Sascha Klein

Sascha Klein

Sascha Klein at the Olympic outfit Hannover 2016

Personal information

Nationality:

Germany

Discipline (s) :

Tower / synchronized jumping

Society:

Dresdner SC (since 2012)

Birthday:

September 12, 1985

Place of birth:

Eschweiler

Size:

172 cm

Weight:

72 kg

Medals

Olympic games
silver	2008 Beijing	Synchronous 10 m
World championships
bronze	2011 Shanghai	10 m
silver	2011 Shanghai	Synchronous 10 m
gold	2013 Barcelona	Synchronous 10 m
bronze	2013 Barcelona	10 m
bronze	2017 Budapest	Synchronous 10 m
European championships
silver	2006 Budapest	Synchronous 10 m
silver	2008 Eindhoven	10 m
gold	2008 Eindhoven	Synchronous 10 m
gold	2009 Turin	Synchronous 10 m
gold	2010 Budapest	10 m
gold	2010 Budapest	Synchronous 10 m
gold	2010 Budapest	team
gold	2011 Turin	10 m
gold	2011 Turin	Synchronous 10 m
gold	2012 Eindhoven	Synchronous 10 m
silver	2013 Rostock	team
gold	2013 Rostock	Synchronous 10 m
gold	2014 Berlin	Synchronous 10 m
gold	2015 Rostock	Synchronous 10 m
gold	2016 London	Synchronous 10 m

Sascha Klein (born September 12, 1985 in Eschweiler ) is a German diver . He competes internationally in the 10 m high diving both in individual competitions and in synchronized competitions with Patrick Hausding .

Life

Sascha Klein started diving at the age of eight in Aachen and trained at SV Neptun Aachen until 2011 . In 2011 he moved with his trainer Boris Rozenberg to the Bundesstützpunkt Dresden and from 2011 to 2012 belonged to the SC Riesa and then to the Dresdner SC . He is a sports soldier in the Bundeswehr sports promotion group in Cologne. Thanks to Klein's victory at the FINA Grand Prix in Rostock in 2008, Sascha Klein was ranked first in the world from the 10 m tower until August 23, 2008.

At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, he and his partner Hausding won the silver medal in synchronized jumping from the 10 m tower behind the Chinese Lin Yue and Huo Liang , but ahead of the Russians Gleb Galperin and Dmitri Dobroskok . In synchronized jumping from the 3 m board, he finished sixth with Pavlo Rozenberg .

For winning the silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games, he received the Silver Laurel Leaf from Federal President Köhler , the highest sporting award given by the Federal Republic of Germany.

Klein won his first international medal in the senior category at the European Championships in Budapest in 2006 , where he and his then partner Heiko Meyer won silver in the 10 m synchronous competition. In the same competition he was able to win the title at the European Championships in Eindhoven in 2008 , in Turin in 2009 , in Budapest in 2010 and again in Turin in 2011 with Patrick Hausding. In the individual from the 10 m tower he was runner-up at the European Championships in 2008, and in 2010 and 2011 he was able to win the title. At the 2011 World Championships in Shanghai , the duo Klein / Hausding also won their first World Championship medal with silver in the 10 m synchronized jumping. Klein also celebrated his greatest success in an individual competition in high diving. He won bronze behind Qiu Bo and David Boudia .

Others

Klein has been participating in the third season of the Eternal Heroes competition show since January 30, 2018 .

In 2019 he won Big Bounce's first Celebrity Special .

successes

20 titles at German championships
Junior world champion in synchronized jumping from the 3 m board in 2002
Twelfth place at the 2005 World Swimming Championships in Montreal in synchronized jumping from the tower
Second place at the 2006 World Cup in Diving in Changshu
Bronze medal at the military world championships in Hyderabad 2007 from the 1-meter board
Fourth from the tower at the World Military Championships in Hyderabad in 2007
Winner of the Diving World Cup 2008 in Beijing
Fourth in the swimming world championships 2005 in Melbourne in synchronized jumping from the tower, seventh in the individual
European champion 2010 in the team competition with Christin Steuer
Fourth place at the 2011 European Championships in the team competition with Nora Subschinski

Web links

Commons : Sascha Klein - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Profile of Sascha Klein at the Institute for Applied Training Science
Sascha Klein in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ dnn.de: Sascha Klein is now jumping into the water for Dresdner SC. In: Dresdner Latest News , September 21, 2012.

↑ German.China.ORG.CN: November 21, 2008 awards for athletes; .... Federal President Köhler has awarded the medal winners of the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games 2008 with the silver laurel leaf.

↑ Budapest 2010 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . PDF@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / omegatiming.com

personal data
SURNAME	Little, Sascha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German diver
DATE OF BIRTH	September 12, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH	Eschweiler

[1] .de: Sascha Klein is now jumping into the water for Dresdner SC. In: Dresdner Latest News , September 21, 2012.

[2] German.China.ORG.CN: November 21, 2008 awards for athletes; .... Federal President Köhler has awarded the medal winners of the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games 2008 with the silver laurel leaf.