Nadine Kleinert
| Nadine Kleinert medal table |
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 Nadine Kleinert 2012 |
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Shot put |
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 Germany
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| Olympic games | ||
| silver | Athens 2004 | 19.55 m |
| World championships | ||
| silver | Seville 1999 | 19.61 m |
| silver | Edmonton 2001 | 19.86 m |
| bronze | Helsinki 2005 | 19.07 m |
| silver | Osaka 2007 | 19.77 m |
| silver | Berlin 2009 | 20.20 m |
| Indoor world championships | ||
| bronze | Budapest 2004 | 19.05 m |
| silver | Moscow 2006 | 19.64 m |
| bronze | Doha 2010 | 19.34 m |
| European championships | ||
| gold | Helsinki 2012 | 19.18 m |
| European Indoor Championships | ||
| silver | Ghent 2000 | 19.23 m |
Nadine Kleinert , at times Kleinert-Schmitt (born October 20, 1975 in Magdeburg , GDR) is a former German shot putter who has won an Olympic silver medal and five world championship medals. In 2012 she became European champion. She has been retrospectively upgraded more than 15 times after dopers who came in before her were disqualified.
Career
She won the silver medal at the European Junior Championships in 1993 and came sixth at the World Junior Championships the following year . At the European Indoor Championships in 1996 she was sixth. In 1997 she became U23 European Champion in Turku and finished seventh at the World Championships in Athens. In 1998 Kleinert became German champion for the first time, both indoors and outdoors. The following year , she won the silver medal at the World Championships in Seville and eighth at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
A fourth place at the World Indoor Championships in 2001 in Lisbon was followed by another silver medal at the World Championships in Edmonton. After finishing sixth at the 2002 European Championships in Munich and seventh at the 2003 World Championships in Paris, she started the 2004 Olympic season with fourth place at the World Indoor Championships in Budapest. After Wita Pawlysch was convicted of doping, Kleinert was subsequently awarded the bronze medal.
At the 2004 Olympics , the shot put was held in the Olympia grove. Kleinert initially came third with a width of 19.55 m. Only in the last attempt did Yumileidi Cumbá (CUB) pass her. When the winner Irina Korschanenko was convicted of doping a few days later, Kleinert received the silver medal.
For this she was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf on March 16, 2005.
In 2005 she came in Hanover with 20.06 m for the first time over the 20-meter mark and was fifth at the World Championships in Helsinki. However, Svetlana Kriweljowa was later convicted of doping. In 2006 Kleinert became vice indoor world champion in Moscow with a personal best indoor performance of 19.64 meters . At the European Championships in Gothenburg she reached sixth place in the same year. At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, she stood again on the podium and won the bronze medal.
In October 2007 she announced that she would decide to switch to boxing after the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing . After finishing seventh in Beijing, however, she announced on November 20 that she would stay with the shot put and prepare for a start to the World Championships in Berlin in August 2009. 2008 was one of Nadine Kleinert's strongest athletes. Among other things, she became German champion in Nuremberg and achieved the second-best result of her sports career in Engers at the end of May with 19.89 m. With this width she was also best of the year 2008 of the DLV.
During the German Championships in 2009 , Nadine Kleinert was awarded the Rudolf Harbig Memorial Prize. At the championships themselves, she took second place behind Denise Hinrichs and thus achieved her sixth runner-up in the open air alongside five championship titles.
At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, Kleinert increased her personal best from 20.06 m after setting in the first attempt to 20.20 m in the third attempt, thus winning the silver medal. In 2010 she was initially fifth at the World Indoor Championships and advanced to bronze after the doping disqualifications of the Belarusians Nadseja Astaptschuk and Natallja Michnewitsch . At the European Championships Kleinert came in seventh place. At the 2011 World Championships she finished eighth and at the 2012 World Indoor Championships first fifth, and after Astaptschuk's disqualification, she moved up to fourth place.
In 2012 Kleinert became European champion for the first time at the 2012 European Championships in Helsinki at the age of 36. Shortly thereafter, at the Olympic Games in London , she missed the leap into the final battle for the first time in ten years at a major international event.
Kleinert won the German championship in 1998, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2008, 2010 and 2012, in the hall she was successful in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2010 and 2012. With a height of 1.90 m, it has a competition weight of 90 kg. She starts for SC Magdeburg . Kleinert's trainer is Klaus Schneider . She married in late 1999 and was named Kleinert-Schmitt until 2004. She has been a soldier in the German Armed Forces since 1994 . Nadine Kleinert has been a shot put trainer at the Magdeburg Sports School since November 2010.
In September 2013 she announced the end of her career.
Private
Nadine Kleinert lives in the Kyffhäuserkreis and works as a parcel deliverer .
International results
Personal best
- Shot put: 20.20 meters, August 16, 2009 in Berlin
- Hall: 19.64 meters, March 12, 2006 in Moscow
literature
- Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.
Web links
- Nadine Kleinert in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Athlete portrait on Leichtathletik.de
- Nadine Kleinert in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Footnotes
- ↑ Oliver Fritsch: Nadine Kleinert: "I got my medal in the mail" . In: The time . August 13, 2017, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed on August 14, 2017]).
- ↑ Alexandra Neuhaus: Subsequent World Cup bronze for Nadine Kleinert? , www.leichtathletik.de April 3, 2013
- ↑ Press release of the Federal President's Office of March 16, 2005 .... Awarding of the silver laurel leaf to the medal winners of the 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games ...
- ↑ Jan-Henner Reitze: Positive doping tests from World Cup 2005 confirmed , www.leichtathletik.de March 8, 2013
- ↑ Focus : Nadine Kleinert: Shot putter soon to be boxing world champion? November 6, 2007
- ↑ http://www.leichtathletik.de/index.php?NavID=25&SiteID=28&NewsID=19974
- ↑ Rudolf Harbig Prize for female shot putter Kleinert (sport1.de - published on July 5, 2009 at 3:12 p.m.)
- ↑ Kleinert's third silver moment of happiness , sports show August 16, 2009
- ↑ Results EM 2012 ( Memento from July 1st, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Frank Bachner: Fight and win , Der Tagesspiegel October 9, 2005
- ↑ Cheated out of the podium by dopers , Die Zeit , September 2, 2013
- ↑ "Then athletics will be dead in ten years" . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . August 19, 2019. Retrieved August 19, 2019.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kleinert, Nadine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kleinert-Schmitt, Nadine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German athlete and Olympic medalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th October 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |