Martin Keller
Martin Keller 
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| birthday | 26th September 1986 (age 33) | |||||||||
| place of birth |
Rochlitz , GDR
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| size | 180 cm | |||||||||
| Weight | 82 kg | |||||||||
| job | Federal policeman | |||||||||
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| discipline | sprint | |||||||||
| society | LAZ Leipzig | |||||||||
| Trainer | Ronald Stein, Jörg Möckel | |||||||||
| status | resigned | |||||||||
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Martin Keller (born September 26, 1986 in Rochlitz ) is a former German sprinter who concentrated on the 100 meters and was the first German ever to run this distance under 10 seconds, but this time remained unrecognized because of too much tailwind. From 2008 he was a fixture in the DLV national team.
He was trained by the former DLV head coach and last head coach of the DVfL in the GDR , Bernd Schubert , until the summer of 2009 , and has been with LAZ Leipzig since 2012 . Ronald Stein was his trainer from October 2009 to the end of 2014, before Martin Keller returned to Chemnitz and was active under Jörg Möckel until 2016. After missing the 2016 Olympic Games, Martin Keller ended his active career at the age of 30.
Martin Keller had a competition weight of 82 kg with a height of 1.80 m.
From 2007 to 2016 he was a member of the Kienbaum Federal Police Sports School , the federal police’s top-level sports sponsor for summer and year-round sports.
Athletic career
He started out as a footballer in 1994 before turning to athletics , which he began at TSV Medizin Wechselburg. In 2002 he moved to VfA Rochlitzer Berg and specialized in short sprints; two years later he moved to LAC Erdgas Chemnitz in Peter Dost's training group.
2004
Keller first appeared nationally when he surprisingly took fourth place in the 100-meter run of the German Youth Championships in Jena with 10.89 seconds, which is why he took part in the 4-by-100-meter relay at the U20 World Championships in Grosseto was nominated.
2005
Last year in the U20 class, he had to fight injury problems while preparing. He was able to increase his best performance again to 10.76 s, but another injury meant the end of the season for him after he had failed to qualify for the Junior European Championships despite the increase in performance.
2006
Martin Keller caught up with the national top in the adult sector. For the European Cup qualification in Regensburg he improved to 10.43 s in the run-up and again to 10.34 s in the final. He was nominated for the U23 international match against Poland and for the European Cup in Málaga, Spain . At the German championships in Ulm he was fourth and again appointed to the national team for the European championships. However, he did not come to the men in a relay this year. After returning from the European Championships, he was able to achieve the title of German Junior Champion in Bautzen, which is close to his home . In September he underwent an operation.
2007
Despite a short preparation period, he and his trainer decided to do a competition season. However, due to the injuries, Keller could not achieve any top placings other than third place at the German Junior Championships and went out of the season as the best time of the year with 10.56 s.
2008
In the indoor season he managed to increase his best performance over 60 meters to 6.66 s, which he set up at the domestic international natural gas indoor meeting . This year he was one of the national leaders. He offered himself again and again for the 4 x 100 meter relay and was finally set up. He improved his personal best on June 27 to 10.23 seconds. He even managed a time of 10.15 s, but due to the excessive wind support (+ 2.6 m / s) it was not ready for the best of the best. At the German championships he was third. He celebrated his greatest success so far together with Tobias Unger , Till Helmke and Alexander Kosenkow at the Olympic Games in Beijing . The quartet reached fourth place with 38.58 seconds.
2009
Due to injury, Keller skipped the indoor season and was still able to build on the previous year in the summer. He reached the quarter-finals of the World Championships in Berlin as the best German and reached 10.15 seconds at the DLV gala in Bochum / Wattenscheid. Regular was 10.35 s in 2009. The 4 x 100 meter relay has long been the leader in Europe. In the end, the British relay team at the World Championships was unable to resist, as a relay switch failed in the run-up and Keller was not used as the final runner.
2010
This year, Martin Keller was a national leader for a long time before a muscle injury slowed him down. He got fit again in time for the German championships and was still able to qualify for the national team at the European championships, where he crossed the finish line in third place as the final runner of the 4 x 100 meter relay of the German team. In the European Championship final the quartet achieved the fastest time of a German relay team in an international final with 38.44 seconds.
2011
Keller started the world championship year with his biggest national success to date. He won the silver medal at the German indoor championships in Leipzig over 60 meters and with his new personal best of 6.65 s he met the norm for the European indoor championships in Paris. However, due to illness, he had to cancel his start two days before the competition. Keller had to end the outdoor season prematurely due to a torn muscle fiber. He used the time to heal the injury and start preparing for the Olympic Games in London healthy and regenerated. At the same time he changed his place of residence and training from Chemnitz to Leipzig. He joined the high-performance training group of today's DLV head coach Cheick-Idriss Gonschinska , which his trainer Ronald Stein took over from September 2011.
2012
Keller skipped the indoor season due to the injury in the previous year. He managed to catch up with the German top and he had a share in winning the silver medal with his commitment in the run-up to the European Championships in Helsinki . He was also on the team for the Olympic Games in London . He ran his annual best time of 10.29 s at the Olympic test in Weinheim at the end of July with only a slight tail wind of 0.3 m / s. At the ISTAF in Berlin at the beginning of September he was used in the mixed relay.
2013
On May 11th, he was the first German sprinter to run the 100 meters under 10 seconds at the meeting in Clermont . With a strong tail wind of 3.8 m / s, he achieved a time of 9.99 s. At the German championships in Ulm , he won the silver medal in a new best time of 10.19 seconds. He improved this to 10.07 seconds in the World Cup preparatory competition on August 2nd in Weinheim and missed Frank Emmelmann's German record by just a hundredth of a second. At the World Championships in Moscow in 2013 , he was eliminated in advance. In the relay competition, he finished fourth with Lucas Jakubczyk , Sven Knipphals and Julian Reus in 38.04 seconds.
2014
At the beginning of the season he was a member of the season that reached the finals at the premiere of the World Relays in Nassau (Bahamas) . After struggling with pain at the European Team Championships in Braunschweig, he broke off the season before the national championships. At the end of the year he left Leipzig and joined Jörg Möckel's training group in Chemnitz.
Personal best
| distance | place | time | date | annotation |
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| 60 m | Leipzig | 6.65 s | February 26, 2011 | |
| 100 m | Weinheim | 10.07 s | August 2, 2013 | + 1.0 m / s |
| Clermont (USA) | 9.99 s | May 11th, 2013 | + 3.7 m / s | |
| 200 m | Montverde (USA) | 20.98 s | June 7, 2014 | + 0.1 m / s |
| Clermont (USA) | 20.88 s | May 11th, 2013 | + 4.6 m / s | |
| 4 × 100 m | Moscow | 38.04 s | 18th August 2013 | (Jakubczyk-Knipphals-Reus-Keller) |
successes
- 2006 Saxon champion: 100 m, 4 × 100 m
- 2006 3rd place German championships: 4 × 100 m
- 2006 German junior champion: 100 m
- 2008 South German indoor champion: 60 m
- 2008 3rd place German championships: 100 m
- 2008 5th place Olympic Games: 4 × 100 m
- 2009 European team champion
- 2009 Quarterfinals World Championships: 100 m
- 2010 South German indoor champion: 60 m
- 2010 3rd place European Championships : 4 × 100 m
- 2011 Saxon indoor champion: 60 m
- 2011 2nd place German indoor championships: 60 m
- 2012 2nd place European Championships : 4 × 100 m
- 2013 3rd place German indoor championships: 60 m
- 2013 2nd place German championships : 100 m
- 2013 4th place World Championships : 4 × 100 m
Web links
- Martin Keller in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Athlete portrait on Leichtathletik.de
- Martin Keller in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Portrait at the Federal Police ( Memento from January 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 13, 2014)
- ↑ Below 10.0: The heyday for Keller Sport1, May 12, 2013.
- ↑ Keller sprints the 100 m in 10.07 seconds before the World Cup Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, August 2, 2013, accessed on August 4, 2013.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Keller, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sprinter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1986 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rochlitz , German Democratic Republic |