Dagmar Rabensteiner (born June 15, 1963 in Innsbruck) is a former Austrian long-distance runner.

As an elementary school student, she walked the seven-kilometer route from Sadrach, a district of Innsbruck, to school in the city center every day. As a high school student, she undertook climbing and ski tours, and later, with her husband and young son, she embarked on multi-week trips and trekking tours through jungles in Indonesia or into the highlands of Kashmir, all the way to the base of Mount Everest. She didn’t start running until she was 27.

At the age of 30, the medical doctor ran her first marathon in 3:28 hours. After recognizing her talent for the sport, she continually improved and in 1997, she finished sixth in the Florence Marathon with a time of 2:55:19, breaking the three-hour mark for the first time.

Competitive training led to further improvements. In 1999, she finished sixth in the Vienna City Marathon in 2:49:33 hours and won the Graz Marathon in 2:41:46 hours. In 2000, she became Austrian marathon champion, finishing sixth overall in the Vienna City Marathon in 2:39:08, won the Wachau Marathon half marathon, and then broke Carina Lilge-Leutner’s nearly 17-year-old national record by finishing third in the Amsterdam Marathon with a time of 2:35:42. A week later, she became Austrian half marathon champion in Salzburg.

She set her record by finishing third in the 2002 Vienna City Marathon in 2:35:42, beating the time limit for the marathon at the European Athletics Championships in Munich, where she finished 15th.

In 2003, she ran her third national marathon record, finishing tenth in the Berlin Marathon with a time of 2:34:35. However, she missed qualifying for the 2004 Olympic Games by 1:35 minutes, and so she retired from competitive sport after this race. She continues to run up to 150 kilometers per week, achieving sporting successes such as winning the half marathon at the 2004 Regensburg Marathon and finishing 14th (second in the 40-49 age group) at the 2005 Comrades Marathon over 89 km.

Dagmar Rabensteiner has been married to lawyer and entrepreneur Peter Rabensteiner since 1983; they have a son born in the same year. She is a specialist in internal medicine and a sports doctor, runs a practice in Vienna, and was the official race doctor at the Vienna City Marathon and the Austrian Women’s Run from 2004 to 2008.

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