Christina Schwanitz

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Christina Schwanitz athletics

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Schwanitz at the German Championships 2015 in Nuremberg

nation Germany
birthday 24th December 1985 (age 34)
place of birth DresdenGDRGermany Democratic Republic 1949GDR 
size 180 cm
Weight 115 kg
job Sports soldier
Career
discipline Shot put
Best performance 20.77 m
society LV 90 Ore Mountains
Trainer Sven Lang
status active
Medal table
World championships 1 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
European championships 2 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Indoor world championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
European Indoor Championships 1 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
Junior World Championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
U23 European Championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
IAAF logo World championships
silver Moscow 2013 20.41 m
gold Beijing 2015 20.37 m
bronze Doha 2019 19.17 m
EAA logo European championships
gold Zurich 2014 19.90 m
gold Amsterdam 2016 20.17 m
silver Berlin 2018 19.19 m
IAAF logo Indoor world championships
silver Sopot 2014 19.94 m
EAA logo European Indoor Championships
silver Paris 2011 18.65 m
gold Gothenburg 2013 19.25 m
silver Glasgow 2019 19.11 m
IAAF logo Junior World Championships
bronze Grosseto 2004 16.62 m
EAA logo U23 European Championships
silver Erfurt 2005 18.64 m
DLV logo German championships
bronze Wattenscheid 2005 18.13 m
gold Kassel 2011 18.95 m
gold Ulm 2013 19.76 m
gold Ulm 2014 19.69 m
gold Nuremberg 2015 20.00 m
gold Kassel 2016 19.49 m
gold Nuremberg 2018 20.06 m
gold Berlin 2019 18.84 m
DLV logo German indoor championships
bronze Sindelfingen 2008 18.28 m
gold Leipzig 2011 18.87 m
silver Karlsruhe 2012 18.68 m
gold Dortmund 2013 19.79 m
gold Leipzig 2014 19.89 m
gold Leipzig 2017 18.50 m
gold Leipzig 2019 19.54 m
last change: October 11, 2019

Christina Schwanitz (born December 24, 1985 in Dresden ) is a German shot putter . She became European Champion in 2014 and 2016 and World Champion in 2015 . She is a sports soldier in the Bundeswehr sports promotion group in Frankenberg, Saxony .

Career

In 2004 she won bronze at the Junior World Championships . In 2005 she was third at the German Championships. At the U23 European Championships in 2005, she won silver behind Petra Lammert . So she qualified for the World Championships in Helsinki , where she finished ninth. Her personal best at the end of 2005 was 18.84 m.

In 2006 and 2007 Christina Schwanitz was unable to match her performance from 2005 due to an injury. She returned in the 2008 indoor season and immediately came third at the German Indoor Championships. At the World Indoor Championships in Valencia Schwanitz finished sixth with 18.55 m after she had achieved 18.97 m in qualification. On June 8, 2008, she increased her personal record in Schönebeck to 19.31 m, which was 37 centimeters from her best indoor performance (19.68 m, February 29, 2008, Chemnitz ).

At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 Schwanitz qualified for the final and finished eleventh there with 18.27 m. Also at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin , she qualified for the final, where she was only twelfth with 17.84 m.

In 2011 Schwanitz became German champion for the first time in the hall. A week later she won the silver medal at the European Indoor Championships in Paris , just five centimeters behind the winner Anna Avdejewa . She was also able to win the German championship in the open-air season. At the World Championships in Daegu , she was twelfth.

In 2012 Schwanitz was German runner-up in the indoor arena , but at the indoor world championships in Istanbul she was eliminated in the qualification. At the European Championships in 2012 in Helsinki she was fifth with a width of 18.25 m. At the Olympic Games in London shortly afterwards, she reached tenth place.

On February 23, 2013 Schwanitz increased her personal best in the hall to 19.79 m and thus became German indoor champion in Dortmund. A week later she won the gold medal at the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden, with a width of 19.25 m. At the World Championships in Moscow she won the silver medal on August 12, 2013 with her personal best of 20.41 m in the sixth attempt. At the 2014 European Championships in Zurich , she won the title with a width of 19.90 m.

On May 20, 2015 Schwanitz achieved a new personal best with 20.77 m at the World Challenge Meeting in Beijing . Three months later she won gold at the World Championships in the same stadium with a width of 20.37 m . On September 3, she won the shot put competition at the meeting in Zurich and the overall ranking in the Diamond League .

In 2016 Christina Schwanitz was again European champion in Amsterdam , and she was sixth at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro .

In 2017 she took part in the German Indoor Championships again after two years without taking part in the Arena Leipzig . With a width of 18.50 m she was German indoor champion for the fourth time.

In 2018, after a baby break , Schwanitz competed in her first competition on June 13, 2018 at the Diamond League competition in Rabat , where she won the competition with a height of 19.40 m. In Nuremberg she became German champion and won silver at the European championships in Berlin . At the Continental Cup in Ostrava Schwanitz took second place with the European team, to which they contributed with a third place in the individual.

At the World Championships in Doha she reached third place on October 3, 2019, with which she achieved all three medal places at the World Championships.

Club membership

Christina Schwanitz started from 2002 to 2009 for the then Neckarsulm sports association, now Neckarsulmer Sportunion NSU . In November 2009 she switched to LV 90 Thum / LV 90 Erzgebirge . There she is trained by Sven Lang .

Annual bests

year open air Hall
2002 14.26 m -
2003 14.47 m 14.50 m
2004 16.98 m 15.43 m
2005 18.84 m 17.41 m
2006 - -
2007 17.06 m -
year open air Hall
2008 19.31 m 19.68 m
2009 19.06 m -
2010 18.28 m 17.56 m
2011 19.20 m 18.87 m
2012 19.05 m 19.15 m
2013 20.41 m 19.79 m
year open air Hall
2014 20.22 m 20.05 m
2015 20.77 m -
2016 20.17 m -
2017 - 18.50 m
2018 20.06 -

Awards

  • 2002–2009: During this time she was awarded the honorary title “Sportswoman of the Year” by the city of Neckarsulm four times .
  • 2015: Sportswoman of the year, Germany

Private

Schwanitz is an administrator. She has been married since 2013 and had twins in July 2017.

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005. 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 (published by Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft )
  • Christina Schwanitz, Marion Selbmann: It's just shot put. NOEL-Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-95493-103-3

Web links

Commons : Christina Schwanitz  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. Results EM 2012 ( Memento from July 1st, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. Schwanitz climbs to 20.77 meters and arouses World Cup hopes ran.de, May 20, 2015, accessed on July 26, 2015.
  3. Ulrike John (dpa): Schwanitz feels that he has been treated unfairly Südwest Presse, September 4, 2015, accessed on September 5, 2015.
  4. Stefanie Wahl: Schwanitz is leaving Neckarsulm. Heilbronner Voice , November 25, 2009, accessed on January 17, 2010 .
  5. As of September 10, 2018
  6. Ute Plückthun: Schwanitz again athlete of the year. Heilbronner Voice , December 22, 2009, accessed on January 17, 2010 .