Luka Herden
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| Born | 9 February 2000 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Long jump | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | Long jump: 8.18 m (2026) | ||||||||||||||
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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
- ^ "Luka Herden". World Athletics. Retrieved 2 February 2026.
- ^ "Day 1 U16 German Championships (male) - Two players with four medals". Leichtathletik. 8 August 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2026.
- ^ a b c "Manuel Sanders wins gold – Luka Herden leaps to silver". flvw.de. 10 July 2023. Retrieved 2 February 2026.
- ^ "Dream over: Luka Herden misses out on the long jump final in Nairobi". wn.de. 13 July 2017. Retrieved 2 February 2026.
- ^ "German National Championships Results". World Athletics. 6 July 2023. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
- ^ "Maryse Luzolo, with a height of 6.84 meters, is knocking on the door to Budapest and Paris". Leichtathletik. 31 July 2023. Retrieved 2 February 2026.
- ^ "European Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 7 June 2024. Retrieved 2 February 2026.
- ^ "European Championship Day 2 - Luka Herden eighth at Tentoglou's airshow". Leichtathletik.de. 8 June 2024. Retrieved 2 February 2026.
- ^ "German Championships". World Athletics. 29 June 2024. Retrieved 2 February 2026.
- ^ "German Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 21 February 2025. Retrieved 2 February 2026.
- ^ "China wins first athletics gold, Walaza claims 200m title at Universiade". News.cn. 25 July 2025. Retrieved 2 February 2026.
- ^ "German Championships". World Athletics. 2 August 2025. Retrieved 2 February 2026.
- ^ Mills, Steven (1 February 2026). "A 46-year-old Polish record broken! Matuszewicz jump 6.77m in Gorzow". European Athletics. Retrieved 2 February 2026.
- ^ "Gorzow Jump Festival Victory and World Indoor Championship qualifying standard: Luka Herden improves to 8.18 meters". Leichtathletik.de. 31 January 2026. Retrieved 2 February 2026.
- ^ Schönfeld, Klaudia (1 February 2026). "World Championship indoor long jump qualifier: Luka Herden shines in Gorzów". Tus-hiltrup. Retrieved 2 February 2026.
- ^ "Luka Herden im Anflug auf Tokio". wn.de. 23 July 2025. Retrieved 2 February 2026.