Bianca Kappler
Bianca Kappler ( born August 8, 1977 in Hamburg ) is a German long jumper.
Life
She gave relatively late before in the German top and first drew attention in 2002 when she took during the European Cup third place. At the European Championships in Munich in the same year, she still failed to qualify. In 2003, she was a professional athlete since start of the LC Rehlinger and trained at the Olympic Training Center Saarbrücken. In the same year, the first German league title followed in the hall and outdoors, at the World Championships in Paris / Saint- Denis but the qualification was again terminus. At the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004, it was enough then for the final and the ninth. Because the original Fifth Marion Jones was disqualified for doping, then she took eighth place.
At the Track European Indoor Championships in Madrid in 2005 they had achieved before the last round 6.53 m. Her last jump of the competition was measured with 6.96 m. Immediately after the jump Kappler told the judges that she could not jump as far. The jury came after sixteen hours of deliberation and analysis of video images also concluded that the jump was not as much as indicated by the width measurement; the jump was therefore canceled. Since the jump, however, would most likely enough for a medal, she received as well as the Romanian Adina Anton, which had reached 6.59 m, the bronze medal. For their behavior Bianca Kappler was awarded the Fair Play trophy of the International Olympic Committee during the German Athletics Championships 2005.
At the World Championships in 2005 she divorced in the qualifier with back pain and consequently weak 6.35 m. After her maternity leave, 2006, she was again in 2007 German Champion and Hall also celebrated a successful international comeback at the European Indoor Championships in 2007 in Birmingham, where she finished fourth with 6.63 meters and bronze missed only one centimeter. Your outdoor season 2007 was its strongest, the outstanding personal best of 6.90 meters, achieved in Bad Langensalza. At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, she was having a width of 6.81 m Fifth.
An Achilles tendon injury prevented participation in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, for which they had been nominated. At the 2009 World Championships she was disqualified in the qualifying.
Bianca Kappler has a competition weight of 61 kg at a height of 1.80 m.
She studied French and German literature on teaching at the University of Hamburg and passed their exams in 2003. In 2006, she became the mother of a daughter. 2011 took over Kappler, the Office "Protocol and Foreign Affairs " in the State of Saarland on. This brought the CDU-led State Chancellery by the opposition accusations of patronage, since the new Chief of Protocol Concerning operative as a newcomer had no administrative experience. Kappler had campaigned during the election campaign for state election 2009 for the CDU. 2013, it denied any competitions as they appeal before a baby break.
Achievements
- Bronze European Indoor Championships 2005
- 5th place 2007 World Championships
- German Champion 2003, 2005, 2007, 2010
- German indoor champion 2003, 2007