Simon Batz
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| Nationality | German | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 December 2002 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Long jump | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Long jump: 8.18m (Lyon, 2024) | ||||||||||||||
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Simon Batz (born 1 December 2002) is a German track and field athlete. He is a multiple time national champion in the long jump.[1]
Early life[edit]
From Offendorf in Bavaria, until the age of 16 his focus was on football, taking up athletics relatively late. He competed as a youngster for Sportfreunde Essing in Lower Bavaria. From 2018 he began to be coached by Jörg Nowy and Günter Bachhuber.[2]
Career[edit]
2023[edit]
After changing his training set-up to work with Sebastian Bayer in Mannheim, he set a new personal best of 7.91m for the long jump in Sindelfingen in February 2023. That month, he won his first German national title, winning the Indoor German Championships in Dortmund with a jump of 7.86 meters.[3]
In July 2023, he won the German National Outdoors title in the long jump with a distance of 7.97 metres.[4] He was runner up at the European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo.[5]
2024[edit]
Batz improved his personal best to 8.18m and set a new meeting record in the men’s long jump at the Meeting Indoor de Lyon on 9 February 2024.[6] He won the German Indoor Athletics Championships in Leipzig with a jump of 8.01 metres.[7]
He finished fourth in the long jump at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow.[8][9]
Personal life[edit]
He studies at the University of Heidelberg in economics and politics.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ "Simon Batz". World Athletics. 3 March 2024.
- ^ Fischer, Johannes (27 March 2021). "Teenager disgraces long jump elite". Sport1. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
- ^ a b "Simon Batz – Flugversuche eines Quereinsteigers". Leichtathletik. 12 April 2023. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
- ^ "German National Championships Results". World Athletics. 6 July 2023. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
- ^ "Finnish stars Kosonen and Vanninen strike gold for the hosts in Espoo 2023". European Athletics. 14 July 2023. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
- ^ "Batz lands big personal best in Lyon". European Athletics. 9 February 2024. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
- ^ "Long jump star Malaika Mihambo flies to the title again". Spiegel. 18 February 2024. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
- ^ "World Athletics Indoor Championships Glasgow 2024 men's long jump final results". Watch Athletics. 2 March 2024. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
- ^ "Tentoglou grabs gold again with long jump victory in Glasgow". World Athletics. 2 March 2024. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
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