GOLDEN GIRL KOKO TO MAKE COMEBACK AT RAS AL KHAIMAH HALF MARATHON

Konstanze Klosterholfen, considered one of Europe’s largest athletic stars and a famous person in Germany, has introduced that she will probably be racing over the half marathon distance on the RAK Half Marathon to be held on February 24, 2024. 

This launch is from the organizers of the RAK half Marathon. 

GOLDEN GIRL KOKO TO MAKE COMEBACK AT RAS AL KHAIMAH HALF MARATHON

German Athlete Makes Lengthy-Awaited Return To Working Scene

Ras Al Khaimah (UAE) 14 February 2024: One in every of European athletics’ most excitingtalents will return to the worldwide operating scene when Germany’s KonstanzeKlosterhalfen makes her debut on the Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon on February24.

The 27-year-old, who holds nationwide data at 5,000m and 10,000m, loved awhirlwind 2022, successful European Championship gold at 5,000m and beating aworld-class subject to win the Valencia Half Marathon in a private greatest time of 65:41.

That point in Valencia makes her the second quickest German girl in historical past at the21.1km half marathon distance and, ought to she be again to her greatest after recoveringfrom harm, she might properly goal the German report (65:18) and the Europeanbest of 65:15 in Ras Al Khaimah.

Extensively generally known as ‘Koko’, Klosterhalfen joins a strong elite subject for the seventeenth Ras AlKhaimah Half Marathon, an occasion hosted by the Ras Al Khaimah TourismDevelopment Authority (RAKTDA) on the quickly creating Al Marjan Island.

She is going to line up alongside the likes of New York Marathon champion Tamirat Tola,defending Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon males’s champion Benard Kibet Koech,ladies’s World Half Marathon champion Peres Jepchirchir and former ladies’s HalfMarathon World File Holder Ababel Yeshaneh for what would be the Germanrunner’s first race on the worldwide calendar for greater than six months.

“I’m actually wanting ahead to returning to racing, particularly on the Ras Al KhaimahHalf Marathon as a race I’ve heard lots about,” mentioned Klosterhalfen.

“General, I’m pleased with how my coaching has been going, and I’m able to testmyself and see precisely the place I’m after a very good coaching camp”

As she goals to recapture the shape she produced since bursting on the scene as a5,000m bronze medallist on the 2019 World Championships in Doha, the Ras AlKhaimah Half Marathon might witness one thing particular from the darling of Germanathletics whose profession spotlight stays that beautiful 5,000m EuropeanChampionship win in Munich two years in the past.

In addition to elites chasing private nests and course data, the Ras Al KhaimahHalf Marathon may also see 1000’s of runners coming collectively within the associated10km, 5km, and 2km runs with registration open at rakhalfmarathon.com

About Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Improvement Authority (RAKTDA)

The Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Improvement Authority (RAKTDA) wasestablished in Might 2011 underneath the federal government of Ras Al Khaimah. RAKTDAaims to develop the Emirate’s tourism infrastructure and set up Ras AlKhaimah as a world-class vacation spot for leisure and enterprise journey,creating sustainable funding alternatives and enhancing the standard oflife for its residents. With a view to obtain its objectives, the Authority has agovernment mandate to license, regulate, and monitor the Emirate’s tourismand hospitality business.

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