“It’s good that Papa was released,” said Kerstin Springer, that this time the planned family relay at the Upper Bank Linz Donau Marathon came about.
Because the Papa Franz, who was the fastest Austrian in the 42.195 kilometers of 2006 and 2007 there, had always been used as a ÖAMTC breakdown driver during the youngest Linz Marathon weekends. Not this time-and promptly the Rohrbacher family Springer won the Hyundai mixed relay.
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After daughter Kerstin and father Franz, brother Stefan and mother Andrea – two -time half marathon winner in Linz – ran home in 2:33:43 hours. Kerstin Springer did not stop after her 10-kilometer relay part, and after the last two quarter marathons wins won the half-distance in 1:18:04 hours ahead of Amelie (1:20:03) from Neukirchen an der Vöckla.
“But I don’t have a change to the longer distances,” said Springer, who sees running training as a welcome compensation for her work as a process technician at Agrana in Aschach.
The attraction of individual victories
In 2021, the Scherb family had also set a relay. Father Hannes had finished fourth with his children Emma, Katharina and Niklas. This is the past “because the children now want individual wins,” explains Hannes.
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