Jean Paul Bredau

Jean Paul Bredau
Personal information
NationalityGerman
Born (1999-06-27) 27 June 1999
Sport
SportAthletics
Event
Sprinting
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Germany
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place2024 Rome4 × 400 m relay

Jean Paul Bredau (born 27 June 1999) is a German sprinter. He competed in the 4 × 400 metres men's relay at the 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games. He was a bronze medalist in the 4 × 400 m relay at the 2024 European Athletics Championships.

Career

He competed in the 4 × 400 m men's relay at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, in which his team was last in the heat, with a time of 3:03.62.[1]

At the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, he finished seventh in the final of the mixed 4 × 400 m relay.[2] At the Championships, he also ran in the German team in the men's 4 × 400 metres relay.[3] At the ISTAF Berlin in September 2023, he ran a personal best time of 44.96 seconds for the 400 metres.[4] The time moved him into the top-ten all-time German list and was the fastest by a German for 21 years.[5]

In May 2024, he ran as part of the German 4 × 400 m relay team at the 2024 World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas which qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics, alongside Manuel Sanders, Marc Koch and Tyrel Prenz.[6] He was part of the German team that won bronze at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024.[7] Koch, Sanders, Bredau and Emil Agyekum competed in the men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 Paris Olympics, and although they ran a season's best time of 3:00.29, they did not qualify for the final.[8] However, he managed to qualify for the final of the individual men´s 400m placing 7th overall.[9]

In 2025, he competed at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo where he was eliminated in the heats with a time of 46.05s.[10]

In 2026, he achieved a new indoor personal best of 45,94s with in Luxembourg.[11] Later, he competed at the 2026 European Athletics Championship in Birmingham where he qualified for the 400m final and secured the fith place with another sub-45s time in the final. It marks the best German men's result in the 400m on European level since 2002.[12] In addition, he qualified for the men´s 4x400m final alongside Manuel Sanders, Thorben Finke and Thilo Traue. They secured the seventh place in the relay final with Florian Kroll replacing Manuel Sanders.[13]

On a national level, he secured the German national title in the 400m outdoors in 2024 and 2025, while winning the 400m indoors in 2024 and 2026.[14]

Personal life

In 2024, he apologised for comments which criticised the German Athletics Association for their decision to omit his girlfriend Luna Bulmahn from the German mixed 4 × 400 metres relay team at the 2024 Olympic Games. The association had selected Alica Schmidt instead, despite Bulmahn running the second quickest time in the relay pool.[15]

In 2026, he married the German 400m sprinter Luna Bredau (maiden name: Bulmahn).[16]

Competition record

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
Representing  Germany
2018 World Junior Championships Tampere, Finland 6th 4 × 400 m 3:07.80
2021 Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 16th (h) 4 × 400 m 3:03.62
2023 World Championships Budapest, Hungary 11th (h) 4 × 400 m 3:00.67
2024 European Championships Rome, Italy 7th 400 m 45.11
3rd 4 × 400 m 3:00.82
Olympic Games Paris, France 6th (rep) 400 m 45.40
9th (h) 4 × 400 m relay 3:00.29
2025 World Championships Tokyo, Japan 43rd (h) 400 m 46.05

Personal bests

Outdoor

Indoor

References

  1. ↑ "Jean Paul BREDAU | Profile". worldathletics.org. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  2. ↑ "4X400 METRES RELAY MIXED". World Athletics. 19 August 2023. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  3. ↑ "4X400 METRES RELAY MEN". World Athletics. 26 August 2023. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  4. ↑ "ISTAF Berlin 2023: Williams, Flynn, Allman Secure Wins as Season Nears End". Track Alerts. 4 September 2023. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  5. ↑ "Allman and Gidey excel in Berlin". World Athletics. 3 September 2023. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  6. ↑ "Zwei deutsche Staffeln schlagen den Weg nach Paris ein". Leichtathletik.de. 5 May 2024. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  7. ↑ "European Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 12 June 2024. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  8. ↑ "Men's 4 x 400 Metres Relay - Paris Olympic Games 2024 Athletics". Watch Athletics. 10 August 2024. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  9. ↑ "Men 400m Results - European Athletics Championships 2024 | Watch Athletics". www.watchathletics.com. Retrieved 2026-08-18.
  10. ↑ "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025 | Results | World Athletics". worldathletics.org. Retrieved 2026-08-18.
  11. ↑ "Jean Paul Bredau startet mit Sieg und Hallenbestzeit". www.leichtathletik.de | Das Leichtathletik-Portal (in German). 2026-01-18. Retrieved 2026-08-18.
  12. ↑ "Jean Paul Bredau als Fünfter erneut unter 45 Sekunden". www.leichtathletik.de | Das Leichtathletik-Portal (in German). 2026-08-12. Retrieved 2026-08-18.
  13. ↑ "European Athletics Championships | Results | World Athletics". worldathletics.org. Retrieved 2026-08-18.
  14. ↑ "Jean Paul Bredau". www.leichtathletik.de | Das Leichtathletik-Portal (in German). 2026-08-12. Retrieved 2026-08-18.
  15. ↑ Lemoncelli, Jenna (August 6, 2024). "German teammate shades 'World's Sexiest Athlete,' Alica Schmidt, after disappointing Olympics start". New York Post. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  16. ↑ "Zwei Jahre nach Olympia-Zoff: Deutsches Leichtathletik-Paar heiratet". SPORT1 (in German). 2026-06-21. Retrieved 2026-08-18.
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