Julian Reus

Julian Reus
Reus at the German Championships 2014 in Ulm
nation	Germany
birthday	29th April 1988 (age 32)
place of birth	Hanau ,  Germany
job	Sports soldier
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	10.01 s (100 m) DR 20.29 s (200 m) 6.52 s (60 m hall) DR
society	Erfurt LAC , formerly: TV Wattenscheid 01
Trainer	Gerhard Jäger
status	active
Medal table
European championships 0 × 2 × 1 × European Indoor Championships 0 × 0 × 1 × U20 European Championships 2 × 1 × 0 × German championships 13 × 2 × 3 × German indoor championships 6 × 1 × 1 ×
European championships silver 2012 Helsinki 4 × 100 m silver 2014 Zurich 4 × 100 m bronze 2016 Amsterdam 4 × 100 m  European Indoor Championships bronze 2015 Prague 60 m  Junior European Championships gold 2007 Hengelo 100 m gold 2007 Hengelo 4 × 100 m silver 2007 Hengelo 200 m  German championships gold 2008 Nuremberg 4 × 100 m silver 2009 Ulm 4 × 100 m bronze 2012 Bochum 100 m gold 2012 Bochum 200 m gold 2012 Bochum 4 × 100 m gold 2013 Ulm 100 m gold 2013 Ulm 200 m gold 2014 Ulm 100 m gold 2014 Ulm 4 × 100 m gold 2015 Nuremberg 100 m gold 2015 Nuremberg 4 × 100 m gold 2016 Kassel 100 m gold 2016 Kassel 4 × 100 m gold 2017 Erfurt 100 m gold 2017 Erfurt 200 m silver 2018 Nuremberg 100 m bronze 2019 Berlin 100 m bronze 2020 Braunschweig 100 m  German indoor championships gold 2008 Sindelfingen 4 × 200 m bronze 2009 Leipzig 60 m silver 2010 Karlsruhe 200 m gold 2012 Karlsruhe 4 × 200 m gold 2013 Dortmund 60 m gold 2016 Leipzig 60 m gold 2016 Leipzig 200 m gold 2018 Dortmund 60 m
last change: July 22, 2018

Julian Reus (born April 29, 1988 in Hanau ) is a German athlete on the sprint courses and the current German record holder in the 100-meter run in 10.01 s .

Athletic career

Reus won two golds (100 meters and 4 x 100 meters relay) and one silver (200 meters) at the European Junior Championships in 2007. At the German Youth Championships in 2006 he won the 200 meters and in 2007 the 100 meters. In 2007 he won further titles at the German Youth Indoor Championships on the 60 and 200 meter courses, and at the U20 European Championships in Hengelo over 100 meters and with the relay, over 200 meters, he came second.

Among the adults, Reus achieved his first success with fourth place at the 2007 German Indoor Championships. At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka , he took part in the 4 x 100 meter relay and was sixth with Ronny Ostwald , Tobias Unger and Alexander Kosenkow .

Award ceremony in Helsinki 2012

After protracted injury problems in previous years, Reus won gold over 200 meters and bronze over 100 meters at the German Championships in Wattenscheid in 2012 , setting new personal bests in each case. At the European Championships in the same year he won the silver medal in the 4 x 100 meter relay together with Tobias Unger , Alexander Kosenkow and Lucas Jakubczyk .

A short time later Reus ran in Weinheim in a test competition at the 2012 Olympic Games in London in the 100 meters in 10.09 s again a personal best. With the relay he also improved the 30-year-old German record there to 38.02 s. In London, however, two weeks later they missed the finals in 38.37 s.

In 2013 Reus became German indoor champion in a personal best. At the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg he reached sixth place a week later. In July he won his first German championship title over 100 meters in Ulm in a new championship record time of 10.14 seconds and again won over 200 meters in 20.36 seconds. In the World Cup preparation competition in Weinheim, he improved his best performance by a hundredth of a second to 10.08 s. At the World Championships he was eliminated in the run-up, with the relay he finished fourth in 38.04 s.

At the German Championships in Ulm in 2014 , he defended his championship title over 100 meters and improved the German record held by Frank Emmelmann since 1985 by a hundredth of a second in 10.05 seconds in the semifinals . At the European Championships in Zurich he won silver again in the 4 x 100 meter relay together with Sven Knipphals , Alexander Kosenkow and Lucas Jakubczyk .

