Julia Mächtig

Julia Powerful ( born January 1, 1986 in Rostock ) is a German track and field athlete. Their focus is on the heptathlon, achievements came in the long jump.

Powerful showed as a young talent in various athletics disciplines, but without protruding in a particularly. Therefore, she specialized in the all-around and drew this in 2000 Sportinternat Neubrandenburg. At the Junior World Championships 2004 Powerful took the bronze medal at the European Junior Championships and next year the silver medal. In 2006, she became German Junior Champion and caused a stir when she was German champion in the long jump in the same year.

In the women, she continued her good performance by being instantly with 5887 points German heptathlon champion in 2007 and was at the U23 European Championships third parties. 2008, however, she experienced a setback when, despite decent performance ( 6289 points) did not qualify for the Olympic Games in Beijing, because they fight for the third German heptathlon starting place ( behind the set Jennifer Oeser and Lilli Schwarzkopf ) against Sonja Kesselschläger lost.

In 2009 she qualified for the World Championships in Berlin and finished ninth. 2010 could be mighty operate on the Achilles tendon and fell for the rest of the season. The following year she was at the World Championships in Daegu 17, 2012, she won with a personal best of 6345 points, the more battle - Meeting Ratingen and qualified for the Olympic Games in London. After a disappointing competition Powerful ended up with 5338 points 31st place

2013 Mighty was German Champion Hall. At the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg she came to seventh place. In the qualifying competition for the World Championships, she presented in June 2013 in Ratingen with 6430 points, a new personal best.

Mighty is 1,87 m tall and has a competition weight of 80 kg. Your best performances are at 6430 points ( heptathlon ) and 4556 points ( pentathlon ). Its strengths are in the long jump ( longest jump 6.48 m) and in the shot put ( 15.79 m longest jump ), in which they can take advantage of their long lever and powerful figure. It starts with the SC Neubrandenburg and is coached by Klaus Baarck. Powerful serve in the army in the sports promotion Frankfurt (Oder ) as a sports soldier in the rank of Obermaats.

Achievements

  • Third World Junior Championships 2004
  • Second Junior European Championships 2005
  • German junior champion in 2006
  • German long jump champion in 2006
  • Third U23 European Championships in 2007
  • Ninth European Indoor Championships in 2007
  • German heptathlon champion in 2007
  • Ninth in the World Championships 2009
  • German indoor champion in 2013
  • Seventh European Indoor Championships 2013
2004 World Junior Championships in Athletics 2005 European Athletics Junior Championships 2009 World Championships in Athletics Mehrkampf-Meeting Ratingen 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships Bundeswehr
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