Karsten Kobs

Karsten Kobs
Karsten Kobs at the Josef Odložil Memorial in Prague (2005)
nation	Germany
birthday	16th September 1971
place of birth	Dortmund ,  Germany
size	196 cm
Weight	123 kg
Career
discipline	Hammer throw
Best performance	82.78 m (June 26, 1999 in Dortmund)
status	resigned
End of career	2008
Medal table
World championships 1 × 0 × 0 × European championships 0 × 0 × 1 × IAAF Grand Prix Final 0 × 0 × 1 ×
World championships gold Seville 1999 80.24 m  European championships bronze Budapest 1998 80.13 m IAAF Grand Prix Final bronze Doha 2000 79.22 m
last change: January 15, 2017

Karsten Kobs (born September 16, 1971 in Dortmund ) is a former German hammer thrower .

Career

Already in 1990 Karsten Kobs reached fourth place at the Junior World Championships. In 1996, as a 25-year-old, he took part in the European Athletics Cup for the first time and surprisingly became the winner. In the same year he earned the title of German Master , which he was later able to achieve again throughout the years 1999 to 2005.

As a participant in the world championships in 1993 in Stuttgart , 1995 in Gothenburg and 1997 in Athens , he did not get beyond a ninth place (1997). But after winning the bronze medal at the European Championships in Budapest in 1998, he achieved his personal record distance on June 26, 1999 in Dortmund with 82.78 m and soon became world champion. Winning the title at the World Championships in Seville with 80.24 m was the highlight in Karsten Kobs' athletic career so far. After his victory, he bathed in the water ditch of the 3,000-meter obstacle course in front of the cameras .

Third place at the 2002 World Cup, victory at the 2003 European Cup and eighth place at the Olympic Games in Athens rounded off his successes to date. At the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg, he finished eighth.

In 2008, after his third place at the German Championships in Nuremberg, he announced the end of his sporting career after 20 years of competitive sport.

Karsten Kobs had a competition weight of 123 kg with a height of 1.96 m. He started his career at OSC Dortmund , but started in 1988 for LG Olympia Dortmund . From 2000 to 2004 Kobs competed for TSV Bayer Leverkusen . In 2006 he started for Teutonia Lanstrop and in 2008 for ASC 09 Dortmund .

Karsten Kobs is the grandson of athlete and gymnast Rudolf Kobs (1893–1978).

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005. 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 (published by Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft )

Web links

• Karsten Kobs in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait on Leichtathletik.de
• Entry in the Leverkusen Who's Who
• Karsten Kobs in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Karsten Kobs in Dortmund adopts article from June 8, 2009
2. ↑ reviersport.de: What does Karsten Kobs actually do? "95 percent is too little" article from August 13, 2008