Philipp Boy

Philipp Boy ( born July 23, 1987 in Schwedt / Oder ) is a former German gymnast. His greatest successes in gymnastics were the silver medal in the all around at the Gymnastics World Championships in 2010 and 2011.

Origin

Philipp Boy began his career at Turner TSV Blue White 65 Schwedt under the direction of Manfred Paschke. At SC Cottbus Karsten Oelsch Last time was his coach.

Boy in 2009 fell from his training as a banker in order to focus solely on gymnastics. He belonged to the sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr.

Career

In 2007, Boy won the bronze medal in the team final at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Stuttgart, reaching 18th in the all-around final.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, he finished fourth in the team final. At the German Championships 2009 Boy won the gold medal on the floor, he was second on the horse and reached 86,300 points for third place in the all-around final. At the European Championships 2010 in Birmingham Boy won with the German team with 266 150 points, the gold medal in the team final and won together with Hambüchen the bronze medal in the high bar finals.

The final international breakthrough Boy in the World Championships 2010 in Rotterdam. After winning the team competition, together with Hambüchen, Thomas Taranu, Eugen Spiridonov, Sebastian Krimmer and Matthias Fahrig the bronze medal behind China and Japan, he scored the silver medal in the all-around individual behind the Japanese Kohei Uchimura with 90.048 points his first individual medal at world Championships. In the final stretch, he finished fourth behind Hambüchen. In addition, Boy was honored as the most elegant gymnasts in the World Cup with the Longines Prize for Elegance 2010.

At the European Championships 2011 in Berlin, he became the successor of Hambüchen the gold medal in the all around in front of the Romanian Flavius ​​Koczi and the tied Daniel Purvis ( Great Britain) and Mykola Kuksenkow (Ukraine). On the stretch he won the silver medal.

At the 2011 World Championships, he finished second in the all around. In the Summer Olympics 2012, he was unable to repeat earlier successes due to health problems. In the all-around skills, he reached no apparatus finals and finished only 17th place. So when his fellow countrymen Hambüchen and Marcel Nguyen in qualifying lay before him, he had a settlement according to which provides for a maximum of two per country final starter, avoid participating. Unlike Hambüchen Boy did not want to miss out on participating in international competitions as well as the European Championships in the Olympic year. In retrospect, he admitted a wrong preparation for the Olympic Games, as well as month-long problems on the high bar.

On 1 December 2012, he resigned from gymnastics. He explained his mental problems after a fall on the horizontal bar a year earlier. In addition, he had recently struggled with numerous injuries.

Achievements

  • World Championships in Tokyo ( JAP) - second all-around ( 90.530 )
  • European Championships Berlin ( GER) - 1st all-around ( 88.875 ), second stretch
  • World Championships in Rotterdam ( NED) - 4 Reck, third team, second all-around ( 90.048 )
  • German Championships Berlin - 4th all-around, 1st pommel horse, 2nd floor
  • European Championships Birmingham ( GBR) - 1st Team, 3rd Reck
  • German Championships Frankfurt am Main - 3rd all-around, 1st floor, 2nd horse
  • Champions Trophy Frankfurt am Main - 7th place
  • European Championships Milan ( ITA) - 4 Mehrkampf
  • Stuttgart Champions Trophy - 8th Place
  • XXIX. Summer Olympic Games in Beijing - 4th Team, 13th all-around ( 90.675 )
  • German Championships Chemnitz - 2nd all-around
  • European Championships in Lausanne ( SUI) - 2nd team
  • Stuttgart World Championships - 3rd Team, 18th Final More Fight
  • German Championships - 2nd all-around, 5th pommel horse and rings
  • World Championships in Aarhus (DEN ) - 7th team
  • German Junior Championships - 1st all-around and pommel horse
  • European Junior Championships - 2nd team
  • German Junior Championships - 1st all-around, pommel horse and parallel bars
  • German Junior Championships - 1st all-around, pommel horse, jump, rings, parallel bars and high bar

Honors

2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2010 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2008 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2010 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2011 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics 2009 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships
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