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Simon Boch
Simon Boch
Simon Boch has made a good start to the 2024 competition year. He set his best time of 28:01 minutes in twelfth place at the high-calibre 10 km race in Castellon (Spain). Of course, he would have liked to stay under the 28-minute mark, but the result gives him hope for the GENERALI BERLIN HALF MARATHON.
After Simon Boch missed the Olympic qualification in the marathon for the Games in Paris, the half marathon at the European Championships in Rome in June is the next goal for the man from Regensburg. Thanks to his best time of 61:23 minutes, which he set in Barcelona just over a year ago, he has already beaten the European Championship standard. This time is likely to be enough if the German Athletics Association nominates a six-man team. But Simon Boch will want to improve further in Berlin. Perhaps the 61:00 minute mark will even come into focus.
During a coronavirus lockdown, Simon Boch made a remarkable marathon debut in Dresden in March 2021. In freezing cold and windy weather, he ran alone at the front for around 30 kilometres after his pacemaker gave up early. Simon Boch won the race in 2:10:48 hours, almost two minutes ahead of the field. In the end, he still narrowly missed out on an Olympic starting place at the 2021 Games in Japan.
At the European Championships in Munich in 2022, Simon Boch was then part of the German men's team that won the silver medal in the European Cup rankings. He finished 50th in the individual rankings in very warm weather. In spring 2023, the Regensburg native won the Linz Marathon and stayed under 2:10 hours for the first time with a time of 2:09:25.
Simon Boch comes from St. Georgen in the Black Forest. In 2014, he moved to LG Telis Finanz Regensburg to join Kurt Ring's training group. He completed an apprenticeship as a retail salesman in a sports shop there. In 2020 and 2021, Simon Boch was voted Germany's Road Runner of the Year by German Road Races (GRR), the association of German road running organisers.