Sosthene Moguenara
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Full name | Sosthene-Taroum Moguenara | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
nation | Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | 17th October 1989 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Sarh , Chad | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 176 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 65 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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discipline | Long jump | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Best performance | Hall: 6.86 m Open air: 7.16 m (+ 1.6 m / s) |
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TV Wattenscheid 01 first club: TuS Helene Essen |
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Trainer | Andrei Tivontschik, Ulrich Knapp first trainers: Rolf Kilius, Alfred Vietz |
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National squad | since 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | active | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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last change: March 20, 2018 |
Sosthene Moguenara (actually Sosthene-Taroum Moguenera ; born October 17, 1989 in Sarh , Chad ) is a German athlete who mainly competes in the long jump .
Athletic career
Through the Federal Youth Games , Moguenara came to play in elementary school. At the beginning of her career she was successful as a sprinter . For example, from 2006 to 2008 she was the German youth champion in the 4 x 100 meter relay three times in a row . After that, she increasingly focused on the long jump. In 2008 she won the title at the German Junior Championships in this discipline .
In the adult sector she first drew attention to herself in 2009 when she surprisingly won the German Indoor Athletics Championships in Leipzig with a width of 6.54 m . In 2010 she defended her title in Karlsruhe and met the qualification standard for the indoor world championships in Doha with a new personal best of 6.75 m . There, however, she missed the finals. In the open air season she was second in the long jump at the German Junior Championships and won the 4 x 100 meter relay. At the German Championships in Braunschweig , she finished ninth in the long jump and could not qualify for the European Championships in Barcelona . In 2011 Moguenara was again German junior runner-up in the long jump and won the bronze medal behind Darja Klischina and Ivana Španović at the U23 European Championships in Ostrava , where she increased her best outdoor performance by nine centimeters to 6.74 m . She also took third place a week later at the German Championships in Kassel . On August 13th, she increased her personal best in Mannheim to 6.83 m and thus fulfilled the A-Norm of the DLV for participation in the World Championships in Daegu . There she failed with only 6.02 m in the qualification.
She qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games in London in May 2012 in Wesel by setting up a new personal best of 6.88 m. In the qualification, she finished 21st with 6.23 m and thus missed the final. At the European Championships in Helsinki in 2012 , she reached fourth place with a width of 6.66 m. In August 2013 Moguenara set a new personal best in Weinheim with 7.04 m. At the World Championships in Moscow , she was twelfth in the final.
In 2014 Moguenara won the German Indoor Championships , but two weeks later could not qualify for the final at the Indoor World Championships in Sopot . In the open air she won the International Golden Roof Challenge in Innsbruck and came second at the German Championships in Ulm behind Melanie Bauschke . At the European Championships in Zurich , she finished ninth. In 2015 she successfully defended her title at the German Indoor Championships in Karlsruhe . At the European Indoor Championships in Prague , she won her first medal at a major international event when she took silver with a season best of 6.83 m.
In 2016 Moguenara jumped 7.16 m at the Kurpfalz Gala in Weinheim , making it one of the world's best. At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , she finished 10th with 6.61 m.
In 2017 she finished fourth at the German Championships in Erfurt.
In 2018 Moguenara came in 6th place at the German Indoor Championships in Dortmund with a width of 6.29 m. A week later at the Indoor Grand Prix Glasgow (Scotland) Moguenara jumped 6.83 m and was nominated for the Indoor World Championships in Birmingham , where she confirmed the form already shown and won the bronze medal with a jump of 6.85 m.
Club affiliations
Sosthene Moguenara started for TV Wattenscheid 01 until 2015 and was trained by André Ernst and Ulrich Knapp. In 2016 she started for the LAZ Saarbrücken, and in 2017 for the SV Saar 05 Saarbrücken . On January 1, 2018, she returned to TV Wattenscheid 01. Her first club was TuS Helene Essen .
Top performances
- Long jump
- Open air: 7.16 m (+ 1.6 m / s) , May 28, 2016, Weinheim
- Hall: 6.86 m, January 11, 2015, Saarbrücken
With 7.16 m she reached the fourth best distance ever achieved by a German athlete after Heike Drechsler , Malaika Mihambo and Helga Radtke .
Trivia
As a nine-year-old Moguenara visited her mother's sister in Essen . She was later adopted by her aunt, who was married to a German.
Web links
- Sosthene Moguenara in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Athlete portrait by Sosthene Moguenara on the website of TV Wattenscheid 01
- Athlete portrait on Leichtathletik.de
- Athlete portrait in the team brochure for the European Indoor Championships in Prague 2015, p. 25 (pdf 1.7 MB)
- Athlete portrait in the team brochure for the Indoor World Championships Birmingham 2018, p. 26 (pdf 15.4 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ n-tv.de: At 19 years old, 6.61 meters wide - Moguenara becomes German , June 10, 2009
- ↑ Result of qualification Olympia 2012 ( Memento of the original from August 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed on August 8, 2012.
- ↑ Result of the European Championships 2012 ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ^ Result Weinheim 2013 .
- ^ Escape into a new life: Sport helps with integration , sueddeutsche.de of February 23, 2016
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SURNAME | Moguenara, Sosthene |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moguenara, Sosthene-Taroum (full name); Moguenara, Sostene; Taroum, Moguenara Sosthene |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German athlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | 17th October 1989 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Sarh , Chad |