Stefan Drews

This article deals with the all-rounder, for the volleyball trainer see Stefan Drews (volleyball trainer) .

Stefan Drews (born February 12, 1979 in Hamburg ) is a German all-rounder . At the age of 22, he decided to pursue a career in the decathlon and against the pole vault . He starts for TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen . He studies chemistry, but has put the sport in the foreground. His competition weight is 72 kg with a height of 1.87 m.

At the age of 13 Drews came to athletics , but before that he did judo . In 2001 he jumped 5.30 m in the pole vault for the first time, achieved more than 8000 points in the decathlon for the first time and then considered continuing as a special pole vaulter. But he stayed in the all-round competition and now and then starts in pure pole vault competitions. As a decathlete he was fourth at the Junior World Championships in 1998, German Junior Champion in 2001 and German Indoor Champion in 2003, 2004 and 2006. He achieved a remarkable seventh place at the European Championships in Gothenburg in 2006 , where he was, however, below his previous best performance. He increased it at the all-around meeting in Ratingen, on June 24 and 25, 2006 to 8233 points, with the following individual results: 100 meters 10.70 s; Long jump : 7.54 m; Shot put : 13.68 m; High jump : 1.88 m; 400 meters: 47.86 s; 110 meter hurdles: 14.24 s; Discus throw : 41.67 m; Pole vault : 5.35 m; Javelin throw : 50.81 m; 1500 meters: 4: 25.60 min.

Drews is trained by Axel Berndt, in the past by Helmut Heins. He has been training at Bayer Leverkusen since 2004; before that he was with MobilCom Zehnkampfwelle Kiel (1997-2004) and until 1997 with BSV Buxtehude .

Previous successes

• Fourth Junior World Championships 1998
• German junior champion 2001
• German indoor champion 2003, 2004, 2006
• German B youth champion 2002
• Olympic participation 2004 - 19th place
• 7th place European Championships 2006

Web links

• Stefan Drews in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Portrait of Stefan Drews
2. ↑ tsvbayer04-leichtathletik.de : Stefan Drews ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2013 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. , accessed March 12, 2013.