Falk Balzer

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Falk Balzer athletics

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Falk Balzer (left) and Thomas Blaschek 2006

nation Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR DDR Germany
GermanyGermany 
birthday 14th December 1973 (age 46)
place of birth Leipzig , German Democratic Republic
size 198 cm
Weight 85 kg
Career
discipline 110 m hurdles
60 m hurdles
Best performance 13.10 s ( 110 m hurdles )
7.41 s ( 60 m hurdles )
society TUS Jena
Trainer Karl-Heinz Balzer / Karin Balzer
status resigned
Medal table
World cup 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Indoor world championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
European championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
European Cup 2 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
IAAF logo World cup
gold Johannesburg 1998 110 m hurdles
IAAF logo Indoor world championships
bronze Maebashi 1999 60 m hurdles
EAA logo European championships
silver Budapest 1998 110 m hurdles
EAA logo European Cup
silver St. Petersburg 1998 110 m hurdles
gold Paris 1999 110 m hurdles
gold Gateshead 2000 110 m hurdles

Falk Balzer (born December 14, 1973 in Leipzig ) is a German athlete . He won silver in the 110 meter hurdles at the 1998 European Championships and bronze in the 60 meter hurdles at the 1999 World Indoor Championships .

Athletic career

Falk Balzer began his sporting career as a swimmer at the age of 7 in Dresden. In 1986 he ended this career and trained twice a week in athletics at TU Dresden. He was not allowed to attend a children's and youth sports school due to Scheuermann's disease in the lumbar vertebrae. When his parents were transferred to Karl-Marx-Stadt in 1987, Falk Balzer was delegated to the children's and youth sports school on the condition that he be trained by his father Karl-Heinz Balzer . At the last GDR children and youth spartakiad in 1989, Falk Balzer was successful for the first time in the 110 meter hurdles and took 3rd place. In 1992 he qualified for the Junior World Championships . However, he had to leave injured due to a double ligament tear in his ankle.

Falk Balzer was German university champion in 1995 and sixth at the Universiade , where he was also used in the 4 x 400 meter relay . At the German Championships in 1997 he came in third and qualified for the World Championships in Athens, where he was eliminated in the semifinals. In the following year, Balzer became German champions both indoors and outdoors and won the World Cup in Johannesburg. At the European Championships in Budapest he was vice European champion and finished 2nd in the European Cup .

In 1998, Falk Balzer improved the previous 13-year-old German record for the 60 meter hurdles from 7.48 s to 7.47 s.

In 1999 Balzer won the bronze medal at the World Indoor Championships in Maebashi in 7.44 s. He is the only German hurdler to date to have won a medal at indoor world championships over 60 meter hurdles. On January 29, 1999, in Chemnitz , he improved his own German record over 60 meter hurdles from 7.47 s to 7.41 s. In the outdoor season he was fifth at the World Championships in Seville and winner of the European Cup .

In 2000 he had a difference of opinion with the hurdler Claude Edorh after the final of the German Championships in Braunschweig. There was a suspicion that Falk Balzer had let himself be carried away to racist remarks, which were not confirmed. Thereupon he was nominated by the DLV only in the last round for the Olympic Games in Sydney . At the games in Australia Balzer reached the semi-finals. At the European Cup he was able to repeat his victory from the previous year.

In 2001, Falk Balzer tested positive for nandrolone during training. Falk Balzer denied ever taking steroids. Falk Balzer gave differences in urine density, the amount of urine and the pH value of the urine sample given and examined as an indication of his innocence. The suspension of the DLV for two years was recognized as lawful in 2003 by the Dresden Higher Regional Court by decision of December 18, 2003 (W 0350 / 03Kart), with regard to the competence of the DLV, since Balzer had not signed an athlete agreement in 2001.

In 2003 he announced his comeback without knowing that he had contracted the Epstein-Barr virus . At the German championships he was runner-up. The following year, Balzer tore his right Achilles tendon in a fall at the ninth hurdle in the advance in Cuxhaven . Despite the tear, it ran for 13.61 s in Lausanne. At the German Championships in Braunschweig, the Achilles tendon tore completely a week later.

Coaching career

From October 2016 to 2017, Falk Balzer was the trainer of the two-time world champion over 400 meter hurdles Zuzana Hejnová . Under his direction, she won silver over 400 meters at the 2017 European Indoor Championships . Falk Balzer is the trainer of the sprinter Tiffany Eidner. Eidner became German runner-up over 100 meters in the U23 in 2018 and took third place over 200 meters at the German Indoor Championships in 2019 . Erik Balnuweit and Georg Fleischhauer have been training with him since the beginning of October 2018 .

Life

Falk Balzer finished school with a high school diploma. He is the son of Karin Balzer , the former hurdler and Olympic champion of the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo as well as Olympic third at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich , and was also trained by her and his father Karl-Heinz Balzer .

From 1994 to 1997 Balzer studied philosophy and psychology , then until 2004 German and history . He completed both with a master's degree . He also chose a minor in 1999-2003 Law . During his studies from 1997 to 2000 he was part of the Bundeswehr Sports Promotion Group in Frankenberg . In his last year he received the Bundeswehr Cross of Honor in silver.

successes

Personal best

On February 7, 1999, Falk Balzer ran the 60 meter hurdles in 7.34 s at the Stuttgart indoor meeting, just four hundredths of a second above the indoor world record. Immediately after the run, he canceled it himself because he assumed he had made a false start. The starting court, however, gave the run and thus the record valid. After almost 2 hours, an IAAF jury finally canceled the entire run because, on the one hand, a false start control device was missing and, on the other hand, the video recording showed that, in addition to Falk Balzer, other participants in this run started too early. Nevertheless, Falk Balzer was able to run under 7.40 s at this point, which prevented persistent back problems.

Performance development

year 60 meter hurdles (hall)
(in s) 		110 meter hurdles
(in s)
1992 8.04 14.17
1993 7.86 13.96
1994 7.72 13.76
1995 7.68 13.47
1996 7.53 13.34
1997 7.57 13.31
1998 7.47 13.10
1999 7.41 13.21
2000 7.51 13.19
2001 7.54 Doping ban
2002 Doping ban
2003 7.77 13.58
2004 7.72 13.61
2005 injured (Achilles tendon tear)
2006 7.86 13.94

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 : Falk Balzer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carsten Harms: After the act of grace, Falk Balzer fights for his reputation. In: welt.de . August 24, 2000, accessed December 31, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Balzer is there: hurdles sprinter receives ticket - scandal about Kieseler. In: tagesspiegel.de . August 22, 2000, accessed December 31, 2014 .
  3. ↑ [1]
  4. ↑ [2]
  5. ↑ Hejnová spojí síly s Němcem Balzerem
  6. ↑ Statement on my termination of the coaching activity for Zuzana Hejnova , on: falkbalzer.de, accessed October 15, 2018
  7. ^ Athlete portrait Tiffany Eidner. In: Leichtathletik.de. Retrieved April 20, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Balnuweit trains with Balzer. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung. October 13, 2018, accessed March 26, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Everything to zero: Hurdler Fleischhauer wants to build on his old days in Thuringia. In: Thuringian General. October 22, 2018, accessed March 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Balzer, Falk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig , German Democratic Republic