Jens Nerkamp

Jens Nerkamp
Nerkamp at the German championships in 2016
nation	Germany
birthday	30th August 1989 (age 31)
place of birth	Cloppenburg ,  Germany
size	178 cm
Weight	63 kg
job	Student ( German Studies and Political Science )
Career
discipline	Long distance running
society	BV Garrel (2004–2011) PSV Grün-Weiß Kassel (2012–2018) running team Kassel (since 2019)
Trainer	Winfried Aufenanger , before: Heiner Göttke
status	active
Medal table
German championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
German championships silver Hanover 2018 half marathon
last change: April 15, 2019

Jens Nerkamp (born August 30, 1989 in Cloppenburg ) is a German long-distance runner .

Athletic career

Nerkamp played in his childhood first football and came by chance to the Running when it his former physical education teacher at a 2003 Citylauf logged. Starting for BV Garrel, he achieved his first successes at state level in his youth, and he also took part in several German youth and junior championships . His best placings were seventh places, which he achieved from 2009 to 2011 over the 5000 m of the U23.

After coming to Kassel at the end of 2010 to study, Nerkamp switched to PSV Grün-Weiß Kassel for the 2012 season , where he was trained by the former national marathon trainer Winfried Aufenanger . In 2012, Nerkamp improved his best time in the 10 km road run at the Paderborn Easter Run by 52 seconds to 30:19 min and undercut a qualifying performance for the German athletics for the first time in the Koblenz Mini-Internationales over 5000 m in 14: 18.84 min. Championships .

In the following year Nerkamp increased his best times over 5000 m and 10 km to 14: 13.09 min and 30:06 min. After finishing sixth in his half marathon debut in April at the German half marathon championships in Bergisch Gladbach in a time of 1:06:44 h, in July he improved his result over 5000 m in eleventh place at the German championships in Ulm from the previous year in which he was 21st.

In April 2014 Nerkamp finished fourth at the German Half Marathon Championships in Freiburg with a time of 1:05:53 h. Less than a month later, in eighth place at the German championships over 10,000 m in Aichach , he undercut the 30-minute limit for the first time after 29: 16.77 minutes. He finished eighth again at the end of July at the German championships in Ulm over 5000 m with a new best time of 14: 12.14 min.

In the national championships in 2015, Nerkamp placed fourth in the half marathon distance, fifth over 5000 m and sixth over 10,000 m each and in the 10 km road race under the first six. In addition to undercutting the 30-minute mark on the road for the first time, he also improved his 5000 m best time to 14: 07.28 minutes in Oordegem, Belgium in mid-May .

On April 3, 2016, Nerkamp undercut the team European championship standard of 1:04:45 h for the 2016 European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam set by the German Athletics Association at the Berlin Half Marathon with an increase in his best performance to 1:04:06 h , for which he was finally nominated in early May. After a seventh place at the German championships in Kassel over 5000 m, Nerkamp completed the European championship half marathon on July 19 in a time of 1:07:22 minutes, which brought him 51st place in the individual ranking. Together with Julian Flügel and Philipp Pflieger , he also finished tenth in the integrated European Half Marathon Cup .

In mid-April 2017, Nerkamp improved his best time over 10 km at the Paderborn Easter run to 29:38 min. A few weeks later, shortly after the German championships over 10,000 meters , in which Nerkamp was twelfth after a slump in the second half, he had to end his season with plantar fasciitis and a heel spur . This meant that a planned marathon debut in autumn was also canceled.

In the spring of 2018, Nerkamp increased again in Paderborn over 10 km to 29:20 min and was able to place second in a national championship in the medal ranks at the German half marathon championships as part of the Hanover Marathon . At the end of April, Nerkamp ran his marathon debut in 2:17:18 h in sixth place in the German marathon championships integrated into the Düsseldorf marathon .

career path

Jens Nerkamp studies German and political science at the University of Kassel .

