Jan Hempel

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Jan Hempel Diving
Personal information
Nationality: GermanyGermany Germany
Discipline (s) : Artistic / tower / synchronized jumping
Birthday: August 21, 1971
Place of birth: Dresden
Medals

Jan Hempel (born  August 21, 1971 in Dresden ) is a former German diver . Between 1986 and 2003 he won a total of 14 medals at the Summer Olympics as well as world and European championships, including four European championships and 50 national titles. This makes him the most successful athlete in this sport in German sports history.

Sporting successes

From 1988 Jan Hempel took part in four Summer Olympic Games , three World Championships and eight European Championships. He won a silver medal in diving at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and a bronze medal in synchronized diving from the tower at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney together with Heiko Meyer . At the 1998 World Championships he and Michael Kühne took second place in tower diving and third place in tower diving.

In 1993 he became European champion from the 3-meter board. Four years earlier he had won a bronze medal in the same discipline at the European Championships in 1989, at that time still starting for the German Democratic Republic (GDR), and at the European Championships in 1995 he finished second. In diving he became European champion in 1997, and vice-European champion in 1987, 1989 and 1995, and in 1993 he was third in this discipline. In addition, he became European champion in synchronized jumping from the tower in 1997 together with Michael Kühne and in 1999 together with Heiko Meyer. He also won five titles at European Junior Championships.

Jan Hempel won a total of 48 national titles at German championships outdoors and indoors in various disciplines and was also twice GDR champion. His home clubs were the SC Einheit Dresden and later the Dresdner SC . In 2003 he ended his active sports career. He is married and has two daughters.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan Hempel in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available) states that Radebeul near Dresden differs .
personal data
SURNAME Hempel, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diver
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden