Katharina Molitor
Katharina Molitor ( born November 8, 1983 in Bedburg ) is a German javelin thrower and volleyball player.
Life
Career Athletics
Molitor began in her hometown at the TV Bedburg with athletics. Your youth coach Franz indene provided a versatile training. In June 1997, Katharina Molitor scored a ball throwing a width of 52 meters, with the it sets out the leaderboards in the Cologne district with the pupils AW14 and W15 today. Their versatility presented the Rhinelander also the Athletics Club Youth 07 Bergheim proof. So she led the club leaderboard in 2000 among the female youth B both run in all disciplines as well as in the four -and seven- fight, their previous performances in the throwing events were prominent even in the women's class.
Katharina Molitor moving in 2003 to Bayer Leverkusen, where she specialized in under Helge Zöllkau on the javelin. In 2005 she was at the U23 European Championships with 57.01 m second behind Annika Suthe. In 2007, she occupied at the Universiade in Bangkok with 58.19 m in sixth place. In March 2008, Molitor was the European Cup Winter Throwing second with 58.26 m. On 24 May 2008, she improved her best performance in Hall 61.74 m. Because they, unlike Linda Stahl exceeded twice the qualifying distance for the Olympic Games, Molitor was nominated as the third German javelin thrower, alongside Christina Obergföll and Steffi Nerius, for the 2008 Olympics, even though she had become at the German Championships only fourth behind steel. In Beijing, they came in at number eight.
On 25 June 2010 Molitor scored in Leverkusen's home stadium, a new personal best of 64.53 m. It exceeded the required European Championship standard of 61.00 meters clearly and lined up to fifth place in the European annual leaderboard right behind Christina Obergföll one. At the German Championships on July 18, 2010 in Braunschweig, the javelin was successful in 64.27 with m as the new German champion against Christina Obergföll and Linda Stahl. This success also meant the clear part in the European Championships 2010 in Barcelona, where she won with 63.81 m in fourth place.
At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu Molitor was fifth.
At the European Championships 2012, she was also fifth with a distance of 60.99 m.
At the 2012 Olympic Games in London Molitor reached 62.89 m, and thus gained the sixth place.
At the World Championships in 2013, she took the 13th place in qualifying and missed doing the final by 7 cm.
Katharina Molitor has a competition weight of 79 kg at a height of 1.83 m.
Career Volleyball
As a thirteen-year Katharina Molitor began to play the TV Bedburg volleyball. A year later she moved already to Oberaußemer VV. In 2006, the sporting and social science student in volleyball for TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the second women's team, with the 2008 they move up to the Second Volleyball Bundesliga Nord managed. Beginning of 2009, the Universal player has even been used in the first team of Leverkuserinnen in the first Bundesliga as a middle blocker. Since Bayer 04 subsequently withdrew from the German top flight due to financial constraints, Katharina Molitor played in the 2010/11 season back in the second division, as far as it would allow athletics competitions and training. In 2011 she was able to rise again in the Bundesliga.
Private
Molitor studied sports, mathematics and social sciences teaching at secondary schools and vocational colleges at the University of Wuppertal.