Susanne Keil

Susanne Keil ( born May 18, 1978 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a former German track and field athlete and Olympian in the hammer throw.

Susanne Keil launched by the end of 2004 for the LG Eintracht Frankfurt, then for TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen, she had at a height of 1.72 m, a competition weight of 69 kg. From the late 1990s until her career in late 2007 was one wedge of the best German hammer throwers, and for an extended world leaders. Your personal best of 72.74 m she achieved on 15 July 2005 in Nikiti, this performance was at that time German record, overall they put on four German records, including three in 2003 Susanne Keil was German champion in 2002 and 2003. ; 2001 and 2004 to 2006 she was runner-up. She was the first German who threw the hammer over the 70 -meter mark, than they were when traditional hammer union meeting held by that record improved in June 2003 Fränkisch- Crumbach to 71.93 m.

Ironically, in the Olympic year 2004 Susanne Keil could not match their strong performances from the previous year due to an elbow injury. Your Jahresbestweite it achieved a 67.77 m in July in Braunschweig. In the 2004 Olympics she failed with disappointing for them 66.35 m in the qualification. My internationally valuable result was the fifth place at the 2003 World Championships with a distance of 69.43 m. At the World Championships 2005, she was Twelfth, 2001 already came in qualifying the corner. At the European level, she won the title bouts of the juniors in 1997 with 59.22 m the Bronze Medal in the active region remained in tenth place at the European Championships in 2002 her best result. Wedge joined in January 2003 from an education as a publishing executive. She joined after the end of their athletes career to a job with the Remscheid General-Anzeiger.