Sebastian Gatzka

Sebastian Gatzka
nation	Germany
birthday	19th May 1982 (age 38)
place of birth	Rotenburg an der Fulda, Hesse
size	181 cm
Weight	75 kg
Career
Best performance	45.91 s (400 m)
society	LG Eintracht Frankfurt
status	resigned
End of career	2008
last change: July 3, 2017

Sebastian Gatzka (born May 19, 1982 in Rotenburg an der Fulda , Hesse ) is a former German athlete and multiple German champion (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007).

Career

Sebastian Gatzka started for LG Eintracht Frankfurt in 2003 and his trainer was the 400 meter hurdles Olympic champion from 1980, Volker Beck , until 2007 . At the German Athletics Championships in 2003 he was third over 400 m (45.91 s) and he won the championship title at the Athletics Indoor Championships in 2003 in the 4 × 400 m relay.

At the German Indoor Athletics Championships in 2005 he was German champion over 400 meters . Sebastian Gatzka won bronze over 400 meters at the 2005 European Indoor Championships in Madrid .

2004 Summer Olympics

He was a substitute for the relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens .

At the German Athletics Championships in 2007 he won (as in 2003, 2004 and 2006) for the LG Eintracht Frankfurt with the 4 × 400 m relay and he was sixth in the 400 m (47.59 s). His last coach was Daniel Limburger, who also looked after Kamghe Gaba , the German 400 meter champion from 2006.

At the end of November 2008, Gatzka temporarily withdrew from competitive sports. He justified this with a lack of enjoyment in the elaborate training, the "relatively large [...] gap to [...] results from previous years" and the concentration on his mechanical engineering degree.

Sebastian Gatzka married the former triathlete Meike Krebs in August 2014 and they now live with their two sons in Immenstaad on Lake Constance .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The face of the Ironman