Mathias Brugger

Mathias Brugger

Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Germany
World Indoor Championships
2016 Portland Heptathlon

Mathias Brugger (born 6 August 1992) is a German track and field athlete who competes in the decathlon. He was a bronze medallist in the indoor heptathlon at the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships. His decathlon personal best is 8009 points, set in 2015.

A member of SSV Ulm 1846 athletics club and trained by Christopher Hallmann, Brugger failed to finish his first international decathlon at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics. He rebounded, however, with a silver medal at the 2011 European Athletics Junior Championships the following season. He did not finish his first senior international at the 2012 European Athletics Championships and it was not until 2015 that he would represent Germany again at the top level, coming eleventh in the heptathlon at the 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships.[1][2]

Brugger broke new ground at the start of 2016 with a heptathlon personal best of 6060 points, taking second at the Tallinn Indoor Meeting. This ranked him fourth in the world on his entry to the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships.[3][4] At the world competition he went exceeded himself again, scoring a total 6126 points to take the bronze medal in Portland, Oregon ahead of home athlete Curtis Beach. On his way to the podium, he set three personal bests: 5.10 m for the pole vault, 7.30 m for the long jump, and 2:34.10 minutes for the 1000 metres.[5]

Personal bests

International competitions

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
2010 World Junior Championships Moncton, Canada — Decathlon DNF
2011 European Junior Championships Tallinn, Estonia 2nd Decathlon 7853 pts
2012 European Championships Helsinki, Finland — Decathlon DNF
2015 European Indoor Championships Prague, Czech Republic 11th Heptathlon 5846 pts
2016 World Indoor Championships Portland, United States 3rd Heptathlon 6126 pts

References

  1. ↑ Mathias Brugger. Leichathletick. Retrieved on 2016-03-20.
  2. ↑ Mathias Brugger. European Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-03-20.
  3. ↑ Germany to send young team to Portland. IAAF (2016-03-01). Retrieved on 2016-03-20.
  4. ↑ senior indoor 2016 Heptathlon men. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-03-20.
  5. ↑ Mathias Brugger. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-03-20.

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