Nadine Müller (athlete)

Nadine Müller
Nadine Müller 2012
nation	Germany
birthday	21st November 1985 (age 34)
place of birth	Leipzig ,  GDR
size	193 cm
Weight	95 kg
job	Police Officer (Federal Police)
Career
discipline	Discus throw
Best performance	68.89 m
society	SV Halle , formerly: SC DHfK Leipzig first club: Hallesche LAF
Trainer	René Sack , first trainer: Gerhard Böttcher
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 1 × 1 × European championships 0 × 2 × 0 × German championships 6 × 4 × 2 ×
World championships silver 2011 Daegu 65.97 m bronze 2015 Beijing 65.53 m  European championships silver 2012 Helsinki 65.41 m silver 2018 Berlin 63.00 m  German championships bronze 2006 Ulm 58.22 m bronze 2007 Erfurt 56.83 m silver 2008 Nuremberg 57.43 m gold 2009 Ulm 59.98 m gold 2010 Braunschweig 63.07 m gold 2011 Kassel 63.41 m gold 2012 BO-Wattenscheid 66.47 m gold 2013 Ulm 64.17 m silver 2015 Nuremberg 65.72 m gold 2016 Kassel 65.79 m silver 2018 Nuremberg 62.73 m silver 2019 Berlin 63.99 m
last change: October 4th, 2019

Nadine Müller (born November 21, 1985 in Leipzig ) is a German athlete who specializes in discus throwing.

career path

Müller is police chief in the federal police. She attended a sports high school .

Athletic career

Nadine Müller started throwing the discus in 1997 and at that time started for the Halle Athletics Friends . She was trained by Gerhard Böttcher until he retired in 2009, and René Sack has been her trainer ever since . Her extraordinary height of 1.93 m and an arm span of 2.07 m offer her particularly good prerequisites for throwing a discus. As a youth she won two German championships, in 2002 as a B-youth and in 2004 she was German youth champion. Internationally, she first appeared in 2003 in Tampere, Finland at the 17th European Junior Championships when she was beaten only by Ulrike Giesa with 53.44 m in the German double victory in the U20 discus competition . The following year she reached third place with 57.13 m at the 2004 Junior World Championships (U20) behind Ma Xuejun from China and the Russian Darja Pishchalnikova .

In May 2005 Müller rose to 59.35 m in Halle (Saale) . At the German Championships in Bochum-Wattenscheid she came in 5th place.

In 2006 she won bronze at the German Championships in Ulm.

In 2007 Müller achieved his first throw over 60 meters in Kienbaum with 62.22 m. Three months later she increased to her annual best of 62.93 m and at the same time fulfilled the norm for the World Championships in Osaka . There she could not nearly repeat this performance and finished the competition with 55.98 m in eleventh place. At the German Championships in Ulm in 2006 she won bronze again.

In 2008 Müller became German runner-up .

In 2009 she achieved a further increase in her personal best in Wiesbaden with 63.46 m, making her the best of the year in Germany for the first time. In addition to Franka Dietzsch , who was affected by injuries throughout the season, Müller was the only German starter in the discus throw at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin. A single throw of 61.63 m was enough for her to qualify for the final, but Dietzsch was eliminated. In the surprising victory of Australian Dani Samuels , Müller was sixth in the final, her best distance in the final was 62.04 m. Also in 2009 she won the German Championships for the first time and defended the title in 2010 .

The year 2010 started in a strong form for Müller, in February she threw 62.04 m and improved her personal best to 64.30 m at the 10th  European Winter Throwing Cup in Arles . At the beginning of May she achieved a further increase at the 15th Thrower Cup in Wiesbaden, with 67.78 m she increased her best distance by 3.48 meters and thus sat at the top of the world's best list of the year. In June she won the Diamond League meeting in Oslo with 63.93 m, fourteen days later she won another victory with 63.53 m at the European Team Championship in Bergen . The DLV nominated her for the 2010 European Championships , where she only finished eighth with a width of 57.78 m.

