 Weber at the2022 European Championships | |
| Personal information | |
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| Born | (1994-08-29)August 29, 1994 (age 31) Mainz, Germany |
| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) |
| Weight | 98 kg (216 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Track and field |
Event | Javelin throw |
| Club | USC Mainz |
| Coached by | Stephan Kallenberg |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personalbest | 91.51 m (2025) |
Julian Weber (born 29 August 1994) is a Germantrack and field athlete who competes in thejavelin throw.
Weber was born inMainz on 29 August 1994.[1] He showed early promise as a thrower, but dropped athletics as a 12-year-old to concentrate onhandball, the sport of his elder brother Patrick.[2] He returned to the javelin four years later, immediately qualifying for the 2011 German youth championships; coached by Stephan Kallenberg, Weber developed rapidly as a thrower, but quit handball only after injuring himself in a game in 2012.[2] At the2013 European Junior Championships inRieti Weber took gold with a fifth-round throw of 79.68 m, a personal best and the best in the world by ajunior that year; he narrowly defeated Ukraine'sMaksym Bohdan, who also threw beyond the previous world junior leading mark.[2][3]
Weber broke 80 meters for the first time in 2014 (80.72 m), winning silver behindThomas Röhler at that year's national championships.[2][3] In 2015 he improved his best to 81.15 m and placed fifth at theEuropean U23 Championships in Tallinn.[3] Weber reached a new level in 2016, throwing beyond 82 meters in four spring meets; at the national championships he again placed second behind Röhler (with a personal best 83.79 m), but was still left out of the German team for theEuropean Athletics Championships in Amsterdam.[3][4]
Weber broke his personal best twice more on 29 June 2016 with throws of 84.45 m and 86.83 m at thePaavo Nurmi Games in Turku; the three-meter improvement marked his breakthrough to the world elite, though he was still overshadowed by Röhler, who won the competition with a world-leading 91.28 m and also had a second throw beyond 91 meters.[4][5] A week and a half later Weber threw 88.04 m in Offenburg, moving him to fourth place on the 2016 world list. He was selected to represent Germany at the2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, together with Röhler andJohannes Vetter.[4][6]
| Year | Date | Location | Performance | Notes |
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| 2012 | 19 August |  Wetzlar, Germany | 71.12 m | |
| 2013 | 20 July |  Rieti, Italy | 79.68 m | |
| 2014 | 26 July | Ulm, Germany | 80.72 m | |
| 2015 | 25 May | Rehlingen, Germany | 81.15 m | |
| 2016 | 3 September | Berlin, Germany | 88.29 m | |
| 2017 | 11 March |  Las Palmas, Spain | 85.85 m | |
| 2018 | 18 August |  Birmingham, England | 86.63 m | |
| 2019 | 9 August |  Bydgoszcz, Poland | 86.86 m | |
| 2021 | 9 September |  Zurich, Switzerland | 87.03 m | |
| 2022 | 6 June |  Hengelo, Netherlands | 89.54 m | |
| 2023 | 8 July | Kassel, Germany | 88.72 m | |
| 2024 | 1 September | Berlin, Germany | 88.64 m | |
| 2025 | 28 August | Zurich, Switzerland | 91.51 m |
 Diamond League champions in men's javelin throw | |
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European Athletics Championships champions in men'sjavelin throw | |
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