Holger Klose
Holger Klose ![]() |
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nation |
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birthday | 5th December 1972 |
place of birth |
Bitburg , FR Germany![]() |
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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
- Holger Klose in the database of World Athletics (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Achievements - World Championships . Eintracht Frankfurt . Retrieved September 9, 2014.
- ↑ a b c d Stefanie Marsch: When the curtain suddenly falls . Saarbrücker Zeitung . August 6, 2009. Retrieved September 9, 2014.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Klose, Holger |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German hammer thrower |
DATE OF BIRTH | 5th December 1972 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bitburg , Germany |