Christian Blum

Christian Blum
Christian Blum at the DLV World Championship test competition 2011 in Mannheim
nation	Germany
birthday	March 10, 1987
place of birth	Neubrandenburg ,  GDR
size	179 cm
Weight	62 kg
job	Student / sports soldier
Career
discipline	60 meters (hall); 100 meters ; 200 metres
Best performance	6.56 s 60 meters (hall); 10.20 s 100 meters 21.37 s 200 meters (hall); 20.85 s 200 meters
society	TV Wattenscheid 01
Trainer	Ronald Stein, Ingo Seibert
Medal table
European Indoor Championships 0 × 1 × 0 × Junior European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × German championships 2 × 2 × 0 × German indoor championships 6 × 1 × 0 ×
European Athletics Indoor Championships silver 2015 Prague 60 m  Junior European Championships gold 2005 Kaunas / Lithuania 4 × 100 m  German championships silver 2010 Braunschweig 100 m silver 2011 Kassel 100 m gold 2012 Wattenscheid 4 × 100 m gold 2014 Ulm 4 × 100 m German indoor athletics championships gold 2007 Leipzig 60 m gold 2010 Leipzig 60 m gold 2012 Karlsruhe 60 m gold 2012 Karlsruhe 4 × 200 m gold 2014 Leipzig 60 m gold 2015 Karlsruhe 60 m silver 2016 Leipzig 60 m
last change: May 10, 2016

Christian Blum (born March 10, 1987 in Neubrandenburg ) is a German athlete who has specialized in the sprint .

Athletic career

Blum didn't get into athletics until he was 13. He was previously active in canoe racing , but he enjoyed training indoors more. As a track and field athlete, he was two-time German B youth champion over 100 and 200 m.

In 2005, Blum won the European Junior Championships with the 4 x 100 meter relay in 39.90 seconds.

In 2006, Blum became youth indoor champion over 60 meters (6.73 s) and over 200 meters (21.40 s). In the open air he won the youth title over 100 meters and came second over 200 meters. He participated in the 2006 World Youth Championships in Beijing . With 10.39 s over 100 meters and 21.00 s over 200 meters, he led the youth best lists in 2006.

In 2007 , Blum became German indoor champion in the adult class in 6.59 seconds. At the European Indoor Championships he made it to the semi-finals. In the outdoor season 2007 he was the best German sprinter in the first half of the season and improved his best time to 10.26 s. At the German Championships in Erfurt he only finished fourth in 10.43 s. Blum was then nominated for the 2007 World Championships (individual and relay), but not used because he sustained a thigh injury on August 12 in Wattenscheid.

In 2011 , 2012 , 2014 and 2015 Christian Blum became German indoor champion over 60 m . Outdoors he was German runner-up over 100 m in 2010 and 2011 and German champion in 2012 and 2014 with the 4 × 100 m relay of TV Wattenscheid 01 . At the European Indoor Championships in Prague in 2015 , he won the silver medal over 60 meters.

In 2016, Blum started as the German vice indoor champion over 60 meters.

Blum starts for TV Wattenscheid 01 .

Personal best

• 6.56 s over 60 m, in the hall: Stuttgart , February 7, 2009
• 10.20 s over 100 m, in Weinheim (+1.5 m / s), May 31, 2014
• 20.85 s over 200 m, in Regensburg , (+0.0 m / s), June 9, 2007

successes

national

• 2006: German youth champion (100 m)
• 2006: German indoor youth championships (60 m and 200 m)
• 2006: 5th place German Championships (100 m)
• 2007: German indoor champion (60 m)
• 2007: 4th place German Championships (100 m)
• 2010: German runner-up (100 m)
• 2011: German indoor champion (60 m)
• 2011: German runner-up (100 m)
• 2012: German indoor champion (60 m and 4 × 200 m)
• 2012: German champion (4 × 100 m)
• 2012: 4th place German Championships (100 m)
• 2014: German indoor champion (60 m)
• 2014: German champion (4 × 100 m)
• 2015: German indoor champion (60 m)
• 2016: German Vice Indoor Champion (60 m)

international

• 2005: U20 European Champion (4 × 100 m)
• 2007: 9th place European Athletics Indoor Championships 2007 (60 m)
• 2007: 2nd place European Athletics Cup 2007 (4 × 100 m)
• 2007: 3rd place European Athletics Cup 2007 (100 m)
• 2010: 3rd place European Athletics Team Championship 2010 (100 m)
• 2015: 2nd place European Athletics Indoor Championships 2015 (60 m)

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005. 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 (published by Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft)

Web links

• Christian Blum in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait on the club website
• Athlete portrait at the DLV
• Profile ( memento from October 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Bavarian Athletics Association
• Christian Blum - portrait of the NDR sports show