Lilli Schwarzkopf
Lilli Schwarzkopf 
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| birthday | 28th August 1983 (age 36) | ||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Novopokrowka , Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||
| size | 174 cm | ||||||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Heptathlon | ||||||||||||||||||
| society | LG Hanover | ||||||||||||||||||
| Trainer | Reinhold Schwarzkopf | ||||||||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||||||||
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Lilli Schwarzkopf (born August 28, 1983 in Nowopokrowka , Kyrgyz SSR , Soviet Union ) is a German heptathlete and silver medalist at the Olympic Games .
life and career
Lilli Schwarzkopf came to Germany with her parents from the Soviet Union as a Kyrgyz German resettler when she was seven . She is 1.74 m tall and has been trained by her father Reinhold Schwarzkopf, a former decathlete , since the beginning of her career . Her first club was the LG Lippe-Süd, then she started for the LC in Paderborn , the largest city near her place of residence Siebenstern (Bad Driburg) .
From 2005 to 2008 she was honored four times as “Paderborn Sportswoman of the Year” after she had achieved podium places at European Athletics Championships in 2005 and 2006 . In 2009, the then sports student left the club in a dispute after he had fired her father and moved to distant Rhineland-Palatinate . There she represented the LG Rhein-Wied for five years until 2014 .
For the renowned club from the Koblenz-Neuwied basin , she achieved her greatest success in 2012 with the silver medal at the London Olympic Games . As a result, she was named the undisputed athlete of the year 2012 by the German Athletics Association .
After an Achilles tendon rupture and a long break from injury, she returned to Lower Saxony in 2014 and started working for the LG Hanover .
Competition successes
In 2004 Schwarzkopf was German champion with 6,125 points and in 2005 U23 vice-European champion with 6,196 points. Shortly afterwards she took part in the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 and reached 13th place with 5993 points. At the European Championships in Gothenburg in 2006 she won the bronze medal with 6,420 points and at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka she reached fifth place and improved her personal record to 6,439 points.
On June 21st and 22nd, 2008 she won the all- around meeting in Ratingen and achieved her best performance of 6536 points. So she finally qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing . Here she finished ninth with 6379 points, but moved up one place after the disqualification of Ljudmyla Blonska because of doping .
At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin , she gave up after the third discipline because of an injury to the Achilles tendon . In June 2010 she reached second place in the all-around meeting in Ratingen with 6386 points and qualified for the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona , where she did not compete because she wanted to complete her sports studies. The following year she reached sixth place at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu ( South Korea ) with 6321 points.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London , Schwarzkopf finished second behind Britain's Jessica Ennis with a personal best of 6649 points . She improved from fifth to second in the final 800 meter run . She was initially disqualified because of touching the lane marking during the 800-meter run. However, it turned out that it was not Schwarzkopf but the Russian Kristina Sawizkaja who had entered the marking, and Schwarzkopf was awarded the silver medal.
A few weeks after the Olympic Games, on September 15, 2012, at the last competition of the season, the all-around meeting in Talence, France, Schwarzkopf tore his Achilles tendon. After a long break, she was able to achieve fifth place at the 2014 European Championships in Zurich with 6332 points as the second best German behind Carolin Schäfer .
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Top performances
| discipline | Best performance |
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| Heptathlon | 6,649 points |
| Pentathlon | 4,641 points |
| 100 meter hurdles | 13.26 s |
| high jump | 1.85 m |
| Shot put | 15.06 m |
| 200 metres | 24.72 s |
| Long jump | 6.34 m |
| Javelin throw | 55.25 m |
| 800 meters | 2: 09.63 min |
Web links
- Lilli Schwarzkopf in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Lilli Schwarzkopf at the LG Rhein-Wied
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Kaukenberger Echo, June 2008, p. 4 f.
- ^ Athlete portrait Lilli Schwarzkopf. LG Rhein-Wied , accessed on September 3, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Lilli Schwarzkopf goes to the Rhineland. radiohochstift.de, December 2, 2009, accessed on September 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Athletics information. (PDF) Issue 1/2013 (PDF), pp. 18/24. Friends of Athletics Association at DLV , 2013, accessed on September 4, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Lilli Schwarzkopf does not write off the season yet. Leichtathletik.de ( DLV ), April 4, 2013, accessed on September 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Olympic runner -up Lilli Schwarzkopf starts in the future for the LG Hannover. NLV , May 7, 2014, accessed September 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Susanne Rohlfing: The drama of Lilli Schwarzkopf. Frankfurter Rundschau , August 6, 2012, accessed on September 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Schwarzkopf, second in the Olympics, is seriously injured. Kicker (sports magazine) , September 15, 2012, accessed on September 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Lilli Schwarzkopf. Athlete profiles. IAAF , accessed September 3, 2019 .
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| SURNAME | Schwarzkopf, Lilli |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German heptathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nowopokrowka , Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union |