Christoph Kessler

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Christoph Kessler athletics

Christoph Kessler German Championship 2016 2.jpg
Kessler at the German Championships 2016 in Kassel

nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 28th April 1995 (age 25)
place of birth Donaueschingen ,  Germany
size 189 cm
Weight 76 kg
job college student
Career
discipline Middle distance run
Best performance 800 m: 1: 46.11 min.
1500 m: 3: 41.70 min
society LG Karlsruhe region
Trainer Günther Scheefer
status active
Medal table
German championships 0 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
German indoor championships 1 × gold 2 × silver 1 × bronze
DLV logo German championships
silver Nuremberg 2018 800 m
silver Braunschweig 2020 800 m
DLV logo German indoor championships
bronze Leipzig 2016 800 m
silver Leipzig 2017 800 m
silver Leipzig 2019 800 m
gold Sindelfingen 2019 3 × 1000 m
last change: August 17, 2020

Christoph Kessler (born April 28, 1995 in Donaueschingen ) is a German athlete who specializes in medium-distance runs , especially the 800-meter run .

career path

Kessler studies at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

Athletic career

Christoph Kessler celebrated his first small successes in the U18 age group over the 2000 meter obstacle at the Baden-Württemberg Championships 2011/2012 and at the South German Championships over the 1500 meters. Back then, the Black Forrest started for the LG Baar / LV Donaueschingen.

After graduating from high school in 2013, he moved to the LG Region Karlsruhe to study process engineering at KIT . Since then he has been trained by Günther Scheefer.

The move to Karlsruhe in a large and high-performance training group helped the young athlete to jump in performance and win the German championship in 2014 over the 800 meters of the MJ U20.
In 2015 he established himself in the German medium-distance competition. He reached the 2nd place in the German U23 championships over the 800 meters.
Two weeks too late, he ran the norm for the U20 World Championships in Eugene (USA) and thus missed his role at international level.

He won many titles at the South German / BaWü championships. Kessler continuously increased his best times over the 800/1500 meters.

In 2016, he surprised the athletes with third place at the German Indoor Championships in Leipzig and was German U23 champion over the 800 meters in July .

In 2017, Kessler became European team champion in Lille in northern France , and finished 9th in the 800-meter run . Over this distance, the Allgemeine Deutsche Hochschulsportverband (adh) nominated him in mid-July for the Summer Universiade in Taipei , where he made it to the semifinals.

Greatest successes

800 m:

  • Participants in the European Indoor Championships Belgrade / Serbia 2017
  • German U23 champions 2016 and 2017
  • Semi-finalist U23 European Championships in Bydgoszcz / Poland 2017
  • 3rd place at the German Indoor Championships 2016
  • German youth champion 2014
  • Team European Champion 2017

1500 m:

  • South German Champion Halle 2016

3 × 1000 m relay:

Web links

Commons : Christoph Kessler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Silke Bernhart: 26 athletes nominated for the Universiade in Taiwan , on: Leichtathletik.de, July 14, 2017, accessed July 14, 2017
  2. ↑ https://www.leichtathletik.de/news/news/detail/der-grosse-disverbind-check-2014-mittelstrecke-maenner/
  3. ↑ https://www.leichtathletik.de/news/news/detail/christoph-kessler-im-alleingang-zur-bestzeit/
  4. ↑ https://www.leichtathletik.de/news/news/detail/u23-dm-titelkampf-der-junioren-am-sonntag/
personal data
SURNAME Kessler, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Donaueschingen , Germany