Ralf Bartels

Ralf Bartels medal table
Ralf Bartels (2009)
Shot putter
Germany
World championships
bronze	2009 Berlin	21.37 m
bronze	2005 Helsinki	20.99 m
European championships
gold	2006 Gothenburg	21.13 m
bronze	2002 Munich	20.58 m
silver	2010 Barcelona	20.93 m
Indoor world championships
silver	2010 Doha	21.44 m
European Indoor Championships
gold	2011 Paris	21.16 m
bronze	2009 Turin	20.39 m

Ralf Bartels (born February 21, 1978 in Stavenhagen ) is a former German shot putter . He was European Champion in 2006.

Life

The junior world champion of 1996 and junior European champion of 1997 was in the adult category for the first time at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, but was eliminated in qualifying.

In 2002, as in the four following years, he became German champion. He won bronze at the European Championships in Munich . At the 2003 World Championships in Paris-Saint-Denis, he was fifth in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens eighth.

In 2005 he set up a personal best on May 29 in Engers Castle with 21.36 m, and at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki he won bronze with 20.99 m. His top form lasted the next season. In the hall he increased to 21.43 m (February 25 in Karlsruhe ), and at the European Championships in Gothenburg he secured the title with 21.13 m in the last attempt. At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, he finished seventh. He was unable to participate in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing due to a calf injury. A year later at the World Championships in Berlin , he succeeded in winning the bronze medal. With a width of 21.37 m in the third attempt, he improved his personal best by one centimeter and only had to admit defeat Christian Cantwell and Tomasz Majewski .

At the World Indoor Championships in Doha in 2010, he increased his personal best to 21.44 m and initially won the bronze medal with this distance. He achieved the same placement outdoors at the European Championships in Barcelona with 20.93 m. After the lifelong ban imposed on Belarusian Andrej Michnewitsch in 2013 and the subsequent cancellation of his results from the 2005 World Championships, Bartels moved up to silver in the result lists of the 2010 European Athletics Championships and 2010 World Indoor Championships.

In 2011 Bartels won the European Indoor Championships in Paris in a superior manner with 21.16 m. In the final, he hit the four largest distances among all participants. At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu , Bartels took tenth place. In 2012 Bartels took part in his second Olympic Games in London, but did not reach the final. He finished fourth at the 2013 European Indoor Championships . He ended his career in September 2013.

Bartels was honored with the Rudolf Harbig Memorial Prize in 2012 .

Bartels is 1.86 m tall and had a competition weight of around 145 kg. He started for SC Neubrandenburg and trained there under Gerald Bergmann . As a sports soldier , he was a member of the Bundeswehr's sports promotion group.

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

Commons : Ralf Bartels  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ralf Bartels in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Ralf Bartels in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ARD sports show: Bartels takes bronze and thanks Berlin.
2. ↑ Michnewitsch blocked - Bartels twice silver , Zeit.de from August 1, 2013.
3. ↑ Ralf Bartels is looking forward to a life without the obligation to control Berliner Morgenpost, March 31, 2013, accessed on October 7, 2015.