Manuela Montebrun

Manuela Montebrun
Manuela Montebrun
nation	France
birthday	November 13, 1979
place of birth	Laval ,  France
size	175 cm
Weight	92 kg
Career
discipline	Hammer throw
Best performance	74.66 m (July 11, 2005, Zagreb )
society	Stade Laval
status	resigned
End of career	2012
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × World championships 0 × 1 × 1 × European championships 0 × 0 × 1 × U23 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Summer Universiade 1 × 0 × 1 × Goodwill Games 0 × 0 × 1 × Games of the Francophonie 1 × 0 × 0 × World Athletics Finals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Olympic games bronze 2008 Beijing 72.54 m  World championships silver 2005 Helsinki 71.41 m bronze 2003 Paris / Saint-Denis 70.92 m  European championships bronze 2002 Munich 72.04 m  U23 European Championships gold 2001 Amsterdam 66.73 m  Universiade gold 2001 Beijing 69.78 m bronze 1999 Palma 68.11 m  Goodwill Games bronze 2001 Brisbane 69.80 m  Games of the Francophonie gold 2009 Beirut 70.26 m  World Athletics Finals bronze 2004 Szombathely 70.63 m
last change: January 14, 2017

Manuela Montebrun (born November 13, 1979 in Laval ) is a former French athlete . The hammer thrower won the bronze medal at the World Athletics Championships in Saint-Denis near Paris in 2003 . Two years later, she took second place at the 2005 World Cup in Helsinki . In 2008 she was bronze at the Summer Olympics in Beijing . She became French champion nine times.

Career

After a fifth place at the Junior World Championships in 1998 in Annecy , Montebrun won her first international medal in 1999 when she finished third at the Universiade . Also in 1999 she was twelfth at the World Championships . A year later, Montebrun failed to qualify for the 2000 Olympic Games and only finished 24th. At the World Championships in 2001 , she reached fifth place. In the same year she won the titles at the Universiade and the U23 European Championships in Amsterdam .

At the European Championships in Munich in 2002 , she was third with 72.04 meters, 90 centimeters behind the gold medal of Russian Olga Kusenkova , but was over 4 meters ahead of fourth-placed. In 2003 at the World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis , she was third again with 70.92 meters, but was only 15 centimeters ahead of fourth. At the 2004 Olympic Games , she was 15th in the qualification and failed to qualify for the final like four years earlier. In 2005 at the World Championships in Helsinki she threw the hammer to 71.41 meters and was fourth, more than a meter behind bronze. For the first time Montebrun was 2008 qualify in Beijing for the Olympic finals in the hammer throw. There she was 72.54 meters long for fifth place. In 2016 and 2017, the two Belarusians lying in front of her, Aksana Mjankowa and Darja Ptschelnik, were disqualified for doping , so that she was subsequently awarded the bronze medal from Beijing.

Montebrun achieved her best performance in hammer throw on July 11, 2005 in Zagreb with 74.66 meters. So she set the French record. The record still exists today. The athlete from Stade Laval is 1.75 m tall and has a competition weight of 92 kg.

In June 2012, she announced her resignation.

literature

• Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2007. SportsBooks, Cheltenham 2007, ISBN 978-1-899807-49-9 .

Web links

Commons : Manuela Montebrun  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Manuela Montebrun in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Manuela Montebrun ( Memento from December 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ athle.fr: Retour en force de Manuela Montebrun: record de France du lancer de Marteau article from July 12, 2005 (French)
2. ↑ ouest-france.fr: Athlétisme. Manuèla Montebrun: "Comme Monsieur ou Madame Tout-le-Monde" Article of September 27, 2013 (French)