On Saturday, September 16, 2017, German Championships were held in Diez (GER) on the distance of 10,000m track on the male level and on the 5,000m track on a female level. The races were also valid for the German Championships Master.
Fresh and sunny day, with very favorable weather conditions.
10,000m track walk men
In this race, a great surprise occurred: the favorite Christopher Linke (GER) was beaten by team-mates Hagen Pohle (GER). Both are competing for S.D. Potsdam and both are trained by Ronald Weigel.
Hagen Pohle, stayed with Linke until 6km and then goes to set the pace.
This allowed them to take advantage of a hundred meters and to win the race at 39:39.45, which becomes the third world performance of the year on the distance, as well as being the new personal best of the athlete (previous 39:54.33 established at Juteborg, GER on June 22, 2013 always on the occasion of the German Championships on track.
Here is the list of athletes under 40:00.00
| Result | Pos. | Athlete | YoB | Nation | Place | Venue | Date |
| | | | | | | | |
| 38:34.23 | 1. | Dane Alex BIRD-SMITH | 92 | AUS | 1. | Sydney (AUS) | 31.03 |
| 38:57.45 | 2. | Perseus KARLSTRÖM | 90 | SWE | 1. | Stockholm (SWE) | 02.09 |
| 39:39.45 | 3. | Hagen POHLE | 92 | GER | 1. | Diez (GER) | 16.09 |
| 39:44.14 | 4. | Francesco FORTUNATO | 94 | ITA | 1. | Orvieto (ITA) | 23.04 |
| 39:46.60 | 5. | Eiki TAKAHASHI | 92 | JPN | 1. | Abashiri (JPN) | 13.07 |
| 39:47.17 | 6. | Alvaro MARTIN | 94 | ESP | 1. | Barcelona (ESP) | 23.07 |
| 39:47.77 | 7. | Diego GARCIA | 96 | ESP | 1. | Torrent (ESP) | 01.07 |
| 39:49.26 | 8. | Gianluca PICCHIOTTINO | 96 | ITA | 2. | Orvieto (ITA) | 23.04 |
| 39:50.88 | 9. | Luis Alberto AMEZCUA | 92 | ESP | 2. | Barcelona (ESP) | 23.07 |
| 39:51.64 | 10. | Miguel Angel LOPEZ | 88 | ESP | 1. | Cartagena (ESP) | 06.05 |
| 39:59.87 | 11. | Ricardo ORTIZ | 95 | MEX | 1. | Xalapa (MEX) | 06.05 |
Second place to Christopher Linke (GER) in 40:10.08, while third place went to Nils Brembach (GER) in 40:29.91.
Until Tuesday Sep. 5, 2017 Francesco Fortunato (ITA) went on holiday (and to do some training) and then he returned to race in Trieste and we will see again at the start of the Final Gold Club's Championship: we will know that if for the Italian athlete the time spent in Germany was more than training or holiday. Of course we would like to see him react to this performance by Hagen Pohle and return to the third place in the world list.
Brembach (61), Pohle (64) and Linke (covered)
Brembach (61), Junghannss (31) Pohle (64) and Linke (63)
5.000m track walk women
Victory for Teresa Zurek (GER), silver medal for the U20 European Championships in Grosseto 2017, with the time of 23:43.16.
Nothing great for the young German who has a personal best of 22:14.94 on Aug. 11, 2016 in Buhlertal (GER) and who had last three performances under 22:20.00.
Second place for Julia Richter (GER) in 24:55.02.
Third place for Julia Henze (GER) in 28:22.59
Teresa Zurek (66) and Julia Richter (65)