Christian Reitz (marksman)

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Christian Reitz Sport shooting
nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday April 29, 1987
place of birth Löbau ,  GDR
Career
discipline Sport shooting
Classes OSP, sport (SP),
air (LP), free pistol (FP), center
fire (ZFP), standard pistol (STP)
society SV Kriftel
Trainer Detlef Glenz
status active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
European Games medals 2 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
World Cup medals 1 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
EM medals 6 × gold 4 × silver 3 × bronze
JWM medals 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
JEM medals 5 × gold 2 × silver 1 × bronze
Medals
last change: June 22, 2019

Christian Reitz (born April 29, 1987 in Löbau ) is a German marksman . He shoots with the rapid fire pistol .

life and career

Christian Reitz is police chief inspector, started for SV Kriftel and is trained by Detlef Glenz. He is a member of the sports promotion group of the Hessian police , where he completed his studies as a police commissioner at the Hessian University for Police and Administration . First he achieved great success in the junior area. In 2003 he was sixth at the European Championships in Pilsen , eighth a year later in Munich and seventh in Belgrade in 2005 . At the 2006 World Championships in Zagreb Reitz won the gold medal as well as the following year at the European Championships in Granada . With the air pistol , he finished fourth in Deauville in 2007 .

Reitz has been competing in the men's division since 2008, winning World Cups for the first time in Milan and Rio de Janeiro , and finishing second in Munich. In Milan he set the world record with 591 rings and set a new world record in the finals with 794.0 rings (old final mode). Reitz qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing . There he won the bronze medal with the Pardini SP electronic rapid fire pistol behind the Ukrainian Oleksandr Petriw and the German Ralf Schumann . Reitz was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by the then Federal President Horst Köhler in November 2008 . In addition, he was inducted into the "Hall of Fame" of the German Rifle Federation and was Police Sportsman of the Year in Hesse in 2008.

In 2010 Reitz won the police world championships in two competitions, a fortnight later he finished fourth in the rapid fire week in Wiesbaden.

At the first European Games in Baku, Reitz won gold twice and thus became the most successful shooter within the German Shooting Federation. In 2016, he won the gold medal with the rapid fire pistol at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro . For this, on November 1, 2016, Federal President Joachim Gauck awarded him the Silver Laurel Leaf - the highest sporting award in Germany.

At the European Games 2019 in Minsk , Belarus , he and his wife Sandra won the bronze medal in the air pistol mixed team.

successes

Adult class
  • Olympic games
    • Olympic participant in 2008, 2012 and 2016.
    • Olympic bronze 2008 (Olympic rapid fire pistol)
    • Olympic Gold 2016 (Olympic Rapid Fire Pistol)
  • World championships
    • WM Bronze (Individual) 2014 ( Standard Pistol )
    • WM Gold (Team) 2014 (Olympic Rapid Fire Pistol)
    • WM Silver (Team) 2010 (standard pistol)
  • World cup
    • World Cup Final (Gold) 2011 (Olympic Rapid Fire Pistol)
    • World Cup finals (silver) 3 times in 2008, 2009 and 2012 (Olympic rapid fire pistol)
    • World Cup Final (Bronze) 2013 (Olympic Rapid Fire Pistol)
    • World Cup (gold) 9 times (Olympic rapid fire pistol)
    • World Cup (Silver) 6 times (Olympic Rapid Fire Pistol)
    • World Cup (bronze) 3 times (Olympic rapid fire pistol)
  • European Games
    • IT Gold (Individual) 2015 (Olympic Rapid Fire Pistol)
    • ES Gold (Team) 2015 (mixed air pistol) (with Monika Karsch )
    • ES Bronze (Team) 2019 (mixed air pistol) (with Sandra Reitz )
  • European championships
    • EM Gold (Individual) 2015 (Center Fire Pistol)
    • EM silver (individual) 2011 and 2015 (standard pistol)
    • EM silver (individual) 2013 (center fire pistol)
    • EM Bronze (Individual) 2011 and 2013 (Olympic Rapid Fire Pistol)
    • EM Gold (Team) 2011 and 2015 (standard pistol)
    • EM Gold (Team) 2013 and 2015 (Olympic Rapid Fire Pistol)
    • EM Gold (Team) 2015 (center fire pistol)
    • EM silver (team) 2011 (Olympic rapid fire pistol)
    • EM Bronze (Team) 2011 (center fire pistol)
Junior class
  • Junior World Championships
    • WM Gold (Individual) 2006 (Olympic Rapid Fire Pistol)
    • WM Silver (Team) 2006 (Olympic Rapid Fire Pistol)
  • Junior European Championships
    • EM Gold (Team) 2003 (Olympic Rapid Fire Pistol), 2005 (Olympic Rapid Fire Pistol), 2007 (Air Pistol)
    • EM Gold (Individual) 2007 (Olympic Rapid Fire Pistol), 2007 (Standard Pistol)
    • EM silver (team) 2004 (Olympic rapid fire pistol)
    • EM silver (individual) 2007 (sport pistol)
    • EM bronze (team) 2007 (sport pistol)
Police championships
  • World championships
    • WM Gold 2010 (Olympic rapid fire pistol)
    • WM Gold 2010 (center fire pistol)
  • European championships
    • EM Gold 2007 and 2011 (Olympic Rapid Fire Pistol)
    • EM Gold 2011 (center fire pistol)
    • EM Bronze 2011 (Free Pistol)
Student championships
  • World championships
    • WM Gold 2010 (Olympic rapid fire pistol)
    • WM Silver 2010 (air pistol)
Bundesliga
  • Air pistols Bundesliga
    • BL bronze medal with SV Kriftel (2010/2011 season)
    • BL silver medal with SV Kriftel (2011/2012 season)
    • BL silver medal with SV Kriftel (2015/2016 season)
    • BL gold medal with SV Kriftel (2012/2013 season)

Awards

  • Silver bay leaf 2008 and 2016
  • "Hall of Fame" of the German Shooting Federation
  • Police athlete of the year 2008 in Hessen
  • Honorary member of the Saxon Schützenbund
  • Honorary member of the Hessian Shooting Association

Private

Christian Reitz is married to the shooter Sandra Reitz , with whom he competes in mixed team competitions.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Schwaab: Sports stars as role models also at the police station . In: Wiesbaden Courier . No. 110 . Wiesbaden May 13, 2010, p. 1 .
  2. ↑ Christian Reitz just past the medal ranks Report from the German Shooting Federation (accessed on May 8, 2010)
  3. ↑ a b European Games: Christian and Sandra Reitz take bronze in the shooting. In: sport1.de. June 22, 2019, accessed June 22, 2019 .
  4. ↑ "Silver Laurel Leaf" for German medalists. In: dsb.de. German Schützenbund e. V., November 25, 2008, accessed November 6, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Awarding of the silver bay leaf. Office of the Federal President, November 1, 2016, accessed on November 3, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Reitz, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German marksman
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Löbau , German Democratic Republic