Falk Wendrich
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Full name | Falk Henning Wendrich | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
nation | Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | 12th June 1995 (age 25) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 193 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 76 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
job | Student ( economics ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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discipline | high jump | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Best performance | Open air: 2.29 m (2017) Indoor: 2.26 m (2019) |
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society |
LAZ Soest , before: TV Wattenscheid and before that LAZ Soest |
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Trainer | Brigitte Kurschilgen, first trainer: Harald Bottin |
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status | active | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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last change: February 19, 2019 |
Falk Henning Wendrich (born June 12, 1995 ) is a German high jumper from Soest , North Rhine-Westphalia .
Athletic career
In 2011, Wendrich won silver at the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) in Trabzon ( Turkey ) with a personal best of 2.08 m.
In 2012 he won the silver medal at the U20 World Championships in Barcelona in 2012 .
Wendrich was elected Youth Athlete of the Year 2012.
He started for LAZ Soest until 2013 , then for TV Wattenscheid and since then again for LAZ Soest.
In the 2017 season, Wendrich set a new personal best at the high jump meeting in Bühl (Baden) with 2.26 meters. In mid-July he was nominated by the General German University Sports Association for the Summer Universiade in Taipei , where he won the high jump competition with another personal best of 2.29 m.
Private
Wendrich studies economics at the Ruhr University Bochum .
Wendrich has been in a relationship with his discipline colleague Imke Onnen since June 2017 .
successes
- national
- German U18 champion 2012
- German U-20 indoor champion 2012 and 2013
- German U23 runner-up in 2014
- German U20 champion 2014
- Fourth DM 2016
- German U23 champion 2017
- German indoor runner-up 2019
- international
- Second U20 World Cup 2012
- Fifth U20 World Cup 2014
- Fifth U23 European Championship 2017
- Winner Universiade 2017
Web links
- Falk Wendrich in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Portrait on Leichtathletik.de
- The West: Silver today, Olympic gold in 2016?
Individual evidence
- ↑ Falk Wendrich jumps in the Universiade Finale , Updates, to: hochschulsport-bochum.de, from August 25, 2017, accessed February 6, 2018
- ↑ Silke Bernhart: Falk Wendrich fights his way out of the shadows back into the light , on: Leichtathletik.de, October 4, 2017, accessed February 5, 2018
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wendrich, Falk |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wendrich, Falk Henning (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German high jumper |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1995 |