Charlene Woitha

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Charlene Woitha athletics
nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 21st August 1993 (age 27)
place of birth Berlin , Germany
size 178 cm
Weight 80 kg
job Sports soldier
Career
discipline Hammer throw
Best performance 70.98 m (2016)
society SCC Berlin , first club: SV Preußen Berlin
Trainer Ron Hütcher, formerly: Michael Deyhle,
Steffen Reumann, first trainer: Günter Roick
status active
Medal table
German championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 3 × bronze
DLV logo German championships
bronze Nuremberg 2015 67.03 m
bronze Kassel 2016 67.06 m
bronze Nuremberg 2018 64.92 m
gold Berlin 2019 67.57 m
last change: August 4, 2019

Charlene Woitha (born August 21, 1993 in Berlin ) is a German athlete who specializes in hammer throwing.

career path

Woitha attended the Coubertin-Gymnasium in Berlin, a sports high school and one of the two locations of the school and competitive sports center in Berlin . In 2013 she graduated from high school. She then attended the Bbw Academy for Business Management Training for a year and has been a sports soldier in the Bundeswehr since September 1, 2014 .

Athletic career

When Charlene Woitha was 17 years old, at the suggestion of her trainer, she switched from heptathlon to hammer throw , which, according to the teenager at the time, initially gnawed at self-esteem.

In 2008 she was the German runner-up with the team at the student all-around and block championships in the heptathlon, and after the reorientation to the hammer throw increased within a few months from 38.46 m in the summer of 2010 to the following spring to distances of over 50 meters.

In 2014 Woitha competed internationally for the first time, at the Winter Throwing European Cup in Leiria, Portugal, and finished fifth in the U23 with 65.03 m.

In 2015 a 6th place was added to the U23 European Championships in Tallinn .

In 2016 Woitha took 3rd place at the German Championships and was later nominated for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she was eliminated in qualifying as at the European Championships in Amsterdam .

2017 was overshadowed by two injuries and an involuntary change of coach.

In 2018, Woitha and the team took 1st place at the Winter Throwing European Cup in Leiria , to which she contributed with an 8th place in the individual.

In 2019 Woitha became German hammer throw champion for the first time.

Woitha has been part of the perspective squad of the German Athletics Association (DLV) since the competitive sports reform and was previously in the B squad .

Club affiliations

Charlene Woitha started for SCC Berlin on January 1, 2014 and was previously at SV Preußen Berlin .

Annual bests

Hammer (4 kg)

2010 38.46 m
2011 50.41 m
2012 54.40 m
2013 61.79 m
2014 65.92 m
2015 68.05 m
2016 70.98 m PB
2017 66.80 m
2018 69.34 m
Personal best

On June 24, 2016 Woitha threw 70.98 meters at the 17th  Zeulenroda -Meeting .

successes

national
international

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Philip Häfner: Charlene Woitha on Betty Heidler's footsteps , hammer throw, on: Leichtathletik.de, March 23, 2014, accessed July 29, 2016
  2. ↑ German all-around school / block championships German all-around school / block championships Rhede, from August 9, 2008 - August 10, 2008 - ratings , on: Leichtathletik.de, accessed August 13, 2016
  3. ↑ European Throwing Cup - Leiria 2014 , on: european-athletics.org, accessed August 13, 2016
  4. ↑ Diana Sujew and Charlene Woitha join the Olympic team , pm / pr, on: Leichtathletik.de, from July 25, 2016, accessed on August 13, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Woitha, Charlene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Woitha, Charleene (misspelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hammer thrower
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin