Anita Baierl ends her career

Anita Baierl (TuS Kremsmünster), who won the Austrian national championship title in marathon running as part of the Salzburg Marathon in 2016, has ended her competitive sports career. The marathon in the city of Mozart on May 1, 2016 was her premiere over the 42.195 kilometers. Accompanied by Karl Aumayr, 2012 national champion in the marathon and 2015 winner of the Salzburg Marathon, who acted as the pacemaker for the women's elite in 2016, the Upper Austrian completed the Most of the race together with the later winner Fatuma Tayr from Ethiopia and the Tyrolean Karin Freitag (LG Decker Itter), who had won the state championship title in the supreme discipline of running in the four years before. Only in the last quarter of the race was Tayr able to break away and win the 13th Salzburg Marathon in a time of 2:39:15 hours. Debutante Baierl followed in a time of 2:42:35 hours, Freitag crossed the finish line at Residenzplatz just 50 seconds later in third place in one of her best marathons.

Third fastest half marathon runner in Austria

The 2016 Salzburg Marathon was to remain the only marathon run in Anita Baierl's career. The 31-year-old competed in her best race in March 2015 at the Berlin Half Marathon, which she finished in a time of 1:13:23 hours and is thus third on the all-time list of the best in the women's half marathon of the Austrian Athletics Association. In 2016, Baierl took part in the European Half Marathon Championships in Amsterdam.

In Salzburg, the Upper Austrian shone in addition to her second place at the Salzburg Marathon 2016 as the winner of the 10km run as part of "Frau läuft!" in Klessheim 2013 and second in the Jedermannlauf 2014, when she became runner-up behind Jennifer Wenth in her half-marathon debut.