Mathias Mester

Mathias Mester
Mathias Mester 2016
nation	Germany
birthday	15th September 1986 (age 33)
place of birth	Coesfeld ,  Germany
size	142 cm
Weight	58 kg
job	Office clerk
Career
discipline	Shot put , discus and javelin throw
society	1. FC Kaiserslautern , formerly: Bayer 04 Leverkusen , DJK Eintracht Coesfeld
Trainer	before: Steffi Nerius , Herbert Hessel
status	active
Medal table
Paralympic Games 0 × 1 × 0 × IPC world championships 2 × 0 × 1 × IWAS World Games 5 × 1 × 0 × IPC European Championships 3 × 1 × 0 × German championships 17 × 2 × 0 × German indoor championships 11 × 1 × 0 ×
Paralympic Games silver 2008 Beijing Shot put IPC world championships gold 2006 Assen Javelin throw gold 2013 Lyon Javelin throw bronze 2017 London Javelin throw IWAS World Games gold 2007 Taipei Shot put, discus / javelin throw gold 2009 Bangalore Discus / javelin throw silver 2009 Bangalore Shot put IPC European Championships gold 2012 Stadskanaal Javelin throw gold 2014 Swansea Javelin throw silver 2016 Grosseto Javelin throw gold 2018 Berlin Javelin throw German championships gold 2005 Berlin Shot put, discus / javelin throw gold 2006 Leverkusen Javelin throw silver 2006 Leverkusen Shot put gold 2007 singing Shot put, discus / javelin throw gold 2008 Berlin Shot put, discus / javelin throw gold 2009 Sindelfingen Shot put, discus / javelin throw gold 2011 singing Javelin throw silver 2011 singing Shot put gold 2012 Berlin Javelin throw gold 2017 Erfurt Javelin throw gold 2018 Kienbaum Javelin throw German indoor championships gold 2006 Halle (Saale) Shot put, discus / javelin throw gold 2007 Leverkusen Shot put and javelin throw silver 2007 Leverkusen Discus throw gold 2008 Halle (Saale) Shot put, discus / javelin throw gold 2009 Leverkusen Shot put, discus / javelin throw
last change: October 2nd, 2018

Mathias "Matze" Mester (born September 15, 1986 in Münster , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German athlete of the throwing disciplines in disabled sports in the starting class F41 ( short athletes). His favorite discipline is throwing the javelin . At the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing, he took silver in the shot put . In 2006, 2009 and 2013 Mester was IPC world champion in javelin throw.

career path

In 2007 Mester began training as an office clerk , which he later completed.

Athletic career

Mathias Mester first played football in the regional league. At a hobby tournament he was asked by his former exercise bike whether he would like to take part in an athletics trial training at Bayer 04 Leverkusen . It was there that Mester met Steffi Nerius for the first time , and she found that he had “a lot of tension in his arms”. At first he was looked after by the former Leverkusen trainer Herbert Hessel in his hometown Coesfeld and trained at the same time with Steffi Nerius at the weekend before moving to the Rhineland in 2006.

At the age of 18, Mester became International German Champion (IDM) in shot put, discus and javelin throw in Berlin on August 13 and 14, 2005 . In the following years he also won numerous championship titles outdoors in these disciplines as well as at the International German Indoor Championships with winter throwing .

Internationally, Mester 2006 in Dublin IWAS U23 World Championships in the shot put, discus and javelin throw. When throwing the javelin, he set a world record of 35.49 m. Two months later, Mester became the IPC world javelin champion with a championship record of 34.00 m in Assen .

In 2007 he won the IDM in Singen in the discus throw with a world record of 30.76 m. Mester is the first dwarf to surpass the 30-meter mark in the discus throw. At the IWAS World Games in Taipei, Mester again won three gold medals in his disciplines, including a world record in the shot put (10.46 m) and the discus throw (31.34 m).

At the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, Mester won the silver medal in the shot put. He could not compete in the discus and javelin throw because these disciplines had been deleted from the Paralympic program.

In 2009 he threw the spear at the IDM in Sindelfingen to the world record distance of 38.58 m. At the end of November Mester defended his title in the discus throw with a width of 30.74 m at the IWAS World Games in Bangalore and won the javelin throw with a new world record of 40.69 m and was the first short man to surpass the 40-meter mark.

Mester injured his back in March 2010 and later had to undergo an operation.

In 2012 he was IPC European Champion with the spear in Stadskanaal and came 7th at the Paralympic Games in London.

On July 22, 2013 Mester won the gold medal in the javelin throw at the IPC World Championships in Lyon . With a width of 41.26 m, in the second attempt it was only 41 centimeters below the European record set up ten days earlier in Leverkusen.

In 2014 he won the javelin throw at the IPC European Championships in Swansea .

In 2015, a knee injury prevented his participation in the IPC World Championships in Doha .

In 2016, Mester was IPC Vice European Champion at the javelin throw and finished 5th at the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro .

In 2017 he took 3rd place in the javelin throw at the IPC World Championships in London with 40.54 m .

