Frank Busemann

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Frank Busemann
Frank Busemann (2015)

nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday February 26, 1975
place of birth Recklinghausen
size 192 cm
Weight 87 kg
Career
discipline Decathlon
110-meter hurdles
Best performance 8706 (decathlon)
13.45 s (110 m hurdles)
society LG Olympia Dortmund
TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen
status resigned
End of career June 23, 2003
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings Olympic games
silver Atlanta 1996 Decathlon
IAAF logo World championships
bronze Athens 1997 Decathlon

Frank Busemann (born February 26, 1975 in Recklinghausen ) is a former German athlete who is known for his success in the decathlon and hurdles sprint .

Athletic career

At the age of 16, Busemann began to concentrate on the 110-meter hurdles. The first international successes came with bronze at the U20 European Championships in 1993 and victory at the U20 World Championships the following year. He played his first decathlon in 1994 with 7938 points. In the spring of 1996 Busemann decided to turn to the decathlon because of the lack of prospects in the hurdles.

After a fifth place at the important all- around meeting in Götzis, he won the silver medal behind the American Dan O'Brien at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta . In this competition he not only set his personal best with 8706 points, but he also managed the 110 meter hurdles in 13.47 s, the best ever in this individual discipline within a decathlon - a record that was only achieved on July 23, 2015 was outbid by Damian Warner . For his success at the Olympics, he was voted Sportsman of the Year in Germany.

At the 1997 World Championships in Athens , he achieved the bronze medal behind the Czech Tomáš Dvořák and the Finn Eduard Hämäläinen with 8652 points . At the U23 European Championships in the same year he won gold in the hurdles over 110 meters. At the 1999 World Championships he had to give up in the second discipline due to a muscle injury in his thigh. The preparation for the Olympic Games in Sydney was not free of injuries either. He finished his Olympic competition in seventh place with 8351 points. He had to cancel his participation in the 2001 World Championships due to an injury.

His last decathlon was the all-around meeting in Ratingen in 2001, which he finished second with 8192 points. In June 2003, he announced the end of his sports career. He finished a total of twelve decathlons in his career.

He was trained by his father, Franz Josef Busemann , and Bernd Knut.

After the sport

Busemann has been an athletics expert and co-commentator for ARD since 2003.

In addition to various activities in the field of sports, including as the sports director of the German Center for Preventive Medicine, Busemann has been offering lectures, seminars and project work for companies since 2011.

Frank Busemann wrote his autobiography with giving up does not count , published by DSV Deutscher Sportverlag GmbH, Cologne, ISBN 3-9808147-5-0 .

In February 2016, Busemann took part in the show Ewige Helden on the TV channel VOX with other former world-class athletes and won. In January 2017 he was part of the Olympians team in the game show Duel der Stars - Die Sat.1 Promiarena . In 2019 he took part in the celebrity special of Big Bounce - The Trampoline Show .

successes

International
  • Gold 110 m hurdles U-20 World Championships 1994
  • Gold 110 m hurdles U-23 European Championships 1997
  • Silver Decathlon Olympic Games 1996
  • Bronze 110 m hurdles U-20 European Championships 1993
  • Bronze Decathlon World Championships 1997
  • 1st place decathlon European Cup (team) 1996
  • 1st place decathlon all-around meeting Ratingen 1997, 1999
  • 2nd place decathlon all-around meeting Ratingen 1998, 2001
  • 5th place decathlon Götzis 1996
National
  • Multiple youth champion (60 m / 110 m hurdles, relay, team)
  • U-23 junior champion 110 m hurdles 1994
  • U-23 junior champion decathlon 1995

Awards

  • Best young athlete in Germany: 1993, 1994
  • Sportsman of the year in Germany: 1996
  • Athlete of the year in Germany: 1996
  • Silver bay leaf of the Federal Republic of Germany: 1996
  • Rudolf Harbig Memorial Prize: 2004
  • Winner of the Vox show Eternal Heroes : 2016

Top performances

discipline power Points year
100 m 10.59 s 0954 1993
Long jump 08.07 m 1079 1996
Shot put 15.24 m 0804 1999
high jump 02.09 m 0887 1997
400 m 48.32 s 0894 1997
110 m hurdles 13.45 s 1047 1996
discus 46.74 m 0803 1997
Pole vault 05.10 m 0941 1999
Javelin throw 66.96 m 0843 1997
1500 m 4: 23.04 min 0791 1998
Decathlon 8706 1996

The best performances in the decathlon are 9043 points.

Web links

Commons : Frank Busemann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank Busemann in the database of World Athletics (English)
  2. ↑ Frank Busemann worries about the Olympic start. In: RP Online . July 7, 2000, accessed February 6, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Personal Internet presence ( memento of the original from August 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.frank-busemann.de
  4. ^ Alfred Weinzierl: Careers: The last act . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 2003 ( online - September 8, 2003 ).
  5. ↑ VOX: Eternal Heroes: Candidates (accessed on March 4, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Busemann, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German decathlete and Olympic runner-up
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Recklinghausen