Arthur Abele

Arthur Abele
Arthur Abele (2016)
nation	Germany
birthday	30th July 1986 (age 34)
place of birth	Mutlangen ,  Germany
size	184 cm
Weight	80 kg
job	Sports soldier
Career
discipline	Decathlon
Best performance	8605 points
society	SSV Ulm 1846
Trainer	Christopher Hallmann
status	active
Medal table
European championships 1 × 0 × 0 × European Indoor Championships 0 × 1 × 0 × U20 European Championships 0 × 1 × 0 × German championships 1 × 0 × 1 ×
European championships gold Berlin 2018 Decathlon  European Indoor Championships silver Prague 2015 Heptathlon  Junior European Championships silver Kaunas 2005 Decathlon  German championships gold Situation 2013 Decathlon bronze Nuremberg 2018 4 × 400 m
last change: August 8, 2018

Arthur Abele (2014)

Arthur Abele (born July 30, 1986 in Mutlangen ) is a German decathlete . His greatest success so far was winning the European Championship title in Berlin in 2018 .

Life

In 2005 the athlete starting for TSV Hüttlingen in Kaunas became Vice Junior European Champion with 7634 points. In 2007 he won the all- around meeting in Ratingen with a personal best of 8269 points and thus qualified for the World Championships in Osaka . There he finished ninth with 8243 points.

In 2008 he finished second in Ratingen and qualified for the Olympic Games in Beijing with 8372 points . There he had to give up due to an injury.

At the end of 2008 Arthur Abele moved from SSV Ulm 1846 within the Württemberg Athletics Association to VfL Sindelfingen . At a height of 1.84 m, his competition weight is 80 kg. His strongest disciplines are the hurdles sprint and the 1,500 meter run.

In 2009 he was out of shape due to an injury, so he failed to qualify for the World Championships in Berlin.

At the end of 2012 Abele moved back to SSV Ulm 1846. After years of bad luck with injuries and unfinished all-around battles, successes returned in the summer of 2013. In June, the decathlete scored 8151 points, and he won the German All-Around Championships in Lage with 8251 points. In 2014 he finished fifth at the European Championships in Zurich .

In 2016 Abele won in Ratingen with 8605 points, which was a new personal and world annual best. At the Olympic Games in Rio he finished 15th with 8013 points.

On 16./17. June 2018 Abele won his first decathlon after the Olympic Games in Ratingen with 8481 points. Until then, he had only been able to contest eight competitions since his first victory in Ratingen in 2007 due to injuries. On August 8, 2018, he became European champion in the decathlon at the European Championships in Berlin with 8,431 points.

Due to persistent problems in the ankle, Abele had to take a break for the entire season in 2019.

Personal best

100 m	10.67 s	June 28, 2014, Zurich
Long jump	7.57 m	May 28, 2016, Götzis
Shot put	15.93 m	June 16, 2018, Ratingen
high jump	2.04 m	June 16, 2007, Ratingen
400 m	47.98 s	June 21, 2008, Ratingen
110 m hurdles	13.55 s	August 13, 2014, Zurich
Discus throw	46.20 m	June 26, 2016, Ratingen
Pole vault	5.01 m	July 27, 2014, Marburg
Javelin throw	71.89 m	June 26, 2016, Ratingen
1500 m	4: 15.35 min	June 22, 2008, Ratingen
Decathlon	8605 points	June 26, 2016, Ratingen

Awards

• 2018: "Sports Soldier of the Year" of the Bundeswehr
• 2018: Third in the election for athlete of the year
• 2018: Sportsman of the month August

literature

• Hannes Lockenvitz: Arthur Abele: more than a decathlete - the rocky road to success. Edition Lockenvitz, Emmendingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-061970-0 .

Web links

Commons : Arthur Abele  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Arthur Abele in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portraits: Arthur Abele. In: Leichtathletik.de. 
• 6–12 Aug 2018 European Athletics Championships Berlin: The German team. (pdf, 21.3 MB) In: Leichtathletik.de. August 4, 2018, p. 6 ( DLV team brochure). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Middel: Arthur Abele: “Finally a flight of highs again” - Interview. In: Leichtathletik.de. August 26, 2013, archived from the original on November 7, 2013 ; accessed on August 8, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Martin Neumann: 8,605 points: "King" Arthur Abele crowns Ratinger Meeting. In: Leichtathletik.de. June 26, 2016, accessed August 8, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Schäfer and Abele win in Ratingen. In: faz.net , June 17, 2018.
4. ↑ Peter Ahrens: On the throne. In: Spiegel Online , August 9, 2018.
5. ↑ Bad luck with injuries never ends: Abele's World Cup is over . In: sport.de, June 4, 2019 (accessed October 4, 2019).
6. ↑ Arthur Abele honored as "Sports Soldier of the Year".  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Leichtathletik.de . December 1, 2018, accessed December 2, 2018.