Djamila Bohm

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Djamila Bohm athletics

Evening sports festival Pfungstadt August 2017 IMG 9172.jpg
Böhm in Pfungstadt 2017

nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 15th July 1994 (age 26)
place of birth Cologne,  Germany
size 175 cm
Weight 58 kg
job Student on Master
Career
discipline 400-meter hurdles
400-meter run
Best performance 400 meter hurdles: 56.59 s
400 meters: 53.86 s
society ART Düsseldorf , formerly: TuS Köln rrh. 1874
Trainer Sven Timmermann, formerly: Georgi Kamenezki
status active
Medal table
German championships 1 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
German university championships 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
DLV logo German championships
gold 2017 Erfurt 400 m hurdles
silver 2018 Nuremberg 400 m hurdles
silver 2020 Braunschweig 400 m hurdles
German university championships
gold 2017 Kassel 400 m hurdles
silver 2019 Cologne 400 m hurdles
last change: August 17, 2020

Djamila Böhm (born July 15, 1994 in Cologne ) is a German athlete who has specialized in the 400-meter hurdles .

career path

After graduation Bohm moved from Cologne to Dusseldorf to at the Heinrich-Heine University in an integrated study program consisting of political science , sociology and media and communication science to begin, where she passed 2,018 exams, and in the same year a scholarship from the German Sports University in Cologne received . Due to the Covid-19 pandemic , her studies were delayed in 2020 and due to the postponement of the Summer Olympics to 2021, she will also have to postpone her master's thesis planned for 2021. Her professional goal is to become a foreign correspondent.

Athletic career

Before Djamila Böhm came to athletics at the age of 14, she played basketball and was able to celebrate a West German championship title in this sport. In 2009 she was in the final of the 400 m hurdles at the German U18 championships for the first time and in 2011 she was able to take 4th place. In the meantime, she had to suspend her sporting career several times until a food intolerance was diagnosed as the cause of her poor performance.

After missing a medal at the German Championships in 2015 and 2016 , she won the 400-meter hurdles at the German Championships 2017 on July 9, ahead of Laura Nürnberger and Christine Salterberg with a personal best of 56.92 seconds .

In 2018 she became German runner-up behind Salterberg, which is why she took part in the European Home Championships in Berlin . Although Böhm had the fastest annual best time of 56.54 s compared to Salterberg (56.95 s), he still did not achieve the EM standard of 56.50 s.

In 2019, Böhm was able to become German university runner-up over the long hurdles and took 6th place over 400 m hurdles and the 4 x 400 meter relay at the Summer Universiade in Naples .

Club affiliations and trainers

Initially active in basketball , her first athletics club was the TuS Köln rrh. 1874 , where she was trained by Georgi Kamenetski. In 2014 she moved to ART Düsseldorf and Sven Timmermann.

family

Her mother is German and works as a special education, her father comes from Ivory Coast.

Top performances

(As of June 18, 2020)

Hall
open air

successes

national
international

Web links

Commons : Djamila Böhm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jan-Henner Reitze: Djamila Böhm - late starter with crowd support , New Masters, on: Leichtathletik.de, October 17, 2017, accessed June 19, 2020
  2. ↑ a b Bernd Schwickerath: On the third educational path , on: wz.de, from July 19, 2018, accessed June 19, 2020
  3. ↑ a b c d Sebastian Burg: Hurdler Djamlia has the Germany scholarship , The Current Story, on: sportstiftung-nrw.de, from May 13, 2019, accessed June 19, 2020
  4. ↑ Djamila Böhm: Djamila Böhm: Giving up is not an option , experience report, on: Leichtathletik.de, from April 13, 2020, accessed June 19, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Bohm, Djamila
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1994