Christina Obergföll
Christina Obergföll ( born August 22, 1981 in Lahr / Schwarzwald ) is a German javelin thrower and won at the World Athletics Championships 2013 in Moscow the gold medal.
Sports career
Christina Obergföll who grew up in Mahlberg scored its first success at TuS Mahlberg.
As the winner of yet two World Cup and two European Championship silver medals at the Summer Olympic Games ever a silver and a bronze medal, she is German record holder and former owner of the Europe cup record ( 70,20 m). Along with Barbora Špotáková, Osleidys Menéndez and Maria Abakumowa it is one of the spear -throwers, who threw several times over 70 meters.
Under the coach Werner Daniels Christina Obergföll starts for the LG Offenburg (Baden) and has a size of 1.75 m a current competition weight of 71 kg. She is studying physical education and English at the University of Freiburg, and since September of 2013 with the javelin thrower Boris Obergföll born Henry married.
Career
Even as a junior, she celebrated its first successes. Between 2000 and 2002, she was three times in a row, German junior champion. At the Junior World Championships in 2000 in Santiago de Chile reached eighth. In 2004 she took part in the Olympic Games in Athens, but he could not qualify as Fifteenth qualifying for the final.
The biggest success of her career succeeded Obergföll at the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2005, where they surprisingly won the silver medal. In her second attempt she threw the spear at 70.03 meters and placed with this performance a European record. She was so at this time the only woman besides the Cuban Osleidys Menéndez, who had thrown the spear to a distance of about 70 meters.
2007
Until the 2007 season Obergföll was considered a form unstable and complicated her throwing style as a health problem. While they achieved only small sizes in many competitions, could fly as far a successful union that he was beyond the capabilities of other throwers. Competitors like Steffi Nerius therefore feared not ausrechenbare form in competition. At the start of the season 2007 in Halle, however, she showed that she has worked enormously on their technique. With the second-best performance of her career at this time Obergföll won with 68.08 m competition well before Nerius who scored in second 64.74 m. This Obergföll surpassed in the first competition of the year 2007, achieved by herself Jahresweltbestleistung from 2006 by 66.91 m. Also won at the other competition in 2007 in Kassel and Cottbus Obergföll before Nerius, and on June 23 they improved the Athletics European Cup in Munich their own European record 70.20 m. For the first time in her career won Obergföll at the German Championships 2007 in Erfurt the title with a width of 66.59 m. At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, she won just as two years before silver.
2008
In the Olympic year 2008, she defended her title 5 July 2008 at the German Championships in Nuremberg. With 62.18 m she won the last attempt before leading up to this point Nerius which took second place with 61.91 m. Your best performance in 2008 is 69.81 m. This length they reached on 31 August 2008 at the DKB Cup final in Elstal. Until then, they had a season best of 67.72 meters from the Grand Prix meeting in Ostrava. Here they had won the only time against the reigning world champion Barbora Špotáková from the Czech Republic, which was in this competition with 66,91 m second.
In the Summer Olympics 2008, it achieved the third best distance with 66.13 m. Before her lay Barbora Špotáková that won the gold medal with 71.42 meters, and thus set a new European record, and Marija Abakumowa from Russia, which also surpassed Obergfölls former European record.
2009
In the World Cup 2009 Christina Obergföll got off to a very good start in their first match in Halle. She won with 68.40 meters, which meant Weltjahresbestleistung. Never in her career she was such a good start to a season. Until her third race on June 5 in Baunatal, this Weltjahresbestleistung still had stock. Also, the competition in Baunatal she won with 67.48 m. In the home world championships in Berlin, it reached 64.34 m for fifth place and underperformed their expectations.
2010
Obergföll won at the European Championships in Barcelona behind their club -mate Linda steel the silver medal. They also threw in Elstal with 68.63 m the third furthest throw of the year and the fourth furthest throw her career.
2011
The 2011 season was for Obergföll initially pretty good, she won four Diamond League meetings and secured their fourth win in London premature overall victory. They also threw in five competitions over 65 meters of the best cast you succeeded at the German Championships in Kassel with 68.86 m, this was their fourth best ever thrown litter and brought her her third national title and a championship record. However, your big dream a gold medal at the World Championships in Daegu (Korea ) was not fulfilled. There she could only reach the fourth place with 65.24 m.
2012
At the European Championships, she was with 65,12 m European silver medalist, after she had just become the fourth time in Wattenscheid with 65,86 m German champion and the beginning of the month with the pitcher meeting in St. Wendel already 67,04 m had achieved. At the Olympic Summer Games in London, she won with 65.16 m internationally for the fifth time a silver medal behind the current world record holder, former World Champion in 2007 and now two-time Olympic champion Barbora Špotáková.
2013
From May Obergföll participated in all the Diamond League meeting in part, where the javelin was discharged. With wins in Eugene, New York and Rome, she quickly sat down at the top of the Diamond Race rankings. Also at the next meeting in Paris on July 6, she won. At the German Championships a day later, she had to admit defeat Linda Stahl. With disappointing 61.74 m, it lagged behind other seasonal services. By its fifth Diamond League win in a row at the Anniversary Games in London, it was on July 17, prematurely determined as the winner overall.
The biggest success of her career reached Obergföll at the World Athletics Championships 2013 in Moscow, when she won the gold medal with a distance of 69.05 meters achieved.
Social Commitment
Christina Obergföll supports the Foundation for Children with Cancer eV Freiburg im Breisgau, where She is also a board member. In addition, she is actively engaged in the field of child poverty in Germany and in the world (including for the World Hunger Relief and UNICEF).
Honors
- 2012: Silver bay leaf
- 2013: Champion of the Year
- 2013: Sportswoman of the Year
- 2013: track and field athlete of the year