Kirsten Münchow

Kirsten Münchow (from 2002 to 2007 Kirsten Klose , born January 21, 1977 in Rehren , Gde. Auetal ) is a German hammer thrower .

Career

Kirsten Münchow has competed in national competitions since 1994 and was one of the starters in the first international women's hammer throw competitions in 1997. At that time she was one of the dominant hammer throwers in Germany. In April 1998 she increased the German record to 66.82 m. In August 1998 she won the bronze medal at the European Championships in Budapest with a width of 65.61 m, only beaten by the then world record holder Mihaela Melinte and her predecessor Olga Kusenkowa . In 1999 she was second in the U23 European Championships with a width of 63.68 m. She qualified for the 1999 World Athletics Championships in Seville and reached the final there, but with a width of 64.03 m could not fully exploit her capabilities and was eighth. At the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, she missed the final fight and was ninth with 64.39 m in the final.

Between the two world championships, Münchow had her strongest year in 2000 with the greatest success of her career. She won the bronze medal at the Olympic premiere of the women's hammer throw at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney with the German record of 69.28 m and was awarded the silver laurel leaf for this medal win by Federal President Johannes Rau . This distance, which is also a personal best, is still (as of 2012) the fifth best distance of a German hammer thrower. In addition to international success, she secured the title at the German championships in 2000 and 2001 .

Kirsten Münchow is 1.72 m tall and weighed 75 kg in the competition. She is a trained shop window designer and was part of the Bundeswehr sports promotion group . She completed training as a physiotherapist . Münchow started first for LG Porta Westfalica , then for TuS Eintracht Minden , from 2000 for LG Eintracht Frankfurt , where she trained with the later national coach Michael Deyhle , and finally for SV Saar 05 Saarbrücken . In 2002 she married the hammer thrower Holger Klose ; on June 14, 2002, she became the mother of a son. After the divorce from her husband in 2007 she took her maiden name again and moved back to her homeland in East Westphalia . Since then she has started again for TuS Eintracht Minden. Although she only describes herself as a hobby athlete, she continues to compete in competitions on a national level despite the greatly reduced scope of training. In 2008 her best length was 64.83 m, in 2009 she achieved 62.60 m. In 2012, Münchow won the hammer throw title for VfR Evesen at the North German Championships with a width of 57.64 m. In addition to the hammer throw, she does lawn power sports .

In August 2015 Münchow started at the Senior Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France, and won the gold medal in the hammer throw final of the W35 class with a winning distance of 55.77 m.

Web links

• Kirsten Klose in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Kirsten Münchow in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ↑ NTV of February 2, 2001: ... Federal President Rau ... awarded the medal winners of the 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games the silver laurel leaf ...
2. ^ German Society for Athletics Documentation 1990 eV: Ladies - Hammer Throw
3. ↑ ^{a b} Peter Middel: Kirsten Klose wins superiorly in hammer throwing . In: Leichtathletik.de. August 6, 2006
4. ↑ Christian Fuchs: And two more titles for Melanie Bauschke . In: Leichtathletik.de. July 8, 2012
5. ↑ Hans Groob & Andreas Roth: Athletics: Olympic third with record  ( 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. .  In: Rheinische Post . October 8, 2007
6. ↑ List of results of the 2015 World Cup in Lyon ( Memento of the original from March 7, 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.