Helge Zöllkau
Helge Zöllkau (born July 11, 1961 in Graefenthal ) is a German athletics trainer who looks after several world-class athletes, especially in the javelin throw .
Zöllkau was active as an active javelin thrower at the HSG DHfK Leipzig and achieved his personal best in 1985 with 65.40 meters.
Zöllkau began his coaching career at SC Motor Jena . In 1990 he moved to MTG Mannheim together with his wife, the javelin thrower Antje Zöllkau . After an interlude as a DLV junior coach for the shot put and as a national coach in Qatar, he started as a coach for the throwing disciplines at TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen in October 1999 . Although he also led hammer throwers like Karsten Kobs and Markus Esser to numerous German championship titles there, his coaching career is particularly linked to javelin throwers. Steffi Nerius belonged to the extended world class even before Zöllkau took up his post in Leverkusen; with Zöllkau as coach she won her six German championship titles, was Olympic runner-up in 2004, European champion in 2006 and world champion in 2009. Even after Steffi Nerius' resignation, the Leverkusen javelin throwers, such as Katharina Molitor , Linda Stahl and Annika Suthe, are successful. In 2010, the first year after Steffi Nerius' resignation, Molitor won the German championship and Stahl won the European championship.
In 2012 he became a hammer throw national trainer and trained for example Kathrin Klaas .
literature
- Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published via Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft, page 1349
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zöllkau, Helge |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German athletics trainer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Graefenthal |