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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) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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]
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]
Herden is a medical student at the University of Münster. [3] [16]
