Kai Kazmirek

Kai Kazmirek
Kai Kazmirek at the 2017 IAAF World Championships
nation	Germany
birthday	28th January 1991 (age 29)
place of birth	Torgau , Germany
size	190 cm
Weight	88 kg
job	Police commissioner
Career
discipline	Decathlon , heptathlon
Best performance	8580 points, 6238 points
society	LG Rhein-Wied
Trainer	Jörg Roos, Holger Klein, Jörn Elberding
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 0 × 1 × U23 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Junior European Championships 0 × 0 × 1 × German championships 1 × 0 × 0 × German indoor championships 3 × 0 × 1 ×
World championships bronze London 2017 Decathlon  U23 European Championships gold Tampere 2013 Decathlon  Junior European Championships bronze Novi Sad 2009 Decathlon  German championships gold Hanover 2012 Decathlon  German indoor championships gold Frankfurt 2014 Heptathlon gold Hamburg 2016 Heptathlon bronze Dortmund 2018 Long jump gold Dortmund 2018 4 × 200 m
last change: March 3, 2018

Kai Kazmirek (born January 28, 1991 in Torgau ) is a German athlete who competes in the decathlon . The German champion from 2012 starts for the LG Rhein-Wied and is trained by Jörg Roos. He is a police commissioner in the sports promotion group of the Rhineland-Palatinate police. He studies at the German Sport University Cologne .

Athletic career

Kazmirek's strengths are in jumping and sprinting. For example, in 2008 he was German B youth champion in high jump and in 2009 third in the A youth championships in long jump . He achieved his first international successes in the decathlon in the U20 age group. At the Junior European Championships 2009 in Novi Sad he won the bronze medal, at the Junior World Championships 2010 in Moncton, he finished sixth.

In 2012 Kazmirek became German champion in the decathlon. In the same year he won the Thorpe Cup with the German team . With 8130 points he exceeded the 8000 point mark for the first time. At the U23 European Championships in Tampere in 2013 , he secured the title with a personal best of 8366 points.

In 2014 Kazmirek won the German championships in indoor heptathlon. Then the World Athletics Federation enabled him to take part in the World Indoor Championships in Sopot by wildcard . There he finished sixth with 6173 points. With Frank Busemann and André Niklaus , only two German all-rounders had ever achieved a higher number of points in this discipline. In the same year he increased his personal best at the Götzis all- around meeting to 8471 points. At the 2014 European Championships in Zurich , he was in the lead until the pole vault , but ended up only in sixth place.

In May 2015 he won the meeting in Götzis with 8462 points. At the World Championships in Beijing , he finished sixth with 8448 points.

In 2016 Kazmirek finished third in Götzis with 8318 points and second at the Ratingen all- around meeting with 8323 points. At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , he achieved a new personal best with 8580 points and took fourth place.

At the 2017 World Championships in London , Kazmirek was third with 8488 points. Only the new world champion Kevin Mayer (8786 points) from France and Kazmirek's team-mate Rico Freimuth (8564) were better .

In 2018 Kazmirek won the title at the German Indoor Championships with the 4 x 200 meter relay of the LG Rhein-Wied and came in 3rd place in the long jump. At the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham , he finished fourth in the heptathlon and achieved a new personal best with 6238 points. Kazmirek was nominated by the DLV for the home European championships in Berlin, but had to cancel shortly before due to injury.

Kai Kazmirek is 1.90 meters tall and his competition weight is 88 kilograms.

Others

• In late 2018, Kazmirek took part in the game show Catch! The big Sat.1 catch Friday . Kazmirek is currently studying the "B.Sc. Sport and Performance" course at the German Sport University Cologne .

Web links

Commons : Kai Kazmirek  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kai Kazmirek in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Profile of Kai Kazmirek. In: German Olympic Sports Confederation . Retrieved February 2, 2020 . 
• Athlete portrait by Kai Kazmirek on the website of LG Rhein-Wied

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DLV team brochure on the European Athletics U23 Championships 2011 ( Memento from March 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Kai Kazmirek: "I still get goose bumps" . German Athletics Association. March 22, 2014. Accessed February 23, 2018.
3. ↑ Kai Kazmirek well over 8,000 points . German Athletics Association. July 22, 2012. Accessed February 23, 2018.
4. ↑ U23 European Championship - Kai Kazmirek wins decathlon crown . German Athletics Association. July 12, 2013. Retrieved February 23, 2018.
5. ↑ Frankfurter as a World Cup heptathlete: "Give everything" under the hall roof . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. March 5, 2014. Retrieved March 22, 2014.
6. ^ Eternal hall best list of the DLV . German Athletics Association. Retrieved February 23, 2018.