Karol Hoffmann

Karol Hoffmann
Hoffmann at the 2016 Olympic Games
Full name	Karol Hoffmann
nation	Poland
birthday	1st June 1989 (age 31)
place of birth	Warsaw , Poland
size	197 cm
Weight	80 kg
Career
discipline	Triple jump
Best performance	Open air: 17.16 m Hall: 16.89 m
society	MKS Aleksandrow Lodzki
Trainer	Leszek Lipinski
status	active
Medal table
European championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
European championships silver Amsterdam 2016 Triple jump
last change: February 19, 2020

Karol Hoffmann (born June 1, 1989 in Warsaw ) is a Polish athlete who specializes in the triple jump . In 2016 he became vice European champion

Athletic career

Karol Hoffmann is the son of the former world triple jump champion Zdzisław Hoffmann . Since 2006 he has competed in the triple jump. In the summer he became the Polish U18 champion. Just a year later he took part in international championships for the first time at the U20 European Championships in Hengelo, failing with 15.00 m in the qualification. In 2008 he jumped 15.42 m in the final of the U20 World Championships in his Polish homeland, finishing in tenth place. In the next few seasons he limited himself to national championships and meetings and was able to increase his best performance to 16.50 m in the meantime.

In August 2011 he became the first Polish master in his discipline among adults. A month earlier he started at the U23 European Championships in Ostrava, where he was tenth with 16.21 m. In 2012, he first took part in international adult championships at the European Championships in Helsinki. With over 17 meters he was the first of his qualifying group to reach the final, in which he was sixth with 16.74 meters. His 17.09 m from qualification subsequently stood for four years as his personal best. In 2013 Hoffmann took part in the European Team Championship for the second time with the Polish team . In spring 2014, he finished fifth with 16.89 m at the World Indoor Championships in Sopot, celebrating his greatest sporting success to date.

2016 was his most successful sporting year. After qualifying at the European Championships in Amsterdam, he rose to 17.16 m in the final. With this new personal best he won the silver medal, jumping only four centimeters shorter than European champion Max Hess . A month later, Hoffmann started at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. There he moved into the final as third in his group, in which he ended up in twelfth and thus last place with a width of 16.31 m. In the years that followed, he couldn't get to the 17-meter mark. At the European Championships in Berlin in 2018 , he had to give up in qualifying.

Major competitions

year	event	place	space	discipline	Expanse
Starts for Poland
2007	U20 European Championships	Hengelo	22nd	Triple jump	15.00 m
2008	U20 world championships	Bydgoszcz	10.	Triple jump	15.42 m
2011	U23 European Championships	Ostrava	10.	Triple jump	16.21 m
2012	European championships	Helsinki	6th	Triple jump	16.74 m
2014	Indoor world championships	Sopot	5.	Triple jump	16.89 m
2016	European championships	Amsterdam	2.	Triple jump	17.16 m
	Olympic games	Rio de Janeiro	12.	Triple jump	16.31 m
2018	European championships	Berlin	22nd	Triple jump

Personal best

• Triple jump: 17.16 m, July 9, 2016, Amsterdam
• Triple jump (indoor): 16.89 m, March 9, 2014, Sopot

Web links

Commons : Karol Hoffmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Karol Hoffmann into the database of World Athletics (English)
• Karol Hoffmann into the database of European Athletics (English)
• Karol Hoffmann in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )