Christian Blum
 Blum competing in Mannheim in 2011. |
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Representing  Germany
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2015 Prague | 60 m |
Christian Blum (born 10 March 1987) is a German track and field sprinter who specialises in the 100 metres and 60 metres. He holds personal bests of 10.20 seconds and 6.56 seconds for those events. He was the 60 m silver medallist at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in 2015. He has also won medals with the 4×100 metres relay team. He is a five-time German champion over 60 m.
Born in Neubrandenburg, he initially took part in canoe racing as a youngster, but turned more to athletics after the age of thirteen. He later joined the athletics section of the TV Wattenscheid 01 sports club.
His first international competition was the 2005 European Athletics Junior Championships, where he was a 200 metres semi-finalist and a gold medallist with the German 4×100 metres relay team. He established himself on the national scene in 2006 with German junior titles over 60 metres and 200 m indoors, then an outdoor 100 metres national junior title. That year he also competed at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics and was a semi-finalist in the 100 m and a relay finalist.
Blum reached the peak of national athletics in his first year as a senior by winning the 60 m title at the 2007 German Indoor Athletics Championships. This led to his first senior international call-up and he was a semi-finalist over that distance at the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships. He ran in three events at the 2007 European Athletics U23 Championships: he was seventh in the 100 m final but failed to finish in the relay and 200 m. He did manage third place in the 2007 European Cup 100 m, however. He improved his personal bests over all distance that year: 10.26 seconds for the 100 m, 20.85 seconds for the 200 m and 6.59 seconds for the 60 m.
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