Raúl Spank

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Raúl Spank 2015

nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday July 13, 1988
place of birth Dresden ,  GDR
size 191 cm
Career
discipline High jump , triple jump
society LG North Berlin
End of career 2016
Medal table
World championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Junior European Championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
IAAF logo World championships
bronze 2009 Berlin 2.32 m
EAA logo Junior European Championships
silver Hengelo 2007 2.21 m
last change: August 3, 2015

Raúl Spank (born July 13, 1988 in Dresden ) is a former German athlete who was active in high jump and triple jump . His greatest sporting success was winning the bronze medal in the high jump at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin.

Life

Raúl Spank graduated from the Dresden Sports High School in 2008 and is studying economics at the Technical University of Dresden .

At the 2005 World Youth Championships in Marrakech , he finished seventh with 2.11 m. A year later he was at the Junior World Championships in Beijing with 2.23 m fifth. In 2007 Spank won silver at the European Junior Championships in Hengelo with 2.21 m.

2006 Raúl Spank was third in the German championships in the adult class. In 2008 he took second place at the German Indoor Championships. At the German Championships in Nuremberg in 2008 and in Braunschweig in 2010 , he was German champion in the high jump . Spank was nominated for the Olympic Games in Beijing , where he jumped fifth place with 2.32 m. This height meant for him a personal best and a Saxon state record .

In 2009 Raúl Spank won the high jump competition at the German Indoor Championships. On August 21, 2009 he reached the bronze medal at the World Championships in Berlin with a height of 2.32 m together with the Pole Sylwester Bednarek . On August 29, 2009, Spank increased his personal best at the International High Jump Meeting in Eberstadt to 2.33 m and won the meeting with this height.

At the German Indoor Championships in 2012 , Spank won with a personal best indoor performance of 2.32 m. At the indoor world championships , which were held shortly afterwards in Istanbul, he reached ninth place. He missed the London Olympics due to an injury.

At the German Championships in 2015 he was the first German triple jump champion after a disappointing 2.15 m in the high jump .

He also showed sprint qualities and improved the German youth indoor record to 1: 26.34 min at the German A youth championship for athletes in Sindelfingen in 2007 with the 4 x 200 meter relay of the Dresdner SC 1898.

Spank started for the Dresdner SC . His coaches were the former triple jumper Jörg Elbe and Erika Falz. In 2013 he moved to LG North Berlin , now with Rainer Pottel as trainer. Raúl Spank ended his sports career in 2016. With a height of 1.91 m, he had a competition weight of 77 kg.

Spank works as a process manager for an online mail order company.

Personal best

  • High jump: 2.33 m, August 29, 2009 in Eberstadt
    • Hall: 2.32 m, February 26, 2012 in Karlsruhe
  • Triple jump: 16.44 m, May 12, 2012
    • Hall: 16.54 m, January 22, 2012 in Chemnitz
  • Long jump: 7.03 m, May 27, 2015
    • Hall: 7.36 m, December 17, 2011 in Dresden

Web links

Commons : Raúl Spank  - collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ^ Out of season for Raúl Spank , www.leichtathletik.de June 20, 2012.
  2. ↑ Frank Schober: German championship title in the triple jump triggers little joy with Raúl Spank . DNN-Online, July 27, 2015, accessed August 3, 2015.
  3. ↑ Dresdner Sprint-Staffel clears an old record . In: Sächsische Zeitung (Dresden edition, page 12), February 12, 2007.
  4. ↑ Raúl Spank changes to LG North Berlin . Leichtathletik.de, October 31, 2013, accessed August 3, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Spank, Raúl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spank, Raul; Spank, Raul-Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high jumper
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden