North Hessian Laura Hottenrott starts at the Frankfurt Marathon

Laura Hottenrott, Hesse’s strongest endurance runner, is taking part in this year’s Frankfurt Marathon. It should be a race that is as close as it is fast. The favorites have their sights set on the course record.

Laura Hottenrott from North Hesse has a home game in Frankfurt.
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00:33 mins|10/8/24|Phil Hofmeister

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Laura Hottenrott will be taking part in this year’s Frankfurt Marathon. The organizer announced this on Tuesday. With a best time of 2:24:32 hours, the runner from Kassel is considered the fastest European in the strong field. At the Olympic Games in Paris, the North Hesse woman finished 38th in 2:31:19 hours.

Hottenrott probably won’t be running for the title in Frankfurt. On October 27th there will be six athletes in the Main metropolis who have best times of under 2:23 hours. The fastest in the field is Tigist Abayechew, who ran 2:18:03 in Berlin two years ago. This makes the Ethiopian the fastest runner ever to be on the start list in Frankfurt.

Organizers are hoping for a new record time

“Due to the compact field in the top women’s division, we hope that we will see an exciting race and times of under 2:20:00 hours. Maybe the course record set by Kenyan Valary Aiyabei five years ago will even fall,” said race director Jo Schindler.

Aiyabei ran a time of 2:19:10 hours in 2019. Last year, winner Buzunesh Getachew Gudeta from Ethiopia was only 17 seconds slower.