Christina Obergföll
Christina Obergföll 
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| birthday | 22nd August 1981 (age 39) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Lahr / Black Forest , Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| size | 175 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 71 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Javelin throw | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best performance | 70.20 m 
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| society | LG Offenburg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Trainer | Werner Daniels, Boris Obergföll | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | resigned | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| End of career | 3rd September 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Christina Obergföll (born August 22, 1981 in Lahr / Black Forest ) is a former German javelin thrower . Her greatest achievement was winning the gold medal at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow.
Athletic career
Christina Obergföll, who grew up in Mahlberg , achieved her first successes at TuS Mahlberg.
As the winner of two world championship and two European championship silver medals as well as two silver medals at the Olympic Games , she is the German record holder and former holder of the European record (70.20 m). Together with Barbora Špotáková , Osleidys Menéndez and Maria Abakumowa , she is one of the javelin throwers who threw over 70 meters several times.
Christina Obergföll starts under the coach Werner Daniels for the LG Offenburg (Baden) and with a height of 1.75 m has a current competition weight of 71 kg. She studies sport and English at the University of Freiburg and has been married to the javelin thrower Boris Obergföll since September 2013 .
Career
She celebrated her first successes as a junior. Between 2000 and 2002 she was German Junior Champion three times in a row. At the Junior World Championships in Santiago de Chile in 2000 , she reached eighth place. In 2004 she took part in the Olympic Games in Athens , but could not qualify for the final as fifteenth in the qualification.
Obergföll achieved the first major success of her career at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki, where she surprisingly won the silver medal. On her second attempt, she threw the spear to 70.03 m and set a European record with this performance. At that time she was the only woman besides the Cuban Osleidys Menéndez who had thrown the spear to a distance of over 70 meters.
2007
Up until the 2007 season, Obergföll was considered to be of unstable shape and its complicated throwing style was problematic for health. While she achieved only short distances in many competitions, a successful throw could fly so far that it was beyond the possibilities of other throwers. Competitors like Steffi Nerius therefore feared the unpredictable form in the competition. At the start of the 2007 season in Halle, however, she showed that she had worked tremendously on her technique. With the second best performance of her career at the time, Obergföll won the competition with 68.08 m, clearly ahead of Nerius, who achieved 64.74 m in second. In the first competition in 2007, Obergföll exceeded the annual world best she achieved in 2006 of 66.91 m. Obergföll also won the other competitions in 2007 in Kassel and Cottbus ahead of Nerius, and on June 23, she improved her own European record to 70.20 m at the European Athletics Cup in Munich. For the first time in her career, Obergföll won the title with a width of 66.59 m at the 2007 German Championships in Erfurt. At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, she won silver just like two years earlier.
2008
In the Olympic year 2008 she defended her title on July 5, 2008 at the German Championships in Nuremberg. With 62.18 m, she won the last attempt before Nerius, who had been in the lead up to this point, who took second place with 61.91 m. Her best performance in 2008 was 69.81 m. She achieved this distance on August 31, 2008 at the DKB Cup final in Elstal . Until then she had a season best of 67.72 m from the Grand Prix meeting in Ostrava. Here she had won the only time against the reigning world champion Barbora Špotáková from the Czech Republic, who was second in this competition with 66.91 m.
At the Olympic Games in 2008 , she achieved the third-best distance with 66.13 m. In front of her were Barbora Špotáková, who won the gold medal with 71.42 m and thus set a new European record, and Marija Abakumowa from Russia, who also exceeded Obergföll's former European record. After Abakumowa was subsequently disqualified for doping by the IOC on September 13, 2016, Obergföll was awarded the silver medal. This medal was presented to her in August 2019. The fourth place in 2008, the British Goldie Sayers , has since been considered the bronze medal winner.
2009
In the 2009 World Championship year, Christina Obergföll got off to a very good start in her first competition in Halle. She won with 68.40 m, which was the world's best performance for the year. She had never started a season so well in her career. Until their third competition, on June 5th in Baunatal, this world annual best was still held. She also won the competition in Baunatal with 67.48 m. At the home world championships in Berlin , she reached fifth place with 64.34 m and fell short of her expectations.
2010
Obergföll won the silver medal behind her club mate Linda Stahl at the European Championships in Barcelona . In addition, she threw the third longest litter of the year in Elstal with 68.63 m and the fifth longest litter of her entire career.
2011
The 2011 season went pretty well for Obergföll at the beginning, she won four Diamond League meetings and secured an early overall victory with her fourth win in London. She also threw over 65 meters in five competitions. She achieved the longest throw at the German Championships in Kassel with 68.86 m, this was her fourth-best litter ever and brought her her third national title and a championship record.
