Amanal Petros

Amanal Petros

Amanal Petros at the European Team 2017 in Lille

nation

Germany

birthday

17th May 1995 (age 25)

place of birth

Assab , Eritrea

size

181 cm

Weight

62 kg

Career

discipline

Long distance running

society

TSVE Bielefeld (2012–2015)
SV Brackwede (2016–2018)
TV Wattenscheid 01 (since 2019)

Trainer

Thomas Heidbreder

Medal table

U23 European Championships	0 ×	1 ×	0 ×
European Cross Country Championships (U23)	0 ×	0 ×	1 ×
German championships	2 ×	6 ×	3 ×

U23 European Championships
silver	Bydgoszcz 2017	10,000 m
European Cross Country Championships
bronze	Hyères 2015	Juniors U23
German championships
silver	Düsseldorf 2014	10 km road run
bronze	Nuremberg 2015	5000 m
silver	Bad Liebenzell 2015	10 km road run
silver	Celle 2016	10,000 m
bronze	Kassel 2016	5000 m
silver	Hamburg 2016	10 km road run
silver	Bautzen 2017	10,000 m
gold	Bad Liebenzell 2017	10 km road run
bronze	Nuremberg 2018	5000 m
silver	Ingolstadt 2019	Cross country long distance
gold	Siegburg 2019	10 km road run

last change: September 16, 2019

Amanal Petros (born May 17, 1995 in Assab , Eritrea ) is a German athlete who specializes in long-distance and cross-country runs .

Career

Amanal Petros was born in Eritrea . When he was two years old, he and his mother fled to neighboring Ethiopia. At the age of 16 he fled alone to Germany for political reasons and was admitted to a refugee shelter in Bielefeld in early 2012 .

In order to temporarily avoid the tension and crampedness of the refugee accommodation, Petros began to run. He hadn't practiced running as a sport in Ethiopia , but it was familiar to him because of his six-kilometer walk to school. After an employee of the accommodation and the foster parents became aware of these activities, they referred him to the TSVE Bielefeld , through which he then began the high-performance training. After several popular race victories - he completed his first competition over 10 km at the end of June 2012 in 32:15 min - he took part in the German youth championships for the first time in 2013 and was immediately able to take second place over 5000 meters in the U20. In 2014, Petros was the first German champion in the youth class in the 3000 meter run in the hall and in the cross-country run. At German U23 championships, he secured a total of nine championship titles between 2015 and 2017.

At the beginning of 2016, Petros moved to the neighboring club SV Brackwede . The local A-license trainer Thomas Heidbreder, who also acts as the East Westphalian base trainer, took care of him soon after starting his running career. Petros has been part of the perspective squad of the German Athletics Association (DLV) since the competitive sports reform in 2017 . He has been a sports soldier since September 2017 .

At the end of July 2015, Petros received German citizenship and was therefore able to take part in international competitions for the DLV. According to the DLV regulations that were valid at the time, he was able to contest national title fights beforehand. After he missed the U23 European Championships in Tallinn in mid-July , he then started in December at the U23 European Cross Country Championships in Hyères, France . There he won the bronze medal after a speed advance one and a half kilometers from the finish. The following year, the missed long-distance runners in the U23 European Cross Country Championships in 2016 in the Italian Chia another Cross medal in fourth in short supply, could at the U23 European Championships in 2017 in Poland Bydgoszcz but then Walk the runner-up title in the 10,000 meters. Over 5000 meters, he again took fourth place there.

In 2017, Petros continued to be team European champion in Lille, northern France , in the 5000 meter run he finished third and collected nine points for the German team. After a series of second and third podium places at German championships, he was able to celebrate a title in the men's main class for the first time in 2017 by winning the 10 km road in Bad Liebenzell.

On December 31, 2019, the 24-year-old took second place behind the Belgian Isaac Kimeli at the Trier New Year's Eve run (8 km) .

successes

national

2013: 2nd place German U20 Championship over 5000 mm
2014: 1st place German U20 Championship 3000 m hall
2014: 1st place in the German U20 Cross-Country Championship
2014: 1st place in the German U23 championship in the 10 km road race, at the same time 2nd place in the men's main class
2015: 2nd place German U23 Championship 10,000 m
2015: 1st place German U23 championship over 5000 m
2015: 1st place German U23 championship in the 10 km road race, at the same time 2nd place in the men's main class
2015: 1st place German U23 championship in cross-country skiing
2015: 3rd place German championship over 5000 m
2016: 1st place German U23 championship over 5000 m
2016: 1st place German U23 championship in cross-country skiing
2016: 1st place in the German U23 championship 10 km road race
2016: 1st place German U23 Championship 10,000 m
2016: 2nd place German championship over 10,000 m
2016: 3rd place German championship over 5000 m
2017: 1st place German U23 championship over 10,000 m, at the same time 2nd place in the men's main class
2017: 1st place in the German championship 10 km road race, at the same time 1st place in the U23
2018: 3rd place German championship over 5000 m
2019: 2nd place German championship in cross-country skiing (long distance)

international

2015: 3rd place U23 European Cross Country Championships
2017: European team champion , also 3rd place over 5000 m
2017: 2nd place U23 European Championships over 10,000 m
2018: 16th place European Championships over 10,000 m

Top performances

1500 m : 3: 45.73 min, May 18, 2019, Karlsruhe
3000 m : 8: 03.33 min, May 13, 2018, Pliezhausen
- Hall: 8: 02.29 min, February 10, 2018, Gent
5000 m : 13: 22.52 min, July 20, 2019, Heusden-Zolder
10,000 m : 27: 52.25 min, 6 July 2019, London
10 km : 28:49 min, September 6, 2015, Bad Liebenzell
Half marathon : 1:02:18 h, February 16, 2020, Barcelona
Marathon : 2:10:29 h, December 1, 2019, Valencia

Web links

Commons : Amanal Petros - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Amanal Petros in the database of World Athletics (English)
Official website
Portrait of the German Athletics Association

Individual evidence

↑ Christian Ermert: Amanal Petros: A refugee from Eritrea becomes a German hope for a run. In: Leichtathletik.de. September 8, 2017. Retrieved December 4, 2017 .
^ ^A ^b ^c Jonas Müller: Amanal Petros: Integration through running. June 2, 2017. Retrieved December 4, 2017 .
^ ^A ^b Claus-Werner Kreft: Petros changes, but does not migrate. In: New Westphalian. October 23, 2015, accessed December 4, 2017 .
↑ Overall results list of the 25th Oesterweger Volks- und Feuerwehrlauf. Retrieved December 4, 2017 .
↑ DLV Federal Squad List 2017/2018. Retrieved December 5, 2017 .
↑ Jörg Manthey: Sports soldiers set course for Tokyo. In: Westfalen-Blatt. October 26, 2017. Retrieved December 4, 2017 .
^ Matthias Foede: Runner Amanal Petros gets German citizenship. In: New Westphalian. July 27, 2015, accessed December 4, 2017 .
^ Eberhard Vollmer: Eligibility to participate in German championships changed. In: Leichtathletik.de. November 22, 2016. Retrieved December 4, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Petros, Amanal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German athlete
DATE OF BIRTH	May 17, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH	Assab , Eritrea

[1] Christian Ermert: Amanal Petros: A refugee from Eritrea becomes a German hope for a run. In: Leichtathletik.de. September 8, 2017. Retrieved December 4, 2017 .

[:0-2] A ^b ^c Jonas Müller: Amanal Petros: Integration through running. June 2, 2017. Retrieved December 4, 2017 .

[:2-3] A ^b Claus-Werner Kreft: Petros changes, but does not migrate. In: New Westphalian. October 23, 2015, accessed December 4, 2017 .

[:1-4] Overall results list of the 25th Oesterweger Volks- und Feuerwehrlauf. Retrieved December 4, 2017 .

[5] DLV Federal Squad List 2017/2018. Retrieved December 5, 2017 .

[6] Jörg Manthey: Sports soldiers set course for Tokyo. In: Westfalen-Blatt. October 26, 2017. Retrieved December 4, 2017 .

[7] Matthias Foede: Runner Amanal Petros gets German citizenship. In: New Westphalian. July 27, 2015, accessed December 4, 2017 .

[8] Eberhard Vollmer: Eligibility to participate in German championships changed. In: Leichtathletik.de. November 22, 2016. Retrieved December 4, 2017 .