Carlo Thränhardt

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Carlo Thränhardt (born July 5, 1957 in Bad Lauchstädt ) is a former German athlete in high jump .

Life

Carlo Thränhardt, whose parents had left the GDR before the Wall was built, initially belonged to the sports club ASV Köln , later to the LG Bayer Leverkusen and the OSC Berlin . With a height of 1.99 m, he had a competition weight of 85 kg.

He won his first international medal with silver at the 1981 European Indoor Championships in Grenoble . At the European Indoor Championships in 1983 , he secured his only international title when he jumped 2.32 m. Three more silver medals followed at the European Indoor Championships in 1984 , 1986 and 1987 . At the European Championships in 1986 he was third behind Igor Paklin and Sergei Maltschenko .

On February 26, 1988, he set an indoor world record with 2.42 m in the Schöneberg sports hall in Berlin , which was recognized as a one-off special case as an outdoor world record, as it meant the setting of Patrik Sjöberg's record . In 1991 it was removed from the outdoor record lists again, but was retained as an indoor world record and so far in 2010 it is the second best performance ever achieved in the hall after Javier Sotomayor's world record of 2.43 m from 1989. He set his personal best in outdoor competitions with 2.37 m on September 2, 1984 in Rieti , it is also the German record (as of August 2018) .

In 1986 and 1991 he was German high jump champion, and was runner-up six times. Thränhardt is a two-time Olympic participant. 1984 in Los Angeles when Dietmar Mögenburg won , he was tenth in the final fight with 2.15 m skipped, but had crossed 2.24 m in qualifying. He did a little better in 1988 in Seoul , but in a high-class competition, finishing seventh with 2.31 m, he couldn't come close to the winner Hennadij Awdjejenko, who jumped 2.38 m, the Olympic record .

In 1993 he ended his active career and became a TV presenter, book author and increasingly appeared as a key note speaker and talk guest at companies. In addition to motivation, goals, and the desire to perform, his lecture topics also included fair play (doping) and work-life balance.

In 2004 Carlo Thränhardt was in the headlines because he appeared in the RTL show Ich bin ein Star - Get me out of here! occurred. He was married to his long-term partner Constanze Linge (later Linge-Thränhardt) from May 2010 until her death in January 2019 and has a son with her.

At the International High Jump Meeting Eberstadt , Thränhardt jumped a new world record in the M55 age group in 2012 with 1.87 meters. At the 17th Bühler high jump meeting he increased his world best on June 21, 2013 to 1.89 meters, and on August 23, 2013 at the 35th international high jump meeting in Eberstadt to 1.90 m.

On February 12, 2015, Carlo Thränhardt was appointed by the German Tennis Association to the Davis Cup team's coaching and supervisory staff as the new fitness and mental coach . For several years he has been looking after some of the best German tennis players on the all-weather sports facility in Munich-Unterföhring. From 1993 to 1996 Carlo Thränhardt was responsible for Boris Becker's athletics and fitness.

Medals in international competitions

Fonts

  • Temporary Heroes. Talks with Olympic champions. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-462-02372-1 (together with Irmgard Stoffels).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IAAF athlete profile
  2. ^ Advertisement by Constanze Linge-Thränhardt. In: SZ commemoration. January 16, 2019, accessed January 17, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Christian Fuchs: Flash News of the Day . Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft mbH - www.leichtathletik.de. May 21, 2010. Retrieved May 21, 2010.
  4. ↑ Ewald Walker: Carlo Tränhardt can still do it: 1.87 meters , www.leichtathletik.de August 17, 2012
  5. ↑ Jörg Reckemeier:Thränhardt and Zacharias with records, Leichtathletik.de, July 10, 2013
  6. ↑ Ewald Walker:Carlo Thränhardt in Eberstadt in a record mood, Leichtathletik.de, 23 August 2013
personal data
SURNAME Thränhardt, Carlo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Lauchstädt