Eva Dieterich

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Eva Dieterich
Personal information
Born (1999-03-29) 29 March 1999 (age 26)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event Long-distance running
Achievements and titles
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)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Flag of Germany.svg Germany
European Running Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2025 Leuven 10,000 m

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]

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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 10.75km 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] She was selected for the German team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. [8]

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

  1. "Eva Dieterich". World Athletics. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
  2. 1 2 "Eva Dieterich: Farewell, return and march to the top of the German elite". leichtathletik.de. 6 October 2022. Retrieved 7 Sep 2025.
  3. 1 2 Broadbent, Chris (17 Apr 2025). "Dieterich sets tone for promising season with silver at European Running Championships". European Athletics. Retrieved 7 Sep 2025.
  4. 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.
  5. "German 10,000m Championships". World Athletics. 4 May 2024. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
  6. 1 2 Broadbent, Chris (13 Apr 2025). "Battocletti wins fourth European title at Brussels-Leuven 2025". European Athletics. Retrieved 7 Sep 2025.
  7. "European 10,000m Cup". World Athletics. 24 May 2025. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
  8. "76 für Tokio: Das deutsche WM-Team steht". Leichtathletik.de. 29 August 2025. Retrieved 29 August 2025.