Hendrik Pfeiffer

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Hendrik Pfeiffer athletics

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Pfeiffer at the Cologne Marathon 2017

nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 18th March 1993 (age 27)
place of birth Dusseldorf , Germany
size 180 cm
Weight 62 kg
job Student (journalism)
Career
discipline Long distance running , marathon running
Best performance 3000 m: 8: 10.58 min
5000 m: 14: 04.56 min
10,000 m: 29: 16.14 min
10 km road: 29:12 min
half marathon: 63:17 min
marathon: 2:10:18 h
society TV Wattenscheid 01 ,
first club: LAZ Rhede
Trainer Tono Kirschbaum, formerly: Jürgen Palm
status active
last change: January 2nd, 2020

Hendrik Pfeiffer (born March 18, 1993 in Düsseldorf , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German athlete who specializes in long-distance , cross and marathons . Pfeiffer studies journalism at the TU Dortmund .

Athletic career

Hendrik Pfeiffer was originally interested in football . In order to improve his stamina further, he joined the LAZ Rhede athletics club while playing soccer . A year later he finally changed the sport. He developed his ability to run to longer and longer distances. Until reaching the age limit in October 2015, Pfeiffer was a member of the NRW junior elite team of the Sportstiftung NRW .

On April 24, 2016, Hendrik Pfeiffer made his debut on the marathon distance in Düsseldorf and met the standard for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro straight away in a time of 2:13:11 h . But just a few weeks later Pfeiffer had to give up at the European Championships in Amsterdam due to health problems - like Arne Gabius - at the half marathon . He and Gabius suffered the same fate: Both were nominated for the Olympic Games, but had to forego participation because their health did not improve. It is not his "philosophy of running, throwing in pain pills," said Pfeiffer. For him, Julian wing moved up as a participant.

In October 2017 he won the Cologne Marathon in his second race over the marathon distance and undercut the qualification standard for the European Athletics Championships 2018 in Berlin. Hendrik Pfeiffer was nominated by the DLV for the European Athletics Championships in 2018 , but had to cancel his participation as he did at the 2016 Olympic Games due to heel problems.

At the Vivawest Marathon 2018, the then 25-year-old set a Guinness world record “Fastest half marathon in a suit (male)” to draw attention to the possibility of combining professional sport and professional life as part of a dual career.

Hendrik Pfeiffer starts for TV Wattenscheid 01 and was previously at LAZ Rhede . He is part of the perspective squad of the German Athletics Association (DLV) .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ingo Schiweck: Hendrik Pfeiffer - His sad story: Olympic drama after Olympic miracle , on: express.de, from July 22, 2016, accessed July 30, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Hendrik Pfeiffer in portrait , on: sportschau.de, accessed July 26, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b Marathon newcomer Hendrik Pfeiffer - Too fat for Schalke, now qualified for the Olympics , on: runnersworld.de, accessed July 27, 2016.
  4. ↑ Axel vom Schemm: Sportstiftung NRW is looking forward to Hendrik Pfeiffer , on: sportstiftung-nrw.de, from April 25, 2016, accessed July 30, 2016.
  5. ↑ Athletics - Olympia-Aus for the marathon man of TV Wattenscheid , rd, on: derwesten.de, July 15, 2016, accessed July 27, 2016.
  6. ↑ Pamela Ruprecht: DLV nominates marathon runners for EM in Berlin. In: Leichtathletik.de. May 25, 2018. Retrieved May 26, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Hendrik Pfeiffer misses the European Championship in Berlin (June 12, 2018)
  8. ↑ World record in suit! - Hendrik Pfeiffer ran the half marathon in an office outfit. Retrieved December 5, 2018 .
  9. ↑ News. December 5, 2018, accessed December 5, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Hendrik Steimann: Hendrik Pfeiffer runs a world record: borderline experience in a suit. May 28, 2018, accessed December 5, 2018 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Pfeiffer, Hendrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German long-distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Düsseldorf , North Rhine-Westphalia