André Niklaus
André Niklaus ( born August 30, 1981 in Berlin ) is a former German decathlete.
Career
Niklaus was born the son of the fencer Mandy Niklaus. After a fourth place finish at the Junior European Championships 1999, he won at the Junior World Championships in 2000 in Santiago de Chile bronze. With 7712 points in the decathlon, he was doing a rank before Dmitri Karpov. A year later, he excelled as a winner in the U23 European Championships in Amsterdam in 2001 with 8042 points for the first time the 8000 -point mark. 2003 Niklaus defended in Bydgoszcz with 7983 points its title from 2001.
At the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint- Denis he was eighth with 8020 points.
2005 Niklaus increased to 8074 points when Mösle Mehrkampf meeting in Götzis. The German World Cup qualifier in Ratingen he won with 8193 points. At the World Championships in Helsinki he finished with 8316 points in fourth place with 69 points behind third-placed Attila Zsivóczky.
In the indoor season in 2006 Niklaus finished the invitation competition in Tallinn with 6067 points in second place behind the same point Šebrle novel. Five weeks later, Niklaus increased at the World Indoor Championships in Moscow on 6192 points and became world champion in the heptathlon before Bryan Clay with 6187 points and 6161 points with novel Šebrle. In the individual events he achieved the following benefits: 60 m 7.06 sec, 7.64 m long jump, shot put 14.41 meters, high jump 2.07m, 60m hurdles 8.14 sec, Pole Vault 5.30 m, 1000 m 2: 47.80 min. He ranks in the German leaderboard to second place behind Frank Busemann, who reached in Tallinn 6291 2002.
After he had become in 2006 fourth with 8239 points in Götzis, he was injured and had to cancel the season. A year later, he set fifth of Götzis with 8340 points, a new personal best, rose again at the World Championships in Osaka and was with 8371 points in fifth place.
With 7536 points Niklaus won 27-28. August, 2011 Vaterstetten its first national single - around title, after he had brought in the team along with Steffen Landgraf and Marian Geisler in 2004, gold in Vaterstetten.
André Niklaus had a competition weight of 82 kg at a height of 1.90 m. He started for the LG Nike Berlin and trained with Rainer Pottel. In June 2013 he finished his career.