Tobias Unger

Tobias Unger
Tobias Unger 2010
Full name	Tobias Benjamin Unger
nation	Germany
birthday	July 10, 1979
place of birth	Munich ,  Germany
size	180 cm
Weight	74 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	10.14 s (100 m) 20.20 s (200 m) (NR)
society	VfB Stuttgart
Trainer	Micky Corucle
Medal table
World championships 0 × 0 × 1 × European championships 1 × 1 × 1 × German championships 7 × 1 × 0 × German indoor championships 8 × 0 × 0 ×
Indoor world championships bronze 2004 Budapest 200 m  European Indoor Championships gold 2005 Madrid 200 m  European championships silver Helsinki 2012 4 × 100 m bronze Barcelona 2010 4 × 100 m  German championships silver Stuttgart 2001 200 m gold Ulm 2003 200 m gold Braunschweig 2004 200 m gold Bochum 2005 100 m gold Bochum 2005 200 m gold Nuremberg 2008 100 m gold Ulm 2009 200 m gold Kassel 2011 100 m  German indoor championships gold Leipzig 2003 200 m gold Dortmund 2004 60 m gold Dortmund 2004 200 m gold Sindelfingen 2005 60 m gold Sindelfingen 2005 200 m gold Karlsruhe 2006 200 m gold Sindelfingen 2008 60 m gold Karlsruhe 2010 60 m
last change: May 17, 2014

Tobias Benjamin Unger (born July 10, 1979 in Munich ) is a German former track and field athlete and Olympic participant in the 100 and 200 meter run .

Life

Unger won his first German championship title in the hall in 1999 with the 4 x 200 meter relay of VfL Sindelfingen . He won his first individual title in 2003 over 200 meters. In the same year he also took part in the world championships for the first time . In 2004 he won bronze over 200 meters at the World Indoor Championships in Budapest.

In 2005 Unger became European indoor champion . With tenth place in the 200-meter world rankings, he was the best white 200-meter runner this year.

Bronze medal 2010 in Barcelona

At the European Championships in 2010 he won the bronze medal with the German 4 x 100 meter relay. At the European Championships in Helsinki in 2012 , he won the silver medal in the relay together with Julian Reus , Alexander Kosenkow and Lucas Jakubczyk . In a preparatory competition for the Olympic Games in London , they improved the 30-year-old German record to 38.02 s a short time later in the same line-up. In the games themselves, the season was eliminated in the semifinals.

Tobias Unger was 1.79 m tall and weighed 70 kg. He trained at LAZ Salamander Kornwestheim-Ludwigsburg until November 30, 2009 . From December 1, 2009 to November 30, 2011 he started for the LG Stadtwerke München , to which he moved with his training mate Marius Broening (LAV asics Tübingen). From December 1, 2011 Unger started for VfB Stuttgart , where his training colleague Alex Schaf was also under contract. Unger, Broening and Schaf trained in Kirchheim under the Romanian Micky Corucle from Köngen.

His personal bests are 10.14 s over 100 and 20.20 s over 200 meters, with which he holds the German record over this distance.

Unger lives in Kirchheim unter Teck . In 1999 he graduated from a business school, trained as a banker and studied sports management in Tübingen . He is employed by a district savings bank. Since July 1, 2013 he has been an athletic trainer for the junior soccer teams of VfB Stuttgart. Tobias Unger ended his athletics career on June 1, 2014.

National successes

• 2000: German junior champion
• 2001: German runner-up 200 m
• 2003: German champion 200 m; German indoor champion 200 m
• 2004: German champion 200 m; German indoor champion 60 and 200 m
• 2005: German indoor champion 60 and 200 m
• 2005: German champion 100 m (10.16 s) and 200 m (20.20 s - improvement of Frank Emmelmann's German record on August 18, 1985)
• 2006: German indoor champion 200 m
• 2008: German indoor champion 60 m
• 2008: German champion 100 m
• 2009: German champion 100 m
• 2010: German indoor champion 60 m
• 2011: German champion 100 m

International success

• 1998: third in the relay at the Junior World Championships
• 2001: Seventh at the U-23 European Championships
• 2004: Seventh at the Olympic Games in Athens over 200 m
• 2004: Bronze at the World Indoor Championships 200 m in Budapest
• 2004: 8th place at the World Athletics Final in Monaco 200 m
• 2005: European indoor champion in Madrid
• 2005: 2nd place European Cup in Florence 200 m
• 2005: Seventh at the World Championships in Helsinki over 200 m (20.81 s)
• 2007: Sixth in the 4 x 100 meter relay at the World Championships in Osaka
• 2008: fifth in the 4 x 100-meter relay at the Olympic Games in Beijing
• 2010: Third in the 4 x 100 meter relay at the European Championships in Barcelona
• 2012: Second in the 4 x 100 meter relay at the European Championships in Helsinki

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.

Web links

Commons : Tobias Unger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Tobias Unger
• Tobias Unger in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait by Tobias Unger on Leichtathletik.de
• Tobias Unger in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ German sprinters in Weinheim in a record mood Leichtathletik.de, July 27, 2012, accessed on July 27, 2012.
2. ↑ Tobias Unger becomes a Munich Der Teckbote , November 29, 2009.
3. ↑ Klaus Schlütter: Hold out until Zurich 2014 , Der Teckbote December 14, 2012.
4. ↑ Tobias Unger becomes athletics trainer in the youth division website of VfB Stuttgart, May 23, 2013, accessed on May 28, 2014.
5. ↑ Tobias Unger ends his sprint career Leichtathletik.de, May 28, 2014, accessed on May 28, 2014.