Patrick Hausding

Patrick Hausding
Patrick Hausding, 2016
Personal information
Nationality:	Germany
Discipline (s) :	Artistic / tower / synchronized jumping
Society:	Berlin TSC
Birthday:	March 9, 1989
Place of birth:	Berlin , GDR
Size:	180 cm
Weight:	78 kg

Patrick Hausding (born March 9, 1989 in Berlin-Lichtenberg ) is a German diver . He starts in artificial jumping from the 1-meter and 3-meter board as well as in 10-meter tower diving. In synchronized jumping he starts from the 3-meter board with Stephan Feck and from the 10-meter tower with Sascha Klein . Patrick Hausding is a sports soldier in the Bundeswehr . He starts for the Berlin TSC , where he is trained by Christoph Bohm .

Career

Hausding was already very successful as a junior. In 2005 he won the tower, 1-meter and 3-meter titles. In 2006 he repeated these successes both outdoors and indoors. In 2007 he won the sync title from the 3-meter board outdoors. Internationally, Hausding competed for the first time in 2005 at the European Junior Championships, where fourth place in synchronized jumping on the 3-meter board was his greatest success. In 2006 he achieved the same ranking in synchronized jumping from the tower, and in individual he became European Junior Champion. He was also successful at the Junior World Championships in 2007 in Kuala Lumpur . He won bronze in synchronized jumping from the 3-meter board. In the individual he was fourth. Hausding won a total of three titles at Junior European Championships, after he was successful in 2007 in the individual from the 3-meter board and the 10-meter tower.

Since 2006, Hausding has also competed with senior citizens nationally. In the hall he won silver from the tower twice that year, in the individual as well as in the synchronous competition. In this competition he also won silver at the outdoor championships. In 2007 he won his first title on the 3-meter board indoors. Silver was added from the 1-meter board. Further titles followed in the open-air championships in 2007. Hausding was first in the synchronized competitions from the tower and the 3-meter board. In the individual competition, he also won silver from the 3-meter board. In 2008 another title in synchronized jumping as well as third places in individual and synchronous from the 3-meter board was added in the hall. At the outdoor championships in 2008, which was also an Olympic qualification, Hausding won the runner-up title from the 3-meter board. Hausding has so far won a total of 18 titles at German championships.

Hausding has also competed internationally in the senior sector since 2008. In the Beijing World Cup he was second in tower synchronized jumping, but he celebrated his greatest success at the European Championships in Eindhoven . There Hausding won the title in synchronized jumping from the tower and was fifth in the individual jumping from the tower. Due to its success, Hausding was nominated for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. In Beijing, he and his partner Sascha Klein won the silver medal in synchronized jumping from the tower, behind the outstanding Chinese Lin Yue and Huo Liang , but ahead of the Russians Gleb Galperin and Dmitri Dobroskok , who failed during the competition. Hausding finished eighth in the individual competition from the 3-meter board. At the European Championships in 2009 , he won gold in the 10-m synchronized competition and bronze in the individual from the 10-m tower and thus his first individual medal. At the European Championships in Budapest in 2010, he succeeded in achieving something historical. From the 1-meter board he reached second place, only just beaten by the Ukrainian Illja Kwascha . There was also a silver medal in synchronized jumping from the 3-meter board with Stephan Feck. Just one day later he won the gold medal in jumping from the 3-meter board. He won the fourth medal in four days with Sascha Klein in synchronized jumping from the 10-meter tower. With this the duo repeated their triumph from the last European championships. It was also small that relegated Hausding from the 10-meter tower to silver on the last day of the competitions. Hausding was the first jumper to win medals in all five competitions. At the 2011 World Championships in Shanghai , the duo Hausding / Klein was able to win their first World Championship medal with silver in the 10 m synchronized jumping, in the 3 m synchronized jumping, however, Hausding and Stephan Feck finished fifth at the 2009 World Championships again. Hausding / Klein became world champions in the 10 m synchronized jumping in 2013 . At the 2016 Olympic Games , he won his first individual Olympic medal with bronze from the 3-meter board. At the same time it was the first German medal in this discipline since the triple success of Paul Günther , Hans Luber and Kurt Behrens at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm .

Others

In addition to the constant jumping exercises, his athletic training units mainly include acrobatics and strength training. In Caroline Link's feature film In Winter One Year , Patrick Hausding is one of the jumpers in the scenes in the swimming pool. In 2010, 2017 and 2019 he was voted Berlin's Sportsman of the Year and in 2016 Champion of the Year .

Web links

Commons : Patrick Hausding  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Profile of Patrick Hausding at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Patrick Hausding in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Lelgemann: Springer Hausding is making history in Budapest. In: The West . August 15, 2010, accessed April 13, 2014 . 
2. ^ Famous child prodigies , in: Berliner Zeitung from 2/3 January 2015, page 16.