Markus Esser

Markus Esser

Markus Esser in the Grundig Stadium in
Nuremberg at the German
Athletics Championships on
July 26, 2015 with the bronze medal
for the 2006 European Championships

nation

Germany

birthday

3rd February 1980 (age 40)

place of birth

Leverkusen , Germany

job

educator

Career

discipline

Hammer throw

Best performance

81.10 m (2006)

society

TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen

status

resigned

End of career

2015

Medal table

World championships	0 ×	1 ×	0 ×
European championships	0 ×	0 ×	1 ×

World championships
silver	Helsinki 2005	Hammer throw
European championships
bronze	Gothenburg 2006	Hammer throw

Markus Esser (born February 3, 1980 in Leverkusen ) is a former German hammer thrower . He started for TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen from 1991 to 2015 .

Career

At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 he failed in qualifying as well as at the European Championships in 2002 in Munich.

In Athens at the 2004 Olympic Games he reached the final and was eleventh after three litters. In June 2005 he threw over 80 meters for the first time and came within the world class range. He was able to confirm this litter at the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 and after the disqualification of the Belarusian doping offenders Vadsim Dsewjatouski and Iwan Zichan third with a width of 79.16 m. In 2006 Esser won bronze at the European Championships in Gothenburg with 79.19 m. Again, Belarusian doping prevented, this time through Iwan Zichan , from being able to celebrate his victory on the podium . Esser received the bronze medal of the EM 2006 on July 26, 2015, almost 13 years later, as part of the German Championships 2015 in Nuremberg from Clemens Prokop .

In 2007 he was eighth with 79.66 m at the World Championships in Osaka . A ninth place at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing was followed by a sixth place at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin. At the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona, Esser missed qualifying for the final with 71.89 m. At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu , Korea , he again finished fourth in a major international competition with 79.12 m. Esser was ten inches from Bronze Square. Due to the subsequent disqualification of two medal candidates, Esser received the silver medal after all.

At the European Championships in Helsinki in 2012 , Esser came in seventh. He had to do without the Olympic Games in London for health reasons. At the 2013 World Championships in Moscow , he finished tenth.

At the German championships, Esser was overshadowed by Karsten Kobs for a long time , behind whom he took second place in 2002 and 2003. In 2006 and 2007, Esser was German champion ahead of Kobs. He also won the national title in 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. His best performance was on July 28, 2006 with 81.10 m in Leverkusen .

After the German Championships in 2015, where he was defeated by Alexander Ziegler , the then 35-year-old ended his active career.

Others

He is an educator and corporal in the Bundeswehr . For several years he has been a volunteer athletic trainer of the carnival dance group of KG Grün-Weiß Schlebusch.