Arne Gabius

Niels Arne Gabius ( born March 22, 1981 in Hamburg ) is a German middle and long distance runners. In 2012 he was European Vice-Champion in the 5000 - meter course.

Life

Among his greatest achievements include his victories at the German Championships in the 5000 -meter run (2007-2013), more than 3000 meters in Hall (2009, 2012) as well as in cross-country running in endurance racing ( 2009). At the international level, he started at the European Championships in 2006, where he gave up in the run over 5000 meters, and at the Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham in 2007, where he finished ninth over 3000 meters. He scored the second in the Athletics European Cup 2007 in Munich His best result until then. There, he was initially disqualified after the finish of obstruction of another runner. The protest of the German Athletics Association against the decision but was rejected. At the World Indoor Championships in 2008, he was twelfth.

2008 and 2011 Gabius finished the Tübingen city run as the best German in third place. Gabius was five times the prime German Trier's New Year's run. In 2009, he missed on the 8- km route behind Haile Gebrselassie ( ETH/22: 23) and Shadrack Lagat ( KEN/22: 48) in 23:18 min simultaneously with the third-placed Paul Kipkorir (KEN ) is just one podium finish. In the city run in Biberach he missed 2011 the first victory of a German athletes in the course of aces since Dieter Baumann's triumph in 1994 to just one second.

In 2009 he was re-nominated for the World Athletics Championships in Berlin and retired there in 5000 -meter lead with 13:49,13 min. On 12 September 2009 he became German champion in the 10 - km road race. The European Athletics Championships 2010 in Barcelona, ​​he was twelfth over 5000 meters.

In 2012, he missed more than 3000 meters with 7:38,13 min only just the German indoor record of Dieter Baumann. Shortly thereafter, he remained in an indoor race over two miles with 8:10,78 min as well as the Briton Mo Farah ( 8:08,07 min) under the 29-year -old European - fastest time of the Belgian Emiel Puttemans ( 8:13,2 min ). At the IAAF World Indoor Athletics Championships in Istanbul, he was over 3000 meters aft. The European Athletics Championships 2012 in Helsinki, he won the silver medal behind Mo Farah over 5000 meters. About 3000 meters he ran on 17 August in Stockholm in a German runner 7:35,43 min until then second best time. At the Olympic Games in London, he resigned in the flow.

2013, he presented 13:12,50 min on July 13 in Heusden -Zolder, a personal best, arrived at the World Championships in Moscow because of a small scuffle earlier in the field according to him, a runner in the crucial stages of the race before the feet just fell on the 20th Place.

2014 occupied Gabius at his half- marathon debut in New York with a time of 62:09 minutes eighth. Only seven German were ever faster.

Arne Gabius is 1,88 m tall and weighs 68 kg. From 1996 to 2004, he started for the LAV Hamburg -Nord. Since 2005, he runs for the LAV asics Tübingen and was until July 2011 coached by Dieter Baumann. Gabius studied medicine at the University of Tübingen and has a doctor's approval.

Bests

• 3000 m: 7:35,43 min, August 17 2012, Stockholm

• 2 miles ( Halle): 8:10,78 min, 18 February 2012, Birmingham ( German fastest time )
• 5000 m: 13:12,50 min, July 13, 2013, Heusden -Zolder
• 10 km street: 28:35 min, September 9 2012, Hamburg