Andreas Emil Hofmann (born 16 December 1991) is a German

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

athlete who competes in the

javelin throw The javelin throw is a track and field event where the javelin, a spear about in length, is thrown. The javelin thrower gains momentum by running within a predetermined area. Javelin throwing is an event of both the men's decathlon and the ...

. His personal best of 92.06 m ranks him eighth on the overall list.

Career

As a junior, he won gold at the 2009 European Junior Championships. His first senior international competition was the 2014 European Championships. He finished sixth at the 2015 World Championships and eight at the 2017 World Championships. His best result as of 2017 is second place at the

2017 Summer Universiade The 2017 Summer Universiade (), officially known as the XXIX Summer Universiade ( zh, t=第二十九屆夏季世界大學運動會, p=Dì èrshíjiǔ jiè xiàjì shìjiè dàxué yùndònghuì) and commonly called Taipei 2017 ( zh, t=台北2 ...

, where he set his personal best of 91.07 m. In July 2018, he won gold at the 2018

German Athletics Championships The German Athletics Championships (german: Deutsche Leichtathletik-Meisterschaften) are the national championships in athletics of Germany, organised annually by the Deutscher Leichtathletik-Verband. The competition features track and field eve ...

, setting a championship record of 89.55 m. In August, he won silver at the

2018 European Athletics Championships The 2018 European Athletics Championships were held in Berlin, Germany, from 6 to 12 August 2018. The championships were part of the first European Championships with other events happening in the United Kingdom. For the second Championships in a ...

with a throw of 87.60 m. At the

2019 World Athletics Championships The 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships () was the seventeenth edition of the biennial, global athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), since renamed World Athletics. It was held betw ...

, Hofmann, with a best throw at 80.06 m, did not progress from the

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.Achterbahnfahrt im Speerwurf: Vetter stark, aber Röhler und Hofmann scheitern!
''Kicker''

Competition record

Seasonal bests by year

*2008 – 65.03 m *2009 – 77.84 m *2010 – 66.75 m *2011 – 73.98 m *2012 – 80.81 m *2013 – 75.56 m *2014 – 86.13 m *2015 – 86.14 m *2016 – 85.42 m *2017 – 91.07 m *2018 – 92.06 m *2019 – 89.65 m

Personal life

Hofmann studies

sports science Sports science is a discipline that studies how the healthy human body works during exercise, and how sport and physical activity promote health and performance from cellular to whole body perspectives. The study of sports science traditionally inc ...

Mannheim Mannheim (; Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (german: Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's 2 ...

.Athlete portrait
, sportschau.de

References

External links

* * 1991 births Living people German male javelin throwers World Athletics Championships athletes for Germany Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Sportspeople from Heidelberg Universiade silver medalists for Germany Diamond League winners Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade 21st-century German people {{Germany-javelin-bio-stub