Robert Harting

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Robert Harting
Robert Harting (2008)

nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 18th October 1984 (age 35)
place of birth Cottbus ,  GDRGermany Democratic Republic 1949GDR 
size 201 cm
Weight 126 kg
job Sports soldier
Career
discipline Discus throw
Best performance 70.66 m (May 22, 2012 in Turnov )
society SCC Berlin
Trainer Marko Badura
status resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 3 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
European championships 2 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
German championships 10 × gold 2 × silver 1 × bronze
Youth World Championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings Olympic games
gold 2012 London 68.27 m
IAAF logo World championships
silver 2007 Osaka 66.68 m
gold 2009 Berlin 69.43 m
gold 2011 Daegu 68.97 m
gold 2013 Moscow 69.11 m
EAA logo European championships
silver 2010 Barcelona 68.47 m
gold 2012 Helsinki 68.30 m
gold 2014 Zurich 66.07 m
IAAF logo Youth World Championships
silver 2001 Debrecen 62.04 m
EAA logo U23 European Championships
gold 2005 Erfurt 64.50 m
last change: September 2, 2018

Robert Harting (born October 18, 1984 in Cottbus ) is a former German discus thrower . He is an Olympic champion in this discipline and a multiple world and European champion. From 2012 to 2014 he was voted Sportsman of the Year in Germany three times in a row .

Life

Robert Harting was born as the eldest son of Gerd and Bettina Harting in Cottbus. Both parents were competitive athletes in the GDR system. The father, an offset printer , was also a discus thrower, the mother, a nurse , was a shot putter . Harting has a younger brother, Christoph Harting (* 1990), who is also a discus thrower and became Olympic champion in 2016 .

Harting played handball at USC Cottbus from the age of ten , and when he was 13 he moved to LC Cottbus . There he successfully pursued discus throwing and shot put and, at the age of 17, joined LG Nike Berlin in 2001 . From 2004, Harting, who hit the ball at 18 meters and became vice youth champion in this discipline, concentrated only on the discus throw.

In 2014/15 Harting got involved in establishing the German Sports Lottery .

Robert Harting lives in Berlin , where he served as Staff Sergeant until September 30, 2018 Sports Soldier of sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr was. He belongs to the sports club SC Charlottenburg and has been studying social and business communication at the Berlin University of the Arts since autumn 2009 . He counts abstract painting to his hobbies .

He is with the discus thrower Julia Harting geb. Fisherman married. In May 2019 they became parents to twins.

Sporting successes

In 2001 Harting became vice youth world champion. He was also German youth champion from 2001 to 2003 in discus throwing and in 2003 also in the shot put . In 2006 he became the U23 European champion. That year he also took part in the European Championships in Gothenburg . There, however, with 59.87 m in 13th place, he just missed the final of the top twelve.

In 2007 his most successful season to date followed. In July he became German champion for the first time in Erfurt with 63.79 m . He had been runner-up in the previous two years, and in 2004 he was fourth. Participation in the World Championships in Osaka followed in August . He surprisingly won the silver medal there with 66.68 m and only had to admit defeat to the Estonian Gerd Kanter . In 2008, as in the following years, Harting was able to defend his German championship title. At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, he finished fourth.

Harting after winning the 2011 world championship in Daegu

At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin , Harting was world champion with a width of 69.43 m and thus celebrated his greatest sporting success to date. The following year he won the silver medal at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona . In 2011 he defended his world championship title in Daegu with a width of 68.97 m and dedicated the medal to his comrade in the army, Markus Matthes, who had fallen in Afghanistan . After suffering knee problems throughout the season, he was operated on on the patellar tendon in October 2011 , which continued to cause problems.

On May 19, 2012, Harting exceeded the 70-meter mark for the first time at the Throwing Days in Halle (Saale) and thus increased his personal best to 70.31 m. Three days later he improved his record at the athletics meeting in Turnov again to 70.66 m. In June 2012 he became European champion for the first time in his career in Helsinki with a width of 68.30 m . In August he won the gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London with a distance of 68.27 m achieved in the fifth attempt. It was the first Olympic victory in athletics for Germany since 2000 .

At the 2013 World Championships in Moscow , Harting defended his world title again with a width of 69.11 m. In September 2013 Thorsten Schmidt became the new trainer for the retired Werner Goldmann Hartings. At the European Championships in Zurich in 2014 , he again secured the title with a width of 66.07 m, his fifth in a row at major events. In September 2014 he tore a cruciate ligament while running .

On February 13, 2016, Harting made his comeback at the ISTAF indoor Berlin with a winning throw of 64.81 m. At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , he failed to qualify after suffering lumbago the day before . In 2017 he became European team champion in Lille, northern France , to which he contributed by winning the discus throw with his season best. At the German Championships in Erfurt he won with 65.65 m; this was his tenth and at the same time last German championship title. At the World Championships in London he reached sixth place with a width of 65.10 m.

