Silvio Schirrmeister

Silvio sergeant ( born December 7, 1988 in Neubrandenburg ) is a German hurdler.

Silvio sergeant starts about 400 meters hurdles. By 2008, he was active for his hometown club SC Neubrandenburg, 2009 and 2010 for the Dresdner SC 1898 and since 2011 for the natural gas LAC Chemnitz. The banker is coached by Ulf Müller. First, he was a successful junior athlete. In 2007 he won in Hengelo the title at the European Junior Championships in the U23 European Championships 2009 in Kaunas he finished fifth. National, he won the 2007 title over 400 meters at the Youth Indoor Championships, 2009 he was junior champion over 400 meters hurdles.

Since 2010, sergeant starts at the men. At the German Championships in 2010, he was behind Georg Fleischhauer runner-up, at the Team Championships in Bergen, he won the bronze medal with the German team. Because of his training was in 2011 less successfully. He lost his place for the European Championship 2012 in Helsinki by a fall at a test competition shortly before the Continental Championships in Dresden to Tobias Giehl. Nevertheless, he improved his personal best in a competition in Regensburg at 49.21 p He undercut the German Olympic standard at nine Hunderststelsekunden and was nominated for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, where he was the fourth of its forward travel in 50.21 s eliminated.

At the Track Team Championship in 2013 won sergeant in a new personal best of 49.15 s, beating world champion David Greene. Two weeks later, he became German champion.