Raphael Holzdeppe

Raphael Holzdeppe
Holzdeppe at the German Championships 2015
nation	Germany
birthday	September 28, 1989
place of birth	Kaiserslautern , Germany
size	181 cm
Weight	78 kg
job	professional
Career
discipline	Pole vault
Best performance	Hall: 5.88 m (February 3, 2018 in Karlsruhe ) Open air: 5.94 m (July 26, 2015 in Nuremberg )
society	LAZ Zweibrücken
Trainer	Andrei Tivontschik
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × World championships 1 × 1 × 0 × European championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Junior World Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U23 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze 2012 London 5.91 m  World championships gold 2013 Moscow 5.89 m silver 2015 Beijing 5.90 m  European championships bronze 2012 Helsinki 5.77 m  Junior World Championships gold 2008 Bydgoszcz 5.50 m  U23 European Championships gold 2009 Kaunas 5.65 m
last change: February 3, 2018

Raphael Marcel Holzdeppe (born September 28, 1989 in Kaiserslautern ) is a German pole vaulter . His greatest success so far is winning the gold medal at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow . From 2008 to 2017 he was co-owner of the world record for juniors.

biography

Holzdeppe was adopted shortly after his birth, according to other sources, at the age of two. Holzdeppe started pole vaulting at the age of ten. He attended the Helmholtz-Gymnasium Zweibrücken , where he passed the Abitur in 2009 . From the summer of 2010 he studied international management for top athletes via distance learning at the FH Ansbach . He belongs to the LAZ Zweibrücken and was a sports soldier in the sports promotion group Neubiberg of the Bundeswehr before he withdrew from state funding after his world championship title.

Career

On June 28, 2008 he set a junior world record in Biberach with a height of 5.80 m . In doing so, he equalized the junior world record set by the Russian Maxim Tarasov in 1989 . At the Junior World Championships in 2008 in Bydgoszcz , he won the gold medal (5.50 m). At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 , he qualified with 5.65 m for the final round and finished eighth.

At the U23 European Championships in Kaunas in 2009 he won the gold medal with 5.65 m. At the World Championships in Daegu he did not make it into the final, with 5.50 m he was eliminated. With 5.77 m he finished second at the German Championships in 2012 . With the same height he won the bronze medal at the European Championships in Helsinki in the same year and thus reached his first podium at international championships in the adult area. At the 2012 Olympic Games in London , he won the bronze medal with a new personal best of 5.91 m.

In winter 2012/13 he moved from his previous coach Andrei Tivontschik to the Munich training group of Chauncey Johnson with Malte Mohr and Fabian Schulze . On June 6, 2013, Holzdeppe set his best performance at the Diamond League meeting in Rome and defeated the Olympic champion Renaud Lavillenie for the first time . He achieved the greatest success of his career so far at the World Championships in Moscow in 2013 , when he was world champion with 5.89 m ahead of Frenchman Lavillenie, who needed more attempts for the same jump height.

At the end of September 2014, Holzdeppe decided to return to his former coach Tivontschik in Zweibrücken. He had previously ended the season early in July due to poor form.

On June 24, 2015, Holzdeppe increased his best performance in a show jumping in Baku to 5.92 m, which he improved to 5.94 m on July 26, 2015 when he won his first German championship title . On August 24, 2015, Holzdeppe won the silver medal at the World Championships in Beijing. Like the winner Shawnacy Barber from Canada, he jumped 5.90 m, but made more failed attempts before.

In 2016, Holzdeppe injured his ankle at the German Indoor Championships in Leipzig in February and only competed again in June. Because of muscular problems he missed the European Championships. At the Olympic Games he failed in qualifying.

In 2017 Holzdeppe became German indoor champion . At the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade he came in 5th place with his first 5.80 meter jump in more than a year and since his severe foot injury. At the 2017 World Championships in London , he failed in the final at the entry height of 5.5 m with three failed attempts.

In 2018, Holzdeppe improved his best performance in the hall on February 3rd at the Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe to 5.88 m and two weeks later won the championship title at the German Indoor Championships in Dortmund with 5.68 m . At the 2018 World Indoor Championships in Birmingham , he finished fifth with a jump of 5.80 m.

Awards

• European Athletics Federation : Newcomer of the year 2008
• Track and field athlete of the year in Germany in 2008 and 2013
• 2nd place Junior Sportsman of the Year in Germany 2008
• State Sportsman of the Year (Rhineland-Palatinate) 2012 and 2013
• Silver bay leaf 2013

Others

On November 24th, 2012 he took part in the celebrity competition TV total tower diving and won the synchronized diving together with Björn Otto .

Web links

Commons : Raphael Holzdeppe  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of Raphael Holzdeppe
• Raphael Holzdeppe on the website of the LAZ Zweibrücken
• Raphael Holzdeppe in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Holzdeppe is the new German high-flyer Die Welt online, June 29, 2008, accessed on August 11, 2012.
2. ↑ This is our gold flyer. In: bild.de , August 13, 2013.
3. ^ Raphael Holzdeppe: Flying high in the dual career. (No longer available online.) Deutsche Sporthilfe, archived from the original on January 24, 2015 ; Retrieved October 16, 2012 . 
4. ↑ World Athletics Championships: Precious metal for Bundeswehr athletes. Bundeswehr website. August 13, 2013. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
5. ↑ The Sorrows of a Champion. In: faz.net . June 21, 2015, accessed August 24, 2015.
6. ↑ Holzdeppe moves to Munich. In: tz-online . August 21, 2012, accessed August 12, 2013.
7. ↑ World Athletics Championships in Moscow: Holzdeppe wins gold in the pole vault. In: Spiegel Online . August 12, 2013. Retrieved September 29, 2014.
8. ↑ Raphael Holzdeppe returns to Zweibrücken. In: laz.de . September 29, 2014, accessed September 29, 2014
9. ↑ Raphael Holzdeppe ends the season. In: Leichtathletik.de . July 22, 2014. Retrieved September 29, 2014.
10. ↑ Holzdeppe with a personal record. In: sport1.de . June 24, 2015, accessed June 25, 2015.
11. ↑ Holzdeppe fears after EM-Aus for Rio. In: sport1.de , July 4, 2016.
12. ↑ Silke Bernhart: Raphael Holzdeppe scratches past the medal with 5.80 meters. In: Leichtathletik.de . March 3, 2017, accessed March 4, 2017.
13. ↑ Achim Dreis: Three invalid for Holzdeppe. In: faz.net. August 8, 2017. Retrieved August 8, 2017 .