At just 26 years old, TUM alumna Christina Hering has already competed in the Olympics twice. For her, participating was an honor and the absolute highlight of her athletic career. The photo shows her in the Olympic Village in Tokyo in 2021. (Photo: Private).
As she was already celebrating her first international successes in the German national team while still at school, Christina Hering was keen to stay in Munich in her familiar sporting environment. At the same time, she was also eager to invest in her professional future after competitive sports by studying at TUM.
TWICE IN THE RUNNING
Good time management and a lot of discipline enabled Christina Hering to obtain a bachelor’s degree in Scientific Principles of Sports and a master’s degree in Management at TUM alongside her sports career. “As an athlete, it’s very important to invest in education, because athletic success is naturally limited to a certain age,” she says. “Thanks to TUM’s excellent education, I feel well prepared for a career in the workplace.”
Sometimes, however, there were times when Christina Hering wished she could be just an athlete or just a student, so that she would be able to concentrate fully on one or the other. Some of the exams coincided with important competitions. Then it was not only a question of time to manage both, but also a question of staying focused.
PARTNER UNIVERSITY OF TOP SPORTS
Christina Hering also remembers the positive aspects of her student days. “I really enjoyed campus life at TUM between training sessions,” she says. “In those moments, I was able to leave the sports bubble and talk about completely different topics with my fellow students from around the world.”
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Thanks to TUM’s excellent education, I feel well prepared for a career in the workplace.
A LIFE DEVOTED TO SPORTS
Christina Hering saw the greatest dream of any world-class athlete come true—competing in the Olympic Games—not once, but twice. In both cases, she had just submitted her bachelor’s and master’s theses shortly before. Although the 18-time German champion in the 800-meter run—who goes by the nickname “Running Fischi” on social media—didn’t win a medal at either the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro or the 2021 Games in Tokyo.
But Christina Hering takes it in stride and is nonetheless grateful that she was able to compete in this major sporting event twice. “Unfortunately, I wasn’t satisfied with my performance in Tokyo, but overall I still look back on it as a great event,” she says. “Despite the strict COVID-19 precautions in place at the time, there was still that very special atmosphere that comes from bringing together different sports and nations.”
With two degrees from TUM under her belt, Christina Hering has laid a solid foundation for a professional career beyond world-class athletics—since March 2026 as managing director of LG Stadtwerke München, an association of several Munich-based clubs. From her office, she looks out onto the Dantestation—the track where the 800-meter specialist’s career began. It was here that she started the sport at the age of six, “ran my first laps on the track,” and competed in her first meet. So, leading LG Stadtwerke München is a “return to my roots” and, for her, “the perfect mix of responsibility, passion, and commitment to young athletes and track and field in Munich.”
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TUM Alumna Christin Hering is a sports nut and does a lot of traveling in the process. The picture shows her at the European Team Championships in Poland in 2019. She loves the special atmosphere created when female athletes from different nations and cultures come together at international competitions (Picture: Private).
Bachelor Scientific Principles of Sports 2017, Master Management 2020
From 2013 to 2017, Christina Hering completed a bachelor’s degree in Principles of Sports at TUM. In 2020, she completed a master’s degree in Management. But her great passion is athletics. Her specialization is the 400 meters and, in particular, the 800 meters. In her native city of Munich, she trains with the LG Stadtwerke München club. She has been a member of the German national team since 2012 and a member of Sportfördergruppe der Bundeswehr (German Armed Forces Sports Support Group) since 2014. Christina Hering is a eighteen-time German champion in the 800 meters. On the international level, she finished second at the 2019 Summer Universiade. In 2016, she competed with a number of other TUM Alumni in Rio de Janeiro, and in 2021 in Tokyo at the Olympic Games. In 2026 she became managing director of LG Stadtwerke München.
Christina Hering is very attached to her hometown. She loves Munich as a city and as a place to live, and really enjoys spending her free time here with her family and friends. Even when she’s not competing, she stays active—in addition to running, she enjoys skiing, playing tennis, and playing beach volleyball.
