Arne Gabius

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Arne Gabius at the Frankfurt Marathon 2015
Arne Gabius at the Frankfurt Marathon 2015

Full name Niels Arne Gabius
nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 22nd March 1981 (age 39)
place of birth HamburgGermany
size 186 cm
Weight 65 kg
job Doctor, professional athlete
Career
discipline Long distance running
Best performance Marathon: 2:08:33 h
Half marathon: 1:02:09 h
10,000 m: 27: 43.93 min
society Therapy Reha Bottwartal
Trainer before including Dieter Baumann
status active
Medal table
European championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
German championships 14 × gold 5 × silver 3 × bronze
EAA logo European championships
silver 2012 Helsinki 5000 m
DLV logo German championships
silver Bochum 2005 5000 m
bronze Ulm 2006 5000 m
silver Regensburg 2006 Cross long distance
gold Erfurt 2007 5000 m
gold Nuremberg 2008 5000 m
gold Ulm 2009 5000 m
gold Otterndorf 2009 10 km road
gold Ingolstadt 2009 Cross long distance
gold Braunschweig 2010 5000 m
bronze Stockach 2010 Cross long distance
gold Kassel 2011 5000 m
bronze Loeningen 2011 Cross long distance
gold Bochum 2012 5000 m
gold Ulm 2013 5000 m
silver Ulm 2014 5000 m
gold Bad Liebenzell 2015 10 km road
gold Frankfurt am Main 2015 marathon
gold Frankfurt am Main 2017 marathon
DLV logo German indoor championships
silver Leipzig 2007 3000 m
silver Sindelfingen 2008 3000 m
gold Leipzig 2009 3000 m
gold Karlsruhe 2012 3000 m
last change: January 4th, 2019

Niels Arne Gabius (born March 22, 1981 in Hamburg ) is a German medium and long-distance runner and has held the German record for the marathon distance since 2015 . His greatest success so far is winning the silver medal in the 5000 meter run at the 2012 European Championships in Helsinki .

career path

Gabius studied human medicine at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and has been a licensed doctor since May 2011.

Athletic career

His other successes include his victories at the German championships in the 5000 meter run from 2007 to 2013, over 3000 meters in the hall (2009, 2012) as well as in the cross-country run on the long distance (2009) and in the marathon on October 25, 2015 On the international level he started at the European Championships in 2006 , where he gave up in the preliminaries over 5000 meters, and at the European Indoor Championships in Birmingham in 2007 , where he was ninth over 3000 meters. His best result to date was second at the 2007 European Cup in Munich. At the World Indoor Championships in 2008 he was twelfth.

In 2009 he was nominated for the World Athletics Championships in Berlin , where he was eliminated in the 5000 meter run with 13: 49.13 min. On September 12, 2009, he became German champion in the 10 km road race . At the European Championships in Barcelona in 2010 he was twelfth over 5000 meters.

In 2012 he narrowly missed Dieter Baumann's German indoor record over 3000 meters with 7: 38.13 minutes . Shortly afterwards he stayed in an indoor race over two miles with 8: 10.78 min, as did the Brit Mo Farah (8: 08.07 min) under the 29-year-old European best time of Belgian Emiel Puttemans (8: 13.2 min ). At the indoor world championships in Istanbul he was eighth over 3000 meters. At the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2012 , he won the silver medal over 5000 meters behind Mo Farah. He ran over 3000 meters on August 17th in Stockholm in 7: 35.43 minutes, the second-best time of a German runner to date. At the Olympic Games in London, he was eliminated in advance.

In 2013 he set a personal best over 5000 meters with 13: 12.50 min on July 13th in Heusden-Zolder , came further up in the field at the World Championships in Moscow because of a little tussle, according to which a runner was in the decisive phase of the Race in front of the feet only fell to 20th place.

In 2014 Gabius finished eighth in his half marathon debut in New York with a time of 62:09 minutes. Only seven Germans were ever faster. At the athletics meeting in Stanford , he ran over 10,000 m in 27: 55.35 minutes, the fastest time a German runner had over this distance since Dieter Baumann in 2002. He also set other personal bests over 1500 meters with 3: 41.17 minutes June 7th at the Gala 2014 in Regensburg, as well as in the ten-kilometer road run with 28:08 minutes on October 12th in Berlin. At the European Team Championships in Braunschweig, Gabius won over 5000 meters, while at the European Championships in Zurich he only finished seventh over this distance. In his marathon debut in 2014 in Frankfurt , he achieved a time of 2:09:32 h.

