Christian Reif
Christian Reif at the 2007 World Championships
Christian Reif ( born October 24, 1984 in Speyer ) is a German long jumper.
Life
Christian Reif lives in Saarbrücken. He was a member from 1991 to 2001, the TSV Iggelheim and then moved to ABC Ludwigshafen. Since 2013 he starts for the LC Rehlinger. He is trained by Ulrich Knapp. Reif is 1.96 m tall and weighs 85 kg.
In 2004, the personal record of the then 20 -year-old already 7.83 m. His first eight- meter jump he succeeded on 21 July 2007 the German Championships in Erfurt. He jumped 8.08 m, thus won the title and qualified for the 2007 World Championships in Osaka. There he completed the qualifying in fourth place, while improved his personal best to 8.19 m. In the final he was with 7.95 m after the third passage Ninth and so missed the final battle. A better placement succeeded him on 23 September 2007, in the IAAF World Athletics Final. For the third time he jumped over the eight- meter mark and was 8.01 m in fourth.
In the Olympic year of 2008, Reif moved in training to a hamstring and missed qualifying for the Olympic Games in Beijing. In 2009, he tied again at his achievements from the year 2007. In Paris in September he had a set of 8.18 m.
In 2010 he was a new personal Hallenbestleistung of 8.10 m German master in the hall. Two weeks later he won at the World Indoor Championships in Doha with 7.86 m in fifth place. At the start of the outdoor season, he showed up in good shape when he started his first record increased the Whitsun Sports Festival in Weinheim to 8.22 m. A week later in Hengelo Although he was defeated by Dwight Phillips, but improved in second at even permissible tailwind of 1.9 m / s to 8.27 m. With a new personal best of 8.47 m Reif was born on August 1, 2010 European Champion at the Championships in Barcelona. In the same year he was elected to the athletes of the year 2010.
At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, he reached the final battle and occupied the seventh place there. Because Achilles tendon complaints renounced Reif 2012 to start at the Germans and the European Championships, but managed to qualify standard for the Olympic Games in London. There he was Thirteenth.
Mature studied at Heidelberg University and the University of Karlsruhe (TH). In 2011, he graduated with a Bachelor Sportwissenschaften/Gesundheits- and fitness management. He then completed a master's degree sports management at the University of Bayreuth.
Reif is since 2007 member of the Junge Union (JU ). In 2009 he was Deputy Chairman of the JU Association Bohl -Iggelheim. In the local elections in the same year ran frost on the list of the CDU, but failed to reach the Council. In 2011 it became ripe as a head of a campaign members of the CDU Federal Association are available.
It supports several social projects and is also an ambassador of children's hospice Sterntaler eV and of the Ludwigshafen association " Strong kids are fair."
Achievements
Personal best
Power development
Awards
- Athlete of the Year in Germany: 2010
- Sportsman of the Year in Rhineland -Palatinate: 2010, 2011