Dietmar Haaf

Dietmar Haaf medal table
Long jump
BR Germany
Indoor world championships
silver	1989 Budapest	Long jump
gold	1991 Seville	Long jump
European championships
gold	1990 split	Long jump
European Indoor Championships
gold	1990 Glasgow	Long jump
gold	1994 Paris	Long jump

Dietmar Haaf (born March 6, 1967 in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt ) is a former German long jumper .

Life

Haaf initially started for the TSF Ditzingen or the Athletics Association (LG) Glems, for which he was Junior World Champion in 1986 . At the end of the 1986 season he moved to Salamander Kornwestheim . He was eight times German champion, most recently in 1996 , and several times runner-up at other events in Germany.

In 1989 he won silver at the World Indoor Championships in Budapest . The following year he won the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow and the European Championships in Split with a width of 8.25 m, achieved in the second attempt, and in 1991 he triumphed at the World Indoor Championships in Seville.

In the memorable competition at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in 1991 , when Mike Powell won the gold medal with a world record (8.95 m) ahead of Carl Lewis , Haaf finished fourth. In 1992 he took part in the Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​but was eliminated in qualifying. In 1994 he became European indoor champion for the second time in Paris .

Until March 2009 he held the German indoor record in the long jump with 8.25 m, before he was replaced as the record holder by Sebastian Bayer .

Dietmar Haaf is 1.79 m tall and weighed 75 kg during his active time. In 1997 Haaf, who completed a degree in mechanical engineering in Stuttgart and Los Angeles, ended his career.

International results

year	competition	space	Expanse
1985	Junior European Championships	5.	7.66
1986	European Indoor Championships	VK	7.48
1986	Junior World Championships	1.	7.93
1986	European championships	Q	7.74
1987	World championships	Q	7.51
1988	European Indoor Championships	5.	7.79
1989	European Indoor Championships	5.	7.96
1989	Indoor world championships	2.	8.17
1990	European Indoor Championships	1.	8.11
1990	European championships	1.	8.25
1991	Indoor world championships	1.	8.15
1991	World championships	4th	8.22
1992	European Indoor Championships	VK	7.69
1992	Olympic Games	Q	7.85
1993	Indoor world championships	Q	7.67
1994	European Indoor Championships	1.	8.15
1994	European championships	Q	7.55

Top performances

• Long jump: 8.25 m, August 30, 1990, Split
  • Hall: 8.25 m, February 26, 1989, Sindelfingen (German record until March 2009)

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ TSF Ditzingen website (accessed January 30, 2017).
2. ^ "Birthdays", Sport-Bild from March 3, 1993, p. 40

Web links

• Dietmar Haaf in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Dietmar Haaf in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )