Eva Dieterich
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| Born | 29 March 1999 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Long-distance running | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 3000 m 8:59.27 (Cork, 2025) 5000 m: 15:30.28 (Braunschweig, 2024) 10,000 m 31:45.18 (Hamburg, 2025) Road 10 km 31:25 (Leuven, 2025) Half marathon: 1:08:26 (Valencia, 2024) | ||||||||||||||
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Eva Dieterich (born 29 March 1999) is a German long-distance runner. She has won German national titles over 10,000 metres, and over 10 km on the road, and was a silver medalist at the 2025 European Running Championships.[1]
Early life
From Kassel, she won the annual Kassel Mini Marathon three times. However, she contracted mononucleosis shortly before graduating from high school in 2017 and did not run for a significant period of time, but restarted a few years later during the COVID-19 pandemic and later trained again under her former coach, Winfried Aufenanger.[2]
Career
She placed sixth representing Germany over 10,000 m in Tallinn, Estonia at the 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships and tenth in the women's U23 race in Dublin, Ireland at the 2021 European Cross Country Championships.[3] She won her first senior national title at the German Road Race Championships in Saarbrücken in October 2022 over 10 km.[2]
She placed second behind Hanna Klein at the Bietigheimer Silvesterlauf over 10.75 km in 35:22.[4] She won the German 10,000 m Championships on Wassenberg in May 2024.[5] She competed at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy in June 2024 in the women's 10,000 metres.[6]
She won the silver medal over 10 km on the road, and was a silver medalist at the 2025 European Running Championships behind Nadia Battocletti in Belgium in April 2025, in 31:25, taking 23 seconds off her previous best.[6] She placed fourth in May 2025 at the European 10,000 m Cup in France.[7] In September 2025, she competed over 10,000 metres at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan.[8][9] She was selected for the 2025 European Cross Country Championships in Portugal in December 2025.[10]
Personal life
She studied for a law degree at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. She is a musician and has played in an orchestra, playing violin and piano.[3]
References
- ^ "Eva Dieterich". World Athletics. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
- ^ a b "Eva Dieterich: Farewell, return and march to the top of the German elite". leichtathletik.de. 6 October 2022. Retrieved 7 Sep 2025.
- ^ a b Broadbent, Chris (17 Apr 2025). "Dieterich sets tone for promising season with silver at European Running Championships". European Athletics. Retrieved 7 Sep 2025.
- ^ Broadbent, Chris (1 Jan 2024). "Battocletti crowns her season with historic victory on home soil over 5km in Bolzano". European Athletics. Retrieved 7 Sep 2025.
- ^ "German 10,000m Championships". World Athletics. 4 May 2024. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
- ^ a b Broadbent, Chris (13 Apr 2025). "Battocletti wins fourth European title at Brussels-Leuven 2025". European Athletics. Retrieved 7 Sep 2025.
- ^ "European 10,000m Cup". World Athletics. 24 May 2025. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
- ^ "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. 18 Sep 2025. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
- ^ "76 für Tokio: Das deutsche WM-Team steht". Leichtathletik.de. 29 August 2025. Retrieved 29 August 2025.
- ^ Mills, Steven (10 Dec 2025). "Lagoa 2025 senior women's preview - Battocletti's bid for back-to-back titles". European Athletics. Retrieved 11 December 2025.