Karsten Dilla
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birthday | 17th July 1989 (age 31) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Dusseldorf, Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 189 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 81 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
job | Sports soldier | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 |
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status | active | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 .
- Personal best
- outdoors: 5.72 m (Jockgrim) July 27, 2011
- in the hall: 5.73 m (Bad Oeynhausen) March 3, 2012
successes
- national
- 2006: German U18 champion
- 2008: German U20 champion
- 2010: 5th place German indoor championships
- 2010: German U23 champion
- 2011: 3rd place German indoor championships
- 2011: 3rd place German championships
- 2012: 3rd place German championships
- 2013: 4th place German championships
- 2016: German runner-up
- international
- 2007: 4th place in the U20 European Championships
- 2008: 3rd place U20 World Championships
- 2011: U23 Vice European Champion
- 2014: 9th place European Championships
Web links
- Karsten Dilla in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Homepage Karsten Dilla
- Team EM 2014 Zurich / Switzerland DLV team brochure, p. 14
- Athlete portrait on NDR sports show
- Athlete portrait at Leichtathletik.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Athlete portrait on NDR-Sportschau ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at: ndr.de, accessed May 14, 2016.
- ↑ Team EM 2014 Zurich / Switzerland DLV team brochure, p. 14.
- ↑ Pole vaulters miss the Olympic pole vault final
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Dilla, Karsten |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pole vaulter |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1989 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |