Christoph Harting

Christoph Harting

Christoph Harting (2015)

nation

Germany

birthday

10th April 1990 (age 30)

place of birth

Cottbus , GDR

size

207 cm

Weight

120 kg

job

Federal Police Officer

Career

discipline

Discus throw , shot put

Best performance

68.37 m (discus)
17.75 m (ball)

society

SCC Berlin

Trainer

Torsten Lönnfors

status

active

Medal table

Olympic games	1 ×	0 ×	0 ×
German championships	2 ×	1 ×	1 ×

Olympic games
gold	2016 Rio de Jainero	68.37 m
German championships
gold	Nuremberg 2018	66.98 m
gold	Nuremberg 2015	64.06 m
silver	Kassel 2016	66.41 m
bronze	Ulm 2013	62.61 m

last change: July 21, 2018

Christoph Harting (born April 10, 1990 in Cottbus ) is a German discus thrower and was Olympic champion in this discipline in 2016 . He is 2.07 m tall and has a competition weight of 120 kg.

career path

Harting is a federal police officer with the rank of police chief . Since 2011, he has been a member of the Kienbaum Federal Police Sports School , the federal police’s top-level sports sponsoring facility for summer and year-round sports.

Athletic career

Christoph Harting won the German U23 Junior Championship three times in a row (2010 to 2012) and was fifth in the U23 European Championship in 2011 . By winning the German Championship in 2015 he qualified for the 2015 World Championships in Beijing , where he finished eighth. He finished fourth at the 2016 European Championships .

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , he won the gold medal four years after his brother Robert's triumph . For a long time he was in second place in this competition behind the five rounds leading Poland Piotr Małachowski , until he was pushed to fourth place in the last round by the later fourth Martin Kupper and bronze medalist Daniel Jasinski . With a new personal best of 68.37 m, Harting took the lead with the last throw of the competition. Like the other medalists, he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf for his Olympic victory on November 1, 2016 by Federal President Joachim Gauck .

In 2017 he was fourth at the German Championships with 62.51 m and with this distance failed to qualify for the 2017 World Championships . At the 2018 European Championships in Berlin, he failed to qualify without a valid attempt.

Club affiliations

Harting initially started for SC Charlottenburg and is currently a member of SCC Berlin .

Trivia

Christoph Harting is the younger brother of the Olympic discus winner from 2012 , Robert Harting. The brothers are the first sibling pair to win the same individual competition at the Summer Olympics in direct succession.

successes

National

German U23 champion 2010, 2011, 2012
Third DM 2013
German champion 2015 , 2018
Second DM 2016
Fourth DM 2017

International

Fifth U23 European Championship 2011
Eighth World Cup 2015
Fourth Euro 2016
Olympic winner 2016
Fourth European Winter Throwing Cup 2018

Behavior after the Olympic victory in 2016

Stir the behavior Harting made in 2016 after his Olympic victory, when he refused to journalists in the stadium all the interviews and at the awards ceremony during the National Anthem crossed her arms and sometimes whistled or mitschunkelte, which he then also DLV -President Clemens Prokop and the boss de mission of the German Olympic team Michael Vesper has been publicly criticized. He later apologized for his behavior on the grounds that he had not yet processed his success at the time of the award ceremony. Individual media also self-critically reported that Harting's behavior was over-staged in the media as a reaction to his rejection of interviews with individual journalists after his Olympic victory.