Danny Ecker

Danny Ecker
Danny Ecker (2007)
nation	Germany United States
birthday	July 21, 1977
place of birth	Leverkusen ,  Germany
job	Personal trainer
Career
discipline	Pole vault
Best performance	6.00 m (hall)
society	TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Trainer	Leszek climate
status	resigned
End of career	2012
Medal table
World championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Indoor world championships 0 × 0 × 1 × European Indoor Championships 1 × 0 × 1 × Junior World Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
World championships bronze Osaka 2007 5.81 m  Indoor world championships bronze Maebashi 1999 5.85 m  European Indoor Championships gold Birmingham 2007 5.71 m bronze Valencia 1998 5.75 m  German championships gold Braunschweig 2004 5.70 m gold Erfurt 2007 5.70 m silver Berlin 1998 5.80 m silver Braunschweig 2000 5.75 m silver Stuttgart 2001 5.85 m silver Nuremberg 2008 5.75 m bronze Erfurt 1999 5.85 m bronze Bochum-Wattenscheid 2002 5.50 m  German indoor championships gold Karlsruhe 1999 5.90 m gold Sindelfingen 2005 gold Leipzig 2009 5.80 m silver Leipzig 2007 silver Sindelfingen 2008 5.80 m  Junior World Championships bronze Sydney 1996 5.30 m

Danny Ecker in December 2015

Danny Ecker (actually: Daniel Ecker ; born July 21, 1977 in Leverkusen ) is a former German pole vaulter . The three-time Olympic participant is the German record holder in the hall with a jump of 6.00 m.

Life

Career

Danny Ecker has been racing for TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen since 1987 . At a height of 1.92 m, he had a competition weight of 82 kg.

In 2007 Ecker won his only international title: In the winter season he was European indoor champion in Birmingham . His greatest success followed in September when he won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Osaka with a jump of 5.81 m. In 2007, he became the DLV - athletes elected this year. His best performances are 6.00 m indoors (German indoor record, 2001) and 5.93 m outdoors (German junior record, 1998).

In his third appearance in the Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing , he reached despite massive problems at the Achilles tendon at the start of the season ranked 6th in 2009 he was again m German champion in the hall with 5.80.

In 2012 his goal was to take part in the Olympic Games in London . But already at the German championships he could no longer start because he sustained a flexor injury in June and then decided to say goodbye to competitive sport as a pole vaulter.

Private

Ecker grew up in Leverkusen and is the son of John Ecker , a former basketball player , and the double Olympic champion Heide Ecker-Rosendahl . His grandfather Heinz Rosendahl was a multiple German champion in discus throwing. He has been married since 2006, has two children and studied business administration at the University of Hagen . He works in corporate credit management at Bayer AG.

Further sporting successes

• German indoor record: 6.00 meters (2001 in Dortmund )
• Olympic Games :
  • 6th place: 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing
  • 5th place: Olympic Games 2004 in Athens
  • 8th place: Olympic Games 2000 in Sydney
• World Championships :
  • 4th place: World Championships 1999 in Seville
  • Final participation: World Championships 2005 in Helsinki (without valid attempt)
• European Championships :
  • 4th place: European Championships 1998 in Budapest
• 3rd place at the Grand Prix Final 1998

Television appearances

In 2004 and 2005 he took first place at TV total high diving in synchronized diving with Lars Börgeling . In 2007 the two took part in the TV show again and achieved second place.

In February 2016, Ecker and other former world-class athletes took part in the VOX TV station's Eternal Heroes show .

In 2019 he was runner-up behind Sascha Klein in the celebrity special of the trampoline show Big Bounce .

Web links

Commons : Danny Ecker  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Danny Ecker in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait on Leichtathletik.de
• Entry in the Leverkusen who's who

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Danny Ecker ends his career , berliner-kurier.de from June 16, 2012 (accessed on June 16, 2012).
2. ↑ Half marathon press conference
3. ↑ VOX: Eternal Heroes: Candidates (accessed on March 4, 2016)