Marcel Berni
Marcel Berni 
|
|||||||
| nation |
 Switzerland
|
||||||
| birthday | 5th June 1988 | ||||||
| place of birth | Bern , Switzerland | ||||||
| Career | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| discipline | Long distance running | ||||||
| status | active | ||||||
| Medal table | |||||||
|
|||||||
|
|||||||
Marcel Berni (born June 5, 1988 in Bern ) is a Swiss athlete . He specializes in long-distance running . Together with the Swiss national team, he is the reigning European team champion in the half marathon .
Career
After Berni failed at the World Military Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2011 over the 5000 meters after the heats, he secured the silver medal in the half marathon at the Swiss Championships in Lausanne that same year . A year later he started at the European Cross Country Championships in Hungarian Budapest and came on the 70th rank. In 2013 Berni started in Uster at the Swiss championships over 10 km and in the half marathon and won bronze and silver. Shortly afterwards he started the Summer Universiade in Kazan and came 39th in the half marathon. In 2016, Berni became Swiss champion in long distance cross-country skiing. At the European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam in 2016 , he finished 67th. In the team classification, however, he secured the gold medal with Tadesse Abraham , Julien Lyon , Adrian Lehmann , Christian Kreienbühl and Andreas Kempf two seconds ahead of the Spanish team.
At the Rotterdam Marathon 2018, Berni was again able to meet the required standard for the European Athletics Championships 2018 with a time of 2:19:19 h in the marathon .
In 2019, he and Nicole Büchler were elected athletes' representative for Swiss Athletics .
successes
International
- 2011: CISM Military World Summer Games , Rio de Janeiro , 5000 m, elimination after the preliminary run
- 2012: European Cross Country Championships , Budapest , 70th place
- 2013: Universiade , half marathon, Kazan , 39th place
- 2016: European Championships Half Marathon , Amsterdam , 67th place, 1st place team ranking
National
- 2011: Swiss Championships Half Marathon, Lausanne , 2nd place
- 2013: Swiss Championships 10,000 m, Uster , 3rd place
- 2013: Swiss Championships Half Marathon, Uster , 2nd place
- 2016: Swiss Cross Country Championships, Benken , Langcross, 1st place
- 2016: Swiss Championships 10,000 m, Thun , 3rd place
Personal best
- 10,000 meter run : 29:56 min, April 29, 2012 in Palo Alto
- 10 km road run : 30:06 min, March 25, 2018 in Oberriet
- Half marathon : 1:05:26 h, April 23, 2016 in Bad Liebenzell
- Marathon : 2:19:19 h, April 8, 2018 in Rotterdam
Web links
- Marcel Berni in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Marcel Berni in the database of European Athletics (English)
- Official website
- Marcel Berni meets the EM limit in the marathon in Rotterdam . Swiss Athletics, April 8, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ A brilliant hour with moments of shock. In: bernerzeitung.ch. July 11, 2016, accessed May 17, 2018 .
- ↑ sda / ste: Half-marathon in Berlin - Strähl with a new Swiss record. In: srf.ch. April 8, 2018. Retrieved May 17, 2018 .
- ↑ News: Nicole Büchler and Marcel Berni elected as athlete representatives. Retrieved on February 23, 2019 (German).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berni, Marcel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th June 1988 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern , Switzerland |