Martin Keller (athlete)

Martin Keller (right) at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona

Martin Keller ( born September 26, 1986 in Rochlitz ) is a German sprinter who focused on the 100 meters and was the first German ever ran this distance under 10 seconds, but this time is due to too much tailwind without recognition. In addition, since 2008 he is a permanent fixture of the DLV National Season.

He was trained by the summer of 2009 by the former DLV head coach and head coach of the last DVFL the GDR, Bernd Schubert and starts since 2012 for LAZ Leipzig. Since October 2009, Ronald Stone is his coach, who is also national coach short sprint men at the same time and thus responsible for the German 4 x 100 - meter relay.

Martin Keller has a size of 1.80 m and a competition weight of 82 kg.

He is since 2007 a ​​member of the Federal Police Sports School Kienbaum, the top sports conveyor of the Federal Police for summer and year-round sports.

Sports career

He started in 1994 initially as a footballer before he turned to athletics, which he began at TSV medicine change castle. In 2002 he moved to VfA Rochlitzer mountain and specialized in short sprint; two years later he moved to the LAC Chemnitz natural gas in the training group by Peter Dost.

2004

Keller made ​​her first nationally in appearance than he 's surprisingly finished third in 100 - meter race of the German Youth Championships in Jena with 10.89 fourth place, which is why he for the 4 x 100 -meter relay at the U20 - world Championships was nominated in Grosseto.

2005

In the last year in the U20 class he had to fight in the preparation with injury problems. He was his best performance indeed increase again on 10.76 s, but another injury for him meant the end of the season after it was not in spite of the increase in performance he managed to qualify for the Junior European Championships.

2006

Martin Keller was the connection to the national peak in the adult area. For the European Cup qualifier in Regensburg, he improved in the run to 10.43 s and 10.34 s in the final again on this he was nominated for the U23 international match against Poland and for the European Cup in the Spanish Malaga. At the German Championships in Ulm, he was fourth and re-appointed to the national team for the European Championships. However, he came in this year at any season use for men. After returning from the European Championships he could win the title of German Junior Champion in his home near Bautzen. In September he underwent an operation.

2007

Despite a short preparation, he decided with his coach to complete a competitive season. But Keller was due to the injuries in addition to the third place at the German Junior Championships reach front places and went with 10.56 s as Jahresbestzeit of the season.

2008

In the indoor season, he managed to increase his best performance over 60 meters to 6.66 s, which he set up at the local International natural gas - hall meeting. This year, he belonged to the national forefront. He offered himself again and again for the 4 x 100 - meter relay and was finally also notes. He improved his best performance on June 27 at 10.23 see Him even managed a time of 10.15 s was not ripe, the best list but because of excessive wind assistance ( 2.6 m / s ). At the German Championships he was third. He celebrated his biggest success to date, together with Tobias Unger, Till Helmke and Alexander Kosenkow at the Olympic Games in Beijing. The quartet reached the fifth place with 38.58 s.

2009

Due to injury, leaving the basement of the indoor season and was still able to build on the previous year in the summer. He arrived as the best German the quarterfinals of the World Championships in Berlin and reached wind -aided 10.15 seconds at the DLV Gala in Bochum / Wattenscheid. Regular 2009 were 10.35 s impact. The 4-by- 100 - meter relay has long been a leader in Europe. At the end you could afford the British relay at the world championships no defense, as in the flow slips up a relay exchange and basement was not used as the final runners.

2010

This year, Martin Keller was long a leader in a national comparison, stopped him before a muscle injury. He was fit again in time to the German Championships and could still qualify for the national team at the European Championships, in which he ran as a cage rotor 4 x 100 - meter relay for the German team in third place. The quartet scored in European Championship final with 38.44 s, the fastest time by a German squadron in an international final.

2011

Keller started work on its largest ever national success in the World Cup year. He won at the German Indoor Championships in Leipzig on 60 meters silver medal and met with his new personal best of 6.65 s is the standard for the European Indoor Championships in Paris. However, he had to cancel due to illness his starting two days before the competition. The outdoor season had to end prematurely due to a hamstring cellar. He used to let the injury heal at the time and healthy and regenerated to start the preparation for the Olympic Games in London. At the same time he moved his home and training base from Chemnitz to Leipzig. He joined the powerful training group of today's DLV head coach Cheick Idriss Gonschinska that his coach Ronald Stein took over in September 2011.

2012

The indoor season was due to the cellar from injury last year. He pulled one of the top German and he had with his use in the flow at the European Championships in Helsinki share in winning the silver medal. He also starred in the team for the London Olympics. His Jahresbestzeit of 10.29 s he ran at the end of July Olympic test event in Weinheim with only a slight tail wind of 0.3 m / s When ISTAF in Berlin in early September, he came in the mixed relay used.

2013

On May 11, he was the first German sprinter at the meeting in Clermont the 100 meters under 10 seconds. If too much tailwind of 3.8 m / s while he reached a time of 9.99 s At the German Championships in Ulm, he won in a new personal best of 10.19 s the silver medal. This he improved at the World Cup preparation match on August 2 in Weinheim on 10.07 s and missed the German record of Frank Emmelmann only a hundred Else customer. At the World Championships 2013 in Moscow, he was eliminated in the flow. In relay competition, he finished with Lucas Jakubczyk, Sven Knipphals and Julian Reus at 38.04 s fourth.

Personal best

Achievements

  • 2006 Saxon master: 100 m, 4 × 100 m
  • 2006 3rd Place German Championships: 4 × 100 m
  • 2006 German Junior Champion: 100 m
  • 2008 South German indoor champion: 60 m
  • 2008 3rd Place German Championships: 100 m
  • 2008 5th Olympic Games: 4 × 100 m
  • 2009 European Team Champion
  • 2009/4 Finals World Championships: 100 m
  • 2010 South German indoor champion: 60 m
  • 2010 3rd place European Championships: 4 × 100 m
  • 2011 Saxon halls Champion: 60 m
  • 2011 2nd Place German Indoor Championships: 60 m
  • 2012 2nd place European Championships: 4 × 100 m
  • 2013 3rd place German Indoor Championships: 60 m
  • 2013 2nd Place German Championships: 100 m
  • 2013 4th World Championships: 4 × 100 m
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