Holger Klose

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Holger Klose athletics
nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 5th December 1972
place of birth Bitburg ,  FR GermanyGermany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany 
Career
discipline Hammer throw
Best performance 82.22 m
(Dortmund, May 2, 1998)
society Eintracht Frankfurt
SV schlau.com Saar 05
status resigned

Holger Klose (born December 5, 1972 in Bitburg ) is a former German hammer thrower .

Career

Klose, who initially started for the athletics department of Eintracht Frankfurt , threw at the World Athletics Championships in 1997 in Athens to 75.16 m and was eliminated with this distance in the first qualifying round. Two years later at the World Athletics Championships in Seville in 1999 , he did not reach a valid attempt in the first qualifying round and was eliminated without distance. Also at the World Athletics Championships 2001 in Edmonton , he failed with 74.02 m in qualification. A year later, at the European Athletics Championships in Munich in 2002 , he reached the final for the first time and finished 17th with a width of 76.98 m. In his final 2005 World Championships in Athletics in Finland Helsinki Klose reached 74.80 m in eleventh. He started for SV schlau.com Saar 05 for the first time and made it into the qualification well. But after the initially valid competition equipment had been declared non-compliant, he finally missed the final of the top eight.

He reached his personal best with 82.22 meters on May 2, 1998 in Dortmund .

After Klose had to end his active hammer throwing career in 2007 due to permanent injuries, he started running and already competed in half-marathon runs in the first few years.

Private

In 2002 Klose married the hammer thrower Kirsten Münchow with whom he had a son on June 14th of the same year. In 2007 the couple divorced. He had two more children with his second wife. After the birth of their second child, the family moved to Kempten (Allgäu) , where Klose worked for a pharmaceutical company in Limburg alongside his sports career.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Achievements - World Championships . Eintracht Frankfurt . Retrieved September 9, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b c d Stefanie Marsch: When the curtain suddenly falls . Saarbrücker Zeitung . August 6, 2009. Retrieved September 9, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Klose, Holger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hammer thrower
DATE OF BIRTH 5th December 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Bitburg , Germany