Christoph Herle
Christoph Herle ( born November 19, 1955 in Königstein / Taunus ) is a former German long-distance runner.
From 1983 to 1986, he was four times. Consecutive DLV champion in the 10,000 meter race At the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, he went over this distance and 5000 meters at the start. Over 10,000 meters he finished fifth, about 5000 meters he gave up in the semifinals.
At the World Athletics Championships in 1983, he was eighth in the 10,000 meters. He had less success in European championships: 1978 in Prague and 1982 in Athens, he came over 5000 meters on the 14th or 13th place in 1986 in Stuttgart in the 10,000 meters at the 15th position.
In cross country, he was a total of five times DLV champion (1979-1981, 1985, 1988). From 1978 to 1985, he took seven times at World Cross Country Championships in part, with a seventh place in 1985 as the best placement.
Also in the hall, he was successful. Twice he represented a German indoor record in the 3000 -meter run at: 1979 at the Indoor Athletics Championships in Vienna, where he won the bronze medal, with 7:45,44 min, and 1985 in Dortmund during his second DLV title after 1979 in this discipline with 7:42,97 min.
Making its debut in the marathon he was fifth at the 1983 Chicago Marathon in 2:12:14 h On his second and last start over this distance in 1985 he placed fourth in the London Marathon with 2:09:23 hours a DLV record, with which he is currently (as of August 2009) for third place in the Eternal German leaderboard behind Jörg Peter and Michael Heilmann (which were previously made it as an athlete of the GDR in the record lists of DVFL ).
Christoph Herle launched until 1976 for the maximum OSC, 1977 for the USC Munich, from 1978 to 1984 for the LAC Quelle Fürth and then for VfL Waldkraiburg. He studied architecture and art history at the Technical University of Munich and founded in 1983 with a friend, an architectural office.