Roland Schwarzl
Roland Schwarzl (born December 10, 1980 in Lienz , East Tyrol ) is an Austrian athlete and decathlete .
Life
Schwarzl grew up in Oberdrauburg . In 1999 he won a bronze medal at the Junior European Championships in Riga . The following year he improved his best performance in the indoor heptathlon to 5734 points and qualified for the European Indoor Championships in Ghent, Belgium .
This was followed by several years with injuries before he exceeded the 8,000 point mark for the first time in 2004 at the Götzis all- around meeting . With 8064 points he qualified for the Olympic Games in Athens , where he finished 10th with 8102 points.
At the European Indoor Championships in Madrid in 2005, he was the first Austrian all-rounder to win a bronze medal in the heptathlon, with a new Austrian record of 6064 points. In the same year he was able to qualify for his first World Championship in Helsinki , where he finished 15th.
After a break due to injuries, Schwarzl qualified for the 2009 World Cup in Berlin. There he had to end the decathlon after the second discipline due to a muscle injury.
In 2010 he improved the Austrian record he had held at the Austrian indoor championships by exactly one point to 6065 points. At the all-around meeting in Götzis he was able to surpass 8000 points for the third time in his career - with 8031 points he qualified for his first European outdoor championships. In Barcelona he finished 14th.
In January 2016, Schwarzl became a special trainer for the area of fitness and regeneration at the Austrian Athletics Association. After he had not completed any athletics-specific training since 2013, he switched to ATSV Ternitz for a comeback on a hobby level.
successes
- Austrian indoor all-around championships (heptathlon): 1st place in 1999 in Schielleiten
- Austrian indoor championships (pole vault): 1st place 1999 in Führth
- Junior European Championships (decathlon): 3rd place 1999 in Riga
- Austrian indoor all-around championships (heptathlon): 1st place in 2000 in Vienna
- European Indoor Championships (heptathlon): 11th place in 2000 in Gent
- Austrian indoor all-around championships (pole vault): 1st place in 2000 in Vienna
- All-around European Cup (decathlon): 2nd place in 2000 in Esbjerg
- U23 European Championships (decathlon): 12th place 2001 in Amsterdam
- Mösle all-around meeting (decathlon): 15th place in 2002 in Götzis
- Austrian indoor championships (pole vault): 1st place 2003 in Linz
- Austrian championships (decathlon): 1st place 2003 in Reutte
- Austrian championships (long jump): 1st place 2003 in Salzburg-Rif
- Austrian indoor championships (pole vault): 1st place 2004 in Vienna
- Mösle all-around meeting (decathlon): 11th place 2004 in Götzis - Olympic qualification
- European Cup (decathlon): 1st place 2004 in Hengelo
- Olympic Games : 10th place 2004 in Athens
- European Indoor Championships (heptathlon): 3rd place 2005 in Madrid
- European Athletics Championships 2010: 14th place in the decathlon
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Comeback of Roland Schwarzl . OLV-Nachrichten 1/2016, page 16 (PDF file).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schwarzl, Roland |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian athlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1980 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lienz , East Tyrol |