Martin Gray

Martin Gray
Martin Grau at the German Championships 2014
nation	Germany
birthday	26th March 1992 (age 28)
place of birth	Höchstadt an der Aisch , Germany
Career
discipline	Obstacle course
last change: December 4th, 2018

Martin Grau (born March 26, 1992 in Höchstadt an der Aisch , Bavaria ) is a German athlete who specializes in the obstacle course .

career path

Grau studies at the HS Ansbach .

Athletic career

Martin Grau achieved his first international success at the 2011 European Junior Championships in the 3000 meter obstacle course when he won the bronze medal. In 2013 he became German U23 champion. After he had increased his personal best in 2014 to 8: 24.29 minutes and also defeated Steffen Uliczka in the race and undercut the European Championship standard, he was called up for the European team championship and scored eleven points for the German team. At the German Championships in 2014 , he finished second behind Uliczka. At the European Championships in Zurich, he finished 13th.

In 2015, Martin Grau won the title at the Universiade in Gwangju in 8: 31.55 minutes and was German champion for the first time. On March 5, 2016, he took third place at the German Cross Country Championships in the middle distance. At the same time he won the silver medal there in the team of the LSC Höchstadt / Aisch (with Bastian Grau and Niklas Bühner ).

In 2017 he was German runner-up in the 3,000 meter obstacle course in Erfurt and was only just beaten by Tim Stegemann . Over this distance, the General German University Sports Association (ADH) nominated him in mid-July for the Summer Universiade in Taipei , where he came in seventh place.

In 2018 Grau won the German championship over the 3000 meter obstacle.

In 2019, Grau became German runner-up in the 3000 m obstacle course in Berlin. He also started at the World Cup in Doha .

Club affiliations

Grau started for the LSC Höchstadt / Aisch until 2018, where he was initially trained by Markus Mönius. He has been training with national coach Enrico Aßmus in Erfurt since autumn 2017 and is moving to the Erfurt LAC from 2019 .

Personal best

(As of March 22, 2020)

Hall

• 1500 m : 3: 49.56 min, February 8, 2013, Düsseldorf
• 3000 m : 7: 56.20 min, February 22, 2020, Leipzig

open air

• 800 m : 1: 53.36 min, July 22, 2017, Augsburg
• 1000 m : 2: 23.77 min, July 28, 2017, Höchstadt
• 1500 m : 3: 47.60 min, July 26, 2017, Erfurt
• Mile : 4: 05.62 min, July 12, 2017, Schorndorf
• 3000 m : 8: 12.83 min, August 7, 2015, Neustadt
• 2000 m obstacle course : 5: 37.36 min, May 14, 2017, Pliezhausen
• 3000 m obstacle course : 8: 24.29 min, June 11, 2014, Dessau-Roßlau

Web links

Commons : Martin Grau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Martin Gray in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait by Martin Grau on Leichtathletik.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Silke Bernhart: 26 athletes nominated for the Universiade in Taiwan , on: Leichtathletik.de, July 14, 2017, accessed July 14, 2017
2. ↑ Grau defeats Steffen Uliczka and runs EM-Norm  ( page can no longer be accessed , 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.  
3. ↑ Gray scores 11 points for the German team
4. ↑ Grau finished second in Ulm
5. ↑ Martin Grau on Leichtathletik-datenbank.de , accessed on January 1, 2015
6. ↑ Athletics, July 15, 2015, p. 20
7. ↑ Alexandra Dersch: Flash News of the Day - New Association for Martin Grau , Notes, on: Leichtathletik.de, November 12, 2018, accessed November 21, 2018