Robert Sobera
Robert Sobera 
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| birthday | 19th January 1991 (age 29) | ||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Wroclaw , Poland | ||||||||||||||||||
| size | 191 cm | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 85 kg | ||||||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Pole vault | ||||||||||||||||||
| Best performance | 5.81 m (hall) | ||||||||||||||||||
| society | KS AZS AWF Wrocław | ||||||||||||||||||
| National squad | since 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||||||||
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| last change: July 8, 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||
Robert Sobera (born January 19, 1991 in Wroclaw ) is a Polish pole vaulter .
Athletic career
Sobera gained his first international experience at the 2009 Junior European Championships in Novi Sad, where he qualified for the final, but remained there without a valid attempt. At the Junior World Championships 2010 in Moncton he finished fourth and at the U23 European Championships 2011 in Ostrava he was eleventh.
Sobra made his first start at a major international event in the active class at the 2013 European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg. There he finished sixth with a jump of 5.71 m. In the same year he won at the U23 European Championships in Tampere with 5.60 m, the silver medal behind the height of Russian Anton Yuryevich Iwakin . At the World Championships in Moscow , he remained in qualification without a valid attempt.
In 2014 Sobera reached sixth place at the World Indoor Championships in Sopot with 5.65 m and won the Polish Championships in Szczecin. At the European Championships in Zurich , he qualified confidently for the final, but remained there without a valid attempt.
At the beginning of 2015 Sobera achieved a new personal best at the ISTAF indoor Berlin with 5.81 m. A few weeks later he confirmed this performance with a jump over 5.80 m at the European Indoor Championships in Prague , which brought him fourth place. At the Universiade in Gwangju he won the bronze medal. With 5.50 m he achieved the same height as the two athletes in front of him in the ranking, but had a larger number of failed attempts. At the World Championships in Beijing , he jumped 5.70 m in the qualification, but did not go beyond 5.5 m in the final and thus only finished 15th.
At the 2016 World Indoor Championships in Portland, Sobera finished sixth with 5.65 m, just like two years earlier in Sopot. He celebrated the greatest success of his career up to then with winning the title at the European Championships in Amsterdam . In adverse weather conditions, 5.60 m was enough for him to win ahead of the same height Czech Jan Kudlička , who had a failed attempt while Sobera took the height on the first attempt. He also benefited from the fact that the favorite Renaud Lavillenie from France failed three times at his entry height of 5.75 m and thus remained without a valid attempt. At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , Sobera narrowly missed making it to the finals as thirteenth in qualification .
Web links
- Robert Sobera in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Athlete portrait by Robert Sobera at domtel-sport.pl
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jan-Henner Reitze: Renaud Lavillenie scratches the world record . Leichtathletik.de. February 14, 2015. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
- ↑ Thomas Byrne: Report: Schippers wins second European 100m gold in Amsterdam ( English ) IAAF. July 8, 2016. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
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| SURNAME | Sobera, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish pole vaulter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1991 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |