Sergej Litvinov

Sergej Litvinov (Russian: Сергей Сергеевич Литвинов / Sergei Sergeyevich Litvinov, born January 27, 1986 in Rostov-on- Don ) is a hammer thrower. He competed for Belarus, 2008-2010 for Germany, and since then for Russia.

Sergej Litvinov is the son of Olympic gold medalist and former world champion Sergei Litvinov, was born in the Soviet Union. At a size of 1.85 m his competition weight is about 92 kg. Before the hammer throw, he was 15 years old German Under-17 champion in judo. Because there was no training partner for him and he should not fight against adults, he gave up the sport of judo. His parents separated in 2001 and Litvinov moved with his father to Minsk, where he had accepted a coaching point. There he began with the hammer throw - coached by his father - in a training group with Ivan Zichan and launched for Belarus. The first international success was a ninth place finish at the U20 World Championships in 2004 in Grosetto, also rank nine, it was at the U20 European Championships in 2005 in Kaunas. Although Litvinov achieved a personal best of 74.80 meters in June 2007, he reached a month later with 64,03 m only eleventh place at the U23 European Championships 2007 in Debrecen. In May 2008, he rose to 75.35 m in Holt Country.

Since July 2008, Litvinov was allowed to start for Germany. He was first a member of the VfB comet Bremen and later the LG Eintracht Frankfurt. Since October 2008, Litvinov Sports soldier was in the sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr in Mainz. He won the title in the 2008 season at the German Junior Championships and finished fourth at the German Championships. In 2009, he missed - by 77.88 m in June in Sofia - at the Military World Championships, the 78-meter only two centimeters, but had thus managed to qualify for the World Athletics Championships in Berlin in 2009. There he reached the second German Markus Esser besides the final battle and was 76.58 m fifth. He won in 2009 for the first time the German championship title in the hammer throw.

2010 Litvinov increased his personal best at the beginning of the season at the bowler days in Hall 78.47 m, in May he improved in Hengelo at 78.98 m, beating Dilshod Nazarov and the Second Krisztián Pars Olympia. On 15 June 2010, the DLV announced that Litvinov no longer a member of the national team and its athletes promotion was set. Litvinov, who is married and his wife lived in Minsk wanted for family reasons go to Russia and refused to go at the European Team Championships for Germany at the start. At the World Championships 2011 Litvinov launched for Russia, but did not reach the final.