Lucas Krappe (born 27 November 2003) is a German sprinter. He won a bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2024 European Athletics Championships.[1]
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| Nationality | German | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 November 2003 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | 400m | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 400m: 46.21 (Regensburg, 2024) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Early life
editFrom Berlin, he joined the SCC Berlin athletics club in 2018. He was also a member of the Degewo Junior Team.[2][3] In 2023, he began a business law degree at the Berlin School of Economics and Law.[4]
Career
editIn 2020, as a 16 year-old he competed at the Berlin-Brandenburg Championships, where he improved his 400 metres personal best. to 50.33 seconds. With this time, he qualified for his first German Youth Championships where he finished second in the semi-finals with a new personal best of 50.13 seconds before breaking the 50-second mark for the first time finishing fifth in the final, in which crossed the finishing in a time 49.73 seconds.[5]
He was runner-up at the German under-20 championships in the 400 metres race in 2022. He ran a personal best 47.25 seconds and reached the semi-finals at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia in August 2022.[6][7] He was runner-up at the German U23 Championships over 400 metres in Gottingen in July 2023, running 47.10 seconds.[8][9] He competed for Germany at the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo, reaching the final of the 4x400m relay.[10]
In May 2024, he was selected for the 2024 European Athletics Championships taking place in Rome in June 2024.[11] At the championships, he ran as part of the bronze-medal winning German 4 x 400 metres relay team.[12][13][14] He was named as a travelling reserve for the relay pool at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Lukas Krappe". World Athletics. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
- ^ "Part 7 of the portrait series of the degewo junior team: New talents ready for 2022". Degwo. 17 February 2022. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
- ^ "Lukas Krappe in the top 30 of the world". leichtathletik-berlin.de. 4 August 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
- ^ a b "At the start of the 2024 Olympics in Paris - Three students from the HWR Berlin in the German squad". nachrichten.idw-online.de. 23 July 2024. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
- ^ "DJM HEILBRONN: 5TH PLACE AT THE GERMAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR LUKAS KRAPPE". scc-berlin-leichtathletik.de. 9 September 2020. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
- ^ "Lukas Krappe in the top 30 in the world". Leichtathletik. 4 August 2022. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
- ^ "Men's 400m Results: World Athletics Junior U20 Championships 2022". Watch Athletics. 4 August 2022. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
- ^ "German U23 Championships". World Athletics. 1 July 2023. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
- ^ "Crazy final spurt! 18-year-old VfL talent surprisingly becomes German U23 champion". waz-online.de. 2 July 2023. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
- ^ "U23 European Championships Day 3 - The DLV athletes in the preliminary rounds". Leichtathletik.de. 15 July 2023. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
- ^ "DLV vergibt weitere EM-Startplätze für Rom an Normerfüller und Staffelmitglieder". Leichtathletikaccessdate=29 May 2024. 29 May 2024.
- ^ "LÜCKENKEMPER AND CO. STRONG". Aport1.de. 11 June 2023. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
- ^ "European Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 12 June 2024. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
- ^ "11 gold medals! Tortu anchors Italy to 4x100m victory in Roma 2024". European Athletics. 13 June 2024. Retrieved 13 June 2024.