Steffen Justus

0 Steffen Justus
at Ironman 70.3 Germany (2016)
Personal information
Date of birth	15th April 1982 (age 38)
place of birth	Jena, Germany
Nickname	"Schmatzel" or "Schmertzel"
size	182 cm
Weight	67 kg
societies
2001-2016	DTU federal cadre
2011-2017	EJOT Team TV Buschhütten
Until 2017	Triathlon friends Saarlouis
successes
2000	European Champion Triathlon Juniors
2010	3rd place Triathlon World Championship U23
2010	German champion triathlon short distance
2010	Vice world champion triathlon short distance
2011, 2014	2 × German champion triathlon sprint distance
2017	German runner-up duathlon short distance
status
Resigned in 2017

Steffen Justus (born April 15, 1982 in Jena ) is a former German triathlete . He is junior European champion (2000), third in the triathlon world championship U23 (2003), triathlon vice world champion (2010) and German champion in the triathlon short distance (2010) and sprint distance (2011, 2014).

Career

Steffen Justus is the son of the athlete Klaus-Peter Justus (* 1951). In 1993, when the junior boss of the Rennsteiglauf celebrated its premiere, he achieved second place in his age group. He was active as a runner until 1997 and then started triathlon. Justus has been a member of the German national team for running and triathlon since 1998 and exclusively triathlon since 2001.

Junior European Champion Triathlon 2000

In July 2000 he was triathlon junior European champion in the Netherlands. He was trained by Wolfgang Thiel and Dan Lorand . Steffen Justus was a member of the Triathlon Friends Saarlouis and competed mainly in competitions over the Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running).

In October 2008, the staff sergeant won the Munich marathon and the Munich triathlon with a new course record (4:12:03 hours). In October 2009 he started at the Frankfurt Marathon and was the best German runner there, improving his personal best from the previous year to 2:18:44 hours.

Vice world champion triathlon 2010

With his third place in the seventh and final race of the racing series in September 2010, Justus clinched the runner-up world title on the Olympic distance behind Spaniard Javier Gómez in the annual standings .

Justus started for the EJOT Team TV Buschhütten in 2011 , but his first start right (home club) was still with the “Triathlon Friends SaarLouis” association. He was a member of the B-team of the German Triathlon Union . Justus was appointed a member of the "Gold Group" by the International Triathlon Union (ITU) for the 2011 season - the ten best women and men from previous years represent the ITU in public and secure their national associations for each of the seven races of the ITU World Championship Series an additional starting place.

2012 Summer Olympics

Steffen Justus, together with Jan Frodeno and Maik Petzold, qualified for a starting place at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, where he finished 16th. In the world rankings in 2014, he was the second best German behind Gregor Buchholz (11th) in 20th place. In the 2015 world rankings, he was again ranked 29th as the second-best German.

In the two-year qualification period for a starting place at the 2016 Olympic Summer Games , Steffen Justus achieved the best placement of the male German athletes on the ITU Olympic qualification list with 31st place, but did not meet the athletic qualification criteria agreed by DTU and DOSB and was not nominated. He finished the 2016 World Championship racing series as the best German in 23rd place and at the end of the year, after the race on December 10, 2016 (Ironman 70.3 Bahrain), declared that his time as a professional athlete was over.

In April 2017, the then 35-year-old German runner-up on the short distance duathlon. Steffen Justus has been responsible for screening talent at the German Triathlon Union (DTU) since 2017 .

In May 2018 he started in the super marathon (73.9 km) at the GutsMuths Rennsteig run . Steffen Justus lives in Saarbrücken . He has been a trainer at SCN Neubrandenburg since May 1, 2019 .

Sporting successes

Web links

Commons : Steffen Justus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Steffen Justus in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Profile and results of Steffen Justus in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on January 1, 2020 (English).
• Profile for Steffen Justus at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on September 24, 2014
• Steffen Justus in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Steffen Justus wins Munich marathon
2. ↑ 2010 Dextro Energy Triathlon - ITU Triathlon World Championship Grand Final Budapest
3. ↑ EJOT team Buschhütten: 2011 with Justus and Buchholz
4. ^ ITU: Two Germans in Gold Group
5. ↑ ITU Olympic Qualification List: Rio 2016 | Men's Standings In: ITU May 14, 2016
6. ↑ Fabian Fiedler: Via Abu Dhabi to Rio de Janeiro In: tri-mag.de , January 28, 2016
7. ↑ Frank Wechsel: DTU nominates Lindemann, Knapp, Justus and Buchholz In: tri-mag.de June 19, 2016
8. ↑ Oliver Kubanek: "Apart from Anne Haug, nobody has a personal right to start Rio 2016" In: Deutsche Triathlon Union May 20, 2016
9. ↑ STEFFEN JUSTUS ENDS HIS PROFESSIONAL CAREER IN BAHRAIN (November 21, 2016)
10. ↑ Looking for companions in fate: Ex-world-class triathlete Justus from Jena at the first super marathon (May 25, 2018)
11. ↑ Ex-world-class triathlete becomes trainer at SCN (April 9, 2019)
12. ↑ Masterful: Robisch and Justus in Grimma in front
13. ^ Alpen Triathlon 2010: Steffen Justus and Lisa Norden victorious
14. ↑ Triathlon EM: Brownlee shows Gomez
15. ↑ European Cup: Steffen Justus wins in Weiswampach (Luxembourg)
16. ↑ Kai Baumgartner: Two-time title win and three-time triumph of the DTU at the military world championships in Otepää, Estonia . In: 3athlon.de . June 15, 2008. Archived from the original on June 18, 2008.
17. ↑ Military World Cup: Double title win and triple triumph
18. ↑ Start of the season: Third places for Justus and Müller
19. ^ New Year's Eve runs: Rank beats Raelert in Rostock
20. ^ Result list of the 23rd Int. Martinslauf 2011
21. ↑ Eternal German leaderboard marathon
22. ↑ Eternal German best list half marathon