| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | German |
| Born | 4 January 2002 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event | Hammer throw |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | Hammer: 82.77 m (Tokyo, 2025) |
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]
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 81.23 m 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]
He is from Burghaig in the Kulmbach district of Bavaria. [20] [21]
