Max Hartung

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Max Hartung
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Full nameMaximilian Hartung
Born (1989-10-08) 8 October 1989 (age 35)
Aachen, West Germany
Residence Koeln, Germany
NationalityGerman
Height1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight88 kg (194 lb; 13.9 st)
Websitemax-hartung.de
Sport
Weapon Sabre
Handright-handed
National coach Vilmoș Szabo
ClubTSV Bayer Dormagen
Head coachVilmoș Szabo
FIE  ranking current ranking
Medal record
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2014 Kazan Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2015 Moscow Individual
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2015 Moscow Team
European Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Montreaux Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2017 Tbilisi Individual
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Novi Sad Individual
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Düsseldorf Team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2011 Sheffield Team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2015 Montreux Individual
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2010 Leipzig Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2011 Sheffield Individual
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2012 Legnano Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2014 Strasbourg Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Novi Sad Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2019 Düsseldorf Individual

Maximilian Hartung (born 8 October 1989) is a German right-handed sabre fencer, two-time team European champion, two-time individual European champion, 2014 team world champion, and two-time Olympian. [1]

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Hartung is chairman of the Athletes Commission of the German Olympic Sports Confederation and the founding president of Athleten Deutschland e.V. [2] He was a member of the Sporthilfe supervisory board for four years, four years in the board of the German Fencing Federation and two years in the board of the German Olympic Committee as the voice of the athletes. He completed his studies in politics, sociology and economics at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen and the Universiteit Gent.[ citation needed ]

With Athletes Germany, Hartung achieved a victory over IOC before the Federal Cartel Office. The advertising guidelines for German athletes at Olympic Games have been relaxed. [3] Following public criticism, the German Armed Forces have changed their sports promotion program after talks between Minister of Defense Ursula von der Leyen, Silke Kassner and Max Hartung. The Athletes Germany e. V, which he co-founded, is supported by the federal government with 450,000 euros per year and is the first athlete representation worldwide that is independent of the NOK. [4] In addition, on the initiative of Athletes Germany, the federal government introduced direct athlete support of 7 million euros for the first time and passed a pension package for athletes.[ citation needed ]

Hartung drew attention to himself around the postponement of the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. He was the first athlete in the world to declare, before the official decision of the IOC, that he would not compete in the Olympic Games in July 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, out of consideration for the population living in Japan and global public health. [5]

Medal Record

World Championship

YearLocationEventPosition
2014 Flag of Russia.svg Kazan, Russia Team Men's Sabre1st [6]
2015 Flag of Russia.svg Moscow, Russia Individual Men's Sabre3rd [7]
2015 Flag of Russia.svg Moscow, Russia Team Men's Sabre3rd [8]

European Championship

YearLocationEventPosition
2010 Flag of Germany.svg Leipzig, Germany Team Men's Sabre3rd [9]
2011 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Sheffield, United Kingdom Individual Men's Sabre3rd [10]
2011 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Sheffield, United Kingdom Team Men's Sabre2nd [11]
2012 Flag of Italy.svg Legnano, Italy Team Men's Sabre3rd [12]
2014 Flag of France.svg Strasbourg, France Team Men's Sabre3rd [13]
2015 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Montreux, Switzerland Individual Men's Sabre2nd [14]
2015 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Montreux, Switzerland Team Men's Sabre1st [15]
2017 Flag of Georgia.svg Tbilisi, Georgia Individual Men's Sabre1st [16]
2018 Flag of Serbia.svg Novi Sad, Serbia Individual Men's Sabre1st [17]
2018 Flag of Serbia.svg Novi Sad, Serbia Team Men's Sabre3rd [18]
2019 Flag of Germany.svg Düsseldorf, Germany Individual Men's Sabre3rd [19]
2019 Flag of Germany.svg Düsseldorf, Germany Team Men's Sabre1st [20]

Grand Prix

DateLocationEventPosition
05/17/2014 Flag of Poland.svg Warsaw, Poland Individual Men's Sabre2nd [21]
04/26/2019 Flag of South Korea.svg Seoul, South Korea Individual Men's Sabre3rd [22]
05/24/2019 Flag of Russia.svg Moscow, Russia Individual Men's Sabre3rd [23]

World Cup

DateLocationEventPosition
02/18/2011 Flag of Italy.svg Padua, Italy Individual Men's Sabre3rd [24]
05/01/2015 Flag of Spain.svg Madrid, Spain Individual Men's Sabre3rd [25]
05/19/2017 Flag of Spain.svg Madrid, Spain Individual Men's Sabre1st [26]
02/01/2019 Flag of Poland.svg Warsaw, Poland Individual Men's Sabre3rd [27]
03/22/2019 Flag of Hungary.svg Budapest, Hungary Individual Men's Sabre1st [28]
03/08/2019 Flag of Italy.svg Padua, Italy Individual Men's Sabre3rd [29]
05/10/2019 Flag of Spain.svg Madrid, Spain Individual Men's Sabre1st [30]

Voluntary commitment

In 2013 he was elected athlete spokesman of the German Fencing Federation. Since September 2014, Hartung has also been a member of the Athletes' Commission of the DOSB, since February 2017 he has been its chairman. He is also a member of the supervisory board of the Stiftung deutsche Sporthilfe.

He is the founding president of Athleten Deutschland e.V. After the challenges of the athletes' representatives in the DOSB in the years 2014 to 2016, the Athletes' Commission decided to found an independent association, independent of the DOSB, to strengthen the athletes' interests. Decisive factors for the founding of the association were the dissatisfaction with the doping scandal in Russia, the many cases of sexualized violence in sports, the competitive sports reform with a strong medal focus and the introduction of the anti-doping law. Athletes Germany today has 450,000 Euro annually and employs five staff.

The club fights for a German sports system that offers athletes the best conditions in the world for developing their sporting and personal potential and respects them as human beings. It fights for athletes in all arenas and encourages them to shape the future of their sport themselves.

The organization aims to enable athletes to improve communication between athletes and institutions. Athletes Germany shall represent the interests of the athletes towards the federations, but also towards all other actors in sports, politics and society and develop the legal relationship and the nomination procedures between athletes and federations. The association has set itself the goal of promoting athlete support that enables athletes to embark on a competitive sports career without having to fear disadvantages or existential fears, and that promotes fair and clean sports.

Podcast

With his team mate Matyas Szabo, Hartung runs the largest German-language fencing podcast. On the way to the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020, the two of them recorded more than 40 episodes and let the audience take a look behind the mask. During the lockdown, the team also recorded training videos for children who had no access to their gyms and published them on YouTube. They have been awarded for this project by Beyond Crisis and Germany Land of Ideas.

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