Nils Schumann (center) with Justus Koech and Silas Kiplagat in 2008
Personal information
Full name
Nils Schumann
Born
(1978-05-20) 20 May 1978 (age 45) Bad Frankenhausen, East Germany
Height
1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
Sport
Country
Germany
Sport
Athletics
Event
800 metres
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)
800 metres: 1:44.16 (Brussels; August 2002)
Medal record
Representing Germany
Olympic Games
2000 Sydney
800 m
IAAF World Cup
1998 Johannesburg
800 m
European Championships
1998 Budapest
800 m
2002 Munich
800 m
European Indoor Championships
1998 Valencia
800 m
2000 Ghent
800 m
Nils Schumann (German pronunciation:[niːlsˈʃuːman]ⓘ; born 20 May 1978) is a former German athlete, winner of the 800 m at the 2000 Summer Olympics, who retired in 2009.[1] For most of the five years before his retirement he had featured sparingly at an international level due to injuries.
Schumann, born in Bad Frankenhausen, began his career as a footballer in 1984 before switching to athletics.[2] He won a gold medal over 800 m at the 1998 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Valencia. At the European Championships in Budapest in the same year, he won the title in a close finish. A few weeks later he also won the 800 m race at the World Cup in Johannesburg.
He also made the final of the 1999 World Athletics Championships, but placed 8th and last. He had a quiet 2000 season, until the Olympics started in Sydney. Schumann cruised through the preliminaries, easily qualifying for the final. In the final, Schumann set in his final sprint at the last straight, taking the lead with just 50 m to go. Favourite Wilson Kipketer of Denmark gained in the closing meters, but was unable to prevent a surprise victory by the German runner. In the following year, Schumann finished in fifth place at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics in Edmonton.
Schumann, who also won a bronze medal at the 2002 European Championships, was unable to defend his Olympic title at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, suffering from injury throughout the 2004 season.
^"Former Olympic 800m-Champion Nils Schumann retires | marathonscene.com".
^Volker Kluge. "Schumann, Nils * 20.5.1978 Leistungssportler (Leichtathletik)" (in German). Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur: Biographische Datenbanken. Retrieved 7 July 2015.
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