Eike Onnen

Eike Onnen
Eike Onnen at the German Championships 2015
nation	Germany
birthday	3rd August 1982 (age 38)
place of birth	Hanover ,  Federal Republic of Germany
size	198 cm
Weight	90 kg
job	Police Commissioner Candidate
Career
discipline	high jump
Best performance	Hall : 2.31 m; Open air : 2.34 m
society	Hannover 96 , formerly: LG Hannover
Trainer	Astrid Fredebold-Onnen
status	active
Medal table
European championships 0 × 0 × 1 × German championships 5 × 2 × 0 × German indoor championships 2 × 2 × 0 ×
European championships bronze Amsterdam 2016 high jump  German championships gold Wattenscheid 2005 high jump gold Ulm 2006 high jump gold Ulm 2009 high jump gold Wattenscheid 2012 high jump silver Nuremberg 2015 high jump gold Kassel 2016 high jump silver Erfurt 2017 high jump  German indoor championships gold Leipzig 2007 high jump gold Sindelfingen 2008 high jump silver Karlsruhe 2015 high jump silver Leipzig 2016 high jump
last change: July 8, 2017

Eike Onnen (born August 3, 1982 in Hanover , Lower Saxony ) is a German athlete who specializes in high jump .

Athletic career

In 2003 Onnen became German junior champion and fifth at the U23 European championships .

In 2004 he injured his foot at the German Indoor Championships and had to take a year off.

In 2005 and 2006 Onnen was German champion and in 2007 German indoor champion.

He celebrated his first success at international level when he won the 2007 European Cup with a skipped 2.30 m. At the World Championships in Osaka Onnen came in seventh. His personal best comes from the same year (2.34 m, May 20, 2007, Garbsen ). In 2008 he was German indoor champion for the second time. He qualified for the Olympic Games in Beijing , but had to cancel the start at short notice due to foot problems.

In the following year (2009) Onnen was again German champion. In 2011 he took part in the World Championships in Daegu and reached 15th place. In 2012 he won the German Championships for the fourth time; at the European Championships in Helsinki in the same year he reached tenth place.

In 2015 Onnen surprised with his comeback . At the German indoor championships he was runner-up . At the high jump meeting in Bühl he jumped 2.32 m and thus qualified for the World Championships in Beijing . There he reached the final and finished twelfth.

In 2016 he again won the runner-up title in the hall and won the bronze medal at the European Championships in Amsterdam in 2016 with 2.29 m .

In 2017 Onnen became European team champion in Lille, northern France , and took 3rd place in the high jump . At the German championships he was runner-up . As early as mid-May, Onnen fulfilled the standard of 2.30 meters for the World Championships in London as part of the district championships in Hanover , where he finished 10th in the final.

Eike Onnen has a competition weight of 90 kg and is 1.98 m tall.

Club affiliations

Onnen started for the LG Hannover until 2015 and from 2016 for Hannover 96 .

Awards

• Honored as “Athlete of the Year” 2017 by the Lower Saxony Athletics Association (NLV).

successes

national

• German champion 2005 , 2006 , 2009 , 2012 and 2016
• Second DM in 2015 and 2017
• German indoor champion 2007 and 2008
• Second DHM 2015 and 2016

international

• Fifth U23 European Championship in 2003
• European Cup winner 2007
• World Athletics Championships : Seventh World Championships 2007 , twelfth World Championships 2015 , tenth World Championships 2017
• European Athletics Championships : tenth EM 2012 , third EM 2016
• Olympic participants 2016

Life and family

Eike Onnen did his community service at the KRH Klinikum Agnes Karll Laatzen and then worked there for four years in sports medicine. On his second educational path , he passed the Abitur at the evening grammar school in Hanover and was at the Lower Saxony Police Academy until 2016 .

He is the son of the former long jumper Astrid Fredebold-Onnen (* 1956), by whom he is also trained, and brother of the high jumper Imke Onnen .

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.

Web links

Commons : Eike Onnen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Eike Onnen in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait on Leichtathletik.de
• Bettina Lenner: The Onnens: A family lives athletics at Sportschau on August 8, 2018
• Eike Onnen - There is no giving up at Sportschau on August 4, 2018
• High jump family: The Onnens train at Hallo Niedersachsen on July 30, 2019 (Video 03:31 minutes)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Silke Bernhart: Eike Onnen flops over 2.30 meters , World Cup norm, on: Leichtathletik.de, May 14, 2017, accessed July 8, 2017
2. ↑ Pamela Ruprecht: Flash News of the Day - Eike Onnen and Neele Eckhardt "Athletes of the Year" in Lower Saxony  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Notes, February 8, 2018, accessed February 8, 2018  
3. ↑ Department heads decide on supervisory board candidates at hannover96.de from November 12, 2018
4. ↑ Imke Onnen - the baby of a family bond . Retrieved August 9, 2015.
5. ↑ Eike and Imke Onnen - Imke (22) , on: imkeundeike.de, accessed February 5, 2018