Claudia Rath

Claudia Rath ( born April 25, 1986 in Hadamar ) is a German track and field athlete.

As early as preschool age became acquainted with the comparative competition of running and jumping disciplines of track and Claudia Rath of their three older, sports-loving sisters; henceforth also presented it to them with ever-increasing success.

Because of its broad power spectrum, the rising top athlete ( German B-Jugendmeisterin/Einzeldisziplin ) specialized in the all around competition. The athlete takes in national and international competitions in both the pentathlon and heptathlon.

The competitive strength of the council is based primarily on the running and startup events - the javelin and shot put she calls her loose disciplines. Your favorite discipline is their claims to the long jump, in which they improved their overall placement regularly. The the heptathlon final and often the last forces of athletes demanding 800 - meter dash is one of their strongest disciplines and Rath corrected at their final spurt very often in the throwing events supposedly lost ranking again in their favor.

In addition to their athletic activity Rath learned the profession of governess for the disabled. 2010 Rath went to the German army, where he was the sports promotion group in Mainz allocated. Since 2011, studying the high-performance athlete " Social Work " at the Hochschule Rhein- Main.

Sporting career

Your first national title won Rath 2003, when she was about 400 meters hurdles in Fulda German B- Junior Champion. In August 2004 she took in the French Merignac first heptathlon in an international contest. In 2008 she was German junior champion in this discipline.

2009 occupied Rath at the German Championship heptathlon 2nd place.

Your active career she had begun at the LG spike castle in the Westerwald; since 1 January 2010, she started for the LG Eintracht Frankfurt, where it is currently coached by Jürgen Sammert. At a height of 1.75 m, the athlete has a competition weight of 65 kg.

In January 2010, she was in Frankfurt- Kalbach German all-around indoor champion in the pentathlon and placed in this competition with 4274 points, a new personal best.

Although she had the qualification criteria for the European Championships in Barcelona below scarce, nominated the DLV, the athlete because of their good results in the running and jumping disciplines for the European Championship. Rath thanked in Barcelona for the piled them confidence with a personal record of 6107 points and knocked with her 11th place (see photo on the lap of honor ) for the first time at the European leaders struggle to the Seven. Shortly thereafter, she won in the individual and in the team competition the German all-around championship in 2010 in the open.

At the European Championships 2012 in Helsinki reached them with a new personal record of 6210 points, 7th place, thus confirming their membership of the European elite in the " pinnacle of athletics ," the all-around.

2012, in which traditionally always star-studded all-around meeting in the Austrian Götzis, Rath improved their best overall performance of listed and reached it in two throwing events ( shot put and javelin ) each personal record levels. With their 6189 points in the final scoring Rath met the A- standard criteria for the London Olympics, but was, outbid by Julia Powerful during the subsequent qualification Meeting in Ratingen, at the council did not participate in the points standings and missed the fourth- placed German in qualifying the participation short of the Olympic Games.

In June 2013, it increased in the all-around meeting in Ratingen their record at 6317 points, with which she qualified as a competitive second at the same time for the world championships in Moscow. They put personal bests in three disciplines.

At the Track World Championships in Moscow in August 2013, Rath presented again in top form, scoring again in three disciplines personal bests (long jump, high jump and 800 -meter run ). They thereby also improved their personal Siebenkampfbestleistungswertung equal to 145 points to 6462 points. In the final 800 - meter race she won with several meters of lead and improved her personal best in her best discipline for two seconds.

When starting already lying in 6th place overall, Rath pointed in their final sprint two before lying to contestants on the places and missed precious metal only a single second. With their fourth place in the final standings in the four -time German champion definitively established in the world class struggle of the Seven.

Bests in the individual disciplines

Achievements

National

  • 2003: German B- Junior Champion ( 400m hurdles )
  • 2008: German Junior Champion ( heptathlon, 5,697 points)
  • 2009: German Vice - Champion ( heptathlon, 5,941 points)
  • 2010: German Champion ( heptathlon, 6,107 points)
  • 2010: German all-around indoor champion ( pentathlon )
  • 2011: German Champion ( heptathlon )
  • 2011: German all-around indoor champion ( pentathlon )

Internationally

  • 2010: 11th place at the European Athletics Championships Barcelona ( 6,107 points = personal best )
  • 2012: 15th place in the all-around meeting Götzis in Austria ( 6,189 points = personal best )
  • 2012: 7th place at the Helsinki European Athletics Championships ( 6,201 points = personal best )
  • 2013: 9th place in the all-around meeting Götzis in Austria
  • 2013: 4th place at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow ( 6,462 points = personal best )
Multisport race Bundeswehr Dornburg, Hesse Kalbach-Riedberg 2010 European Athletics Championships Deutscher Leichtathletik-Verband 2013 World Championships in Athletics 2009 German Athletics Championships 2010 German Athletics Championships 2011 German Athletics Championships
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