Her big dream of a gold medal at the World Championships in Daegu (Korea) did not come true. There she was only able to achieve fourth place with 65.24 m. With the winner Abakumova, who has meanwhile been convicted of doping, Christina Obergföll moved up to third place and subsequently received the bronze medal.
2012
Obergföll now worked with the sports psychologist Hans Eberspächer . At the European Championships , she became vice European champion with 65.12 m, after having become German champion for the fourth time in Wattenscheid with 65.86 m and already 67.04 m at the thrower meeting in St. Wendel at the beginning of the month . At the Olympic Games in London she won an international silver medal for the fifth time with 65.16 m behind the current world record holder, former world champion 2007 and now two-time Olympic champion Barbora Špotáková.
2013
From May, Obergföll took part in all Diamond League meetings where the javelin was thrown. With victories in Eugene , New York and Rome , she quickly climbed to the top of the Diamond Race Ranking. She also won at the next meeting in Paris on July 6th. At the German championships a day later she had to admit defeat to Linda Stahl. With a disappointing 61.74 m, she lagged behind the other seasonal performances. With her fifth Diamond League victory in a row at the Anniversary Games in London, she was the winner of the overall ranking on July 17th.
Obergföll achieved the greatest success of her career at the World Championships in Moscow, when she won the gold medal with a distance of 69.05 m.
2014/2015
Due to her pregnancy and the birth of her son, she took a break from competition. In May 2015 she made her sporty comeback. At the World Championships in Beijing she was fourth with the victory of Katharina Molitor with 64.61 m.
2016
After the doping scandals caused by Russian athletes, Obergföll pleaded in May 2016 for Russia to be banned from the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . Although she was not considered for the European Championships as fourth place, Obergföll was nominated for the Olympic Games as one of three German starters, where she got preference over Katharina Molitor , who then failed with an injunction. At the games , she finished eighth as the best German with 62.92 m. She ended her career on September 3, 2016 with a win at ISTAF Berlin .
Television appearances
- 2014: Hirschhausen's Quiz of People (ARD)
- 2016: 6 mothers (VOX)
- 2019: Participation in the celebrity special from Big Bounce - The Trampoline Show
social commitment
Obergföll supports the Association for Children with Cancer e. V. Freiburg im Breisgau, where she is also a member of the board of trustees. In addition, she campaigns in the field of child poverty in Germany and around the world (including for Welthungerhilfe and UNICEF ).
Honors
- 2012: Silver bay leaf
- 2013: Champion of the year
- 2013: Sportswoman of the year
- 2013: Athlete of the year
In 2013, a street in her home town of Mahlberg was named after her.
Web links
- Official website of Christina Obergföll
- Christina Obergföll in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Athlete portrait on Leichtathletik.de
- Christina Obergföll's "Road to Rio 2016"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christina Obergföll - Portrait & Successes. ( Memento from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Javelin throwers outdo each other in Elstal
- ↑ Uwe Schwerer: Eleven years late: Christina Obergföll receives silver from the 2008 Olympics. In: Badische-Zeitung.de. August 25, 2019. Retrieved August 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Javelin double victory by Stahl and Obergföll , accessed on September 14, 2013.
- ↑ Javelin thrower Christina Obergföll works with mental trainer Badische Zeitung, March 15, 2012, accessed on September 26, 2015.
- ↑ Results EM 2012 ( Memento from July 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Storl just succumbs - Obergföll is convinced. In: Focus . June 10, 2012, accessed August 10, 2012 .
- ↑ Javelin star: Obergföll ends competition break. In: Spiegel Online . May 12, 2015, accessed May 12, 2015 .
- ^ Javelin thrower Obergföll: Block Russia's athletes. In: sueddeutsche.de =. May 25, 2016, accessed August 27, 2020 .
- ↑ Olympic nomination: Molitor threatens to take legal action against DOSB Spiegel Online, July 13, 2016, accessed on July 13, 2016.
- ↑ Olympia 2016: Javelin thrower Molitor is not allowed to Rio. In: Spiegel Online . July 18, 2016, accessed June 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Farewell tears and an unusual duel between brothers Spiegel Online, September 3, 2016.
- ↑ Silver Bay Leaf 2012
- ↑ Mahlberg names a street after Christina Obergföll Badische Zeitung, September 8, 2013, accessed on September 26, 2015.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Obergföll, Christina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German javelin thrower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 22nd August 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lahr / Black Forest |