At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu , Müller was second behind Li Yanfeng with a width of 65.97 m . In the same year she was again German champion , as in the following year. At the European Championships in Helsinki in 2012 she finished second behind the Croatian Sandra Perković with a width of 65.41 m . At the 2012 Olympic Games in London , she finished fourth after the second-placed Russian Darja Pishchalnikova was subsequently stripped of her medal for doping . At the 2013 World Championships in Moscow , she also took 4th place. At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing , Müller won the bronze medal. At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, she came in 6th place in the final.

In 2017, Müller became the European team champion in Lille, northern France , and came 2nd in the discus throw . At the 2017 World Championships in London , she came in 6th place.

In 2018, Müller took first place in the European Winter Throwing Cup in Leiria , both with the team and in the individual . In Berlin she became vice European champion with a season best . At the Continental Cup in Ostrava , Müller took 2nd place with the European team, to which she contributed with a 7th place in the individual.

Club affiliations

Müller starts for SV Halle and was previously with SC DHfK Leipzig , the first club were the Halle Athletics Friends .

Performance development

At the Bislett Games 2012

(As of July 2, 2017)

2003	53.44 m
2004	57.85 m
2005	59.35 m
2006	58.46 m
2007	62.93 m
2008	61.36 m
2009	63.46 m
2010	67.78 m
2011	66.99 m
2012	68.89 m PB
2013	66.69 m
2014	67.30 m
2015	65.72 m
2016	66.84 m
2017	65.76 m
2018	63.00 m
2019	63.99 m

Personal

Her father Hans-Jochen Müller was also a discus thrower. On New Year's Eve 2013, Müller and her partner registered a civil partnership in Zwenkau . In 2018 the marriage was divorced again.

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.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Portrait at the Federal Police ( Memento from January 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 25, 2016)
2. ^ ^{A b} Peter Grau / Christian Fuchs: Outstanding Christina Obergföll in Halle . German Athletics Promotion and Project Company Ltd. May 19, 2007. Retrieved May 9, 2010.
3. ↑ [http://www.european-athletics.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3459&Itemid=64 Event Result Database - Results European Junior Championships - Results output (search by Women Discus)] (link not available)
4. ↑ Christian Fuchs: Franka Dietzsch wins in front of a strong Nadine Müller . German Athletics Promotion and Project Company Ltd. February 12, 2007. Retrieved May 9, 2010.
5. ^ Sofia Maurus: Leichtathletik.de-Check - Discus throw women . German Athletics Promotion and Project Company Ltd. November 28, 2009. Retrieved May 9, 2010.
6. ^ Nico Elsäßer: Nadine Müller with the best distance to victory in Arles . German Athletics Promotion and Project Company Ltd. March 20, 2010. Retrieved May 9, 2010.
7. ↑ Nico Elsäßer: Nadine Müller towers with 67.78 meters . German Athletics Promotion and Project Company Ltd. May 8, 2010. Retrieved May 9, 2010.
8. ^ Nico Elsäßer: Nadine Müller wins in Oslo . German Athletics Promotion and Project Company Ltd. June 4, 2010. Retrieved July 23, 2010.
9. ↑ Whistleblower. “A big mess of characters” , Deutschlandfunk, August 4, 2016; accessed on August 13, 2016
10. ↑ As of October 4, 2019
11. ↑ Gunnar Meinhardt : Wedding with Sabine ... In: Die Welt , January 1, 2014.
12. ↑ Petra Szag: What her new beginning looks like after the failed marriage In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , August 22, 2018. Retrieved October 4, 2019

Web links

Commons : Nadine Müller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Nadine Müller in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Nadine Müller's homepage
• Athlete portrait - Nadine Müller on Leichtathletik.de
• Team EM 2017 Lille Team brochure of the DLV, p. 43 (pdf 29 MB)
• Nadine Müller in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• markxs: World Athletics Championships Moscow with Nadine Müller in an interview at halle-sport.de, August 6, 2013, accessed on September 23, 2014