Christoph Harting
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birthday | 10th April 1990 (age 30) | |||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth |
Cottbus , GDR![]() |
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size | 207 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 120 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||
job | Federal Police Officer | |||||||||||||||||||||
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discipline | Discus throw , shot put | |||||||||||||||||||||
Best performance | 68.37 m (discus) 17.75 m (ball) |
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society | SCC Berlin | |||||||||||||||||||||
Trainer | Torsten Lönnfors | |||||||||||||||||||||
status | active | |||||||||||||||||||||
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last change: July 21, 2018 |
Christoph Harting (born April 10, 1990 in Cottbus ) is a German discus thrower and was Olympic champion in this discipline in 2016 . He is 2.07 m tall and has a competition weight of 120 kg.
career path
Harting is a federal police officer with the rank of police chief . Since 2011, he has been a member of the Kienbaum Federal Police Sports School , the federal police’s top-level sports sponsoring facility for summer and year-round sports.
Athletic career
Christoph Harting won the German U23 Junior Championship three times in a row (2010 to 2012) and was fifth in the U23 European Championship in 2011 . By winning the German Championship in 2015 he qualified for the 2015 World Championships in Beijing , where he finished eighth. He finished fourth at the 2016 European Championships .
At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , he won the gold medal four years after his brother Robert's triumph . For a long time he was in second place in this competition behind the five rounds leading Poland Piotr Małachowski , until he was pushed to fourth place in the last round by the later fourth Martin Kupper and bronze medalist Daniel Jasinski . With a new personal best of 68.37 m, Harting took the lead with the last throw of the competition. Like the other medalists, he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf for his Olympic victory on November 1, 2016 by Federal President Joachim Gauck .
In 2017 he was fourth at the German Championships with 62.51 m and with this distance failed to qualify for the 2017 World Championships . At the 2018 European Championships in Berlin, he failed to qualify without a valid attempt.
Club affiliations
Harting initially started for SC Charlottenburg and is currently a member of SCC Berlin .
Trivia
Christoph Harting is the younger brother of the Olympic discus winner from 2012 , Robert Harting. The brothers are the first sibling pair to win the same individual competition at the Summer Olympics in direct succession.
successes
National
- German U23 champion 2010, 2011, 2012
- Third DM 2013
- German champion 2015 , 2018
- Second DM 2016
- Fourth DM 2017
International
- Fifth U23 European Championship 2011
- Eighth World Cup 2015
- Fourth Euro 2016
- Olympic winner 2016
- Fourth European Winter Throwing Cup 2018
Behavior after the Olympic victory in 2016
Stir the behavior Harting made in 2016 after his Olympic victory, when he refused to journalists in the stadium all the interviews and at the awards ceremony during the National Anthem crossed her arms and sometimes whistled or mitschunkelte, which he then also DLV -President Clemens Prokop and the boss de mission of the German Olympic team Michael Vesper has been publicly criticized. He later apologized for his behavior on the grounds that he had not yet processed his success at the time of the award ceremony. Individual media also self-critically reported that Harting's behavior was over-staged in the media as a reaction to his rejection of interviews with individual journalists after his Olympic victory.
Web links
- Christopher Harting in the database of World Athletics (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christoph Harting. Athlete profiles. In: iaaf.org, accessed December 3, 2016.
- ↑ a b Profile on Leichtathletik.de. Retrieved August 3, 2015 .
- ↑ Portrait at the Federal Police ( memento of the original from January 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on January 25, 2016)
- ↑ Friedhard Teuffel: The Diskus Brothers. tagesspiegel.de, accessed on August 3, 2015 .
- ↑ Press release from the Office of the Federal President of November 1, 2016: Awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf. Retrieved March 31, 2017 .
- ↑ Michael Reinsch: The Hartings' brother fight with nuances. Frankfurter Allgemeine datum = 2017-07-10, accessed on August 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Olympic champion Christoph Harting is already out. (No longer available online.) Frankfurter Allgemeine, August 7, 2018, archived from the original on August 10, 2018 ; accessed on August 12, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bmallon: Harting Brothers and Consecutive Olympic gold. OlympStats, August 13, 2016, accessed August 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Silke Morrissey: Christoph Harting causes excitement in and off the ring. Leichtathletik.de, August 14, 2016, accessed August 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Harting apologizes for his national anthem dance. Zeit Online, August 14, 2016, accessed August 15, 2016 .
- ^ The revenge of the media on Christoph Harting. Welt Online, August 15, 2016, accessed August 30, 2016 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Harting, Christoph |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German discus thrower |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1990 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cottbus , GDR |