Reto Schenkel
Reto Amaru legs ( born April 28, 1988 in Togo ) is a Swiss track and field athlete, specialized in the sprint events 100 m and 200 m. He is a member of the 4 × 100 m relay, the Barcelona finished fourth at the European Championships in 2010 and with a time of 38.62 s holds the current national record.
Leg came at the age of three years as an adopted child from Togo to Switzerland. He grew up in Fehraltorf, in the canton of Zurich. At twelve he started with athletics. It quickly became his talent for Sprinter discipline. Already in 2003 he won his first title over 80 meters at the Swiss Championships of Athletics offspring. In 2005 he took the Olympic Festival of European Youth silver medal in the 200 -meter run. 2006 succeeded leg, with a time of 10.45 s in the 100 meters to break the 36 -year-old Swiss junior record, and thus reached the limit for participation in the Junior World Championships in Beijing. In the same year was admitted to the leg support project World Class potential of the Swiss Athletics Association also together with Rolf Fongué.
The next leg successes could get with the Swiss 4 x 100 - meter relay, which in 2009 beat the national record for the first time. In 2010 he was the first to win a Swiss Champion title at the assets, he was first in the 200 -meter run. In 2011 he won the Swiss all-time best performance on the rare spilled distance of 150 meters, undercutting the limits for the World Championships in the 100 - and 200 -meter run, where he reached the semifinals over 200 meters. Both the 100 meters as the 200 meters he could create clear personal best this year.
At the European Championships 2012 in Helsinki, he reached the semi-finals in the 100 and 200 meters.
Leg graduated from the Sports Business School and graduated in 2009 successfully as a federally qualified Kauffmann from. He starts for the LV Winterthur.
Achievements
- 2004: Swiss Youth champion 200 -meter run
- 2005: 2nd place European Youth Olympic Festival 200 -meter run; 4th place European Youth Olympic Festival 100 -meter run; Swiss Youth champion 100 - meter dash and 200 -meter run; 3rd place Swiss Indoor Championships 60 -meter run
- 2006: 26th place Junior World Championships 200 -meter run; Rank 37 Junior World Championships 100 -meter run, Swiss junior champion 200 -meter run
- 2007: 5th place Junior European Championships 100 -meter run; 3rd place Swiss Championships 100 -meter run; 2nd Rank hall Swiss Championships 60 -meter run
- 2008: 2nd place Swiss Championships 200 -meter run; 3rd place Swiss Championships 100 -meter run
- 2009: 14th place U23 European Championships 200 -meter run; 3rd Rank hall Swiss Championships 60 -meter run
- 2010: Swiss champion 200 -meter run
- 2011: 2nd place hall Swiss Championships 60 -meter run; 20th place World Championships 200 -meter run and 27th place 100 -meter run