Karsten Dilla

Karsten Dilla

Dilla at the U23 European Championship 2011 in Ostrava

nation

Germany

birthday

17th July 1989 (age 31)

place of birth

Dusseldorf, Germany

size

189 cm

Weight

81 kg

job

Sports soldier

Career

discipline

Pole vault

Best performance

5.73 m (hall); 5.72 m (open air)

society

TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen

Trainer

Leszek Klima , Jörn Elberding,
1st trainer: Torsten Tesch

status

active

Medal table

Olympic games	0 ×	0 ×
World championships	0 ×	0 ×
European championships	0 ×	0 ×
German championships	1 ×	2 ×
German indoor championships	1 ×	2 ×

German championships
bronze	Kassel 2011	5.62 m
bronze	Wattenscheid 2012	5.72 m
silver	Kassel 2016	5.65 m
German indoor championships
bronze	Leipzig 2011	5.50 m
silver	Dortmund 2018	5.58 m
bronze	Leipzig 2020	5.40 m

last change: March 2nd, 2020

Karsten Dilla (born July 17, 1989 in Düsseldorf / North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German athlete who specializes in the pole vault . Dilla is a sports soldier .

Athletic career

At the age of four, Karsten Dilla wanted to become a footballer and from then on stormed at SC Grimlinghausen , but over the years he lost the desire to kick, until at the age of ten his primary school teacher recommended that he switch to athletics, where he finally found the pole vault at TSV Bayer Dormagen .

Dilla won national youth and junior championships and reached the top positions internationally.

2011 was Dillas' most successful year. He was at the German Championships third in the hall and in the open air , U23 Vice European Champion and qualified for participation in the 2011 World Championships in Daegu , because he had increased m by ten centimeters to 5.72. He set this height several times and is so far his personal best outdoors (hall: 5.73 m).

In 2016 Dilla was German runner-up in Kassel with a height of 5.65 m, with which he also achieved the standard for participation in the European Championships in Amsterdam and was also nominated. At the end of June he mastered the Olympic standard at the pole vault meeting at Landauer Obertorplatz. In Rio he failed with 5.45 m in the qualification.

In 2018 Dilla won silver at the German Indoor Championships .

Annual bests in the open air

2009	5.50 m
2010	5.55 m
2011	5.72 m
2012	5.72 m
2013	5.72 m
2014	5.71 m
2015	5.60 m
2016	5.70 m
2017	5.61 m
2018

Dilla belongs to the perspective squad of the German Athletics Association (DLV) and was previously a member of the B squad .

Club affiliations

Since October 1, 2012, Dilla has started for TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen . He has been with TSV Bayer Dormagen since October 18, 1999 and previously with SC Grimlinghausen .