Marc Reuther

Marc Reuther
Marc Reuther (174) in Pfungstadt 2017
nation	Germany
birthday	June 23, 1996
place of birth	Dusseldorf ,  Germany
size	193 cm
Weight	77 kg
job	Student ( economics )
Career
discipline	800 m , 1500 m
Best performance	Open air 800 m: 1: 45.22 min. Hall 800 m: 1: 45.39 min
society	LG Eintracht Frankfurt , before: Wiesbadener LV , first club: TuS Eintracht Wiesbaden
Trainer	Georg Schmidt, first trainer: Tim Restle
status	active
Medal table
U23 European Championships 0 × 0 × 1 × German championships 2 × 0 × 2 × German indoor championships 1 × 1 × 0 ×
U23 European Championships bronze Bydgoszcz 2017 800 m  German championships bronze Kassel 2016 800 m bronze Nuremberg 2018 800 m gold Berlin 2019 800 m gold Braunschweig 2020 800 m  German indoor championships gold Dortmund 2018 800 m silver Leipzig 2019 1500 m
last change: February 18, 2019

Marc Reuther (born June 23, 1996 in Düsseldorf ) is a German athlete who runs long sprints and medium distances . His main discipline is the 800 meter run .

career path

Reuther graduated from high school in the early summer of 2014 and then began studying economics in Frankfurt. As part of the dual career , he was able to postpone his studies and devote himself more or less to sport in a more or less professional manner.

Athletic career

Even at the school in 2013 was Reuther German U18 champion over 800 meters and had previously respond to 5 place in the same year over this distance the German U20 Indoor Championships and the U18 World Championships in Donetsk reached.

In 2014 Reuther became German U20 indoor champion , retired from the preliminary round at the U20 World Championships in Eugene and took third place at the German U20 Championships .

2015 he defended the German U20-Halle title on his parade route, finished in seventh place in the U20 European Championships in Eskilstuna and was German U20 champion .

2016 came Reuther at the German Indoor Championships to seventh place and won bronze at the German Championships . With 1: 46.19 minutes he had already topped the German best list at the end of June and was best of the year, but still missed the norm for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro by 19 hundredths of a second.

In 2017, Reuther set the standard for the World Championships in London on July 5th with a new personal best and, due to the high load and the tight schedule of a few days, decided not to start at the German Championships in favor of the U23 European Championships in mid-July, where he won his first international medal with bronze. At the World Championships in London , after a courageous performance, he crossed the finish line in 1: 47.78 minutes in fifth of his heat, but did not reach the semi-finals.

In 2018 Reuther became German indoor champion over 800 m. At the end of February he was invited to the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham on the basis of the ranking process of the IAAF World Athletics Association , because although he missed the official norm by a hundredth of a second with his season best time of 1: 46.51 min, it was ranked eleventh in the world. At the European Championships in Berlin , Reuther was disqualified in advance.

In 2020, Reuther set a new personal indoor record with 1: 45.39 in Erfurt, at the same time the second fastest time in the all-time German best list.

Reuther belongs to the perspective squad of the German Athletics Association (DLV) and was previously in the B-squad .

Club affiliations

Reuther started working for LG Eintracht Frankfurt in 2019 . Before that he was at Wiesbadener LV , and before that at TuS Eintracht Wiesbaden .

Private

Reuther is in a relationship with sprinter Lisa Mayer (* 1996).

Top performances

(As of August 14, 2020)

discipline	time	date	place
400 m	47.77 s	May 22, 2016	Lilacs
400 m (hall)	48.50 s	5th February 2014	Erfurt
600 m	1: 18.14 min	17th May 2015	Pliezhausen
800 m	1: 44.93 min	August 14, 2020	Monaco
800 m (hall)	1: 45.39 min	February 2, 2020	Erfurt
1500 m	3: 40.03 min	2nd September 2018	Berlin
1500 m (hall)	3: 44.07 min	17th February 2019	Leipzig

successes

National

• 2013: German U18 champion (800 m)
• 2014: German U20 indoor champion (800 m)
• 2014: 3rd place German U20 championships (800 m)
• 2015: German U20 indoor champion (800 m)
• 2015: German U20 champion (800 m)
• 2016: 3rd place German championships (800 m)
• 2018: German indoor champion (800 m)
• 2019: German indoor runner-up (1500 m)

International

• 2013: 5th place U18 World Championships (800 m)
• 2014: Participation in U20 World Championships (800 m)
• 2015: 7th place U20 European Championships (800 m)
• 2017: 3rd place U23 European Championships (800 m)

Web links

• Marc Reuther in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait on Leichtathletik.de
• Marc Reuther in a portrait on sportschau.de
• U20 EM 2015 Eskilstuna Team brochure of the DLV, p. 36 (PDF, 2.1 MB)
• U23-EM 2017 Bydgoszcz team brochure of the DLV, p. 35 (PDF, 26.6 MB)
• Marc Reuther - Better to think big and fail than think small and struggle

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rolf Lehmann: Marc Reuther hopes to win the athletics championship , other sports, on: wiesbadener-kurier.de, August 7, 2014, accessed July 25, 2017
2. ↑ ^{a b} Full throttle mode for Marc Reuther in Pfungstadt  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on: hlv.de, June 1, 2017, accessed July 25, 2017  
3. ↑ Matthias Laux: WLV runner Marc Reuther wants to recharge his batteries at the U23 EM for the World Cup , other sports, on: wiesbadener-tagblatt.de, July 11, 2017, accessed July 25, 2017
4. ↑ Alexandra Dersch: Flash News of the Day - Marc Reuther invited to the Indoor World Championships ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Notes, from: Leichtathletik.de, February 23, 2018, accessed February 23, 2018 
5. ↑ EM day 4 in Berlin: Marc Reuther disqualified. In: hlv.de. August 9, 2018, accessed January 4, 2019 . 
6. ↑ 1: 45.39 minutes - Marc Reuther racing over 800 meters
7. ↑ Wiesbadener LV loses the figurehead Marc Reuther. In: echo-online.de. Retrieved January 4, 2019 .