Aleixo Platini Menga

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Aleixo-Platini Menga at the 2012 Olympic qualification competition in Mannheim
Menga (center) in the quarter-finals of the 2009 World Championships

Aleixo-Platini Menga (born September 29, 1987 in Luanda , Angola ) is a German sprinter . His specialty is the 200-meter run .

career

Menga was born in Angola and grew up in Monheim . He came to athletics in 2005, initially with SG Langenfeld since 2007 with TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen .

In 2009 Menga became German junior champion over 200 meters and German champion with the 4 x 100 meter relay of TSV Bayer Leverkusen. At the U23 European Championships in Kaunas in 2009 , he won the silver medal. He was also able to qualify for the World Championships , which took place in Berlin that same year , and reached the quarter-finals. After that Menga was injured again and again.

In 2012 Menga became German indoor champion over 200 meters in Karlsruhe . Outdoors, he was able to increase his best time in Mannheim to 20.33 s, which puts him in third place in the all-time German best list, and qualified for the European Championships in Helsinki . There he had to cancel the start due to an injury.

At the German Championships in 2014, Menga came third in the hall over 200 meters and outdoors over 100 meters. At the European Championships he was eliminated over 200 meters in the semifinals. In 2015 he finished second at the German Championships over 100 meters. At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, he finished fourth in the 4 x 100 meter relay together with Julian Reus , Sven Knipphals and Alexander Kosenkow after the US relay was disqualified. At a meeting in Mannheim on July 29, 2016, he improved his personal best to 10.15 s as second behind Julian Reus, who ran a German record with 10.01 s.

In 2017 Menga became European team champion in Lille in northern France , he came seventh in the 200-meter run and second in the 4 x 100 meter relay .

In 2020 Menga announced at the end of April that he would end his career after the Olympic Games in 2021 .

Personal bests

  • 100 meters: 10.15 s, July 29, 2016, Mannheim
  • 200 meters: 20.27 s, May 15, 2016, Clermont

successes

National

  • German U23 champion 2009 ( 200 m )
  • German indoor champion 2012 (200 m)
  • DM runner-up 2012 and 2015 , third 2014 ( 100 m )
  • DM runner-up in 2012 , third in 2016 and 2017 (200 m)
  • Indoor championship runner-up 2017 (200 m)

International

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Iris Ludwig: Aleixo Platini Menga - The Best Times Dancer , www.leichtathletik.de July 15, 2009
  2. ↑ All eleven EM starters stay in Leverkusen - five U23 newcomers
  3. ↑ Christian Fuchs: Aleixo Platini Menga needs an operation , www.leichtathletik.de June 26, 2012
  4. ↑ Christian Fuchs: Aleixo Platini Menga needs an operation , www.leichtathletik.de June 26, 2012
  5. ↑ Nicolas Walter: Flash News of the Day - Aleixo Platini Menga announces the end of his career in 2021 , notes, on: Leichtathletik.de, from April 26, 2020, accessed April 26, 2020
  6. ↑ 15 questions to ... Aleixo Platini Menga , on: tsvbayer04-leichtathletik.de, from April 26, 2020, accessed April 26, 2020
  7. ↑ Aleixo-Platini Menga sprints to the Olympic standard

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personal data
SURNAME Menga, Aleixo-Platini
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sprinter
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Luanda , Angola