Karsten pride

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Karsten Stolz (born July 23, 1964 in Oberhausen ) is a former German shot putter .

Career

Proudly attended the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium (Oberhausen) and began his athletic career at SG Oberhausen and later started athletics for TV Wattenscheid 01 . He acquired the reputation of an exceptional talent early on. In 1978 he improved the German school record in the shot put to 17.70 m. Two years later he increased the German B youth best performance from 18.02 m to 20.70 m. At the European Junior Athletics Championships in 1981 in Utrecht, he won the bronze medal behind Andreas Horn and Ulf Timmermann from the GDR, who were two years older than him . In the same year he achieved a youth world best of 18.73 m with the 7.26 kg ball, which is actually reserved for the adult class.

In the Federal Republic of Germany, pride became the dominant shot putter. Between 1984 and 1990 he was five times German champion outdoors and four times indoors. Internationally, however, the 2.08 m tall and 142 kg heavy athlete never made his final breakthrough. Two silver medals at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Budapest in 1988 and in The Hague in 1989 remained his greatest successes. His only Olympic participation in 1984 in Los Angeles ended in twelfth place. He was also sixth at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in 1986 in Madrid and in the same year outdoors at the European Championships in Stuttgart . In 1987 he finished eighth at the World Indoor Championships in Indianapolis, eighth place at the European Indoor Championships in Liévin and eleventh place at the World Championships in Rome . At the IAAF World Indoor Athletics Championships in 1989 in Budapest he was fifth and at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in 1990 in Glasgow and at the European Athletics Championships in Split in 1990 , as four years earlier, each sixth. His personal best is 21.15 m, recorded on September 18, 1988 in Essen.

Plagued by numerous injuries, Stolz ended his competitive sports career in 1991.

After Stolz's father Günther (1936–1995) the triple gym of the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium (Oberhausen) was named in 2000 , who was a sports teacher there.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chronicle of the LAC Oberhausen
  2. ↑ gbrathletics.com: European Junior Championships (Men)
  3. ↑ gbrathletics.com: World Youth (Under 18) Best Performances
  4. ↑ gbrathletics.com: West German Championships
  5. ↑ gbrathletics.com: West German Indoor Championships
  6. ↑ Karsten Stolz in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
personal data
SURNAME Proud, Karsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German shot putter
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen