Lisa Redlinger breaks Austrian record in Vienna 5k
 

The Vienna City Marathon weekend started in style on Saturday evening on the Ringstraße in the city centre of the Austrian capital. Lisa Redlinger took the women’s race and stormed across the finish line, next to the Burgtheater and opposite the Vienna town hall, with an Austrian record. The 23 year-old clocked 15:34 and improved the mark of Carina Reicht by six seconds. 

“This is an unbelievable moment for me. I have broken some under 23 marks in the past, but this is the first major Austrian record. And I did this despite not training professionally and without any sponsorships,“ said Lisa Redlinger, who was well inside the qualifying time for the Road Running World Championships in September in Copenhagen as well. “I was targeting the qualifying time, but I never thought about the Austrian record.“ Her winning time of 15:34 is the second fastest ever run in this race behind the 15:32 of the European 10k record holder Klara Lukan (Slovenia), who won here three years ago.

Second-placed Austrian youngster Cordula Lassacher ran a fine personal best of 15:57. Linda Meier of Germany was third with 16:15. There was a home win in the men’s race as well: Austria’s Tobias Rattinger crossed the line in 14:21. Bence Acsadi of Hungary was runner-up with 14:32 and Austrian Peter Luftensteiner took third in 14:36.

As in the past years races for children - including the Daily Mile - and the Coca Cola Inclusion Run were also staged on the Ringstraße. The total number of registered runners for the events on Saturday evening was 8,946 which was a record as well.