Maximilian Ruth (athlete)

Maximilian Ruth
nation	Germany
birthday	5th March 1994 (age 26)
place of birth	Witten ,  Germany
job	Student (economics)
Career
discipline	Sprint , relay races
Best performance	Hall: 60 m: 6.71 s; 200 m: 21.51 s Open air: 100 m: 10.44 s; 200 m: 21.24 s
society	TV Wattenscheid 01 , formerly: DJK BW Annen
Trainer	André Ernst, Slawomir Filipowski, formerly: Kim Grote, Patrick Berg
status	active
Medal table
German championships 3 × 0 × 0 × German indoor championships 2 × 0 × 0 ×
German championships gold Nuremberg 2015 4 × 100 m gold Kassel 2016 4 × 100 m gold Erfurt 2017 4 × 100 m  German indoor championships gold Karlsruhe 2015 4 × 200 m gold Leipzig 2017 4 × 200 m
last change: March 2nd, 2017

Maximilian Ruth (born March 5, 1994 in Witten / North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German athlete who specializes in sprints and relay races.

career path

In 2013 Maximilian Ruth graduated from the Albert-Martmöller-Gymnasium in Witten . He is studying economics at the Ruhr University in Bochum .

Athletic career

At first Ruth played soccer at SV Bommern 05 and later at FSV Witten . At the age of 15 he made the decision to become a sprinter and hung up his football boots.

In 2010, at the age of 16, Ruth took 5th place over 200 meters at the German U18 championships . A year later he came over this distance at the European Youth Olympic Festival (European Youth Olympic Festival - EYOF) to 7th place and was German U18 champion over 100 and 200 meters.

In 2012 Ruth won the title at the German indoor youth championships with the 4 x 200 meter relay and took 4th place over 200 meters. He qualified for participation in the U20 World Championships in Barcelona in the 4 x 100 meter relay with which he also became German U23 runner-up .

In 2013 he won the runner-up title at the German indoor youth championships over 200 meters and with the 4 x 100 meter relay at the U20 European championships in Rieti and at the German youth championships .

In 2014 Ruth became German U23 champion with the 4 x 100 meter relay and took 4th place at the German indoor championships with the 4 x 200 meter relay and at the German U23 championships at the 100- Meter run .

In 2015 he won three more titles. Ruth won his first championship title among the active players at the German indoor championships with the 4 x 200 meter relay. Then he became German Junior Champion (U23) with the 4 x 100 meter relay and won his second championship title in the adult class with her at the German championships .

In 2016 Ruth won the third championship title among the active players with the 4 x 100 meter relay at the German championships . With her he also won the title at the German Junior Championships (U23) and came in 3rd place over the 100 meter distance.

In 2017 Ruth was German indoor champion in Leipzig with the relay over 4 x 200 meters in a personal best of 1: 24.83 minutes and took 7th place at the German championships in the 100 meter run in Erfurt . Together with Robin Erewa ,  Alexander Kosenkow  and Maurice Huke , he became German champion in the 4 x 100 meter relay for the third time in a row in Erfurt.

Club membership

Maximilian Ruth has been working for TV Wattenscheid 01 since 2012 , previously he was at DJK Blau-Weiß Annen .

Top performances

(As of March 2, 2017)

Hall

• 60 m: 6.71 s ( Karlsruhe , February 21, 2015)
• 200 m: 21.51 s ( Bielefeld February 8, 2014)
• 4 × 200 m: 1: 24.82 min ( Karlsruhe February 22, 2015)

open air

• 60 m: 6.84 s (0.0) ( Bremen , May 21, 2016)
• 100 m: 10.37 s (+0.7) ( Regensburg , June 11, 2017)
• 200 m: 21.24 s (+0.1) ( Wetzlar , July 16, 2014)
• 4 × 100 m: 39.34 s ( Nuremberg , July 26, 2015)

successes

national

• 2010: 5th place German U18 championships (200 m)
• 2011: German U18 champion (100 m and 200 m)
• 2012: German youth indoor champion (4 × 200 m)
• 2012: 4th place German indoor youth championships (200 m)
• 2012: 6th place German U20 championships (200 m)
• 2012: German U23 runner-up (4 × 100 m)
• 2013: German youth indoor runner-up (200 m)
• 2013: German U20 runner-up (4 × 100 m)
• 2013: 3rd place German U20 championships (100 m)
• 2014: 4th place German indoor championships (4 × 200 m)
• 2014: German U23 champion (4 × 100 m)
• 2014: 4th place German U23 championships (100 m)
• 2015: German indoor champion (4 × 200 m)
• 2015: German U23 champion (4 × 100 m)
• 2015: 3rd place German U23 championships (100 m)
• 2015: German champion (4 × 100 m)
• 2016: 8th place German indoor championships (60 m)
• 2016: German champion (4 × 100 m)
• 2016: 3rd place German U23 championships (100 m)
• 2016: German U23 champion (4 × 100 m)
• 2017: German indoor champion (4 × 200 m)

international

• 2011: 7th place European Youth Olympic Festival (200 m)
• 2012: Participants in the U20 World Championships (4 × 100 m)
• 2013: U20 Vice European Champion (4 × 100 m)

Web links

• Maximilian Ruth in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Maximilian Ruth in the database of European Athletics (English)
• Maximilian Ruth on the club side
• Competition overview on Leichtathletik-datenbank.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Felix Groß: Ruth's silver medal in Rieti: "That was really cool" , on: derwesten.de, from July 23, 2013, accessed March 7, 2017.
2. ↑ Abitur at Martmöller-Gymnasium , on: derwesten.de, from July 16, 2013, accessed March 7, 2017.
3. ↑ RUB trio for German championships in athletics , on: hochschulsport-bochum.de, from February 20, 2014, accessed March 7, 2017.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Sportsman portrait - Maximilian Ruth sprints away all of them ( memento of the original from March 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , from: ruhrnachrichten.de, from May 10, 2010, accessed March 2, 2017. 
5. ^ Change perfect - B-Jugend-Meister Ruth on TV 01 , on: ruhrnachrichten.de, from September 22, 2011, accessed March 2, 2017.