Julien Wanders

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Julien Wanders
Wanders 2014 at the Grand 10 in Berlin

nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland France
FranceFrance 
birthday 18th March 1996 (age 24)
place of birth Geneva ,  Switzerland
Career
discipline Long distance running
society Stade Genève
Trainer Marco hunter
status active
last change: July 14, 2018

Julien Wanders (born March 18, 1996 in Geneva ) is a Swiss - French long-distance runner . He represents Switzerland internationally and holds the European records in the 10 km road race and over the half marathon distance.

Career

Julien Wanders starts for the athletics club Stade Genève . On December 18, 2016, Wanders set a new Swiss record over 10 km of road with a time of 28:22 minutes in the 10 km road race in Houilles . He undercut Markus Ryffel's old record from 1986 by three seconds. On March 19, 2017, Wanders made his debut over the half marathon distance at the Stramilano . With a time of 1:01:43 he pulverized Viktor Röthlin's old U23 record by almost three and a half minutes and missed Tadesse Abraham's existing Swiss record by just 59 seconds. In the elite race, he finished fourth, leaving running greats like the then European marathon champion Daniele Meucci behind.

On October 8, 2017, in Durban , he improved his own Swiss record over 10 km by ten seconds and finished the race behind the two Ugandans Joshua Cheptegei and Stephen Kissa . However, this record lasted less than three months. On December 31 of the same year, he set the fastest time at the Corrida de Houilles by a further 11 seconds, winning the race ahead of Ethiopian Jemal Yimer Mekonnen . With this personal best, the dual citizen pulverized not only the Swiss, but also the French record. The French record was not recognized in retrospect because Wanders had already represented Switzerland internationally as a junior. However, due to a rule change that does not apply retrospectively, dual citizens like Wanders can register in French record lists from April 1, 2018, even if they represent another country internationally.

Its now high level of performance turned Wanders and 2018 demonstrate: the Mitja Marató de Barcelona , he completed on 11 February 2018 in second in 1:00:09 hours and thus beat the Swiss half-marathon record of Tadesse Abraham by 33 seconds. During this time he would have broken the French record again. A little more than a month later he finally finished eighth at the World Half Marathon Championships in Valencia with a time of 1:01:03 h. At the European Athletics Championships in Berlin , Wanders competed over 5000 and 10,000 m, which he finished in eighth and seventh place respectively.

On October 14, 2018, Wanders improved Mo Farah's eight-year-old European record over 10 km by 12 seconds to 27:32 minutes at the City Surf Run in Durban and finished the run in second behind Joshua Cheptegei , who set a new one with 27:16 minutes Set course record. On December 30, 2018, he again improved his record as the winner of the Corrida de Houilles to 27:25 min.

European record
half marathon, Ras al-Khaimah, February 8, 2019
distance Split total time
5 km 14:13 min 14:13 min
10 km 13:58 min 28:11 min
15 km 13:46 min 41:56 min
20 km 14:08 min 56:03 min
21.0975 km 3:10 min 59:13 min

On February 8, 2019, Wanders set another European record at the RAK half marathon in Ra's al- Khaimah with 59:13 minutes. He was only the 5th European to run the half-marathon distance for less than an hour. 10 days later he won a 5 km road race in Monaco in 13:29 minutes despite a temporary illness . During this time, he also set the first official world record over the 5 km distance, as the IAAF has only held this record since 2019 and faster times achieved in previous years were therefore not counted. This lasted until November 19, 2019. His European record was broken by 11 seconds on February 16, 2020 by Jimmy Gressier .

In autumn 2019, Wanders took part in its first World Athletics Championships in Doha . However, these were disappointing for the then 23-year-old after he had to deal with an illness in preparation for the World Cup. In the 5000 m race , Wanders was eliminated in 25th place with a time of 13: 38.95 minutes in advance. He gave up the race over 10,000 m .

On December 1, 2019, he won the Course de l'Escalade in Geneva for the third time in a row . Just one week later, Wanders finished fourth at the European Cross Country Championships in Lisbon and missed bronze by just four seconds.

At the beginning of the 2020 season in Valencia he improved his own European record over 10 km of road to 27:13 minutes.

Julien Wanders lives and trains mostly in his adopted home of Iten in the highlands of Kenya .

Personal best

(As of January 12, 2020)

literature

  • Christof Gertsch: The Kenyan. Portrait in: Das Magazin No. 33, August 17, 2019, pp. 16–26. ( online )

Web links

Commons : Julien Wanders  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julien Wanders runs a fantastic Swiss record over 10 km. In: germanroadraces.de. December 21, 2016, accessed February 9, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Julien Wanders with a first-class half marathon debut. In: germanroadraces.de. March 19, 2017. Retrieved February 9, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Wesley Botton: Joshua Cheptegei breaks new ground in Durban. The Citizen, October 8, 2017, accessed October 8, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Julien Wanders wins in Houilles with a Swiss record. December 31, 2017, accessed January 1, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Jean-François Mourtoux: Record de France du 10 km à Houilles. December 31, 2017, accessed January 1, 2018 (French).
  6. ↑ Romain Donneux: Julien Wanders rayé of tablettes. In: trackandlife.fr. February 8, 2018, accessed February 11, 2018 (French).
  7. ↑ Julien Wanders breaks Mo Farah's European record. In: Leichtathletik.de. October 15, 2018, accessed February 9, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Julien Wanders improves his own European record. In: tagblatt.ch. December 30, 2018, accessed February 9, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Wanders lowers European half marathon record to 59:13 in Ras Al Khaimah. In: european-athletics.org. February 8, 2019, accessed February 9, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Welcome to world class, Julien Wanders. In: nzz.ch. February 8, 2019, accessed February 9, 2019 .
  11. ↑ The Swiss Julien Wanders wins the street race in Monaco in a world record time. In: nzz.ch. February 17, 2019, accessed February 19, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Dennis Okeyo and IAAF: Robert Keter breaks 5km world record. In: standardmedia.co.ke. The Standard, November 12, 2019, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Cheptegei breaks world 5km record in Monaco. In: World Athletics. February 16, 2020, accessed on April 16, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Remo Geisser: Julien Wanders takes the back exit over the 10000 m. In: nzz.ch. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, October 6, 2019, accessed on December 7, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Datasport: Course de lEscalade Genève 2019 - Ranking list. In: https://www.datasport.com/live/ranking?racenr=21112&kat=30 . Datasport, December 1, 2019, accessed December 1, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Julien Wanders is fourth in the Cross-EM. In: nzz.ch. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, December 8, 2019, accessed on December 10, 2019 .
  17. ↑ AZ: Julien Wanders sets a European record in Valencia. In: https://www.aargauerzeitung.ch . Aargauer Zeitung, January 12, 2020, accessed on January 13, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Monica Schneider: The Swiss that Kenyans chase after. In: Tages-Anzeiger from July 26, 2017.
  19. ↑ Christof Gertsch: The Kenyan. Portrait in: Das Magazin No. 33, August 17, 2019, pp. 16–26. ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Wanders, Julien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss medium and long distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva