Florian Reichert

Florian Reichert
nation	Germany
birthday	10th February 1982 (age 38)
place of birth	Hanover ,  Germany
job	High school teacher
Career
discipline	Ultra marathon
society	ASFM Göttingen ; before: TSV Kirchdorf
Trainer	formerly Markus Pingpank
status	active
Medal table
IAU World Championships 0 × 1 × 0 × German Championships (DLV) 1 × 1 × 1 × German Championships (DUV) 1 × 0 × 0 ×
IAU World Championships bronze Peneda-Gerês 2016 Ultratrail team German Championships (DLV) bronze Otterndorf 2005 10 km road team silver Ohrdruf 2012 Cross Lang team gold Munich 2012 Marathon team German Championships (DUV) gold Witzenhausen 2016 Ultratrail
last change: November 17, 2019

Florian Reichert (born February 10, 1982 in Hanover ) is a German long-distance and ultramarathon runner .

Life

Florian Reichert grew up in Barsinghausen and studied English, Spanish and sport as a teacher at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . Before his athletics career from 1994/95 he played soccer, volleyball and table tennis in clubs as well as inline hockey. With running he has found a sport in which he is “responsible for success or failure by himself”. Even in school sports he was faster than his classmates without training.

Initially focused on rail and road race , he came over Cross runs and training in the woods and on the mountain for trail running and the Ecco Indoor Trail to Skyrunning . Several times he ran over the 1500 m at the German youth championships in the finals; In 2009 he won the half marathon classification at the Swiss Alpine Marathon with a new course record. At the Skyrunning World Championships at the 2014 Mont Blanc Marathon , he finished ninth. Florian Reichert is the course record holder and record winner of the Brocken Challenge - winter charity ultramarathon and, according to Norddeutschem Rundfunk, the toughest race in the north - as well as being involved in the organization of this landscape run as a member of the organizing association ASFM Göttingen.

At the 5th IAU World Championship in the Ultratrail 2015 in Annecy ( FRA ) over 84 km, he was represented internationally for the first time with the German national team, but did not get beyond a 58th place. Better ran for him in the same year, the 12th Mountain Running World Championships Long Distance within the Zermatt Marathon ( CHE ), in which he as the second best German 13th Place and in the team competition with Thomas Kuhlmann and Moritz on the heath the reached fourth place.

In 2016 Florian Reichert started again at the IAU World Championships in Ultratrail (85 km). In the Portuguese National Park Peneda-Gerês , he finished 22nd again as the second-best German and won the bronze medal in the team competition together with Stephan Hugenschmidt and Martin Schedler . In 2016 he also won the German ultratrail championships (65 km). At the Mountain Running World Championships (long distance) 2017 in Premana, Italy (32 km), Florian Reichert finished 23rd and reached eighth place with the German team ( Thomas Kühlmann and Marcel Krieghoff ).

In the following year 2018 at the 15th long distance mountain running world championship in Karpacz, Poland (36.2 km), he finished in 14th place in the individual standings and in seventh place in the team standings (with Sebastian Hallmann and Johannes Namberger ). In 2019 Florian Reichert also qualified for the mountain running world championships long distance, but suffered a torn ligament in his ankle four weeks before the world championship and finished the competition in Villa La Angostura, Argentina, in 40th place. In the team ranking he reached 8th place with Moritz auf der Heide and Benedikt Hoffmann .

Florian Reichert lived in Göttingen until he moved to Bavaria and taught at the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium . Together with Monique Siegel, he was the athletes' spokesman for the German mountain runners until 2018 .

Personal bests

• 3000 m : 9: 03.63 min, May 12, 2010, Buxtehude
• 5000 m : 14: 50.05 min
• 10,000 m : 32: 02.58 min, May 12, 2012, Kassel
• 10 km road run: 30:52 min, September 12, 2009, Otterndorf
• Half marathon : 1:09:09 h, April 9, 2017, Hanover
• Marathon : 2:26:14 h, October 14, 2012, Munich

Personal achievements

Web links

• Athlete portrait in the statistics of the German Ultramarathon Association
• Florian Reichert in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait at Leichtathletik-datenbank.de
• Athlete portrait at ladv.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jörn Harland: Reichert, Florian (portrait). (No longer available online.) In: Laufticker.de. November 18, 2014, archived from the original on November 7, 2017 ; Retrieved November 4, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Hendrik Auf'mkolk: Florian Reichert - The Versatile. In: trailblog.de. March 18, 2014, accessed November 4, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Brocken Challenge: Adventure and charity run from Göttingen to the Brocken summit. In: brocken-challenge.de. Retrieved November 16, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Hendrik Auf'mkolk: Florian Reichert: "The UTMB would be a dream!" In: trailblog.de. February 8, 2016, accessed November 4, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Winfried Stinn: DLV long-distance mountain runners just miss the World Cup podium. In: Leichtathletik.de. July 5, 2015, accessed November 5, 2017 . 
6. ^ Norbert Madry: Next team medal for a DLV ultra running team. In: Leichtathletik.de. November 2, 2016. Retrieved November 5, 2017 . 
7. ↑ 65-kilometer run: Göttinger Reichert becomes German champion. In: hna.de. April 17, 2016. Retrieved November 5, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Markus Mingo: Mountain Running WM 2019: Interview with Florian Reichert. In: xc-run.de. November 12, 2019, accessed November 17, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Athletes' spokesman for mountain running. In: Leichtathletik.de. Retrieved November 5, 2017 .