At the 2018 European Championships in Berlin, his last international competition, Harting missed out on a medal and took sixth place with a width of 64.33 m. With the second place at the ISTAF in Berlin with 64.95 meters, he ended his sporting career on September 2, 2018.

Performance development

2003 59.54 m
2004 64.05 m
2005 66.02 m
2006 65.22 m
2007 66.93 m
2008 68.65 m
2009 69.43 m
2010 69.69 m
2011 68.99 m
2012 70.66 m
2013 69.91 m
2014 68.47 m
2015 -
2016 68.04 m
2017 66.30 m
2018 65.13 m
 
Development of his season best by 2014

controversy

Before the World Championships in Berlin in 2009, Harting advocated the restricted release of doping substances. During the world championships, Harting was critical of an action by doping victims in the GDR . Part of this action was the distribution of cardboard glasses to the audience in order to draw attention to the further secret abuse of forbidden means. Harting commented on this: "When the discus comes up, it should jump against the glasses so that they really can't see anything." The statement was sharply criticized both by the German Athletics Association and by the public. However, DLV Vice President Eike Emrich made the following statement in a statement: “With the request for indulgence, Robert Harting states that the tension in the qualification competition continued to have an effect and led to unacceptable comments. This was intensified by the fact that discussions about the doping problem in the past had repeatedly disturbed his concentration on the preparation. ”With his comments, Robert Harting alluded to the criticism of his trainer Werner Goldmann , who was associated with doping in GDR times .

In January 2015, he was critical of the work of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and complained about the imbalance in the global fight against doping.

Awards

Web links

Commons : Robert Harting  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Robert Harting  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Löer, Wigbert: Schleuder-Trauma . In: stern , August 2, 2012, No. 32 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
  2. ↑ Robert Harting . In: Internationales Sportarchiv 01/2011 from January 4, 2011, supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 26/2012 (accessed via Munzinger Online).
  3. ↑ The other Harting. In: Potsdam Latest News , September 1, 2011.
  4. ↑ ... UdK Berlin wishes its student Robert Harting all the best for the 2012 Olympics ... at UdK Berlin, accessed on August 8, 2012.
  5. ↑ Discus gold boy Harting: Everything in Buddha! In: Berliner Kurier , August 24, 2011.
  6. ↑ Very sweet, very loud, very hungry. In: Spiegel Online , June 6, 2019.
  7. ^ Harting discus thrower: Medal for a fallen friend bundeswehr.de, August 31, 2011
  8. ↑ Jens Hungermann: Athletics: The clear words of world champion Robert Harting welt.de from August 30, 2011
  9. ^ Operated Harting: "Feel me really well" ( Memento from December 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) news.de, October 23, 2011, accessed on August 13, 2012
  10. ↑ Discus warrior Harting en route to the triple spox, July 1, 2012, accessed on August 14, 2012
  11. ↑ Discus world champion Harting cracks the 70 m mark Focus online from May 19, 2012, accessed on May 20, 2012
  12. ↑ Always on: Discus world champion Harting with 70.66. sport.de, May 22, 2012.
  13. ↑ Harting with trainer Torsten Schmidt in the future Spox.com, September 10, 20136, accessed on February 27, 2016.
  14. ^ Torn cruciate ligament from Robert Harting Sport1.de, September 11, 2014, accessed on September 1, 2014.
  15. ↑ Harting celebrates triumphant return Sport1.de, February 13, 2016, accessed on February 27, 2016.
  16. ↑ Harting ends his career in sixth place - and is still celebrated. Spiegel Online, August 8, 2018
  17. ↑ Harting missed the EM medal. Sport1.de, August 8, 2018, accessed on August 9, 2018.
  18. ↑ Last litter at ISTAF: Robert Harting ends his career . Berliner Morgenpost , September 2, 2018, archived from the original on September 4, 2018 . ;.
  19. ↑ a b Scandal at the Athletics World Cup: Harting insults doping victim Spiegel Online, August 18, 2009.
  20. ↑ Thomas Hahn: Wasteful attack against doping victims. Süddeutsche.de, May 17, 2010.
  21. ↑ DLV statement of August 18, 2009 German Athletics Association
  22. ↑ The End of Trust FAZ.net, January 2, 2015, accessed on January 4, 2015.
  23. ↑ Harting beats Vettel. Süddeutsche.de, December 16, 2012, accessed on December 16, 2012 .
  24. ↑ Silver Bay Leaf 2012
  25. ↑ A city honors its citizens. Berlin.de, December 2012.
  26. ↑ Cheers and serious words. Welt.de, January 31, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Harting, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German discus thrower
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Cottbus , GDR