Martina Strutz

Martina Strutz
Strutz 2005 in Potsdam
nation	Germany
birthday	4th November 1981 (age 38)
place of birth	Schwerin ,  German Democratic Republic
size	160 cm
Weight	53 kg
job	policewoman
Career
discipline	Pole vault
Best performance	Hall : 4.55 m; Open air : 4.80 m
society	SV Medicine Schwerin , formerly: Hagenower SV , Schweriner SC , SC Neubrandenburg , SG Dynamo Schwerin
Trainer	before: Thomas Schuldt, 1st trainer: Andreas Rändler
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 0 × World championships 0 × 1 × 0 × European championships 0 × 1 × 0 × German championships 3 × 1 × 1 × German indoor championships 1 × 2 × 2 ×
World championships silver 2011 Daegu 4.80 m  European championships silver 2012 Helsinki 4.60 m  German championships gold 2011 Kassel 4.65 m bronze 2012 BO-Wattenscheid 4.45 m gold 2013 Ulm 4.65 m silver 2015 Nuremberg 4.55 m gold 2016 Kassel 4.70 m  German indoor championships silver 2005 Sindelfingen 4.40 m gold 2006 Karlsruhe 4.45 m bronze 2011 Leipzig 4.55 m bronze 2015 Karlsruhe 4.45 m silver 2016 Leipzig 4.51 m
last change: February 12, 2020

Martina Strutz (born November 4, 1981 in Schwerin , GDR ) is a German athlete who competes in the pole vault .

career path

Strutz is a police officer who was appointed police chief at the end of June 2013 . She is a member of the sports promotion group of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania police .

Athletic career

Strutz won her first German championship title at the German Indoor Championships in 2006 , but just missed the final at the Indoor World Championships in Moscow as ninth of the qualification with 4.45 m. At the European Championships in 2006 she was fifth with 4.50 m, where she set her personal best. On 12 July 2011, they improved the German record of Annika Becker at the athletics meeting in Karlsruhe m by one centimeter to 4.78. At the German Championships in Kassel , she won with a jump of 4.65 m in front of Silke Spiegelburg . At the World Championships in Daegu on August 30, 2011, she improved the German record again to 4.80 m and won silver.

On June 30, 2012 Strutz was runner-up at the European Championships in Helsinki with 4.60 m in the second attempt. At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 she took fifth place with a height of 4.55 m (behind Silke Spiegelburg, 4.65 m).

In 2011, 2013 and 2016 Strutz became German champion.

In 2016 she finished 9th at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro .

In 2017, Strutz had to cancel the outdoor season because of a bicycle accident in which she fell on her shoulder.

In 2018 she was able to compete again in the indoor season and took 7th place at the German Indoor Championships . When the pain in the left Achilles tendon became unbearable after the springer meeting on the Schwerin market square in early June , she decided to have an operation.

In 2019, Strutz could not compete until August due to the Achilles tendon operation and only sniffed the competition air again at the 21st International Pole Vault Meeting for women in Beckum at the beginning of September  , as her goal is the Olympic Games in Tokyo .

Strutz lost her status as a squad athlete with the German Athletics Association (DLV) due to her long injury break .

Club affiliations

Martina Strutz is organized in the SV Medicine Schwerin . Since 2017 she had started again for almost two years for Hagenower SV , to which she belonged in 2011. Before that, she spent two years at Schweriner SC in preparation for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . From 2012 to 2014 she was a member of SC Neubrandenburg . Until 2010 Strutz was in the athletics section of SG Dynamo Schwerin for many years .

At the beginning of 2019 her long-time trainer and confidante Thomas Schuldt, Strutz and Schuldt have known each other since around the beginning of the 1990s and have been working together since 2009, entrusted with other tasks by the association, and so Strutz was in her recovery phase and the goal of participating in the Olympic Games in Tokyo on your own.

Trivia

Strutz has been partnered since April 30, 2015. Since December 8, 2019, she has been a B-trainer for competitive sports in the "Jump" department.

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical handbook on the history of German athletics 1898-2005 , 2 volumes, Darmstadt 2005 published on Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft

Web links

Commons : Martina Strutz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature about Martina Strutz in the state bibliography MV
• Martina Strutz in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait team brochure of the DLV for the EM 2016 Amsterdam, p. 52 (pdf 3.9 MB)
• Athlete portrait on european-athletics.org
• Performance profile on Leichtathletik-datenbank.de
• Athlete profile (Hagenower SV) on ladv.de
• Athlete profile (SV Medicine Schwerin) on ladv.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The women's DM decisions (day 1) - pole vault , on: Leichtathletik.de, from July 5, 2013, accessed February 13, 2020
2. ↑ ^{a b} Martina Strutz , on: polizei.mvnet.de, accessed February 13, 2020
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Ralf Herbst: Martina Strutz moves to Hagenow - On the hunt for heights for HSV , on: nnn.de, from November 30, 2016, accessed December 4, 2016
4. ↑ Anja Herrlitz: DM 2017: Large preview of the women's competitions - pole vault: New champion wanted , Steigerwaldstadion Erfurt, on: Leichtathletik.de, from July 6, 2017, accessed February 13, 2020
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Stefan Ehlers: Martina Strutz: The time of suffering follows dispute about her trainer , Ostsee-Zeitung, on: sportbuzzer.de, from March 21, 2019, accessed February 12, 2020
6. ↑ Peter Middel: A US victory and a new beginning in Beckum , pole vault, on: Leichtathletik.de, from September 8, 2019, accessed February 13, 2020
7. ↑ Stefan Ehlers / Peter Middel: Martina Strutz: The Olympic dream is alive , RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland, on: sportbuzzer.de, from September 9, 2019, accessed February 13, 2020
8. ^ Sportschau.de: Martina Strutz in portrait