Felix Franz

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Felix Franz athletics
nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 6th May 1993 (age 27)
place of birth Ludwigsburg ,  Germany
size 193 cm
Weight 78 kg
job Sports soldier
Career
discipline 400 meter hurdles
Best performance 48.96 s
society LG Neckar-Enz
Trainer Thomas Riegraf, Marlon Odom
National squad since 2010
status active
last change: January 29, 2017

Felix Franz (born May 6, 1993 in Ludwigsburg ) is a German athlete who specializes in the 400-meter hurdles .

career path

After graduating from the Friedrich-Abel-Gymnasium Vaihingen , he began studying process engineering at the University of Stuttgart in 2011 . According to his club, he has been part of the Bundeswehr's sports promotion group as a sports soldier since 2016 , but continues his training in the form of distance learning .

Athletic career

Franz started athletics at the age of four and specialized in hurdles from 2009. In 2010 he won the German U18 championships and took fourth place at the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore . At the Junior European Championships 2011 in Tallinn he finished eighth, at the Junior World Championships 2012 in Barcelona fifth.

At the end of May 2014, Franz undercut the 50-second mark for the first time at the Ludwig Jall Sportfest in Munich with 49.96 seconds, thereby also meeting the qualification standard for the European Championships in Zurich . At the German Championships in Ulm, he increased his personal best to 49.34 seconds and secured his first title in the active class ahead of the actual favorite, Varg Königsmark . At the European Championships he qualified for the finals with a new personal best of 48.96 seconds in the semifinals. There he finished fifth in 49.83 seconds.

In 2017, Franz became the European team champion in Lille, northern France , and took 7th place in the 400-meter hurdles .

Club affiliations

Franz starts for the LG Neckar-Enz and is trained by Thomas Riegraf and national trainer Marlon Odom.

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Albert Arning: Two worlds of the same sport . Vaihinger district newspaper. May 11, 2014. Retrieved August 10, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b Michael Joos, Martin Grund: Top athletes continue to compete for the LG Neckar-Enz . lg-neckar-enz.de. November 29, 2016. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
  3. ↑ DLV team brochure on the European Athletics Championships 2014 (PDF; 3.7 MB) German Athletics Association. Retrieved August 10, 2014.
  4. ↑ Carolin Locher: Felix Franz cracks the EM standard . Leichtathletik.de. May 31, 2014. Retrieved August 10, 2014.
  5. ↑ Silke Morrissey: Felix Franz: "For the first time without pressure" . Leichtathletik.de. August 4, 2014. Retrieved August 10, 2014.
  6. ↑ Silke Morrissey: DLV hurdles duo on 5 and 7 - Switzerland celebrates gold . Leichtathletik.de. August 15, 2014. Archived from the original on August 19, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 16, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.leichtathletik.de
  7. ↑ Alexandra Dersch: Flash News of the Day - Jürgen Kessing honors Felix Franz as "Sportsman of the Year" in his city ( memento of the original from February 24, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Notes, from: Leichtathletik.de, February 23, 2018, accessed February 23, 2018 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.leichtathletik.de
personal data
SURNAME Franz, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigsburg