Carolin Hingst

Carolin Hingst (born 18 September 1980 in Donauwörth ) is a German pole vaulter.

Career

Like so many athletes, their discipline, she first gymnast and did not occur until the age of 18 to the pole vault. Your first major success came when she in 2001 as a German Vice - Champion for the World Athletics Championships in Edmonton in 2001 and was qualified tenth there. She participated at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. In the same year she also became German champion.

2005 German Hingst was Halle champion and fourth in the European Indoor Championships in Madrid. In the same year she took part in the World Championships in Helsinki as the only German pole vault. After qualifying for the finals (4.45 m in the third experiment) she failed there at the 4.50 m mark and reached the tenth place. Two years later, she participated in the World Championships.

In 2008, she was again able to win the title at the German Championships in Nuremberg with 4,55 m and qualified for participation in the Olympic Games in Beijing. There, she won as the best German with 4.65 m in sixth place. In 2010 she won the German indoor championship in Karlsruhe. At the World Indoor Championships, she was eliminated in the qualifying.

Your personal best is outdoors at 4.72 m (9 July 2010 Biberach ) and in the hall at 4.70 m (14 January 2007 Ludwigshafen, Germany).

The athlete with the nickname " Caro " is 1,70 m tall and weighs 58 kg. They will start for USC Mainz and is trained by Andrei Tivontchik. By profession, she is a soldier in the sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr Mainz.