Matthias Fahrig

Matthias Fahrig
Matthias Fahrig at the 2009 World Gymnastics Championships in London
Personal information
Nationality:	Germany
discipline	Apparatus gymnastics
Special device / s:	Jump and ground
Society:	SV Halle
Trainer:	Uwe Ronneburg
Birthday:	December 15, 1985
Place of birth:	Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Size:	165 cm
Weight:	60 kg
Medals
World championships bronze 2007 Stuttgart Team all-around bronze 2010 Rotterdam Team all-around  European championships bronze 2007 Amsterdam ground silver 2009 Milan ground bronze 2009 Milan Leap gold 2010 Birmingham Team all-around gold 2010 Birmingham ground silver 2010 Birmingham Leap

Matthias Fahrig (born December 15, 1985 in Lutherstadt Wittenberg ) is a German gymnast .

Fahrig has been doing gymnastics since he was eight. From 1993 he went to the sports school in Halle (Saale) . His greatest successes so far include 2nd place at the 2004 World Cup in Stuttgart , 8th place with the team at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and the European Championship title in the team all- around and on the ground at the European Championships in Birmingham 2010.

After Fahrig at the European Championships in 2009 in Milan on jump bronze and the ground behind Hambüchen won the silver medal, he secured in Birmingham in 2010 his first European title on the ground and second place at the jump.

In July 2010, the World Gymnastics Federation (FIG) named the double twist piked with one and a half screws after its inventor Fahrig. Fahrig first presented the element at the 2010 Japan Cup.

Fahrig is currently training to become a sports and fitness clerk .

Matthias Fahrig jumping at the German Championships as part of the German Gymnastics Festival 2017 .

Web links

Commons : Matthias Fahrig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Profile at the German Gymnastics Federation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Petra Szag: Leap into Eternity. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. July 26, 2010, accessed May 15, 2013 .