Betty Heidler

Betty Heidler
Betty Heidler at the award ceremony in Osaka
nation	Germany
birthday	14th October 1983 (age 36)
place of birth	East Berlin ,  GDR
size	175 cm
Weight	92 kg
job	Police Officer (Federal Police)
Career
discipline	Hammer throw
Best performance	79.42 m
society	LG Eintracht Frankfurt
Trainer	Michael Deyhle
status	resigned
End of career	2016
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 0 × World championships 1 × 2 × 0 × European championships 1 × 1 × 0 × Summer Universiade 1 × 0 × 0 × U23 European Championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver London 2012 77.12 m  World championships gold Osaka 2007 74.76 m silver Berlin 2009 77.12 m silver Daegu 2011 76.06 m  European championships gold Barcelona 2010 76.38 m silver Amsterdam 2016 75.77 m  Universiade gold Belgrade 2009 75.83 m  U23 European Championships silver Erfurt 2005 69.64 m
last change: October 11, 2016

Betty Heidler (born October 14, 1983 in East Berlin ) is a former German hammer thrower .

Sporting successes

In 2001 and 2002 she became German Junior Champion, and from 2002 to 2005 she was German Junior Champion without interruption. In 2005 she became U23 Vice European Champion.

In her first competitions in the adult area, Betty Heidler finished eleventh at the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis and fourth at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens . In 2005 she became German champion for the first time , but failed in qualifying at the World Championships. In 2006, like every year until 2012, she defended her national championship title and ended the season with a victory at the World Athletics Finals in Stuttgart after finishing fifth at the European Championships with 70.89 m. At the Universiade 2009 in Belgrade , Heidler won with a championship record of 75.83 m.

She celebrated her greatest success at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka . With a width of 74.76 m, she became world champion with two centimeters ahead of the Cuban Yipsi Moreno . The following year she reached the Olympic Games in Beijing after two invalid attempts in the preliminary fight with 70.06 m in ninth place, after she had thrown 71.51 m in qualifying. With a German record of 77.12 m, Betty Heidler was runner-up at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin . She only had to admit defeat to the world record (77.95 m) throwing Polish Anita Włodarczyk . She won gold at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona .

On May 21, 2011, Heidler set a new world record with 79.42 m at the International Throwing Meeting in Halle (Saale) . At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu , she threw 76.06 m and won the silver medal. In the same year she was voted Germany's athlete of the year .

In 2012 she surprisingly failed in qualifying at the European Championships in Helsinki . However, Heidler qualified for the Olympic Games in London . In London, Heidler won the silver medal with 77.13 m after one of her attempts was not included in the list of results due to a software error that was based on a judge's error, as Heidler's width exactly matched that of the athlete throwing in front of her. According to Heidler, it was immediately clear that the experiment was "in the system". The distance was later corrected to 77.12 m and the protest of the Chinese team was rejected, whose athlete Zhang Wenxiu had dropped from third to fourth place due to the decision. At the 2013 World Championships in Moscow , she failed in qualifying. She won the bronze medal at the 2016 European Championships in Amsterdam . She finished fourth at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . On October 11, 2016, it was announced that Betty Heidler would subsequently be awarded the silver medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, because the original winner, Tatjana Lysenko, was doped. Heidler moves up to second place.

On December 7, 2012, she was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by the Federal President for her achievements.

Others

Betty Heidler is 1.75 m tall. She started for LG Eintracht Frankfurt and her trainer was Michael Deyhle. She was police chief and member of the sports promotion group of the federal police . In October 2007 she completed a Bachelor of Laws degree at the Fernuniversität in Hagen . Since the winter semester 2008/09 she has been studying law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In autumn 2013 Heidler moved to the Humboldt University in Berlin . Heidler is a great-granddaughter of the Berlin high jumper Martin Riefstahl , who was a participant and torchbearer at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin , and a great cousin of hurdler Cornelia Oschkenat .

Awards

• Rudolf Harbig Memorial Prize 2014
• Hessen's sportswoman of the year 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012

Web links

Commons : Betty Heidler  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of Betty Heidler
• Betty Heidler in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait on Leichtathletik.de
• Athlete portrait on the Eintracht Frankfurt website
• Betty Heidler in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete portrait of the ARD sports show

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Athletics - EM: "Underground": Heidler fails in EM qualification. In: Focus Online. June 29, 2012, accessed December 7, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Uwe Martin: 18 Hessians also fight for Olympic glory. In: faz.net. July 26, 2012, accessed December 7, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Jury overturns scandal judgment - Heidler wins bronze. In: Spiegel Online. August 10, 2012, accessed December 7, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Result of the competition, as of 2019 (accessed December 11, 2019)
5. ↑ www.iaaf.org
6. ^ IAAF results list
7. ↑ Late Olympic silver for Betty Heidler Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung online, October 11, 2016
8. ↑ http://www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/...DE/...121107-Silbernes  ( 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. Bay leaf html  
9. ↑ www.bundespolizei.de ( Memento from January 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ www.wiesbadener-kurier.de  ( 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.  
11. ↑ http://www.leichtathletik.de/index.php?SiteID=28&NewsID=45412&et_cid=1&et_lid=1 , accessed on November 25, 2013
12. ↑ frankfurt.prinz.de  ( 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.  
13. ↑ www.tagblatt.de ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2013 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.