Personal bests

• 800 m : 1: 56.27 min, August 20, 2011, Lastrup
• 1500 m : 3: 50.90 min, May 31, 2016, Osterode
• 3000 m : 8: 14.27 min, August 29, 2014, Kassel
• 5000 m : 14: 07.28 min, 23 May 2015, Oordegem ( BEL )
• 10,000 m : 29: 16.77 min, May 3, 2014, Aichach
• 10 km road run : 29:20 min, March 31, 2018, Paderborn
• Half marathon : 1:04:06 h, April 3, 2016, Berlin
• Marathon : 2:14:54 h, September 29, 2019, Berlin

Performance development

List of personal best times over various routes from 2004 onwards. Compiled from the best lists of the DLV , NLV and HLV .

	1500 m	3000 m	5000 m	10 km	10,000 m	half marathon	marathon
2004	-	9: 44.24	16:55 (5 km)	-	-	-
2005	4: 14.27	9: 17.06	16: 32.7	34:54	-	-	-
2006	4: 14.74	9: 06.03	16: 29.57	35:11	-	-	-
2007	4: 05.44	9: 00.06	15: 49.8	33:28	-	-	-
2008	4: 00.92	8: 37.62	15: 08.18	32:31	-	-	-
2009	3: 58.78	8: 37.42	14: 54.20	31:11	-	-	-
2010	3: 56.39	8: 34.77	14: 40.14	31:25	-	-	-
2011	3: 53.69	8: 29.42	14: 39.98	32:29	-	-	-
2012	3: 50.96	8: 26.94	14: 18.84	30:19	-	-	-
2013	3: 51.52	8: 19.23	14: 13.89	30:06	-	1:06:44	-
2014	3: 52.54	8: 14.27	14: 12.14	30:10	29: 16.77	1:05:53	-
2015	3: 51.24	8: 22.00	14: 07.28	29:42	29: 47.02	1:06:34	-
2016	3: 50.90	-	14: 13.25	29:57	30: 04.36	1:04:06	-
2017	-	-	15: 05.88	29:38	30: 11.12	1:07:49	-
2018	-	-	-	29:20	-	1:05:27	2:17:18
2019	-	-	14: 52.89	30:21	31: 36.89	-	2:14:54

Personal achievements

Web links

• Jens Nerkamp in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Jens Nerkamp in the database of European Athletics (English)
• Athlete profile with the Association of Road Racing Statisticians
• Athlete profile in the athletics database
• Jens Nerkamp - at the age of 26 DLV debut beckons Leichtathletik.de (April 7, 2016)
• Jens Nerkamp: runner, student, time manager hlv.de (April 18, 2015)
• Author profile on community.larasch.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bodo Tarow: Nerkamp hot for the blue Berlin train. In: nwzonline.de. May 22, 2008, accessed March 2, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Profile. In: facebook.com. Retrieved March 3, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Jens Nerkamp celebrates his greatest career success. In: nwzonline.de. April 8, 2014, accessed March 2, 2018 . 
4. ^ ^{A b} Tammo Lotz: Jens Nerkamp: runner, student, time manager. In: hlv.de. April 18, 2015, accessed April 1, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Martin Neumann: Jens Nerkamp - At the age of 26 the DLV debut beckons. In: Leichtathletik.de. April 7, 2016, accessed March 2, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Eberhard Vollmer: DLV nominates complete teams for the European Half Marathon. In: Leichtathletik.de. May 4, 2016, accessed March 2, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Jens Nerkamp: Reset - everything at the beginning! In: community.larasch.de. June 30, 2017, Retrieved March 2, 2018 (personal blog post). 
8. ↑ Successful “Runner of the Year”. In: kassel-marathon.de. January 28, 2018, accessed March 2, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Half marathon: runners from PSV Grün-Weiß Kassel cause a sensation. In: hna.de. April 9, 2018, accessed October 20, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Garreler just misses the EM norm. In: nwzonline.de. April 30, 2018. Retrieved October 20, 2018 . 
11. ↑ The official DLV best lists from 2001 to 2018. In: Leichtathletik.de. Retrieved April 1, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Leaderboards. In: nlv-la.de. Retrieved March 3, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Leaderboards. In: hlv.de. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .