Stefan Wenk

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Stefan Wenk (born March 13, 1981 in Filderstadt ) is a former German javelin thrower .

Stefan Wenk started for LAV Tübingen until 2004 , switched to VfB Stuttgart in 2005 and to VfL Sindelfingen in 2006 .

Wenk finished ninth at the 2000 Junior World Championships and seventh at the 2001 U23 European Championships . In 2006 he finished 12th at the European Championships in Gothenburg and 4th at the European Cup. In 2007 he finished 7th in the World Athletic Final after finishing eighth the year before.

At German championships, Stefan Wenk placed eight times among the eight best javelin throwers. In 2001 and 2002 he was seventh and in 2004 he was eighth. In 2005 he improved to fifth place and in 2006 he was fourth behind Christian Nicolay , Peter Esenwein and Mark Frank ; Nicolay, Esenwein and Wenk started at the European Championships . In 2007 Stefan Wenk took second place behind Stephan Steding at the German Championships . After a sixth place in 2008 , he reached fifth place again in 2010 .

Wenk exceeded the eighty-meter mark for the first time in 2002, and from 2004 to 2007 he managed to do this every year. He set his best of 83.94 m on June 2, 2006 in Oslo.

From 2009 to 2013, Wenk was also an athletic trainer for Bundesliga basketball team Walter Tigers from Tübingen.

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005. 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft p. 1287

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ^ Page of World Athletics, tab Results and respective year.
  2. ^ Page from World Athletics, Reiter Honors
  3. ^ Page of World Athletics, tab Results and respective year
  4. ^ Page of World Athletics, Reiter Progression
  5. ↑ Radisa Zdravkovic, Marius Broening and Stefan Wenk complete the coaching team on schoenen-dunk.de (message from July 31, 2009, accessed on May 19, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Wenk, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German javelin thrower
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Filderstadt