Christina Hering

Christina Hering
Hering at the Salzburg Athletics Gala 2015
nation	Germany
birthday	9th October 1994 (age 25)
place of birth	Munich ,  Germany
size	185 cm
Weight	62 kg
job	Student
Career
discipline	400 m , 800 m , 4 × 400 m
society	LG Stadtwerke Munich
Trainer	Daniel Stoll
status	active
Medal table
Summer Universiade 0 × 1 × 0 × U23 European Championships 0 × 0 × 1 × U20 European Championships 0 × 0 × 2 × German championships 9 × 1 × 2 × German indoor championships 4 × 2 × 0 ×
Universiade silver Naples 2019 800 m  U23 European Championships bronze Tallinn 2015 800 m  Junior European Championships bronze Rieti 2013 800 m bronze Rieti 2013 4 × 400 m  German championships bronze Wattenscheid 2012 4 × 400 m gold Ulm 2014 800 m silver Nuremberg 2015 800 m bronze Nuremberg 2015 4 × 400 m gold Jena 2015 3 × 800 m gold Kassel 2016 800 m gold Mönchengladbach 2016 3 × 800 m gold Erfurt 2017 800 m gold Nuremberg 2018 800 m gold Ulm 2019 3 × 800 m gold Berlin 2019 800 m gold Braunschweig 2020 800 m  German indoor championships silver Leipzig 2014 800 m gold Karlsruhe 2015 800 m gold Leipzig 2016 800 m gold Leipzig 2017 800 m gold Dortmund 2018 800 m silver Leipzig 2019 800 m gold Leipzig 2020 800 m
last change: August 11, 2020

Christina Hering, 2017

Christina Hering (born October 9, 1994 in Munich ) is a German athlete who specializes in the 400 and 800 meter run .

career path

Hering studies sports science at the Technical University of Munich and wrote her bachelor thesis with Otto Huber on "Cold water therapy as a regeneration option after physical activity".

Athletic career

She made her debut for the senior national team at the international match DecaNation on August 31, 2013 in Valence (France) and achieved fourth place as the youngest participant and U20 athlete in the 800-meter run against top international athletes. At the German Athletics Championships 2012 on June 16 and 17, 2012 in the Lohrheide Stadium in Wattenscheid, she achieved third place with the 4 x 400 meter relay .

Hering has already achieved international success in the youth sector. With the German 4 x 400 meter relay and in the 800 meter run , she won the bronze medal at the 2013 European Junior Athletics Championships in Rieti (Italy). In July 2013 she won the German U20 and U23 championship titles in the 400-meter run in a personal best of 53.60 seconds.

In 2014, in her first season in the active class at the German Championships in Ulm, she increased to 2: 01.45 min and won gold over 800 meters. At the German Championships in 2015 , when she finished second, she improved her personal best in the 800-meter run to 1: 59.54 min.

In 2016, Hering set a new German U23 record with Mareen Kalis and Christine Gess in the 3 x 800 meter relay of LG Stadtwerke München as part of the German Youth Championships in Mönchengladbach . At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , she ran the 800 meters in 2: 01.04 minutes and thus missed the semifinals.

In 2017 she became German indoor champion over 800 meters in Leipzig with 2: 06.52 minutes and thus had not reached the standard for the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade . At the PSD meeting in Düsseldorf on February 1, 2017, Hering missed the qualification time by 48 hundredths of a second with 2: 03.48 minutes. In Lille , northern France , she was European team champion , in the 800-meter run she finished fifth and as a member of the 4 x 400 meter relay , third. In mid-July she was nominated by the Allgemeine Deutsche Hochschulsportverband (adh) for the Summer Universiade in Taipei and at the end of July by the DLV for the World Championships in London . In London she was eliminated in the semi-finals over 800 meters and in Taipei Hering took 7th place over this distance.

In 2018 Hering won the championship title over 800 meters at the German Indoor Championships in Dortmund for the fourth time in a row and for the fifth time in a row the title over this distance at the German Championships in Nuremberg.

In 2019 she won the silver medal behind the Australian Catriona Bisset at the Summer Universiade in Naples in 2: 01.87 min .

In 2020, Hering in Leipzig became German champion over 800 meters for the fifth time at the German Indoor Championships .

Club affiliations

Hering starts for the LG Stadtwerke München and is supervised by trainer Daniel Stoll.

Trivia

Christina Hering is the daughter of the former Bundesliga basketball player Thomas Hering .

successes

national

• 1st place German Indoor Athletics Championships 2020 (800 m)
• 1st place German Athletics Championships 2019 (800 m)
• 1st place German Athletics Championships 2019 (3 × 800 m)
• 2nd place German Indoor Athletics Championships 2019 (800 m)
• 1st place German Athletics Championships 2018 (800 m)
• 1st place German Indoor Athletics Championships 2018 (800 m)
• 1st place German Athletics Championships 2017 (800 m)
• 1st place German Indoor Athletics Championships 2017 (800 m)
• 1st place German Athletics Championships 2016 (3 × 800 m)
• 1st place German Athletics Championships 2016 (800 m)
• 1st place German Indoor Athletics Championships 2016 (800 m)
• 1st place German Athletics Championships 2015 (3 × 800 m)
• 3rd place German Athletics Championships 2015 (4 × 400 m)
• 2nd place German Athletics Championships 2015 (800 m)
• 1st place German Indoor Athletics Championships 2015 (800 m)
• 1st place German Athletics Championships 2014 (800 m)
• 2nd place German Indoor Athletics Championships 2014 (800 m)
• German U23 champion 2013 and 2015 , U23 vice champion 2016 (400 m)
• German U20 champion 2013 (400 m)
• 3rd place German Athletics Championships 2012 (4 × 400 m)

international

• 2019: 2nd place Summer Universiade (800 m)
• 2017: 7th place Summer Universiade (800 m)
• 2017: Semi-final World Championships (800 m)
• 2017: European team champion , simultaneously 3rd place (4 × 400 m) and 5th place (800 m)
• Participation in the 2016 Olympic Games (800 m)
• Semifinals European Athletics Championships 2016 (800 m)
• Participation in the World Indoor Athletics Championships 2016 (800 m)
• Semi-finals World Athletics Championships 2015 (800 m)
• 3rd place European Athletics U23 Championships 2015 (800 m)
• 3rd place European Athletics Junior Championships 2013 (800 m)
• 3rd place European Athletics Junior Championships 2013 (4 × 400 m)

Personal best

As of August 22, 2019

Hall

• 200 m: 24.94 s, Munich , January 19, 2014
• 400 m: 54.14 s, Karlsruhe , February 6, 2016
• 800 m: 2: 00.93 min, Glasgow , February 20, 2016 (Bavarian indoor record)

open air

• 100 m: 12.64 s (+0.5 m / s), Munich , May 12, 2015
• 200 m: 25.10 s (−0.5 m / s), Munich , May 12, 2015
• 400 m: 52.91 s, Wetzlar , June 14, 2015
• 800 m: 1: 59.41 min, Pfungstadt , August 21, 2019
• 3 × 800 m: 6: 17.07 min, Mönchengladbach , July 31, 2016 (German U23 record)

Web links

Commons : Christina Hering  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Christina herring in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Christina herring in the database of European Athletics (English)
• Official website of Christina Hering
• Athlete portrait by Christina Hering on Leichtathletik.de
• Athletics database (Christina Hering's competitions since 2009)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ TUM - Chair for Motion Science: Faculty student Hering new German Champion , June 21, 2016
2. ↑ Christina Hering missed the Olympic semifinals. LG Stadtwerke Munich, August 17, 2016, accessed on August 20, 2016 .