Alexander Stepanov (runner)

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Alexander Stepanov
Personal information
NationalityGerman
Born (2004-09-30) 30 September 2004 (age 20)
Sport
Country Germany
Sport Athletics
Event Middle-distance running
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)400m: 46.85 (2025)
800m: 1:44.17 (2025)

Alexander Stepanov (born 30 September 2004) is a German middle-distance runner. He won the German Athletics Championships in 2025 over 800 metres and the German Indoor Athletics Championships over that distance in 2024. [1]

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Early life

He is from Sindelfingen in Baden-Württemberg, and comes from a family of middle-distance runners. His father father, Oleg, ran the 800 metres in 1:46.29 minutes in 1997 and his mother, Elvira, has a personal best of 2:01 for the distance. He would attend the training camps of his parents when he was younger and started middle-distance running himself in his teenage years. [2] [3]

Career

A member of VfL Sindelfingen, he represented Germany at the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships in Jerusalem, where he broke his previous personal best to finish in fifth place in the 800 metres. [4] The following winter, he won the senior German Indoor Athletics Championships in Leipzig in February 2024, over 800 metres in 1:48.75. [5]

He placed second in the 800 metres at the 2025 German Indoor Championships despite battling illness. [2] In May 2025, he lowered his personal best for the 800 metres to 1:46.25 whilst competing in Karlsruhe. [6] The following month, he set a personal best again for the 800 metres of 1:44.17 whilst competing in Pfungstadt which met the auto-qualifying standard for the upcoming World Championship. It was also the best time set by a German middle-distance runner in more than 20 years, and placed him seventh on the German all-time list. [2] [3]

He competed for Germany at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships First Division in the 800 metres in Madrid, Spain, running 1:45.82. [7] He qualified for the final of the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen, Norway, placing sixth overall in a time of 1:45.32. [8]

He won the German Athletics Championships in Leipzig in August 2025, over 800 metres, in 1:48.69. [9] He was selected for the German team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. [10]

References

  1. "Alexander Stepanov". World Athletics. Retrieved 30 August 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 "Alexander Stepanov: "Middle-distance running was in my blood"". leichtathletik.de. 16 June 2025. Retrieved 29 August 2025.
  3. 1 2 "World Championship standard! Alexander Stepanov shines with 1:44.17 minutes". leichtathletik.de. 14 June 2025. Retrieved 29 August 2025.
  4. Schmidt, Holger (11 August 2023). "Alexander Stepanov surprisingly finished fifth at the U20 European Championships in Israel". krzbb.de. Retrieved 30 August 2025.
  5. "German Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 17 February 2024. Retrieved 30 August 2025.
  6. ""I didn't expect to be this fast"". szbz.de. 6 June 2025. Retrieved 30 August 2025.
  7. "European Athletics Team Championships First Division". World Athletics. 26 June 2025. Retrieved 30 August 2025.
  8. "European Athletics U23 Championships". World Athletics. 20 July 2025. Retrieved 30 August 2025.
  9. "German championships". World Athletics. 1 August 2025. Retrieved 29 August 2025.
  10. "76 für Tokio: Das deutsche WM-Team steht". Leichtathletik.de. 29 August 2025. Retrieved 29 August 2025.