Falk Balzer
Falk Balzer ( born December 14, 1973 in Leipzig ) is a German track and field athlete. He won silver over 110 meters hurdles at the European Championships in 1998 and bronze over 60 meters hurdles at the World Indoor Championships in 1999.
Life
Balzer 1995 German University Championship and sixth at the Universiade. At the German Championships in 1997 he came in third place and qualified for the World Championships in Athens, where he was eliminated in the semifinals. The following year, Balzer was both in the hall, as well as outdoors German champion and won the World Cup in Johannesburg. At the European Championships in Budapest, he became vice European champion.
Won the 1999 Balzer at the World Indoor Championships in Maebashi the bronze medal. He is the only German hurdler, the 60 -meter hurdles won a medal at World Indoor Championships. In the Freilufsaison he finished fifth at the World Championships in Seville and winner of the European Cup.
In 2000, he had with the hurdler Claude Edorh after the final of the German Championships in Braunschweig in the target a disagreement. This brought him in the media accusations of racism one, which was not confirmed. Further, Balzer refused - after Edorh had repeatedly taken care of for a delay of the start and Balzer had finished the race only as a third party - to be photographed with the winner Florian Schwarthoff and the runner-up Ralf liver. He was then nominated by the DLV only in the last round for the Olympic Games in Sydney. At the games in Australia Balzer reached the semifinals. In the European Cup he could repeat his victory from last year.
2001 Balzer tested positive for nandrolone. The lock of the DLV for two years was in 2003 recognized by the Higher Regional Court of Dresden, by decision of 18 December 2003 ( W 0350/03Kart ) as lawful in regard to the jurisdiction of the DLV because Balzer had not signed any agreement athletes in 2001.
In 2003, he made his comeback known without knowing that he was infected with the Epstein - Barr virus. At the German Championships, he was runner-up. In the year Balzer right hamstring tore it in a fall at the ninth hurdle in a lead in Cuxhaven. Despite the snag, he ran 13.61 s in Lausanne still At the German Championships in Braunschweig later the Achilles tendon tore one weeks completely.
Falk Balzer starts about 400 meters for the RBA Chemnitz eV, for Anja Rücker, vice world champion in 1999, started. He is 1.98 m tall, weighs 85 kg, and the school had finished high school. He is the son of Karin Balzer, the former hurdle sprinter and Olympic gold medalist of the Olympic Summer Games in Tokyo in 1964 and Olympic bronze medalist of the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972, and has been trained by it.
From 1994 to 1997 studied Balzer philosophy and psychology, then to 2004, German and history, which he obtained his MA. In addition, he chose as a minor 1999-2003 the law. During his studies, he was from 1997 to 2000 part of the Bundeswehr sports promotion group Frankenberg. In his last year he was awarded the Cross of Honour of the Bundeswehr in silver.
Achievements
Personal best
- 60 meter hurdles (Hall ): 7.41 s ( German indoor record ), January 29, 1999 in Chemnitz, Germany
- 110 Meter Hurdles: 13.10 s, September 13, 1998 in Johannesburg, South Africa
On February 7, 1999 Falk Balzer the 60m hurdles ran the Stuttgart Hall Meeting in 7.34 s, 0.04 s over the indoor world record. Immediately after the race he canceled himself this because he went out of its own false start. However, the court gave start the run and thus the record is valid. After almost 2 hours IAAF jury ultimately canceled the whole course, because on the one hand lacked a false start control apparatus and on the other hand showed the video recording that started next to Falk Balzer and other participants of this race too early. Nevertheless, Falk Balzer was able to run at this time under 7.40 s, which is persistent back problems prevented.