Sabrina Mockenhaupt (born 6 December 1980 in

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) is a German long-distance runner who specialises in track events and the marathon. She is a two-time winner of the

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and has also won the

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and the

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. She represented Germany at the 2004,

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and 2012 Summer Olympics and was the 3000 metres bronze medallist at the 2005 European Indoor Championships. She has a marathon best of 2:26:21, set at the 2010

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Career

One of her first international medals was a bronze medal in the

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at the 2001 European Athletics U23 Championships. In 2002, she finished eighth in 3000 metres at the 2002 European Indoor Championships, tenth in 10,000 metres at the 2002 European Championships and seventh in 5000 metres at the

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. In 2004, she finished seventh in 3000 m at the 2004 World Indoor Championships, and fifteenth in the 10,000 m at the 2004 Olympics. In 2005, she won the bronze medal in 3000 metres at the 2005 European Indoor Championships, finished seventeenth in 10,000 metres at the 2005 World Championships and sixth in 5000 metres at the 2005 World Athletics Final. At the 2006 European Championships she finished sixth in the 5000 m and eighth in the 10,000 m. Toward the end of the season she competed at the

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, finishing sixth in 5000 metres. She finished fourth in 3000 metres at the 2007 European Indoor Championships. In October 2007 she made her marathon debut at the

and won the race with a time of 2:29:33. Mockenhaupt won and qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in

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. At the Olympic Games she finished thirteenth in the

, in a new personal best time of 31:14.21 minutes. She won the

in October 2008 with a personal best run of 2:26:22. A return to the

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event in 2009 brought her a second victory at the competition. She won the 2009

by timing 1:08:45, a new personal best. She followed this up with a victory in the national championships in the 10000 metres, recording a time of 31:27.56 minutes. She returned to the Berlin Half Marathon the following year but finished in third place with a time of 1:09:57. Mockenhaupt said that her winter military training with the

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had left her tired and unable to devote much time to training for the event. She came second behind Inês Monteiro at the

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in June. Later that season she set a championship record to win the 10,000 m at the

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and took the national title over 5000 m at the

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the following month. She entered the 10,000 m at the

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and finished in sixth place. She turned her attentions to a debut at the

in September, and even though she missed out on the podium with a fourth-place finish, she knocked a second off her best with a time of 2:26:21. She began her 2011 season on the roads, taking victories at the Rund um das Bayer-Kreuz 10K in Leverkusen and the Griesheim Half Marathon, although she dropped out mid-race at the higher profile

. She reached the podium in Vienna in May at the Austrian Women's Run, taking third behind Ana Dulce Félix and

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. That June she came third at the

. She competed at the 2011

and her finishing time of 2:28:08 hours was enough to make the top ten. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she finished 17th in the women's 10000 metres, in a time of 31:50:35. She won the 2013

with a time of 32:13.64, more than 30 seconds in front of the runner-up,

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from France. She has represented the club LG Sieg, except for 2006 through 2010 when she represented the Kölner Verein für Marathon.

Personal bests

* 1500 metres - 4:13.38 min (2001) * 3000 metres - 8:44.65 min (2003) * 5000 metres - 14:59.88 min (2009) * 10,000 metres - 31:14.21 min (2008) * Half marathon - 1:08:45 hrs (2009) * Marathon - 2:26:21 hrs (2010)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mockenhaupt, Sabrina 1980 births Living people Sportspeople from Siegen German female long-distance runners German female marathon runners Olympic female long-distance runners Olympic athletes for Germany Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics German national athletics champions Frankfurt Marathon female winners LG Sieg athletes 20th-century German women 21st-century German women