Nadja Käther

Nadja Käther
Nadja Käther at the 2011 DLV World Championship test competition in Mannheim
nation	Germany
birthday	29th September 1988 (age 31)
place of birth	Hamburg ,  Germany
size	178 cm
Weight	63 kg
job	Trainee lawyer
Career
discipline	Long jump
Best performance	Hall: 6.68 m; Open air: 6.70 m
society	Hamburger SV , 1st club: Ahrensburger TSV
Trainer	Uwe Florczak, first trainer: Heiner Bock
status	resigned
Medal table
German championships 1 × 0 × 1 × German indoor championships 0 × 2 × 1 × German U23 championships 1 × 0 × 2 ×
German championships gold Braunschweig 2010 6.50 m bronze Nuremberg 2015 6.56 m  German indoor championships bronze Leipzig 2011 6.42 m silver Leipzig 2014 6.48 m silver Dortmund 2018 6.49 m German U23 championships bronze Recklinghaus 2008 6.26 m bronze Göttingen 2009 6.37 m gold Regensburg 2010 6.44 m
last change: November 6, 2019

Nadja Käther (born September 29, 1988 in Hamburg ) is a former German athlete who specialized in the long jump .

career path

Nadja Käther studied sport and French for teaching at the University of Hamburg . After completing her teacher training course, she had the choice between traineeship and tartan track . Käther decided to do sports and in 2015 joined the Bundeswehr sports promotion group for two years . After that, in February 2018, she began a legal traineeship at Hamburg's elite school of sports in the Dulsberg district .

Athletic career

After Käther had grown too big to do gymnastics and had to give up dancing because of a missing dance partner, she started athletics .

In 2007, Käther wore the national jersey for the first time at the Junior European Championships (U20) in Hengelo and finished fourth with 6.24 m.

In 2008 and 2009 she came in 3rd place at the German U23 championships .

In 2010 Käther won the German U23 championships . In the adult sector she became German Vice-Champion . Internationally she came at the European Championships 2010 in Helsinki with 6.61 m on the 14th place. She was two centimeters short and would have made it to the final instead of Carolina Klüft .

In 2011 Käther was third at the German Indoor Championships and reached 17th place at the European Indoor Championships in Paris with 6.36 m.

In 2012 she came seventh at the German Indoor Championships and 6th at the German Championships . Internationally, she finished 13th with 6.40 m at the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul .

In 2013, protracted flexor problems initially ruined the indoor season, then Käther was affected by the lack of training in the outdoor season.

In 2014 she became German indoor runner-up and came 4th at the German championships .

In 2015, Käther skipped the indoor season and was then able to achieve 3rd place at the German championships .

In 2016, Käther did not start in the indoor season in order to prepare for the outdoor season in which she took 4th place at the German championships . Internationally, she took 9th place at the European Championships in Amsterdam with 6.48 m.

In 2017, Käther took 4th place at the German Indoor Championships . From March onwards she had problems with her left foot that made big jumps impossible all summer.

In 2018 she became German indoor runner-up . At the end of May, she improved her personal best outdoors to 6.70 m.

At the beginning of November 2019, Käther announced that she had ended her sporting career.

Club affiliations

Käther started for the Ahrensburger TSV until she moved to Hamburger SV in 2010 .

Personal bests

(As of November 6, 2019)

• Long jump: 6.70 meters (+ 0.4 m / s) , May 26, 2018 in Weinheim
  • Hall: 6.68 meters, January 26, 2014 in Hamburg

Achievements (long jump)

national

• 2008: 3rd place German Junior Championships (U23)
• 2009: 3rd place German Junior Championships (U23)
• 2010: German Junior Champion (U23)
• 2010: German Vice-Champion
• 2011: 3rd place German indoor championships
• 2012: 7th place German indoor championships
• 2012: 6th place German championships
• 2014: German indoor runner-up
• 2014: 4th place German championships
• 2015: 3rd place German championships
• 2018: German indoor runner-up

international

• 2007: 4th place Junior European Championships (U20)
• 2010: 14th place European Championships
• 2011: 17th place in the European Indoor Championships
• 2012: 13th place indoor world championships
• 2016: 9th place European Championships

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christian Görtzen: On the jump into happiness , Welt Online March 7, 2012
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Dietmar Wenk: Nadja Käther is ready for the next jump , athletics, on: Abendblatt.de, January 29, 2018, accessed February 24, 2018
3. ↑ Nadja Käther in portrait , on: sportschau.de, as of July 8, 2016, accessed 2018
4. ↑ Nadja Käther - Hamburg , on: athletesforall.de, accessed February 24, 2018
5. ↑ Silke Bernhart: Leichtathletik.de-Check - Long jump women , on: Leichtathletik.de, November 16, 2013, accessed February 24, 2018
6. ↑ Silke Morrissey: Flash-News of the day - cancellation of indoor season II: Nadja Käther , notes, on: Leichtathletik.de, from February 18, 2015, accessed February 24, 2018, link correction November 6, 2019
7. ↑ Markus Tischler (dpa): Nadja Käther relies on the summer , folks, on: Leichtathletik.de, February 4, 2016, accessed February 24, 2018
8. ↑ Svenja Sapper: Flash News of the Day - Nadja Käther ends her career , notes, on: Leichtathletik.de, November 5, 2019, accessed November 6, 2019

Web links

Commons : Nadja Käther  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Nadja Käther in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Nadja Käther in a portrait on sportschau.de
• EM 2016 Amsterdam team brochure of the DLV, p. 29 (pdf 3.9 MB)
• Competitive performance on Leichtathletik-datenbank.de
• Performance overview on ladv.de