Charles Friedek

Charles Friedek
Full name	Charles Michael Friedek
nation	Germany
birthday	August 26, 1971
place of birth	Giessen ,  Germany
size	184 cm
Weight	82 kg
job	Athletics coach
Career
discipline	Triple jump
Best performance	17.59 m
status	resigned
Medal table
World championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Indoor world championships 1 × 0 × 0 × European championships 0 × 1 × 0 × European Indoor Championships 1 × 1 × 0 ×
World championships gold Seville 1999 17.59 m  Indoor world championships gold Maebashi 1999 17.18 m  European championships silver Munich 2002 17.33 m  European Indoor Championships gold Ghent 2000 17.28 m silver Valencia 1998 17.15 m
last change: October 14, 2015

Charles Michael Friedek (born August 26, 1971 in Gießen ) is a former German athlete and current athletics trainer who became world champion in the triple jump at the 1999 World Athletics Championships .

Active career

Friedek's great successes were winning the silver medal at the European Championships in 2002 and the titles of Indoor World Champion 1999, Indoor European Champion 2000, Vice Indoor European Champion 1998, World Cup Winner 1998 and Grand Prix Winner 1998. In 2005 Charles Friedek was successful again as the European Cup winner. He also won seventeen titles at German championships. Friedek was an Olympic participant in 1996, 2000 and 2004. In 1996 he was fourteenth, in 2000 he reached the final despite a torn biceps tendon and was twelfth. In 2004 Friedek had to abandon the competition injured after two invalid attempts.

Friedek was not nominated for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing . Although he fulfilled the required Olympic standard - two jumps over 17 meters - in two attempts on June 25, 2008 during a competition in Wesel, the German Olympic Sports Confederation should have achieved it in two different events. The German Sports Arbitration Court at DIS, however, followed Friedek's view and confirmed that the Olympic standard had been met. However, the DOSB did not feel bound by the judgment of the sports court and refused to participate. Friedek's appeal against this decision was unsuccessful at the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court . Friedek then sued the German Olympic Sports Confederation for damages before the Frankfurt am Main Regional Court , whose 13th civil chamber still upheld its claim in the first instance with its judgment of December 15, 2011, but the judgment was overturned by the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court on December 20, 2013. On October 13, 2015, the Federal Court of Justice ruled in the final instance in favor of Friedeks. The BGH referred back to the Frankfurt Regional Court about the amount of the compensation. Before that, Friedek and the DOSB agreed on a settlement in 2016.

Coaching

From May 2010 Friedek worked as a trainer for the athletics association ASV DSHS Cologne, where he was responsible for the horizontal jumpers group. He is also a member of the trainer team at the IAAF training center “ATC Cologne”, where he looked after the Asian champion Marestalla Sunang and Charisse Bacchus, among others. In 2016 Friedek became DLV national trainer for the triple jump.

honors and awards

• 2007 Rudolf Harbig Memorial Prize

Personal best

• Triple jump : 17.59 m, Seville, 1999
  • Hall: 17.28 m, Gent, 2000

Web links

• Charles Friedek in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Charles Friedek in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Entry in the Leverkusen who's who

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Friedek creates a small miracle . BZ online . September 24, 2000. Retrieved February 1, 2011.
2. ↑ Peter Schmitt: DLV suggests Charles Friedek for the Olympics . www.leichtathletik.de. July 20, 2008. Retrieved February 1, 2011.
3. ↑ Defeat in court - Friedek's Olympic dream burst . Spiegel Online . July 30, 2008. Retrieved February 1, 2011.
4. ^ "Trial because of non-nomination - triple jumper Friedek wins against DOSB" in Spiegel Online from December 15, 2011, accessed on December 15, 2011
5. ^ Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main, order of December 20, 2013 - 8 U 25/12
6. ↑ Non -nomination for Olympia: Friedek wins trial against DOSB , Spiegel Online, October 13, 2015
7. ↑ Dispute over non-nomination: Friedek three-jumper and DOSB agree spiegel.de April 5, 2016
8. ^ Charles Friedek jumping trainer in Cologne. www.leichtathletik.de, accessed on February 1, 2011 . 
9. ^ ^{A b} New DLV national coach: Charles Friedek for the triple jump. www.leichtathletik.de, accessed on September 24, 2019 .