Oliver Koenig

Oliver Koenig
Oliver Koenig 2012
nation	Germany
birthday	January 31, 1981
place of birth	Leipzig
size	180 cm
Weight	79 kg
job	Corporate communication
Career
discipline	Long jump , sprint
Best performance	8.07 s (long jump) 10.32 s (100 m)
society	LG Stadtwerke Munich
Trainer	Roland Fleischmann
status	active
Medal table
German championships 0 × 2 × 2 × German indoor championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
German championships bronze Wattenscheid 2002 7.75 m silver Wattenscheid 2005 7.95 m bronze Kassel 2011 7.79 m silver Kassel 2011 4 × 100 m  German indoor championships bronze Leipzig 2007 7.85 m
last change: August 16, 2013

Oliver Koenig (born January 31, 1981 in Leipzig ) is a German athlete. He was initially active in the sprint and long jump until he focused on the long jump.

Life

In 1998 Koenig became German youth champion in the long jump. In 2001 he became German university champion and took part in the Universiade in Beijing . In the same year he won the German Junior Championship over 100 meters and was nominated for the U23 European Championships in Amsterdam . In 2002 he was German double junior champion over 100 and 200 meters.

In the adult category, Koenig was nominated for the 200-meter run at the Athletics World Cup in Madrid in 2002, where he finished eighth. In the long jump he was third at the German Championships in 2002 and second in 2005. At the US student championships in Sacramento in 2005, he jumped eight meters for the first time and thus achieved second place. In 2006 he took part in the European Championships in Helsinki . At the European Athletics Cup that same year in Málaga , he was fifth. He achieved further podium places at German championships in the long jump in 2007 indoors and in 2011 outdoors with third place. In addition, he became German runner-up in the 2011 4 x 100 meter relay.

Koenig started for VfK Blau-Weiß Leipzig in 1892 , LAZ Leipzig and LG Stadtwerke München .

Personal best

• Long jump: 8.07 m, June 13, 2011 in Wesel
  • Hall: 7.92 m, February 21, 2009 in Leipzig
• 100 meters: 10.32 s, August 3, 2002 in Walldorf
• 200 meters: 20.98 s

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

• Old website of Oliver Koenig ( Memento from October 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
• Oliver Koenig in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait at the DLV
• Portrait at LG Stadtwerke München ( Memento from October 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

Oliver Koenig at the 2011 DLV World Championship test competition in Mannheim