In 2015 he won his first individual medal among the active athletes in the 60-meter run with bronze in 6.60 s behind Richard Kilty and Christian Blum at the European Indoor Championships in Prague . In Nuremberg he was able to win the German championship title over 100 meters for the third time in a row and qualified for the world championships in Beijing over both sprint courses . There he was the first German to reach the semi-finals over 100 meters since 1983, but was the slowest of the 24 runners there, over 200 meters he was eliminated in the preliminary run. He was then fourth in the season together with Knipphals, Kosenkow and Aleixo-Platini Menga after the US season was disqualified.

In the 2016 indoor season, Reus set the 27-year-old German record of Sven Matthes over 60 meters in 6.53 s twice , on January 29, 2016 at the evening sports festival in Erfurt and on February 20, 2016 at the indoor meeting in Chemnitz . At the German Championships a week later he sprinted 6.52 seconds and became the sole record holder. He also won over 200 meters, with 20.55 s in the third-best time of a German sprinter over this distance. On June 24, 2016 in Zeulenroda he again improved the German record over 100 meters by two hundredths of a second to 10.03 s. At the 2016 European Championships in Amsterdam, however , he did not qualify for the finals over 100 or 200 meters. With the relay he won the bronze medal. On July 29, 2016, at a meeting in Mannheim , he improved the German record over 100 meters once again to 10.01 s (with a 1.8 m / s tail wind). On August 13, 2016, however, he could not call this performance at the Olympic Games in Rio and was eliminated in the first qualifying round as 7th of 8th in his run (45th in total).

In 2017, Reus was European team champion in Lille, northern France , and took second place in the 100-meter run and in the 4-by-100-meter relay . In Erfurt he won the German championship title in the 100-meter run for the fifth time in a row .

In 2018 Reus entered the German Indoor Championships again and became German Indoor Champion.

Awards

• 2014: "Felix" - Sportsman of the Year from North Rhine-Westphalia

Club affiliations

Julian Reus trained at the Erfurt LAC under the direction of Gerhard Jäger until the end of 2007 . He also completed basic training in the Bundeswehr in the Nienburg sports promotion group . Since 2008 he started for TV Wattenscheid . There he trained together with his relay colleagues Ostwald and Kosenkow and became German champion with the 4 x 100 meter relay in 2008.

After the years 2008 and 2009 had not gone with the desired success, Reus decided to go back to his old place of work in Erfurt. He started working for the Erfurt LAC in 2010, but switched back to TV Wattenscheid in 2011. Reus has been back at the Erfurt LAC since 2018.

Best times

(As of February 8, 2018)

Hall

• 60 m: 6.52 s, Leipzig, February 27, 2016 DR
• 200 m: 20.55 s, Leipzig, February 28, 2016
• 300 m: 33.49 s, Erfurt, January 27, 2017
• 4 × 200 m: 1: 23.51 min, Leipzig, February 23, 2014 DR

open air

• 100 m: 10.01 s (+1.8 m / s) , Mannheim, July 29, 2016 DR
• 100 m: 9.99 s (+4.8 m / s) , Stockholm, June 18, 2017
• 200 m: 20.29 s (+1.0 m / s) , Erfurt, July 9, 2017
• 200 m: 20.23 s (+2.3 m / s) , Zeulenroda, June 24, 2016
• 4 × 100 m: 38.02 s, Weinheim, July 27, 2012 DR

Web links

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

• Julian Reus in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Julian Reus' website
• Reus, Julian on tv-wattenscheid-01.de
• Athlete portrait by Julian Reus on Leichtathletik.de
• Competition overview on Leichtathletik-datenbank.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Portrait of Julian Reus ndr.de, accessed on June 17, 2012.
2. ^ German sprinters in Weinheim in a record mood Leichtathletik.de, July 27, 2012, accessed on July 27, 2012.
3. ^ Reus historically, Gatlin protzig Sport1.de, August 22, 2015, accessed on September 18, 2015.
4. ↑ Reus sets a record Sport1.de, January 29, 2016, accessed on January 30, 2016.
5. ↑ Julian Reus in a record mood again Leichtathletik.de, February 20, 2016, accessed on February 21, 2016.
6. ^ The record as the fruit of solid work FAZ.net, February 28, 2016, accessed on February 29, 2016.
7. ↑ Lucas Jakubczyk and Julian Reus miss the semi-finals. Leichtathletik.de, August 15, 2016, accessed August 15, 2016 .