German Record
Marathon, Frankfurt, October 25, 2015
distance Split total time
5 km 15:08 min 15:08 min
10 km 15:03 min 30:10 min
15 km 14:49 min 44:59 min
20 km 15:07 min 1:00:05 h
Half 3:18 min 1:03:23 h
25 km 11:52 min 1:15:15 h
30 km 15:20 min 1:30:35 h
35 km 15:35 min 1:46:09 h
40 km 15:43 min 2:01:52 h
marathon 6:42 min 2:08:33 h

On January 29, 2015 Gabius improved the German record over the 5000 meters in the hall at the PSD Bank Meeting in Düsseldorf to 13: 27.53 min. On March 15, 2015, he again took part in the half marathon in New York and finished ninth in 62:34 minutes. At the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Gabius improved his personal best over the 10,000 meters to 27: 43.93 minutes. At the World Championships in Beijing he said goodbye to the track and was the second best European in 17th place. At the German Marathon Championships on October 25th as part of the Frankfurt Marathon , he set a new German record as fourth in the overall ranking with a time of 2:08:33 h. At the end of the year he was named Track and Field Athlete of 2015.

In spring 2016 he dropped out of the London Marathon and also ended the half marathon race prematurely at the European Championships in Amsterdam in July with hip problems. Despite being nominated for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , he canceled his participation because his condition did not improve.

In 2017, Gabius ran again and - after another abandoned race in the spring at the Hanover Marathon - at the end of October in Frankfurt with 2:09:59 h, he stayed again under 2:10 h.

In the following year Gabius got out of the Boston Marathon 2018 in adverse conditions early, due to form, the hoped-for qualification for the European Championships in Berlin over 10,000 meters did not work out. On his fourth Frankfurt start in a row, he ran 2:11:45 h in the fall.

At the beginning of April 2019 Gabius crossed the finish line for the first time in a spring marathon, in Hanover it took 2:14:29 hours.

Private

Arne Gabius is 1.86 m tall and weighs 65 kg. He is married and had a son three days before he started the 2017 Frankfurt Marathon.

Club affiliations

From 1996 to 2004 he started for LAV Hamburg-Nord. From 2005 to 2014 he ran for LAV asics Tübingen and was trained by Dieter Baumann until July 2011 . Since then, the vegetarian has been training himself and is advised by Renato Canova . From 2015 Gabius started for the LT Haspa Marathon Hamburg . Since 2017 he has been working for the Therapy Reha Bottwartal e. V. at.

Awards

Personal best

Web links

Commons : Arne Gabius  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Arne Gabius is a German cross-country champion . Schwäbisches Tagblatt, March 15, 2009.
  2. Anja Herrlitz: Arne Gabius missed the 5000 meter final . In: Leichtathletik.de. August 20, 2009.
  3. ^ Result list 10th German 10 km road running championships Otterndorf, September 12, 2009 (PDF; 47 kB).
  4. Jan-Henner Reitze: Arne Gabius also strong in Birmingham . In: Leichtathletik.de. February 18, 2012.
  5. Christian Fuchs & Christian Ermert: Arne Gabius makes it into the top eight . In: Leichtathletik.de. March 11, 2012.
  6. Mutai wins New York Half Marathon ahead of Farah, Gabius 8th ( Memento from March 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Handelsblatt, March 16, 2014.
  7. Gabius trumps over 10,000 meters on Spiegel online, May 5, 2014, accessed on May 30, 2014.
  8. Results Frankfurt Marathon 2015 for Arne Gabius, live.frankfurt-marathon.com
  9. Gabius von Farah laps faz.net August 22, 2015
  10. Gabius has to cancel the marathon in Rio. In: sport1.de. July 29, 2016, accessed April 13, 2019 .
  11. Gabius' precision landing in the Frankfurt storm. In: faz.net. October 29, 2017, accessed April 13, 2019 .
  12. ^ After EM-Aus: Gabius back on the street. In: ndr.de. June 8, 2018, accessed April 13, 2019 .
  13. Gabius gets steam from a new locomotive. In: faz.net. October 28, 2018, accessed April 13, 2019 .
  14. Arne Gabius and Anja Scherl fight their way to the finish in Hanover. In: Leichtathletik.de. April 7, 2019, accessed April 13, 2019 .
  15. Arne Gabius starts as a dad in Frankfurt. In: waz.de. October 28, 2017, accessed April 13, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Slap in the face for the Hamburg Athletics Association: Arne Gabius leaves Hamburg .
  17. GEA: Baumann ends his coaching job . August 20, 2011.
  18. Gabius' courageous plans for his marathon debut sueddeutsche.de October 23, 2014. Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 23, 2014, accessed on August 9, 2020 .
  19. Holger Teusch: Arne Gabius - "My best year" , www.leichtathletik.de June 4, 2013
  20. http://www.leichtathletik.de/news/news/detail/flash-news-des-tages-da49d9f40b/ (link not available)
  21. Arne Gabius with a house record for the World Championships Leichtathletik.de, July 13, 2013, accessed on July 30, 2013.