Simon Batz

Simon Batz (born 1 December 2002) is a German track and field athlete.

[1] From Offendorf in Bavaria, until the age of 16 his focus was on football, taking up athletics relatively late.

[2] After changing his training set-up to work with Sebastian Bayer in Mannheim, he set a new personal best of 7.91m for the long jump in Sindelfingen in February 2023.

[3] In July 2023, he won the German National Outdoors title in the long jump with a distance of 7.97 metres.

[7] He finished fourth in the long jump at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow.