Ana Dulce Félix beats course record at Austrian Women's Run

Portugese runner Ana Dulce Félix won Sunday’s Austrian Women’s Run. She ran the 5km elite race in 15:27.40 and beat the 2-year-old course record set by Jelena Prokopcuka by 2 seconds. Félix won by a clear margin, 25 seconds ahead of compatriot Jessica Augusto. The 3rd place went to Germany’s Sabrina Mockenhaupt who clocked 15:59.30.

Félix said she was surprised by her victory. Only a few weeks ago she finished her first marathon, in Vienna as well, but said she didn’t feel the marathon at all in the 5km race.

Augusto, favourite before the race, said she was happy despite getting her tactics slightly wrong: "I am totally happy about second place. I started the race too fast and killed myself in the first 1km."

Additional Places:
4th place: Elena Romagnolo (ITA) -16:04.0
5th place: Adrienne Herzog (NED) - 16:11.7
6th place – best Austrian runner: Jennifer Wenth: 16:35.1min
7th place: Maria Sig Möller (DEN) – 16:46.6
8th place: Lisa Perterer (AUT) – 16:49.8
9th place: Renate Reingruber (AUT) – 17:37.0
10th place Tanja Eberhart (AUT) – 17:43.0

All in all 25,145 women ran the Austrian Women’s Runs. A total of 20,648 chose the 5km (17,648 ran, 2.999 took part in the Nordic walking event) and 4,506 raced the 10km.

All race results can be found here.