Georg Fleischhauer

Georg Fleischhauer ( born October 21, 1988 in Halberstadt ) is a German athlete who specializes in the 400 - meter hurdles. He studied industrial engineering at the TU Dresden.

Career

Fleischhauer began his career at the TSV Dresden under coach Sieghardt Stricker. In 2004 he moved to Dresdner SC, where initially trained under Catherine wishes, then under Bernd Grossmann and since 2006 Erika fold. He celebrated his biggest success so far in July 2010 with his victory in the 400 - meter hurdles at the German Championships in Braunschweig. A short time later he became German Junior Champion in Regensburg and remained with his winning time 49.85 s for the first time under the 50 -second mark.

2011 occupied Fleischhauer at the German Indoor Championships in Leipzig in fifth in the 200 -meter run. In May, he was at the Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix in Doha in the 400 - meter hurdles in 50.46 s seventh. The following month, he first raised his best performance as a runner up in the track and field team championship in Stockholm to 49.56 s before to 49.50 s improved at the meeting world class in Biberach. With these services, he met the qualifying standards of the German Athletics Association to participate in the World Championships in Daegu. At the German Championships in Kassel, he was on a technicality not defend his title. Despite the second-best time in the run, he was not admitted to the finals because his trainer had given his starting card too late. However, its use in the World Championships did not touch this. There, in the run he had a significant increase in his best performance to 48.72 s He was the first German for eleven years under the 49 -second mark. However, in the semi-final round, he was unable to repeat this performance and missed his fifth race in 49.36 s in the final. At the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2012, he was sixth with 50.11 s.