Hendrik Gruber

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Hendrik Gruber (born September 28, 1986 in Soest ) is a former German pole vaulter. He won the European team championship with the German team in 2017 and has competed for TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen since 2006 . He was trained by Karsten Bober .

Career

Gruber took part in the 2009 Summer Universiade in Serbia Belgrade and won in his discipline with a skipped height of 5.45 meters, the bronze medal. At the German championships in Nuremberg in 2015 , he finished fourth, his best result at a German championship.

He was nominated by the DLV for the 2017 European Team Championship at the Lille Métropole Stadium and, with a jumped height of 5.55 meters, took second place behind Renaud Lavillenie with Igor Bychkov . Overall, the German team won the European Team Championship with 321.5 points ahead of Poland and France.

At the cathedral jumping in Aachen 2018, Gruber officially announced the end of his career and already worked as a sports teacher at a primary school.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Hendrik Gruber officially says goodbye , on: lazsoest.com, from September 6, 2018, accessed September 8, 2018 2018
  2. Harald Koken: Tobias Scherbarth says in Aachen "Goodbye" , pole vault, on: Leichtathletik.de, from September 6, 2018, accessed September 8, 2018 2018