Tobias Unger

Tobias Benjamin Unger (born 10 July 1979, Munich) is a German track and field athlete and Olympian, who specializes in the disciplines of 100 and 200 meters.

Life

Unger won the 1999 in the hall his first German championship with the 4 x 200 - meter relay team of VfL Sindelfingen. His first singles title he won in 2003 over 200 meters. In the same year he first participated in the World Championships. In 2004 he won the bronze medal over 200 meters at the World Indoor Championships in Budapest.

Unger 2005 European Indoor champion. With tenth place in the 200- meter world ranking, he was the best white 200 - meter runner this year.

At the 2010 European Championships he won the bronze medal with the German 4 x 100 - meter relay. At the European Championships 2012 in Helsinki he got together with Julian Reus, Alexander Kosenkow and Lucas Jakubczyk the silver medal in the relay. In a preparatory competition for the Olympic Games in London, she improved a short time later in the same occupation, the 30 year- existing German record to 38.02 s at the games themselves, the squadron bowed out from.

Tobias Unger has a competition weight of 70 kg at a height of 1.79 m. He trained to 30 November 2009 at LAZ Salamander Kornwestheim -Ludwigsburg. From 1 December 2009 to 30 November 2011, he started for the LG Stadtwerke München, to which he and his training partner Marius Broening ( LAV asics Tübingen) changed. Since December 1, 2011 Unger starts for VfB Stuttgart in the even his training mate Alex sheep is under contract. Unger, Broening and sheep train in Kirchheim unter the Romanians Micky Corucle from Koengen, in which also the third in the German Championship over 200 meters in the women's 2008 in Nuremberg, Anja Wacker Hauser (VfB Stuttgart), trained.

His personal bests are (as of October 2012) 10.14 s s over 200 meters, which he keeps in the 100 and 20.20 the German record over this distance.

Unger lives in Kirchheim unter Teck. He made in 1999 a high school to a commercial high school, trained as a banker and studied in Tübingen sports management. He is employed by a savings bank.

National success

  • 2000 German Junior Champion
  • 2001 Vice Champion at the German Championships 200 m
  • 2003 German Champion 200 m
  • 2003 German indoor champion 200 m
  • 2004 German Champion 200 m
  • 2004 German indoor champion 60 m, 200 m
  • 2005 German indoor champion 60 m, 200 m
  • 2005 Two-time German champion ( 2/3 July, 2005 in Bochum- ) No. 1 in the 100 meters (10.16 s ) 1st place 200m: 20.20 s (improvement of the German record of Frank Emmelmann of 18 August 1985)
  • 2006 German indoor champion 200 m
  • 2008 German indoor champion 60 m
  • 2008 German Champion 100 m
  • 2009 German Champion 100 m
  • 2010 German indoor champion 60 m
  • 2011 German Champion 100 m

International success

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