Kathrin Klaas

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Kathrin Klaas athletics

Kathrin Klaas celebrating at ISTAF 2015.jpg
Kathrin Klaas 2015

nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 6th February 1984 (age 36)
place of birth Haiger ,  Germany
size 168 cm
Weight 70 kg
job Police superintendent
Career
discipline Hammer throw
Best performance 76.05 m
society LG Eintracht Frankfurt ,
first club: TuS Driedorf
Trainer Helge Zöllkau ,
first trainer: Marcus Lehnert
status resigned
End of career 2018
Medal table
German championships 2 × gold 8 × silver 1 × bronze
DLV logo German championships
bronze 2005 BO-Wattenscheid 66.27 m
silver 2007 Erfurt 70.58 m
silver 2009 Ulm 72.76 m
silver 2010 Braunschweig 68.85 m
silver 2011 Kassel 72.39 m
silver 2013 Ulm 69.98 m
gold 2014 Ulm 72.08 m
silver 2015 Nuremberg 67.84 m
silver 2016 Kassel 69.95 m
silver 2017 Erfurt 68.50 m
gold 2018 Nuremberg 66.08 m
last change: February 2, 2020

Kathrin Klaas (born February 6, 1984 in Haiger , Hessen ) is a former German athlete who specialized in hammer throwing.

career path

Klaas is a police superintendent and studied at the administrative college of Hesse in the police department and is a member of the sports promotion group of the Hessian police . She works in the social media team of the Frankfurt police.

Athletic career

In 2003 Klaas became German A youth champion and in 2006 German junior champion. In 2005 she was third at the German Championships and in 2007 second.

At the European Athletics Championships in 2006 in Gothenburg, she finished sixth. On May 19, 2007 she improved her personal record in Halle to 73.45 m, but then failed at the World Championships in Osaka in the qualification. In 2008 she qualified for the Olympic Games in Beijing , but retired in the qualification with 67.54 m and finished 24th. At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, she was with a personal best of 74.23 m up to the fifth attempt on the bronze rank , but was then pushed out of third place by Martina Hrašnová .

Klaas made a strong start to the 2010 season and increased her own record at the end of the winter training camp in Pretoria to 74.53 m, in mid-May in Halle her throwing device landed at 72.52 m, at the hammer throw meeting in Fränkisch-Crumbach she left 72.76 m follow. At the European Championships she came in 15th.

In 2012, Klaas came 4th as the best German at the European Championships in Helsinki. At the Olympic Games in London, she increased her personal best in a high-class competition to 76.05 m and finished fourth (then fifth, she moved up by disqualifying a Doperin).

In 2014 Klaas became German champion , the following year German runner-up .

In 2016 she was again German runner-up . At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , Klaas was eliminated in the preliminary round and finished in 18th place.

2017 Klaas came in Winterthrow European Cup in the Spanish Las Palmas with 71.06 m to 2nd place and had this distance, the standard for the world championships in London met. In Lille , northern France , she was European team champion , in the hammer throw she finished 8th. At the German championships she won the title of German runner-up .

In 2018 Klaas became German champion in Nuremberg and came in 7th place at the European Championships in Berlin with a season best of 71.50 m.

With the 2018 season, Klaas ended her sporting career.

Klaas belonged to the B-squad of the German Athletics Association (DLV) and since the competitive sports reform 2017/18 to the perspective squad . Since 2005, she had exceeded the 70-meter mark in every season. For many years she was runner-up behind Betty Heidler .

Club affiliations

In 2003 she moved from TV 1885 Haiger to LG Eintracht Frankfurt to train with the then national coach Michael Deyhle. In 2013 she moved to Helge Zöllkau's training group .

Performance development

Kathrin Klaas at the German Championships 2011

(Status: August 14, 2018 - 4 kg hammer -)

2001 50.10 m
2002 57.74 m
2003 63.72 m
2004 68.01 m
2005 70.91 m
2006 71.67 m
2007 73.45 m
2008 70.39 m
2009 74.23 m
2010 74.53 m
2011 75.48 m
2012 76.05 m PB
2013 72.57 m
2014 74.62 m
2015 73.18 m
2016 71.78 m
2017 71.06 m
2018 71.50 m

Web links

Commons : Kathrin Klaas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Team EM 2017 Lille Team brochure of the DLV, p. 45 (PDF 29 MB).
  2. ↑ Landessportbund Hessen: Top athletes are now also commissioners.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.landessportbund-hessen.de  
  3. ↑ a b Lars-Henrik Wacker: The emotional end of the career of Kathrin Klaas , Berlin 2018, on: Leichtathletik.de, from August 14, 2018, accessed August 15, 2018
  4. ↑ Anja Herrlitz: Hammer throwers start well . Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft mbH - www.leichtathletik.de. March 16, 2010. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
  5. ↑ Anja Herrlitz: 75.30 meters - Betty Heidler still strong . Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft mbH - www.leichtathletik.de. May 23, 2010. Retrieved May 23, 2010.
  6. ↑ Kathrin Klaas , on sportschau.de, accessed August 14, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Klaas, Kathrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hammer thrower
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Haiger