Michael Mertens (athlete)

Michael Mertens
nation	Germany
birthday	27th December 1965 (age 55)
place of birth	Place ,  BR Germany
size	191 cm
Weight	105 kg
Career
discipline	Shot put
Best performance	20.24 m
society	LG Göttingen
status	resigned
Medal table
German championships 0 × 2 × 6 ×
German championships silver Braunschweig 2000 19.89 m silver Frankfurt am Main 1997 20.15 m bronze Stuttgart 2001 19.42 m bronze Erfurt 1999 19.60 m bronze Berlin 1998 19.19 m bronze Cologne 1996 19.73 m bronze Duisburg 1993 18.74 m bronze Hamburg 1989 19.21 m

Michael Mertens (born December 27, 1965 in Stelle ) is a former German shot putter .

Athletic career

Michael Mertens won a total of six bronze and two silver medals at the German Athletics Championships . At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , he failed with a width of 19.07 m in qualification and took 16th place overall. Four years later he was able to qualify again for the Olympic Games in Sydney , but he failed again in the qualifying round and took 26th place.

Web links

• Michael Mertens in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence