Filmon Ghirmai

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Filmon Ghirmai at the 2007 World Championships

Filmon Ghirmai (born January 25, 1979 in Asmara ) is a former German obstacle course and long-distance runner . He was German champion six times and won the European Cup in 2007.

Life

In the then to Ethiopia associated province Eritrea born Ghirmai came at the age of six with his family from the shattered by civil war to Germany. At first he was an obstacle runner and was already 1995 German youth champion. After further youth and junior titles, he won the German championship over 3000 meters in the adult category for the first time in 2002 and took part in the European championships in Munich.

At the international meeting in Lucerne in 2003 it ran at 8:20:50 minutes and set the standard for the World Championships in Paris . There he did not get beyond the preliminary runs. In 2004 and 2005 Ghirmai was again German champion. Before the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 , however, he was removed from the squad due to "lack of confirmation of performance".

At the German championships in 2007 in Erfurt , he won the gold medal over 3000 meters of obstacle despite an adductor strain . He benefited from a controversial disqualification of the previous year's winner Steffen Uliczka . This disqualification was sharply criticized by Ghirmai himself and also by his trainer Dieter Baumann , which is why Ghirmai did not appear at the award ceremony.

Ghirmai celebrated his greatest success at the 2007 European Cup in Munich . There the long distance runner won the 3000 meter run in the DLV jersey . At the World Championships in Osaka , he just missed the final. In July 2007, The Economist magazine used a photo of Ghirmai's victory at the European Cup in the same year to illustrate an article about the positive economic development in Germany at the time.

In 2009 he was German obstacle champion for the fifth time and German champion in the 10,000 meter run in a time of 29: 40.06 min . It was the first time in his career that he competed over this distance. Before the 2012 Olympic Games in London , Ghirmai took a year off from his employer. Because of Achilles tendon complaints, however, he was unable to qualify and then ended his competitive sports career.

Before he started athletics, he played soccer at VfB Stuttgart as a child . In 1991 he came to TSV Gomaringen, later SG Gomaringen-Pliezhausen and LAC Pliezhausen and in 2003 moved to LAV Tübingen . Ghirmai studied business administration at the University of Tübingen .

successes

  • Seventh at the U23 European Championships in 1999 in the obstacle course
  • Twelfth place at the 1998 Junior World Championships in obstacle course
  • German champions
    • 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009 in the obstacle course
    • 2009 over 10,000 m
  • Victory at the 2007 European Cup in the obstacle course

Personal best

  • 3000 meter obstacle: 8: 20.50 minutes, June 25, 2003 in Lucerne
  • 10,000 meters: 29: 28.31 minutes, July 27, 2010 in Barcelona

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical handbook on the history of German athletics 1898-2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Report on Leichtathletik.de
  2. ↑ Filmon Ghirmai celebrates a successful premiere , www.leichtathletik.de May 2, 2009.
  3. ↑ Silke Bernhart: Filmon Ghirmai - Farewell to the Bahn , www.leichtathletik.de July 2nd, 2012.

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personal data
SURNAME Ghirmai, Filmon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German obstacle runner
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Asmara , Eritrea