Luka Herden

Luka Herden

Personal information
Born	(2000-02-09) 9 February 2000 (age 25)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	Long jump
Achievements and titles
Personal best	Long jump: 8.18 m (2026)
Medal record Men's athletics Representing   Germany Summer World University Games 2025 Bochum Long jump

Luka Herden (born 9 February 2000) is a German long jumper. He won the bronze medal at the 2025 Summer World University Games. ^[1]

Career

From Westphalia, he is a member of LG Brillux Münster and was coached by former athlete Lars Goldbeck. ^{[2] [3]} In July 2017, Herden represented Germany at the 2017 IAAF World U18 Championships in Nairobi. ^[4]

In July 2023, he jumped a personal best 7.91 metres to place second behind Simon Batz at the 2023 German Athletics Championships in Kassel. ^{[3] [5]} Later that month, he improved his personal best to 8.14 metres in Inneringen-Hettingen. ^[6]

Herden was a finalist and placed eighth overall at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024, in the men's long jump, jumping a season's best 8.08 metres, and the second longest of his career, in the qualifying round and finished with a best jump of 8.01 metres in the final. ^{[7] [8]} Later that month, he was runner-up to Simon Batz again at the German Championships in Braunschweig with a best jump of 7.79 metres. ^[9]

In February, he placed second at the German Indoor Championships in Dortmund, with a jump of 7.67 metres. ^[10] In July 2025, he won the bronze medal in the long jump at the 2025 University Games in Bochum, Germany, with a jump of 7.96 metres. ^[11] In August, he placed third at the German Championships. ^[12]

Competing at the Gorzow Jump Festival in Poland on 31 January 2026, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver meeting, he won the long jump with an outright lifetime best and meeting record of 8.18m. ^{[13] [14]} The distance also met the auto-qualifying standard for the upcoming World Indoor Championships. ^[15]

Personal life

Herden is a medical student at the University of Münster. ^{[3] [16]}

References

1. "Luka Herden". World Athletics. Retrieved 2 Feb 2026.
2. "Day 1 U16 German Championships (male) - Two players with four medals". Leichtathletik. 8 August 2015. Retrieved 2 Feb 2026.
3. "Manuel Sanders wins gold – Luka Herden leaps to silver". flvw.de. 10 July 2023. Retrieved 2 Feb 2026.
4. "Dream over: Luka Herden misses out on the long jump final in Nairobi". wn.de. 13 July 2017. Retrieved 2 Feb 2026.
5. "German National Championships Results". World Athletics. 6 July 2023. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
6. "Maryse Luzolo, with a height of 6.84 meters, is knocking on the door to Budapest and Paris". Leichtathletik. 31 July 2023. Retrieved 2 Feb 2026.
7. "European Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 7 June 2024. Retrieved 2 Feb 2026.
8. "European Championship Day 2 - Luka Herden eighth at Tentoglou's airshow". Leichtathletik.de. 8 June 2024. Retrieved 2 Feb 2026.
9. "German Championships". World Athletics. 29 June 2024. Retrieved 2 Feb 2026.
10. "German Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 21 Feb 2025. Retrieved 2 Feb 2026.
11. "China wins first athletics gold, Walaza claims 200m title at Universiade". News.cn. 25 July 2025. Retrieved 2 Feb 2026.
12. "German Championships". World Athletics. 2 August 2025. Retrieved 2 Feb 2026.
13. Mills, Steven (1 Feb 2026). "A 46-year-old Polish record broken! Matuszewicz jump 6.77m in Gorzow". European Athletics. Retrieved 2 Feb 2026.
14. "Gorzow Jump Festival Victory and World Indoor Championship qualifying standard: Luka Herden improves to 8.18 meters". Leichtathletik.de. 31 Jan 2026. Retrieved 2 Feb 2026.
15. Schönfeld, Klaudia (February 1, 2026). "World Championship indoor long jump qualifier: Luka Herden shines in Gorzów". Tus-hiltrup. Retrieved 2 Feb 2026.
16. "Luka Herden im Anflug auf Tokio". wn.de. 23 July 2025. Retrieved 2 Feb 2026.