Katharina Molitor

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Katharina Molitor 2015
Katharina Molitor 2015

Full name Katharina Molitor
nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 8th November 1983 (age 36)
size 183 cm
Weight 79 kg
job Student teacher
Career
discipline Javelin throw
Best performance 67.69 m (2015)
society TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen ,
formerly: LC Jugend 07 Bergheim
Trainer Helge Zöllkau
status resigned
Medal table
World championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
U23 European Championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
German championships 3 × gold 4 × silver 2 × bronze
IAAF logo World championships
gold Beijing 2015 67.69 m
EAA logo U23 European Championships
silver Erfurt 2005 57.01 m
DLV logo German championships
bronze Ulm 2009 59.64 m
gold Braunschweig 2010 64.27 m
silver Kassel 2011 64.67 m
bronze Ulm 2013 60.68 m
silver Ulm 2014 63.40 m
gold Nuremberg 2015 65.40 m
silver Kassel 2016 62.86 m
gold Erfurt 2017 61.16 m
silver Nuremberg 2018 56.75 m

Katharina Molitor (now Katharina Karstens ; born November 8, 1983 in Bedburg , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German volleyball player and former javelin thrower . Her greatest sporting success is winning the javelin title at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing .

career path

Molitor initially studied to teach at grammar schools and vocational colleges at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal , then switched to primary school teaching.

Athletic career

Athletics career

Molitor started athletics in her hometown at TV Bedburg. Your youth trainer Franz Inden ensured a varied training. In June 1997 Katharina Molitor achieved a width of 52 meters when throwing the ball , with which she still leads the best lists in the Cologne district for the AW14 and W15 students. The Rhinelander also demonstrated her versatility at the Jugend 07 Bergheim athletics club. She led the club best list in 2000 for the female B-youth in all running disciplines as well as in four and heptathlon, her performances at that time in the throwing disciplines were even leading in the women's class.

Katharina Molitor moved to Bayer Leverkusen in 2003 , where she specialized in javelin throwing under Helge Zöllkau . In 2005 she was second behind Annika Suthe at the U23 European Championships with 57.01 m . In 2007 she took sixth place at the Universiade in Bangkok with 58.19 m. In March 2008 Molitor was second in the Winter Throw European Cup with 58.26 m. On May 24, 2008, she improved her best in Halle to 61.74 m. Because, unlike Linda Stahl, she twice exceeded the qualifying distance for the Olympic Games, Molitor was nominated as the third German javelin thrower, alongside Christina Obergföll and Steffi Nerius , for the 2008 Olympic Games , although she was only fourth behind Stahl at the German Championships. In Beijing it came in seventh.

On June 25, 2010 Molitor achieved a new personal best of 64.53 m in the Leverkusen stadium at home. She clearly exceeded the required European Championship standard of 61.00 meters and placed fifth on the European annual best list, directly behind Christina Obergföll. At the German Championships on July 18, 2010 in Braunschweig, the javelin thrower successfully prevailed against Christina Obergföll and Linda Stahl as the new German champion with 64.27 m. This success also meant participating in the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona , where she finished fourth with 63.81 m.

At the World Championships 2011 in Daegu Molitor was fifth with 64.32 m. Three weeks earlier she had achieved a new personal best of 64.67 m in Kassel. At the European Championships in 2012 she was also fifth with a width of 60.99 m. At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 Molitor reached 62.89 m, taking sixth place. At the 2013 World Championships , she finished 13th in qualification.

In July 2015, she increased her best performance at the meeting in Lucerne to 66.40 m. On August 30, 2015, Molitor threw a distance of 67.69 m in the last litter of the entire competition with a personal best at the World Championships in Beijing, winning her first international title. With this distance she was also the best German javelin thrower of 2015.

Although Molitor was second in the German championships and fourth in the European championships in 2016 , she was not nominated for the Olympic Games in Rio because Christina Obergföll had two better distances this year and Linda Stahl qualified second in the European Championship and Christin Hussong as German champion were. She therefore applied for an injunction against the DOSB . Such was rejected on July 18, 2016 by the Frankfurt am Main regional court .

In 2017, Molitor became European team champion in Lille, northern France , and took 4th place in the javelin throw . In Erfurt she won the German Championships . The World Championships in London closed Molitor down to 7th place. In the qualification she had thrown a season best of 65.37 m, a distance that would have been enough for bronze in the final.

In 2018, Molitor and the team took 1st place at the European Winter Throwing Cup in Leiria , and 3rd in the individual. At the European Championships in Berlin in 2018 , she failed to qualify. Then she ended her javelin throwing career.

Katharina Molitor had a competition weight of 79 kg with a height of 1.83 m.

Performance development

Molitor as the 2011 winner at the 18th MONDO Keien Meeting, Netherlands
2001 48.53 m
2002 50.94 m
2003 48.04 m
2004 50.04 m
2005 57.01 m
2006 57.58 m
2007 58.87 m
2008 61.74 m
2009 62.69 m
2010 64.53 m
2011 64.67 m
2012 63.20 m
2013 63.55 m
2014 63.40 m
2015 67.69 m PB
2016 63.20 m
2017 65.37 m
2018 61.91 m

Career volleyball

When she was thirteen, Katharina Molitor started playing volleyball at TV Bedburg. A year later she moved to Oberaußemer VV. In 2006, the then sports and social science student also switched to volleyball at TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the second women's team, with which she made it to the second national volleyball division in 2008 . At the beginning of 2009, the universal player was even used as a middle blocker in the first team of the Leverkusen women in the first Bundesliga . Since Bayer 04 then withdrew from the top German division due to financial difficulties, Katharina Molitor played again in the second Bundesliga in the 2010/11 season, as far as athletics competitions and training allowed. In 2011 she was promoted to the first division again . After relegation in 2012, Molitor and the Leverkusen women took top places in the second Bundesliga North and won the championship here in 2013 and 2016.

Club affiliations

Molitor has been with TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen since autumn 2003 and was with LC Jugend 07 Bergheim the years before.

Web links

Commons : Katharina Molitor  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Two top athletes from the Bergische Uni in Beijing were there . Press archive of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, August 8, 2008, accessed on July 14, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Katharina Molitor: "The javelin always came first". Leichtathletik.de, November 5, 2018.
  3. ↑ Markus Clemens: The boys behind. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , August 21, 2008, archived from the original on August 23, 2008 ; accessed on July 14, 2016 .
  4. ↑ District records 2015. (PDF) Leichtathletik-Verband Nordrhein eV Kreis Köln (LVN-Kreis Köln), accessed on July 14, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Best list 2000 female B-youth athletics association North Rhine. (PDF) Retrieved July 14, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Steffi Nerius takes fourth place at the Olympic Games Leverkusen.com, September 13, 2016.
  7. ↑ Results EM 2012: Women - Javelin Throw. Tagesschau.de , 2012, archived from the original on July 1, 2012 ; accessed on July 14, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Javelin Throw Summary | 14th IAAF World Championships . IAAF website, accessed July 14, 2016.
  9. ↑ TSV: Victory and best performance for Molitor . RP Online , July 17, 2015, accessed July 14, 2016.
  10. ↑ Morning Session Blog Sat 22 2015 | IAAF World Championships . IAAF website, accessed July 14, 2016.
  11. ^ Temporary injunction: World champion Molitor wants to force participation in the Olympics Spiegel Online, July 14, 2016, accessed on July 15, 2016.
  12. ↑ Olympic nomination: Molitor is subject to legal dispute against Olympic Association , rp-online.de , July 18, 2016.
  13. ↑ Katharina Molitor: volleyball . Katharina Molitor's website, accessed July 14, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Molitor, Catherine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karstens, Katharina (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete and volleyball player
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Bedburg