Petra Lammert

Petra Lammert (born March 3, 1984 in Freudenstadt , Baden-Wuerttemberg ) is a former German bobsleigh athlete and athlete who won the bronze medal in the shot put at the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg .

Shot put

Petra Lammert with her trainer Dieter Kollark.

Petra Lammert is 1.77 m tall and weighs 78 kg. Until 2005 she started for VfB Stuttgart , in 2006 she switched to SC Neubrandenburg and was trained there by Dieter Kollark .

At the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg, Petra Lammert won the bronze medal with a width of 19.17 m. As a medal favorite, Lammert also traveled to the World Championships in Osaka in 2007. However, she was only fifth with 19.33 m.

In 2008 she suffered a training accident that led to protracted injury problems in her right elbow, so that she had to cancel her participation in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and the 2009 World Championships in Berlin. In March 2009 she won the gold medal at the European Indoor Championships in Turin with a width of 19.66 m.

In November 2010, due to persistent elbow problems, she ended her athletics career at the age of 26.

successes

year	successes
2003	3rd place Junior European Championships
2004	5th place German championships
2005	5th place IAAF World Finals
	Participation in World Championships (eliminated in the preliminary competition)
	German junior champion
	4th place European Indoor Championships
	U23 European champion
2006	German indoor champion
	German champion
	3rd place European Championships
2007	European Cup winner
	5th place world championships
2009	1st place European Indoor Championships

Personal top performances

discipline	power	date	place
Shot put	20.04 m	May 26, 2007	Zeven
Shot put (hall)	19.66 m	March 6, 2009	Turin

Performance development

year	Shot put (in m)	Shot put (hall) (in m)
2003	16.23	-
2004	17.16	-
2005	19.81	18.69
2006	19.64	19.25
2007	20.04	18.31
2008	19.04	18.63
2009		19.66

Bobsleigh

In 2011, Petra Lammert switched to bobsleigh and was pushing bobsleigh pilot Sandra Kiriasis . In her first World Cup outing in the 2011/2012 season in Innsbruck-Igls , she came second. By winning the silver medal at the European and World Championships in the same year, she crowned her start in this sport.

Problems with the intervertebral disc of her lumbar spine required an operation in October 2013. When she continued to experience pain in the same place during exercise, the operation had to be repeated in January 2014. Their possible start at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi was no longer possible. Because of her back problems, she ended her career in bobsleigh.

successes

year	successes
2012	2nd place European Bobsleigh Championship in Altenberg
2012	2nd place Bobsleigh World Championship in Lake Placid

Web links

• Portrait at Leichtathletik.de
• Petra Lammert in the database of World Athletics (English)

Footnotes

1. ↑ zeit.de: Shot putter Lammert ends her career
2. ↑ ndr.de: Lammert's second chance in the two-man bobsleigh ( memento from November 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive )