Lars Riedel

Lars Riedel
Lars Riedel at the "Ewige Helden" press conference 2015
Full name	Lars Peter Riedel
nation	Germany
birthday	June 28, 1967
place of birth	Zwickau ,  GDR
size	199 cm
Weight	110 kg
Career
discipline	Discus throw
Best performance	71.50 m
society	USC Mainz / LAC Erdgas Chemnitz
status	resigned
End of career	2008
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 1 × 0 × World championships 5 × 0 × 1 × European championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Atlanta 1996 69.40 m silver Sydney 2000 68.50 m  World championships gold Tokyo 1991 66.20 m gold Stuttgart 1993 67.72 m gold Gothenburg 1995 68.76 m gold Athens 1997 68.54 m bronze Seville 1999 68.09 m gold Edmonton 2001 69.72 m  European championships gold Budapest 1998 67.07 m

Lars Peter Riedel (born June 28, 1967 in Zwickau , Karl-Marx-Stadt district , GDR ) is a former German athlete . As a discus thrower , he was Olympic champion and five times world champion.

Life

Riedel grew up in Thurm near Zwickau and began competitive sports in the German Democratic Republic . In 1983 he came to SC Karl-Marx-Stadt . He started at the Junior World Championships in 1986 and at the European Championships in 1990 in Split, but without reaching medal ranks. With the end of the GDR, his trainer lost his job, and the skilled concrete worker Riedel worked on a construction site and hardly trained any more.

Only when he met Karlheinz Steinmetz , a trainer at USC Mainz , did he continue his sports career and in the 1990s he became one of the dominant figures in German athletics . In addition to a victory at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta with 69.40 m, Lars Riedel won five world championship titles in discus throw. He achieved his best performance on May 3, 1997 in Wiesbaden with 71.50 m.

Riedel is 1.99 m tall and had a competition weight of 110 kg. He last started for LAC Erdgas Chemnitz , but switched to TuS 1897 Saulheim in Rhineland-Hesse on December 1, 2006, to attack again in 2007. However, back problems prevented a comeback and qualification for the 2008 Olympic Games . On July 1, 2008, he therefore ended his career as an active athlete. His autobiography appeared on the same day .

During the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, Riedel worked as an expert for ARD . In March 2012 he was in the 5th season of the RTL dance show Let's Dance . There he took 5th place with his dance partner Marta Arndt . On March 31, 2012, Riedel took part in ProSieben's celebrity boxing , where he was brought to his knees by Evil Jared through a technical knockout. In February 2016, Riedel competed with other former world-class athletes on the show Eternal Heroes . In 2018 he took part in the RTL Ninja Warrior Germany celebrity special , as one of 26 candidates for the RTL donation marathon . In 2019 he took part in the celebrity special asked - hunted XXL.

Honors

For his success he received the silver bay leaf .

successes

• Olympic Champion of Atlanta 1996 (invalid - invalid - 65.40 - 63.10 - 69.40 m - 69.24)
• Silver medal at the Olympic Games Sydney 2000
• five-time world champion (1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2001)
• 3rd place at the 1999 World Championships in Seville
• European Champion 1998 in Budapest
• eleven times German champion
• Winner Golden Four 1996
• five-time Grand Prix winner (1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999)
• European Cup winner (1993, 1995, 1997, 2000 and 2001)

literature

• Lars Riedel, Edwin Klein: My world is flat. Herbig, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7766-2576-9
• Volker Kluge :  Riedel, Lars . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Commons : Lars Riedel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lars Riedel in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Lars Riedel's website (offline)
• Lars Riedel in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Literature by and about Lars Riedel in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eternal Heroes: Candidates , on: vox.de, accessed March 4, 2016
2. ↑ Lars Riedel, Edwin Klein: My world is the disc , Herbig, Munich, 2008