Merlin Hummel

Last updated
Merlin Hummel
Personal information
NationalityGerman
Born (2002-01-04) 4 January 2002 (age 23)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event Hammer throw
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)Hammer: 81.27m (Madrid, 2025)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
European U23 Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2023 Espoo Hammer throw
Summer World University Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2025 Bochum Hammer throw
European U20 Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2021 Tallinn Hammer throw

Merlin Hummel (born 4 January 2002) is a German hammer thrower. He won the German Athletics Championships in 2022 and won a silver medal at the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships and represented Germany at the 2024 Olympic Games. He also competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships. [1]

Contents

Career

He is a member of ULC Kulmbach. [2] He was a 2021 European Athletics U20 Championships silver medallist in Tallinn, Estonia, in 2021. [3] He finished runner-up at the U23 European Throwing Cup in 2022. [4] He won the senior German Athletics Championships title for the first time in June 2022, ahead of the experienced campaigner and defending champion Tristan Schwandke. [5] [6]

Competing in Andujar, Spain in June 2023 he won a meeting title on the World Continental Tour with a personal best of 76.28 meters. [7] He was a 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships silver medallist in Espoo, Finland in July 2023 behind Mykhaylo Kokhan but beating compatriot Soren Klose. [8] [9] He competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, but suffered a slipped disk to his back. [10]

He won the German Winter Throwing Cup in Halle with a throw of 75.45 metres in February 2024. He set a new personal best of 77.65 metres in Langenbrand in May 2024. [11] [2]

He threw 79.25 metres to set a European U23 lead at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy in June 2024, and ultimately placed fourth overall. [12] He competed in the hammer throw at the 2024 Olympics Games, in Paris, France, placing tenth overall with a throw of 76.03 metres. [13]

In May 2025 in Halle, he threw a lifetime best 80.11 metres and became the first German in 18 years to break the 80 metres-barrier. [14] He then threw a personal best of 81.23m in winning the Hammerwurf-Meeting in Fränkisch-Crumbach, Germany in June 2025. [15] He represented Germany at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships, where he threw a personal best of 81.27 metres, to finish second in the First Division. [16] [17] He finished third at the 2025 Kamila Skolimowska Memorial, in Poland, on 16 August. [18]

He was selected for the German team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. [19]

Personal life

He is from Burghaig in the Kulmbach district of Bavaria. [20] [21]

References

  1. "Merlin Hummel". World Athletics. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  2. 1 2 "Merlin Hummel & Sören Klose: Competition stimulates business". Leichtathletik.de. 5 March 2024. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  3. "U 20-EM Tallinn: Merlin Hummel im allerletzten Versuch vom Thron gestoßen". blv-de. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  4. "Hummel freut sich mit Sieger aus der Ukraine". fraenkischertag.de. 15 March 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  5. "Hummel wins the hammer throw". sportschau. June 26, 2022. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  6. "Reception for Merlin Hummel – German Champion visits Kulmbach Town Hall". wiesentbote.de. 3 July 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  7. "TSV Stadtsteinach/UAC Kulmbach in Spain: important victory for hammer thrower Merlin Hummel". wiesentbote.de. 3 June 2023. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  8. "European Athletics U23 Championships". World Athletics. 12 July 2023. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  9. "Kulmbacher steht vor dem Aus und behält die Nerven". Fraenkischertag.de. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  10. "Das Rätsel um Merlin Hummel ist gelöst". Fraenkischertag. 11 November 2023. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  11. "Merlin Hummel: "Seit ich zum ersten Mal einen Hammer fliegen sah, wollte ich 80 Meter werfen"". blv-sport.de. 13 May 2024. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  12. "European Athletics Championships". World Athletics. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  13. "Men's Hammer Throw Results - Paris Olympic Games 2024 Athletics". World Athletics. 4 August 2024. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  14. Mills, Steven (26 May 2025). "Over 72 metres again! 72.11m for Ceh in Ptuj". European Athletics. Retrieved 28 May 2025.
  15. "Zhang throws world U20 hammer record in Fränkisch-Crumbach". World Athletics. 8 June 2025. Retrieved 8 June 2025.
  16. "European Athletics Team Championships First Division". World Athletics. 27 June 2025. Retrieved 27 June 2025.
  17. "Attaoui and Bol shine at European Team Championships in Madrid". World Athletics. 27 June 2025. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
  18. "Results - Silesia Diamond League Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2025". Watch Athletics. 16 August 2025. Retrieved 19 August 2025.
  19. "76 für Tokio: Das deutsche WM-Team steht". Leichtathletik.de. 29 August 2025. Retrieved 29 August 2025.
  20. ""I'm aiming for a distance of 70 meters"". Frankenpost.de (in German). 4 August 2020. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  21. "Hummel krönt sich zum König von Berlin". fraenkischertag.de. 26 June 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2025.