”Gesa Krause says with a smile on his lips. Nevertheless, she still has enough breaks and pays attention to her regeneration: “I rarely sleep under 8 hours and luckily Lola also makes it possible.” Nevertheless, it is a challenge during the day, because as a competitive athlete, she meets up to 150 kilometers per week and several training sessions a day. “Sometimes I hope that the day just has more than 24 hours”confesses the long -distance runner.
Gesa Krause wants to go to the final at the World Cup: “All in for Tokyo”
The obstacle specialist is already looking back on many international successes. Among other things, she has won a bronze medal at World Championships twice. This year the 33-year-old would like to be in top form at the World Cup in Tokyo (13th to 21st September): “I still don’t know how many such championships will still exist for me. Perhaps it is the last World Cup over 3,000 meters of obstacle for me, so I said I go all in.” Before the bumpy weeks of injury, Gesa Krause was in a good shape. Even if she has not been able to show this in the competitions, she would like to build on it and be in top shape until Tokyo.
Boom in the German running scene Push Gesa Krause
The level of the German running scene has increased significantly in recent months. Numerous German records are torned off, among other things, Mohamed Abdilaahi (Cologne Athletics) has taken the 5,000 meter record from the Swabian Alb Dieter Baumann, Robert Farken (SG Leipzig) breaks one of the oldest records of German athletics with 3: 30.80 meters and with Gesa Kraus’s male colleagues over 3,000 meters Frederik Ruppert (LAV Tübingen) the German record to an incredible 8: 01.49 minutes.
All of these services motivate the 33-year-old Dillenburg woman to continue to push herself to her limits in training: “This is motivating to see because you know that something is possible if you continue to believe in yourself and continue to work on yourself.” Gesa Krause herself already holds the German record on her parade discipline. But she doesn’t want to rest on that: “You run to get faster, I also carry that in myself and that is also the German record. And if you can improve it, that’s definitely nice.” With the tailwind from the German running scene, the Dillenburg native wishes that the runners at the World Cup in Tokyo top positions are possible.
Via Sankt Moritz and Trier to the World Cup in Tokyo
Together with her trainer, your training group and her family, Gesa Krause has opened the tents in Sankt Moritz in Switzerland for the coming weeks. In the altitude training camp at 1,822 meters above sea level, she would like to work on its shape in peace. Thanks to her family on site, who takes care of daughter Lola during her training sessions, Gesa Krause has to concentrate the freedom fully on sport: “My family gives me support and makes me personally happy and satisfied.”
At the floodlight meeting in Trier (September 2), she would like to contest a test competition, presumably over the 800 or 1,500 meter distance. Depending on the training stand, she could imagine another competition beforehand. Then she will travel to Tokyo a few days before her World Cup competition. Internationally, many athletes have already run under nine minutes over the 3,000-meter obstacle distance. In order to run back into the medal ranks, Gesa Krause would probably have to significantly improve her German record of 09: 03.30. But it is also realistic: “I want to go to the final at the World Cup, that’s the goal, I focus on my full focus.“However, she did not lose her ambition. After a short break, she adds: “But when I’m already in the final, we’ll take a look.”
Broadcast on Wed., 6.8.2025 4:00 p.m., SWR1 Rhineland-Palatinate, SWR1 Rhineland-Palatinate
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