Ingo Schultz

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Ingo Schultz
medal table
At the ISTAF 2007
At the ISTAF 2007

Sprinter long sprinter
GermanyGermany Germany
World championships
silver 2001 Edmonton 400 meters
European championships
gold 2002 Munich 400 meters

Ingo Schultz (born July 26, 1975 in Lingen (Ems) ) is a former German sprinter .

Career

Schultz only began athletics in 1997 at the age of 22 , and he contested his first race in his later specialty, the 400-meter run , in 1998. He was already in the final at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, after having reached the semi-finals at 44 .66 s was the fastest time of his career. In the final he ran 44.87 s and won the silver medal behind the Bahamian Avard Moncur . It was not until the 2015 World Championships that Gesa Felicitas Krause received a bronze medal for a German runner. At the European Championships in Munich in 2002 , he was the winner in the 400-meter run (45.14 s) and thus won the only gold medal in individual competitions for the DLV .

In 2003 he fell ill with glandular fever and almost had to end his career. He returned to the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , but was eliminated in the 400-meter semifinals with a seventh place. After Schultz had become German runner-up behind Lars Figura in 2000 and 2001 , he won the German championships from 2002 to 2004.

After protracted injury problems, Schultz announced the end of his competitive sports career on October 21, 2008.

The 2.01 m tall and 96 kg heavy athlete competed for TSG Bergedorf from 1997 to 2000 , from 2001 to 2002 for LG Olympia Dortmund , then for two more years for TSG Bergedorf, and since then for TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen . In 1997 he trained with Jürgen Krempin until he left Hamburg in 2004, then with Thomas Kremer.

After the career

Until 2007 he was a member of the Bundeswehr , most recently with the rank of captain . Since then, the graduate engineer has been working for a power generation company, but still dedicates himself to sport. Ingo Schultz is married.

Private

From 2001 to 2002 he was in a relationship with the swimming athlete Antje Buschschulte . Shortly after his victory at the European Championships, he split up.

Awards

In 2004 he was immortalized on the Munich Olympic Walk of Stars . In 2010 Ingo Schultz received the Rudolf Harbig Memorial Prize from the German Athletics Association and the Hermann Seiffart Memorial Prize from the Hamburg Athletics Association in 2011.

Web links

Commons : Ingo Schultz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sportschau.de: Bronze! Krause fulfills her dream. Accessed August 26, 2015.
  2. ↑ Schultz announces the end of his career . sport1.de. October 21, 2008. Retrieved June 25, 2014.
  3. ↑ 400 m runner Schultz hangs up spikes . Focus Online. October 21, 2008. Retrieved June 25, 2014.
  4. ↑ No future in Hamburg - Ingo Schultz leaves coach Krempin . rp-online.de. October 21, 2004. Accessed October 21, 2008.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.rp-online.de  
  5. ↑ What is actually ... Ingo Schultz? . sportschau.de. July 7, 2009. Retrieved June 29, 2014.
  6. ↑ Antje Buschschulte shocked - the romance is over . RP Online. August 9, 2002. Retrieved June 25, 2014.
  7. ↑ Ingo Schultz - Out of nowhere to World Cup silver . NDR.de. April 12, 2010. Retrieved June 25, 2014.
  8. ↑ Athletics: Käther wins and jumps EM standard in Glasgow ++ Müller-Kallweit remains president of the HLV . World online. January 31, 2011. Retrieved June 25, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Schultz, Ingo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sprinter (400 m)
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Lingen (Ems)