Carsten Snakes

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Carsten Schlangen in the 1500 meter race at the ISTAF 2008
Carsten Schlangen at the reception of the Olympians in Hamburg, 2012

Carsten Schlangen (born December 31, 1980 in Meppen ) is a former German middle-distance runner . He celebrated his greatest successes over 1500 meters , but also competed in the 800 and 3000 meters on several occasions. He was Vice European Champion in 2010.

Life

Up to 2005, Schlangen started for SV Union Meppen . Then he switched to Roland Wolff's training group at LG North Berlin .

Since 2006, Schlangen has celebrated numerous national championships over 1500 meters. Snakes' greatest success at international level came when he finished second behind the Spaniard Arturo Casado at the European Championships in Barcelona in July 2010 . In 2011 he finished fourth at the European Indoor Championships . In addition, Schlangen participated in the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Olympics. Here he reached the semi-finals. With his best time of 3: 33.64 min, recorded in Bottrop on July 6, 2012, Schlangen is in seventh place in the all-time German best list (as of December 2014). At the end of the 2014 season, he ended his competitive sports career.

In the spring of 2011, Schlangen completed his architecture studies at the TU Berlin . He works as a freelance architect in Berlin.

successes

2005
  • German runner-up 1500 m
  • German university champion 1500 m
  • 4th place German Cross Championship (middle distance)
2006
  • 3rd place German indoor championships 3000 m
  • German indoor champion 3 × 1000 m with Franek Haschke and Jonas Stifel
  • German university champion 3000 m hall
  • German champion 1500 m
  • German champion 3 × 1000 m with Franek Haschke and Jonas Stifel
  • Participation in the European Championships in Gothenburg 1500 m
  • 2nd place German cross-country championships middle distance
2007
  • German indoor champion 3 × 1000 m with Franek Haschke and Jonas Stifel
  • German champion 1500 m
  • German champion 3 × 1000 m with Franek Haschke and Jonas Stifel
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
  • 3rd place German championships 1500 m

Best times

open air
  • 800 m : 1: 46.81 min (Kassel, June 6, 2008)
  • 1000 m : 2: 17.44 min (Königs Wusterhausen, May 27, 2008)
  • 1500 m : 3: 33.64 min (Bottrop, July 6, 2012)
  • 3000 m : 7: 51.17 min (Leverkusen, July 28, 2006)
Hall
  • 1500 m: 3: 38.47 min (Sindelfingen, February 24, 2008)
  • 3000 m: 7: 51.90 min (Potsdam, January 26, 2008)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eternal list of the best of the DLV - open air: men / women (PDF; 181 kB) German Athletics Association. December 1, 2014. Retrieved December 29, 2014.
  2. ↑ Jan-Henner Reitze: Carsten Schlangen says goodbye to competitive sports . German Athletics Association. November 5, 2012. Retrieved December 29, 2014.

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personal data
SURNAME Snakes, Carsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German middle distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Meppen