In 2018 Mester became IPC European Champion with the Speer .

In 2020 Mester initiated the Parantänische Games 2020 , a 14-day series of sporty and fun "competitions" in quarantine at home, to bridge the period of no competition during the Covid-19 pandemic and to postpone the 2020 Summer Paralympics to 2021 .

Club affiliations

Since the beginning of 2013 Mester starts for 1. FC Kaiserslautern , which he joined from TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen , where he was trained by Steffi Nerius . Until 2006, Mester was with DJK Eintracht Coesfeld .

Awards

In 2007 Mathias Mester won the sports media award of the Coesfeld district at local level . In the same year he was voted Disabled Sportsman of the Year 2007 . In 2008 he received the Silver Laurel Leaf , the highest sporting award in Germany, from the then Federal President Horst Köhler . He was proclaimed "Sports Personality 2008 in Disabled Sports" by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia .

successes

national

• 2005: International German Champion (shot put, discus and javelin throw)
• 2006: International German indoor champion (shot put, discus and javelin throw)
• 2006: International German Champion (javelin throw)
• 2006: International German runner-up (shot put)
• 2006: 4th place international German championships (discus)
• 2007: International German indoor champion (shot put and javelin)
• 2007: International German indoor runner-up (discus)
• 2007: International German Champion (shot put, discus and javelin throw)
• 2008: International German Indoor Champion (shot put, discus and javelin throw)
• 2008: International German Champion (shot put, discus and javelin throw)
• 2009: International German indoor champion (shot put, discus and javelin throw)
• 2009: International German Champion (shot put, discus and javelin throw)
• 2011: International German Champion (javelin throw)
• 2011: International German runner-up (shot put)
• 2012: International German Champion (javelin throw)
• 2013: k. A.
• 2014: k. A.
• 2015: k. A.
• 2016: k. A.
• 2017: German champion (javelin throw)
• 2018: German champion (javelin throw)

international

• 2006: IPC World Champion (javelin throw)
• 2006: 4th place: IPC World Championships (shot put)
• 2006: IWAS U23 world champion (shot put, discus and javelin throw)
• 2007: 1st place IWAS World Games (shot put, discus and javelin throw)
• 2008: 2nd place Paralympic Games (shot put)
• 2009: IPC World Champion (discus and javelin throw)
• 2009: 1st place IWAS World Games (discus and javelin throw)
• 2009: 2nd place IWAS World Games (shot put)
• 2012: 7th place Paralympic Games (javelin throw)
• 2012: IPC European Champion (javelin throw)
• 2013: IPC World Champion (javelin throw)
• 2013: 4th place IPC World Championships (shot put)
• 2014: IPC European Champion (javelin throw)
• 2016: IPC Vice European Champion (javelin throw)
• 2016: 5th place Paralympic Games (javelin throw)
• 2017: 3rd place IPC World Championships (javelin throw)
• 2018: IPC European Champion (javelin throw)

Video links

• Who will get gold? The Parantian Games 2020 7:00 min, available until July 13, 2020
• Athlete Mathias Mester inventive from May 15, 2020 ∙ Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz ∙ SWR Rheinland-Pfalz

Web links

Commons : Mathias Mester  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of Mathias Mester
• Mathias Mester in the German Paralympic Team 2016
• Portrait of Mester on the homepage of the International Paralympic Committee
• Mathias Mester among the former TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen (pdf 449 kB)
• Summary of the sporting successes and awards for Mathias Mester
• Planet Knowledge - Portrait by Mathias Mester

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Minimum of medals, as there are no sources
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Disabled Sports :, on: ksta.de, from November 16, 2007, accessed October 10, 2018
3. ^ Mathias Mester , on: deutsche-paralympische-mannschaft.de, accessed October 5, 2018
4. ^ ^{A b} Nils Borgstedt: Mathias Mester - A medal is the desire, gold is the dream , Paralympics 2016, on: netzathleten.de, from August 26, 2016, accessed October 10, 2018
5. ^ ARD athlete profile Mathias Mester
6. ^ Paralympic Games Database
7. ↑ Summary of the sporting successes and awards for Mathias Mester
8. ↑ ^{a b} Portrait of Mester , on: infostradasports.com, accessed October 5, 2018
9. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung Coesfeld from July 22, 2013
10. ↑ Handelsblatt of July 22, 2013 ( Memento of July 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ Mathias Mester calls out "Parantänische Spiele 2020" , updates from DBSJugend, on: dbs-npc.de, April 9, 2020, accessed June 22, 2020
12. ↑ Homepage of the Disabled and Rehabilitation Sports Association Rhineland-Palatinate eV, Association for Rehabilitation, Prevention and Health Sports, notification of July 22, 2013 .
13. ↑ Sports media award of the Coesfeld district 2007 ( Memento from July 23, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
14. ↑ Planet Knowledge - Portrait of Mathias Mester
15. ^ Press release from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from April 6, 2009 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
16. ↑ ^{a b c d} due to lack of data