Julian Howard

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Julian Howard athletics

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Howard at the German Championships 2014 in Ulm

Full name Julian Anthony Howard
nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 3rd April 1989 (age 31)
place of birth Mannheim ,  Germany
size 178 cm
Weight 76 kg
job Student math / sport
Career
discipline Long jump
Best performance Long jump: 8.04 m (indoor), 8.20 m (open air)
society LG Region Karlsruhe , formerly. MTG Mannheim
first association: Post Südstadt Karlsruhe
Trainer Udo Metzler, first trainer: Holger Prestor
Medal table
German championships 1 × gold 2 × silver 2 × bronze
German indoor championships 3 × gold 3 × silver 1 × bronze
DLV logo German championships
silver 2012 Wattenscheid Long jump
bronze 2014 Ulm Long jump
bronze 2015 Nuremberg Long jump
gold 2017 Erfurt Long jump
silver 2020 Braunschweig Long jump
DLV logo German indoor championships
silver 2012 Karlsruhe Long jump
gold 2014 Leipzig Long jump
silver 2015 Karlsruhe Long jump
silver 2016 Leipzig Long jump
gold 2017 Leipzig Long jump
gold 2018 Dortmund Long jump
bronze 2020 Leipzig Long jump
last change: August 17, 2020

Julian Anthony Howard (born April 3, 1989 in Mannheim , Baden-Württemberg ) is a German athlete who specializes in the long jump . He also does sprints .

career path

In 2008 Julian Howard graduated from a sports high school in Mannheim and decided to study mechanical engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Due to doubts about the choice of course, he started a parallel course (mathematics and sport to become a teacher) from the winter semester 2012/13. In the meantime, he completed his mechanical engineering studies.

Athletic career

Julian Howard initially played football, but then wanted to practice an individual sport. Since he was noticed at the 1998 National Youth Games, he was invited to a trial training session, which he liked so much that he switched to athletics. It turned out that the long jump had the greatest development potential for him.

In 2006 Howard was German U18 long jump champion.

In 2008 he was able to qualify for the Junior World Championships in Bydgoszcz , where he finished 8th.

2009 Howard reached 3rd place in the German U23 championships .

This was followed by top places and title wins at Baden-Württemberg and southern German championships as well as the transition from the youth class to the active, which, like many athletes, was associated with various injuries.

In 2011 Howard was able to qualify for the U23 European Championships in Ostrava , but was eliminated in the qualification.

In 2012 he started a new beginning with the LG Region Karlsruhe and became German runner-up in the long jump at both the German indoor championships and the German championships .

In 2013 Howard set a personal best with a width of 8.07 m at the jumper meeting in Wesel.

In 2014 he became German indoor champion and came in 3rd place at the German championships .

In 2015 Howard jumped at the international indoor meeting in Karlsruhe with 8.04 m, the annual indoor performance. He became German indoor runner-up and again took 3rd place at the German championships .

In 2016, Howard jumped 8.03 m again at the indoor meeting in Karlsruhe, the indoor meeting of the year, and became German indoor runner-up

In 2017, Howard won the German Indoor Champion title again in Leipzig . At the indoor meeting in Karlsruhe on February 4th, he had already qualified with 7.97 m for the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade , where he took 5th place with the same distance. In northern France Lille was Howard team European champion , the long jump , he finished 10th. At the German Championships in Erfurt Howard won another championship title. In mid-July, Howard was nominated as a long jumper by the General German University Sports Association (adh) for the Summer Universiade in Taipei , where he was eliminated from the qualification without a valid attempt.

In 2018, Howard became German indoor champion with 7.74 m .

In 2009 Howard joined the national squad. He is now part of the perspective squad of the German Athletics Association (DLV) .

Club membership

Julian Howard has been working for the LG Region Karlsruhe since 2012 . Before that he was at MTG Mannheim and the Post Südstadt Karlsruhe .

family

Julien Howard's father is from Jamaica.

Honors

  • For his sporting successes in 2017, Howard was awarded the golden pyramid at the Karlsruhe Sports Ball in April 2018 and was named Sportsman of the Year .

Top performances

(As of June 13, 2018)

Hall
open air
  • 100 m: 10.72 s (+1.5 m / s) , Zofingen , May 30, 2015
  • 8.20 m (+0.3 m / s) , Weinheim , May 26, 2018

successes

national
international

Web links

Commons : Julian Howard  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Julian Howard: Self-Portrait ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , from: lgr-karlsruhe.de, accessed March 1, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lgr-karlsruhe.de
  2. ↑ Indoor European Championships 2015 Prague Team brochure of the DLV, p. 19.
  3. ^ Association website Post Südstadt Karlsruhe eV
  4. ↑ Julian Howard is Sportsman of the Year of the City of Karlsruhe , from: lgr-karlsruhe.de, accessed June 13, 2018
  5. ^ Result list of the German university championships 2013 , from: Leichtathletik.de, accessed March 1, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Howard, Julian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Howard, Julian Anthony (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim