Danny Ecker
Danny Ecker (actually Daniel Ecker, born July 21, 1977 in Leverkusen ) is a former German pole vaulter. The three-time Olympian is German record holder in the hall with skipped 6.00 m.
Life
Ecker is raised in Leverkusen and the son of John Ecker, a former basketball player, and double Olympic champion Heide Ecker- Rosendahl, already his grandfather Heinz Rosendahl was multiple German Champion in the discus throw. Since 1987, Ecker starts 04 Leverkusen for TSV Bayer. Danny Ecker has a competition weight of 82 kg at a height of 1.92 m. He has been married since 2006, has two children and is studying business administration at the University of Hagen. In 2007 he was elected DLV - athletes of the year.
After more than 17 years of cooperation with Leszek climate, the foster father of almost all top German pole vaulter, he moved in the fall of 2004 to Jörn Elberding, a former athlete climate and national coach in this discipline. After a year of collaboration Ecker returns to air. In 2007, Ecker took two major titles. In the indoor season, he first celebrated the European Indoor Championship title in Birmingham. In September, he made his biggest success so far. At the World Championships in Osaka, he won the bronze medal with skipped 5.81 m. His best performances are at 6.00 m in the hall ( German indoor record, 2001) and 5.93 m outdoors ( German Junior Record, 1998).
2008 at the invitation of the then Foreign Minister Frank -Walter Steinmeier ambassador for athletics and the forthcoming World Championships in Berlin in 2009 on a trip to Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Singapore. In his third appearance at the Olympics he achieved despite massive problems at the Achilles tendon at the beginning of the season, at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing place again 6, 2009 German champion in the hall with 5.80m. After an injury-related complete failure in 2010, according to his own statement only moderate success in 2011.
In 2012 he had the goal to once again set a final climax with the participation in the Olympic Games in London. But already in the German Championships 2012, he could not participate because he in June drew upon a Beugerverletzung and decided that it 's time to say goodbye to the competitive sports as pole-vaulters.
Since September 2012, he works as a personal trainer.
Sporting successes
- German Championships: 1st Place: 2004 and 2007
- 2nd place: 1998, 2000, 2001 and 2008
- 3rd Place: 1999 and 2002
- Olympic Games: 6th place: 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing
- 5th Place: Olympic Games in Athens 2004
- 8th Place: Olympic Games 2000 in Sydney
- 3rd place: 2007 World Championships in Osaka ( Japan)
- 4th place: 1999 World Championships in Seville
- Finals: 2005 World Championships in Helsinki ( without a valid test)
- 3rd place: hall 1999 World Championships in Maebashi (Japan)
- 4th Place: 1998 European Championships in Budapest