Julia Mighty

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Julia Mächtig at the 2012 Olympic Games

Julia Mächtig (born January 1, 1986 in Rostock ) is a former German athlete. Her focus was on the heptathlon , she also celebrated successes in the long jump .

career path

Mächtig served in the Bundeswehr in the sports promotion group in Frankfurt (Oder) as a sports soldier with the rank of senior mate . After studying sports management , she has been managing director of the handball club SV Fortuna '50 Neubrandenburg since July 2016 and takes care of the finances, sponsors, player contracts, organization and safeguarding of games, organization of club events, etc. and is also the club's branch manager.

Athletic career

As a teenager, Julia Mächtig showed talent in various athletics disciplines, but without standing out in any particular. Therefore, she specialized in the all-around competition and moved to the sports boarding school in Neubrandenburg in 2000 . In the Junior World Championships in 2004 took the bronze medal Powerful and at the European Junior Championships next year the silver medal. In 2006 she became German Junior Champion and caused a sensation when she became German Champion in the long jump that same year .

In the women's category, she continued her good performance by becoming German heptathlon champion in 2007 with 5887 points and finishing third at the U23 European Championships. In 2008, however, she experienced a setback when, despite an impressive performance (6289 points), she did not qualify for the Olympic Games in Beijing because she lost the fight for the third German heptathlon starting place (behind the seeded Jennifer Oeser and Lilli Schwarzkopf ) against Sonja Kesselschläger .

In 2009 she qualified for the World Championships in Berlin and finished ninth. In 2010 Mächtig had an operation on the Achilles tendon and was out for the rest of the season. The following year she was 17th at the World Championships in Daegu. 2012 she won the all- around meeting Ratingen with the personal best of 6345 points and qualified for the Olympic Games in London. After a disappointing competition, Mächtig finished 31st with 5338 points.

In 2013 Mächtig became German indoor champion . At the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg she came in seventh place. In the qualifying competition for the World Championships in June 2013 in Ratingen, she set a new personal best with 6430 points. In January 2014, she separated from her long-time trainer Klaus Baake.

After she had not been able to compete for a year and a half for health reasons, she announced the end of her sporting career in February 2016. Now she is a hobby handball player.

Mighty is 1.87 m tall and had a competition weight of 80 kg.

Top performances

Her best performances are 6430 points (heptathlon) and 4556 points (pentathlon). Her strengths were in the long jump (best distance 6.48 m) and in the shot put (best distance 15.79 m), in which she could take advantage of her long leverage and strong stature.

Club affiliations

A mighty start for SC Neubrandenburg .

successes

  • Third Junior World Championships 2004
  • Second Junior European Championships 2005
  • German junior champion 2006
  • German long jump champion 2006
  • Third U23 European Championships 2007
  • Ninth of the European Indoor Championships 2007
  • German heptathlon champion 2007
  • Ninth at the 2009 World Championships
  • German indoor champion 2013
  • Seventh of the 2013 European Indoor Championships

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.

Web links

Commons : Julia Mächtig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jan-Henner Reitze / Julia Mächtig: Julia Mächtig has changed sides , first year without competitive sport, from December 31, 2017, accessed January 1, 2018
  2. ↑ Julia Mächtig Front - Three tickets for Moscow Leichtathletik.de, June 16, 2013, accessed on June 16, 2013
  3. ↑ Julia Mächtig wants to break the old pattern Leichtathletik.de, April 25, 2014, accessed on May 28, 2014.
  4. ↑ Julia Mächtig ends her career at Leichtathletik.de, February 29, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Powerful, Julia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German heptathlete
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock