Kevin Kranz
Kevin Kranz | |||||||||||||
nation | Germany | ||||||||||||
birthday | 20th June 1998 (age 22) | ||||||||||||
place of birth | Frankfurt am Main , Germany | ||||||||||||
size | 180 cm | ||||||||||||
Weight | 70 kg | ||||||||||||
job | college student | ||||||||||||
Career | |||||||||||||
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discipline | Sprints | ||||||||||||
Best performance |
Hall 60 m: 6.56 s; 200 m: 22.77 s; Open air : 100 m: 10.24 s; 200 m: 20.89 s |
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society | Sprint team Wetzlar , before: LG Eintracht Frankfurt | ||||||||||||
Trainer | David Corell | ||||||||||||
status | active | ||||||||||||
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last change: February 18, 2019 |
Kevin Kranz (born June 20, 1998 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German athlete who specializes in sprints and also runs relays .
career path
In September 2017, Kranz began a dual course of study in the sports promotion group of the police at the Hessian University for Police and Administration (HfPV Wiesbaden).
Athletic career
Kevin Kranz first played soccer and was discovered at the age of 15 because of his sprinting ability for athletics.
In 2013 he finished 6th at the German U20 championships in Rostock with the 4 x 100 meter relay .
In 2015, Kranz was third in the Hessian U18 best list with 10.99 s over 100 meters at the end of the year. At the German Youth Championships in Jena , he was U20 runner-up in the 4 x 100 meter relay. Injury problems then threw him back. David Corell recognized the potential of Kranz and prevented an early retirement through appropriate training.
In 2017, Kranz came in 3rd place at the German U20 Championships in Ulm with 10.57 seconds over 100 meters and at the end of the year was among the top 10 of the German U20 best list.
In 2018 he was runner-up over 60 meters in the indoor season at the German Indoor University Championships in Frankfurt-Kalbach and took 5th place at the German Indoor Championships in Dortmund with a personal best of 6.71 s. At the German U23 Junior Championships in Heilbronn , he won double gold. With 10.24 s over 100 meters, he ran the norm for the European Championships in Berlin and with 20.89 s on the 200-meter course, he stayed under 21 seconds for the first time. In Nuremberg , Kranz was German champion over 100 meters and thus secured himself the nomination for the European championships, where he was eliminated with 10.41 seconds over this distance in the preliminary round.
At the European Indoor Championships 2019 , Kranz reached eighth place over 60 meters.
Club affiliations
Kranz has started for the Wetzlar sprint team since 2018 and was previously at LG Eintracht Frankfurt .
Top performances
(As of February 18, 2019)
- Hall
- open air
- 100 m: 10.24 s (+1.6 m / s) , Heilbronn , June 30, 2018
- 200 m: 20.89 s (+2.0 m / s) , Heilbronn , July 1, 2018
- 4 × 100 m: 39.69 s, Regensburg , June 3, 2018
successes
- national
- 2013: 6th place German U20 championships (4 × 100 m)
- 2015: German U20 runner-up (4 × 100 m)
- 2017: 3rd place German U20 championships (100 m)
- 2018: Vice-Champion German Indoor University Championships (60 m)
- 2018: 5th place German indoor championships (60 m)
- 2018: German U23 champion (100 m and 200 m)
- 2018: German champion (100 m)
- 2019: German indoor champion (60 m)
- international
- 2018: Participation in the European Championships (100 m)
- 2019: 8th place European Indoor Championships (60 m)
Web links
- Kevin wreath in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Kevin ring in the database of European Athletics (English)
- Kranz: Comet-like to the U23 sprint king , portrait, on Leichtathletik.de
- Kevin Kranz - Right in the middle of the sprint action , New Masters, on Leichtathletik.de
- Kevin Kranz on sportschau.de
- Competition overview on Leichtathletik-datenbank.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Alexander Wiener: Kevin Kranz: Kometenhaft zum U23-Sprintkönig , portrait, on Leichtathletik.de, from July 3, 2018, accessed August 2, 2018
- ↑ a b c Jörg Hanau: Men sprint Kevin Kranz alone in the finish , men sprint, on fr.de, from July 23, 2018, accessed August 2, 2018
- ↑ a b c results , on: adh.de, accessed August 2, 2018 (pdf 277 kB)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kranz, Kevin |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German athlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1998 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |