Phillips Idowu

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Phillips Idowu

Phillips Idowu MBE (born December 30, 1978 in the London Borough of Hackney ) is a British triple jumper who won the world championship in 2009 and the European championship in 2010.

Life

After a fourth place at the Junior European Championships in 1997 and a fifth place at the U-23 European Championships in 1999, Idowu reached a grand final in the adult class for the first time at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, with 17.08 m he finished sixth. 2001 Idowu finished ninth at the World Championships in Edmonton . At the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, he made the longest leap of his career, at least outdoors. Starting for England , he won silver with 17.68 m behind his compatriot Jonathan Edwards , who reached 17.86 m. A month later at the European Championships in Munich , both could not build on their performance from Manchester. Idowu reached 17.54 m in qualification, but in the final he had to be modest with 16.92 m and fifth place, Edwards was third behind Christian Olsson and Charles Friedek . The 2003 season had to skip Idowu because of a knee injury, in 2004 and 2005 he entered, but did not achieve a placement in major championships.

Idowu celebrated his comeback at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in 2006 , with 17.45 m he had a half meter lead over the second-placed South African Godfrey Khotso Mokoena . At the European Championships in Gothenburg in 2006 , he finished fifth again four years after Munich with 17.02 m. Half a year later at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Birmingham in 2007 , the British achieved a double victory; Idowu won with 17.56 m ahead of Nathan Douglas with 17.47 m. At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka Idowu was sixth with 17.09 m.

He came much further at the World Indoor Championships in Valencia in 2008 , with 17.75 m he jumped a new personal best and was 28 centimeters ahead of the Cuban Arnie David Giralt , who won silver. At the Olympic Games in 2008 Idowu won the silver medal behind Nelson Évora with 17.62 m . At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, he improved his seven-year-old personal best by five centimeters and won the world title ahead of Nelson Évora. At the end of the season he was voted Europe's Athlete of the Year .

A year later he triumphed again at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona and improved his personal best to 17.81 m. In 2011 he won silver at the World Championships . At the Olympic Games in London he did not qualify in front of a home crowd.

Idowu is 1.92 m tall and weighs 89 kg. He starts for the Belgrave Harriers. For years, his image was based more on constantly changing hair colors and piercings than on great competitive qualities, but this is exactly what he showed in 2007 and 2008 at least in the hall.

Phillips Idowu at the Beijing 2008 Olympics

Top performances

  • Long jump: 7.83 m (2000)
  • Triple jump: 17.81 m (2010), in the hall 17.75 m (2008)

literature

Web links

Commons : Phillips Idowu  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Fuchs: Mo Farah wins election - Robert Harting fifth , www.leichtathletik.de October 5, 2012
  2. ↑ Top favorites do not stumble; Scrap strong eighth , HDsports.at, August 7, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Idowu, Phillips
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English athlete
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH London Borough of Hackney