Marco Jakobs

Marco Jakobs (born May 30, 1974 in Unna ) is a former German athlete and bobsleigh driver .

He spent his childhood in the village of Hemmerde . The fourth of the European Junior Championships in 1993 in discus throwing was five times among the top eight at German Championships between 1995 and 2003. His best distance is 64.96 meters from 1997. He surpassed the qualification norm for international championships several times, but in the end Jakobs could never prevail against world and Olympic champions like Lars Riedel and Jürgen Schult .

Nevertheless, he also became Olympic champion, world champion and European champion, namely in the bobsleigh track. After reunification, trial training sessions for track and field athletes were also regularly carried out in West Germany to test their suitability for bobsleigh. Marco Jakobs was able to convince with both speed and strength and was part of the team of bobsleigh pilot Christoph Langen for years .

At the 1998 Olympic Games he won gold in the four-man bobsleigh together with Langen, Markus Zimmermann and Olaf Hampel . In 2001 he became world champion in the two-man bobsleigh with Lange and European champion in 2003. For these successes he received the silver bay leaf .

Due to health problems with his back, he stopped doing competitive sports shortly afterwards. Parallel to his sporting career, he studied sport science at the German Sport University Cologne (DSHS) . After graduating as a qualified sports scientist , Marco Jakobs initially worked in a doctor's practice as a sports therapist and personal trainer from 2003 to 2006 . Since then he has worked in pharmaceuticals sales and is national sales director for a manufacturer of rehabilitation and strength training equipment .

Marco Jakobs lives in Cologne .

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Klaus Amrhein: Biographical handbook on the history of German athletics 1898-2005 , 2 volumes, Darmstadt 2005 published on Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft