Rico Freimuth
Rico Freimuth 
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| birthday | 14th March 1988 (age 32) | |||||||||||||||
| place of birth |
Potsdam , GDR
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| size | 196 cm | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 94 kg | |||||||||||||||
| job | Sports soldier | |||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Decathlon | |||||||||||||||
| Best performance | 8663 points | |||||||||||||||
| society | SV Halle | |||||||||||||||
| Trainer | Wolfgang Kühne | |||||||||||||||
| status | active | |||||||||||||||
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| last change: June 8, 2018 | ||||||||||||||||
Rico Freimuth (born March 14, 1988 in Potsdam ) is a German decathlete .
Life
Rico Freimuth comes from a sporty family. His father Uwe Freimuth was fourth in the decathlon world championship in 1983 and has a best performance of 8792 points, his mother Anke Tröger was Junior European Champion in the heptathlon in 1981 and his uncle Jörg Freimuth won the 1980 Olympic bronze in high jump .
In 2007 Freimuth won the bronze medal at the Junior European Championships in Hengelo with 7524 points. In 2009 he increased his best performance to 7689 points, in 2010 he reached 7826 points. In 2011 he exceeded the 8000 point mark for the first time with 8158 points at the all-around meeting Götzis , one and a half months later Freimuth qualified in Ratingen with 8287 points for the World Championships in Daegu , but retired there after the long jump. In 2012, Freimuth increased to 8,322 points in Götzis, surpassing the norm for the Olympic Games in London , where he was sixth with 8,320 points. At the World Championships in Moscow in 2013 , he reached seventh place with 8382 points. In 2015 he won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Beijing with a personal best of 8561 points. In 2017 he finished second behind Kevin Mayer at the World Championships in London with 8564 points .
In 2018 Freimuth felt burned out, ended the season prematurely and did not take part in the European Championships in Berlin.
Rico Freimuth started between 2005 and 2013 for the Halle Athletics Friends and since 2014 for SV Halle . He trains with Wolfgang Kühne , who was GDR runner-up in the decathlon in 1979. Freimuth is a sports soldier in the Bundeswehr sports promotion group in Frankenberg, Saxony .
Freimuth is 1.96 meters tall, his competition weight is 94 kilograms.
Football career
Freimuth, who started his football career at Meißner SV 08 at the age of 5 , played for the club until he was 14 years old until he ended his career in athletics. In summer 2018 he returned to football and has been playing for 1. FC Romonta Amsdorf in the Association League Saxony-Anhalt since July 2018 .
Top performances
(As of June 25, 2017)
| discipline | Best performance | date and location |
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| 100 m |
10.40 s
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June 28, 2014 in Ratingen |
| Long jump |
7.60 m
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June 24, 2017 in Ratingen |
| Shot put |
15.62 m
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June 27, 2015 in Ratingen |
| high jump |
2.01 m
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June 24, 2017 in Ratingen |
| 400 m |
47.51 s
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May 26, 2012 in Götzis |
| 110 m hurdles |
13.63 s
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August 13, 2014 in Zurich (EM) |
| Discus throw |
51.56 m
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June 25, 2017 in Ratingen |
| Pole vault |
4.90 m
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August 9, 2012 in London |
| Javelin throw |
65.04 m
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July 17, 2011 in Ratingen |
| 1500 m |
4: 34.69 min
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June 16, 2013 in Ratingen |
| Decathlon |
8663 points
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June 25, 2017 in Ratingen |
Honors
- 2017: Awarded “Sportsman of the Year” 2017 at the 25th “Ball des Sports” of the State Sports Association of Saxony-Anhalt.
- In 2018, Freimuth was named Sportsman of the Year by his hometown Halle (Saale) in mid-January .
literature
- Hans van Kuijen: 2011 Annual Combined Events . Helmond 2011
Web links
- Rico Freimuth in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Portrait at Leichtathletik.de
swell
- ↑ Burned out in the border area EM cancellation! That is why Rico Freimuth does not go to Berlin
- ↑ Rico Freimuth from 2014 at SV Halle ( memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) in SVZ.de on Dec. 19, 2013
- ↑ Fussball.de : Decathlon star plays for Association League club! from July 10, 2018
- ↑ MDR : Transfer coup at 1. FC Romonta Amsdorf: Athletics ace Rico Freimuth switches to football from July 5, 2018
- ↑ Silke Bernhart: Flash News of the Day - Rico Freimuth is Saxony-Anhalt's "Sportsman of the Year" ( Memento from December 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Notes, December 11, 2017, accessed December 11, 2017
- ↑ Silke Bernhart: Flash News of the Day - Athletes prevail in athlete elections ( memento from January 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), Notes, January 16, 2018, accessed January 17, 2018
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Freimuth, Rico |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German decathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 14, 1988 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Potsdam , GDR |