Paul Schmidt-Hellinger

Paul Schmidt-Hellinger
Paul Schmidt-Hellinger (left) during the Berlin Marathon 2015
Full name	Dr. med. Paul Jürgen Schmidt-Hellinger (née Schmidt)
nation	Germany
birthday	17th August 1985 (age 35)
place of birth	Dippoldiswalde ,  GDR
size	184 cm
job	doctor
Career
discipline	Long distance running
society	Dresdner Sportclub 1898 eV (1997-2008) TSV Dresden (2009–2015) Asics Team Memmert (2016) ART Düsseldorf (since 2017)
Medal table
German Championships (DLV) 2 × 0 × 0 × German Championships (DUV) 1 × 0 × 0 ×
German Championships (DLV) gold Frankfurt am Main 2017 Marathon team gold Hanover 2018 Half marathon team German Championships (DUV) gold Berlin 2016 50 km of road
last change: January 4th, 2019

Paul Schmidt-Hellinger ( née Schmidt ; born August 17, 1985 in Dippoldiswalde ) is a German medic and long-distance runner .

Career

German record 50 km, Berlin, March 5, 2016
distance	Split	total time
Round 1: km 5	17:20 min	17:20 min
Round 2: km 10	17:13 min	34:33 min
Round 3: km 15	17:06 min	51:39 min
Round 4: km 20	16:49 min	1:08:27 h
Round 5: km 25	16:41 min	1:25:07 h
Round 6: km 30	16:30 min	1:41:37 h
Lap 7: km 35	16:24 min	1:58:01 h
Lap 8: km 40	16:35 min	2:14:35 h
Lap 9: km 45	17:00 min	2:31:35 h
Lap 10: km 50	17:32 min	2:49:06 h

Paul Schmidt-Hellinger started running at the beginning of the fifth grade, before swimming as a sport. Already at this point he ran the 1000 meters without special training in 3:48 minutes . This was followed, now starting for TSV Dresden, participation in the German Junior Championships 2003 and the European Cross Country Championships 2004 .

Other highlights in Paul Schmidt-Hellinger's career were participation in the 2006 European Cross Country Championships , the title of German amateur champion on the Olympic distance in the triathlon in 2007 and winning the 2007 German University Championships over 5000 meters in 14: 46.49 min . Then there was a change from rail to road running .

He completed his first marathon and won the 2009 Dresden Marathon in 02:32:45 h . At the German Championships in 2016 over 50 km in Berlin, he ran a new German record for this distance. The achieved time of 02:49:06 h was also the world's best for the year over this distance. For the remainder of the 2016 season, Paul Schmidt-Hellinger had to take a longer injury break.

Paul Schmidt-Hellinger is married and lives in Schildow , municipality of Mühlenbecker Land north of Berlin . Since successfully completing his medical studies in November 2010, he has been working as a doctor in sports medicine at the Charité in Berlin and is an association doctor for the senior national team of athletes.

Personal bests

• Mile : 4: 18.62 min, May 14, 2015, Berlin
• 3000 m : 8: 30.82 min, January 31, 2015, Berlin
• 5000 m : 14: 43.23 min, May 30, 2015, Berlin
• 10,000 m : 29: 58.53 min, May 2, 2015, Ohrdruf
• Half marathon : 1:04:58 h, March 29, 2015, Berlin
• Marathon : 2:19:35 h, August 1st, 2015, Rostock
• 50 km road race: 2:49:06 h, March 5, 2016, Berlin (German record, world best performance 2016)

Personal achievements

Web links

Commons : Paul Schmidt-Hellinger  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Paul Schmidt Hellinger in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Dr. med. Paul Schmidt-Hellinger, Charité - Sports Medicine Department
• Athlete profile in the athletics database
• Athlete profile in the statistics of the German Ultramarathon Association
• Athlete profile with the Association of Road Racing Statisticians

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Round protocol Berlin 50K for Paul Schmidt, my.raceresult.com
2. ↑ Ramona Richter: Runners: Paul Schmidt - New German 50-kilometer record holder. In : laufen.de. March 7, 2016, accessed March 24, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Volker Goineau: Schmidt, Paul. (No longer available online.) In: Laufticker.de. December 2, 2014, archived from the original on April 4, 2016 ; accessed on March 24, 2016 . 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.  
4. ↑ Paul Schmidt wins German championship over 50 km. In: Berlin Week . March 10, 2016, accessed March 24, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Norbert Madry: The Ultra Year 2016 - Review through German glasses. (No longer available online.) In: ultra-marathon.org (DUV). Archived from the original on January 23, 2017 ; accessed on January 23, 2017 . 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.  
6. ↑ RUNNING TIPS FROM THE PRO - INTERVIEW WITH DR.PAUL SCHMIDT-HELLINGER (July 3, 2018)