Julia Ehrle
German long-distance runner
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Julia Ehrle (born 12 August 2007) is a German long-distance and cross country runner. She won the gold medal in the women's under-20 race at the 2025 World Mountain and Trail Running Championships.[1]
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| Born | 12 August 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Events | Long-distance running, Cross country running | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
From Villingen in Baden-Württemberg, Ehrle won her first German age-group national title at the German Youth Athletics Championships in Rostock as a 15-year-old, when she won the under-18 3000 metres race in July 2023.[2]
Ehrle was a silver medalist over 3000 metres at the 2024 European Athletics U18 Championships in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia.[3] She became the U20 European Mountain Running Champion as a 17-year-old, and won the under-20 race at the Sparkassen Cross in Pforzheim in November 2024.[4] She placed fourth in the under-20 race at the 2024 European Cross Country Championships in Antalya, Turkey.[5]
Ehrle was a bronze medalist over 5000 metres at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland, running a personal best of 15:44.06, her first time under sixteen minutes in just her fifth race at the distance.[6][7]
She won the gold medal in the U20 women’s race at the 2025 World Mountain and Trail Running Championships.[5][8] That year, she won the German under-20 cross country championships.[5] She was selected for the 2025 European Cross Country Championships in Portugal.[9]
In June 2026, Ehrle won the U20 up-and-downhill mountain race at the European Athletics Off-Road Running Championships in Ljubljana-Kamnik, Slovenia, also winning the bronze medal in the uphill race.[10]