{{short description|German long-distance runner}} {{expand German|topic=bio|date=May 2022|Birgit Jerschabek}} '''Birgit Jerschabek-Keipke''' (born 17 May 1969) is a retired (East) German long-distance runner.
She was born in Ludwigslust.<ref name=sref/> As a junior, she won the 10,000 metres at the 1987 European Junior Championships{{citation needed|date=May 2014}} and finished sixth at the 1988 World Junior Championships.<ref name=bio>{{World Athletics}}</ref> She finished sixteenth in 10,000 metres at the 1990 European Championships<ref>{{cite web|url=http://todor66.com/athletics/europe/1990/Women_10000m.html|title=Women 10000m Athletics XV European Championships 1990 Split (YUG)|publisher=Todor Krastev|accessdate=19 May 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140520045344/http://todor66.com/athletics/europe/1990/Women_10000m.html|archivedate=20 May 2014}}</ref> 65th at the 1990 World Cross Country Championships,<ref name=bio/> fifteenth in the 1992 Olympic marathon<ref name=sref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/je/birgit-jerschabek-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417223341/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/je/birgit-jerschabek-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 April 2020|title=Birgit Jerschabek|publisher=Sports-Reference.com|accessdate=22 May 2014}}</ref> and eighth at the 1992 World Half Marathon Championships.
She later competed in three consecutive World Championship marathons without finishing any of them: the 1993, 1995 and 1997 World Championships. Also, she only managed a 48th place at the 1998 World Half Marathon Championships.<ref name=bio/>
In the East German championships she won bronze medals in 1987, 1988 and 1989 (10,000 metres) and silver medals in 1989 (3000) and 1990 (3000, 10,000 and cross-country running). The winner in all events was Kathrin Ullrich.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/l/leichtathletik/hst/225.html|title=Leichtathletik - DDR - Meisterschaften (3000m - Damen)|publisher=Sport-Komplett|accessdate=18 May 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/l/leichtathletik/hst/226.html|title=Leichtathletik - DDR - Meisterschaften (10000m - Damen)|publisher=Sport-Komplett|accessdate=18 May 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/l/leichtathletik/hst/280.html|title=Leichtathletik - DDR - Cross - Meisterschaften (1-2-3km - Damen - Einzel)|publisher=Sport-Komplett|accessdate=18 May 2014}}</ref> In 1990 she also won a bronze medal (1500 metres) and a silver medal (3000) at the East German indoor championships. She represented the club SC Traktor Schwerin.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/l/leichtathletik/hst/267.html|title=Leichtathletik - DDR - Hallen - Meisterschaften (1500m - Damen)|publisher=Sport-Komplett|accessdate=18 May 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/l/leichtathletik/hst/268.html|title=Leichtathletik - DDR - Hallen - Meisterschaften (3000m - Damen)|publisher=Sport-Komplett|accessdate=18 May 2014}}</ref> She later became German half marathon champion in 1991, 1993 and 1997 and marathon champion in 1997. She represented LG Sieg and ABC Ludwigshafen during this part of her career.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/l/leichtathletik/hst/50.html|title=Leichtathletik - Deutsche Meisterschaften (Halbmarathon - Straße)|publisher=Sport-Komplett|accessdate=18 May 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/l/leichtathletik/hst/104.html|title=Leichtathletik - Deutsche Meisterschaften (Marathon - Damen)|publisher=Sport-Komplett|accessdate=18 May 2014}}</ref>
Her personal best times were 32:14.75 minutes in the 10,000 metres, achieved in June 1990 in Helsinki; 1:10:53 hours in the half marathon, achieved at the 1992 World Half Marathon Championships; and 2:28:02 hours in the marathon, achieved at the 1995 Lisbon Marathon.<ref>[http://hem.bredband.net/athletics/atb-d11.htm World women's all-time best 10000m] (last updated 2001)</ref><ref>[http://hem.bredband.net/athletics/atb-d59.htm World women's all-time best half marathon] (last updated 2001)</ref><ref>[http://hem.bredband.net/athletics/atb-d24.htm World women's all-time best marathon] (last updated 2001)</ref>
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