Manuel Mordi Explained

Manuel Mordi
Nationality:German
Sport:Athletics
Event:Hurdles
Birth Date:15 August 2003
Pb:110m hurdles: 13.36s (Leverkusen, 2024)

Manuel Mordi (born 15 August 2003) is a German sprint hurdler. He won the German Athletics Championships in 2023 and 2024 in the 110 metres hurdles.[1]

Career

A member of Hamburger SV, he was a sprinter until 2020, when he turned his focus to hurdles. He reached the semi-final of the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia, and was only four-hundreds of a second away from qualifying for the final. In 2023, he finished seventh in the final of the 110m hurdles at the European Athletics U23 Championships. He also became German Champion at the German Athletics Championships.[2]

In May 2024, he ran a personal-best 13.56 seconds for the 110m hurdles to win at the Kurpfalz Gala Weinheim meet in Weinheim, Germany.[3] Later that month, he lowered his personal best again, running 13.36 seconds in Leverkusen.[4] [5]

He reached the semi-finals of the 110m hurdles at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome.[6] He retained his German national title in June 2024.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Manuel Mordi. 3 August 2024. World Athletics.
  2. Web site: 18 October 2023. Manuel Mordi – In his first year in the men’s hurdles he immediately reached the top of the DLV. leichtathletik.de. 3 August 2024.
  3. Web site: Jyothi Yarraji defends 100m hurdles title at German athletics meet. Olympics.com. 3 August 2024. 18 May 2024.
  4. Web site: Ralf. Schmitt. 6 June 2024. HSV hopeful has the recipe for fast legs. Bild. 3 August 2024.
  5. Web site: True Athletes Classics. 25 May 2024. World Athletics. 3 August 2024.
  6. Web site: Men 110m Hurdles Results - European Athletics Championships 2024. Watch Athletics. 3 August 2024. 8 June 2024.
  7. Web site: HSV-Sprinter Owen Ansah erster Deutscher unter zehn Sekunden. 29 June 2024. Markus. Steinbrück. 3 August 2024.