Jonas Plass
Jonas Plass ( born August 1, 1986 in Bamberg ) is a German sprinter.
The age of six he began his sporting career as a basketball player, first at TSV 1860 Rosenheim, then later when Sportbund Rosenheim. During a stay abroad in Erie ( Illinois), USA, in the year 2003/2004 he took a liking to the sprint disciplines of athletics. After his return to Rosenheim, he joined in the autumn of 2004, the athletics department of TSV 1860 Rosenheim and was recorded in early 2005 in the conveyor squad "Team Wendelstein ". At this time he started, along with his coach Andreas Krämer, the concentrated preparation for the 400 - meter track.
In summer 2005, the first success was followed with a second place at the German Youth Championships in Braunschweig s in a time of 47.83 followed a year later the German Junior Champion title. In 2007, he first had the opportunity to present themselves internationally. In the U23 European Championships in Debrecen, Hungary, he finished ninth in single and just narrowly missed the finals. With the season he shared with his teammates managed the surprising bronze medal. Shortly afterwards, he finished fifth at the German Championships and was nominated for the 4 x 400 - meter relay team for the World Championships in Osaka.
With the year 2008 was followed by his biggest crisis year, after a good recovering from surgery on both strips followed shortly after a stress fracture in the left midfoot, which robbed him of any hope of participating in the Olympic Games in Beijing. The following year at the German Championships in Ulm, he managed to surprise. After a hitherto rather mediocre season burst in the final of the node, and he finished second in 46.00 s and at the same time put it a new personal best. For the relay at the World Championships in Berlin Plass, however, was set up only as a substitute.
In 2010, he was with the 4 x 400 - meter relay team to a third place in the European team championship in Bergen, Norway, and later also contribute to a fourth place at the European Championships in Barcelona. Plass 2011 won the German Championship over 400 meters. At the World Championships this year, he was eighth with the German relay. 2012 could Plass at the European Championships in Helsinki with the relay ( Jonas Plass, Kamghe Gaba, Eric Kruger, Thomas Schneider) win in 3:01,77 min the bronze medal. At the Olympic Games in London, the squadron was eliminated in the flow.
2010 closed Plass be Sportmanagement-/-kommunikationsstudium at the German Sport University in Cologne from. Now comes the intended master's degree at the Hochschule Fresenius Cologne in Media Management & Entrepreneurship.