Sven Knipphals

Sven Knipphals at the German Championships 2014

Sven Knipphals (born September 20, 1985 in Hanover ) is a former German sprinter .

career path

Knipphals studied chiropractic at the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic in Bournemouth and graduated in 2013 with the title Master of Chiropractic . Since then he has been working as a chiropractor in Leipzig.

Athletic career

Sven Knipphals was third in the 200-meter run at the 2010 German Indoor Championships . In 2011 he was third over 200 meters and fourth over 100 meters outdoors . In 2012, Knipphals took second place over 200 meters indoors and fourth outdoors. At the European Championships in Helsinki in 2012 , Knipphals was eliminated in the intermediate run when he missed the final by two hundredths of a second. He was nominated for the 2012 Olympic Games as a substitute for the German 4 x 100 meter relay . At the 2013 World Championships in Moscow , he finished fourth with Lucas Jakubczyk , Julian Reus and Martin Keller in 38.04 seconds. At the 2014 European Championships in Zurich , he was eliminated again in the intermediate run over 100 meters. In the season he won the silver medal with Julian Reus, Alexander Kosenkow and Lucas Jakubczyk. At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing he was fourth in the relay together with Reus, Kosenkow and Aleixo-Platini Menga . At the 2016 European Championships in Amsterdam he won the bronze medal with the relay.

In the summer of 2018, he ended his athletics career with a big party and a final race in the home stadium in Wolfsburg.

Knipphals is 1.90 m tall and started for VfL Wolfsburg .

Personal best

• 100 meters: 10.13 s, June 6, 2015, Regensburg
• 200 meters: 20.48 s, July 6, 2014, Mannheim
  • Hall: 21.02 s, February 26, 2012, Karlsruhe
• Long jump: 7.32 m, May 11, 2007, Blankenburg

Sporting successes

100 meters

• 3rd place German Championships 2013
• Final participation in the German Championships 2009 with a Lower Saxony record in 10.34 seconds
• 13th in the all-time German best list

200 metres

• German runner-up in 2013
• Semi-final European Championships 2012 in Helsinki

team

• European team champion and runner-up in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 2014 European team championship in Braunschweig
• Vice European Champion 4 × 100 m relay at the 2013 European Team Championships in Gateshead

Season

• 4th place at the World Championships 2013 in Moscow and 2015 in Beijing
• Silver at the 2014 European Championships in Zurich
• Bronze at the 2016 European Championships in Amsterdam

management

Since January 2014 Sven Knipphals has been marketed by the agency for sports marketing TalentEntdecker.

family

His grandfather Hans-Jürgen Knipphals was national goalkeeper in handball, his father Jens Knipphals was German champion as a long jumper.

Publications

• Sven Knipphals, Wolfgang Unsöld: Make yourself faster . TalentEntdecker agency (ed.), Wolfsburg 2018, without ISBN

Web links

• Homepage
• Athlete portrait by Sven Knipphals on Leichtathletik.de
• Sven Knipphals in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Sven Knipphals in brief ( Memento from June 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
• Talent discoverer is marketing Sven Knipphals

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pamela Ruprecht: Flash News of the Day - Sven Knipphals is planning to end his career in 2018 ( memento of the original from October 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Notes, from: Leichtathletik.de, October 6, 2017, accessed October 7, 2017