Sebastian Ernst (athlete)

Sebastian Ernst
Sebastian Ernst at the 2012 Olympic qualification competition in Mannheim
nation	Germany
birthday	October 11, 1984
place of birth	Gelsenkirchen ,  FR Germany
job	Police chief
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	400 m: 45.9 s 400 m hurdles: 49.39 s
society	FC Schalke 04 (until 2005) TV Wattenscheid (2006–2012, 2014–2015) TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen (2013)
status	resigned
End of career	2015
Medal table
U20 European Championships 2 × 0 × 0 × German championships 7 × 6 × 2 ×
Junior European Championships gold 2003 Tampere 200 m silver 2003 Tampere 4 × 100 m  German championships silver 1999 Erfurt 4 × 100 m bronze 2004 Braunschweig 200 m gold 2006 Ulm 200 m gold 2006 Ulm 4 × 100 m gold 2007 Erfurt 4 × 100 m gold 2008 Nuremberg 4 × 100 m silver 2009 Ulm 4 × 100 m silver 2010 Braunschweig 200 m gold 2010 Braunschweig 4 × 100 m silver 2011 Kassel 200 m bronze 2012 Bochum 200 m gold 2012 Bochum 4 × 100 m silver 2013 Ulm 4 × 100 m silver 2014 Ulm 200 m gold 2014 Ulm 4 × 100 m

Sebastian Ernst (born October 11, 1984 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a former German athlete who started in the sprint . He started for FC Schalke 04 (until 2005), TV Wattenscheid (2006–2012, 2014–2015) and TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen (2013).

Life

Ernst finished sixth in the 200-meter run at the Junior World Championships in Kingston in 2002 as the best European . In 2003 he became Junior European Champion in Tampere and won the silver medal with the German 4 x 100 meter relay . At the U23 European Championships in 2005 in Erfurt, he won silver in the individual and with the relay and was considered the best German 200-meter sprinter in 2004/05 alongside Tobias Unger .

Ernst took part in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, where he reached the semifinals. In the interim he had improved his personal best to 20.36 s, which put him in third place on the all-time German best list, behind Tobias Unger, who ran 20.30 s on the same day, and Frank Emmelmann . In 2005 Ernst started at the World Championships in Helsinki. The following year he became German champion and took part in the European Championships in Gothenburg, where he reached fifth place with the German relay.

Since 2007, Ernst has not been able to qualify for major events in the individual or in the relay before he started over 200 meters at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona and went one round there. He had to do without his use in the relay because of a thigh injury while warming up. In the following indoor season, Ernst became German indoor champion. He set a new German indoor record in Leipzig on February 27, 2011 in 20.42 s and undercut Tobias Unger's six-year-old record of 20.53 s. In the summer he took part in the World Championships in Daegu. At the European Championships in 2012 he reached the semi-finals in Helsinki. He ended his career in November 2015. He is police chief in the federal police.

successes

• 2002: 6th place Junior World Championships 200 m
• 2003: German vice indoor champion 200 m, junior European champion 200 m, vice junior European champion 4 × 100 m
• 2004: German vice indoor champion 200 m, participation in indoor world championships 200 m - eliminated in the semifinals, 3rd place in German championships 200 m, participation in the Olympic Games 200 m - eliminated in the semifinals
• 2005: German vice indoor champion 200 m, participation in European indoor championships 200 m, U23 vice European champion 200 m, 4 × 100 m, world championships 200 m - eliminated in the intermediate run
• 2006: German vice indoor champion 200 m, German indoor champion 4 × 200 m with German indoor record, German champion 200 m (his first German single title), 4 × 100 m, participation in the European championships 200 m - eliminated in the semifinals, 5th place in the European championships 4 × 100 m
• 2007: German vice indoor champion 200 m, German indoor champion 4 × 200 m, German champion 4 × 100 m
• 2008: German champion 4 × 100 m
• 2009: German vice indoor champion 200 m, German indoor champion 4 × 200 m
• 2010: German indoor champion 4 × 200 m, German runner-up 200 m, German champion 4 × 100 m, participation in European championships 200 m - eliminated in the semifinals
• 2011: German indoor champion 200 m, 4 × 200 m, German runner-up 200 m, participation in the world championships 200 m - eliminated in the quarter-finals
• 2012: 3rd place German championships 200 m, German champions 4 × 100 m, participation in European championships - eliminated in the semi-finals

Top performances

open air

• 100 m : 10.34 s, 2010
• 200 m : 20.36 s, 2004

Hall

• 60 m : 6.72 s, 2009
• 200 m : 20.42 s, 2011, German indoor record

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sebastian Ernst in portrait , Sportschau 2012
2. ↑ Eternal best list ( memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) of the DLV
3. ↑ Wattenscheider Ernst and Dix end their careers , Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , Bochum local section, November 16, 2015

Web links

• Sebastian Ernst in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Sebastian Ernst in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )