Tim Lobinger
Tim Lobinger ( born September 3, 1972 in the Rhine river ) is a former German pole vaulter and current athletics coach of the football club RB Leipzig.
Sporting career
Since the late 1990s, he is one of the best pole vaulters in Germany. His strongest season performances he achieved in 1997 and 1999, when he became the first German outdoor 6.00 meters jumped over (ASV - sports festival in Cologne, Stadion Cologne - Muengersdorf ).
His greatest successes are the two European Championship medals. At the European Championships in Munich in 2002, he won bronze at the European Championships 2006 in Gothenburg, he won silver. He also won at the World Indoor Championships in Moscow in 2006.
Olympic Games, however, proceeded rather disappointing for Lobinger. In Atlanta in 1996, he finished seventh, 2000 in Sydney, he came on the thirteenth and in Athens in 2004 to eleventh place. In Beijing in 2008 he had already failed in qualifying.
In World Athletics Championships Lobinger failed to win a medal: 1993 in Stuttgart he left in qualifying, 1995 in Gothenburg, he finished eleventh, 1997 in Athens, fourth, and in Seville, sixth, 2003 in Paris / Saint- Denis and 2005 in Helsinki Fifth 1999 2007 in Osaka eighth.
The athlete regarded as eccentric caused a stir on several occasions. At the World Finals 2003 in Monaco he made after winning the title from joy a lap of honor around the stadium, pulled down his pants and showed the audience as well as the official cameras the bare butt. For this he had to apologize later, the World Association.
Lobinger 2011 was awarded the Rudolf Harbig Memorial Award.
He has a contest weight of 85 kg at a height of 1.93 m.
Private
Lobinger was married from 1994 to 2003 with the former triple jumper Petra Lobinger (born Laux ). The couple had two children. In August 2011 Lobinger married in Bad Wiessee television presenter Alina Baumann (now Alina Lobinger ). With his wife and son Tyger he has resided since September 2013 in Leipzig.
Others
- Lobinger worked occasionally as a male model. He was therefore also been called " Anna Kournikova of Pole Vault ".
- In 2011 he took part in the fourth season of RTL dance show Let's Dance, where he occupied with his dance partner Isabel Edvardsson the penultimate place.
- In 2011, he worked as a personal fitness trainer for the football player Aliaksandr Hleb.
- June 30, 2012, he joined the fourth season of hit at the Star against Steffen candidate and won in eight games with a final score of 13:23.
- Since the 2012/13 season, he is athletic trainer at the current football third division club RB Leipzig.
- Tim Lobinger is the official ambassador for the German José Carreras Leukemia Foundation and Interplast -Germany.