Steinar Hoen
Steinar Breidsvoll Hoen (born February 8, 1971 in Oslo ) is a former Norwegian athlete who competed in the high jump for the IK Tjalve in Oslo. With a height of 1.92 m, his competition weight was 80 kg.
After 12th place at the European Junior Championships in 1989 and 11th place at the 1990 World Junior Championships, Hoen was fourteenth at the 1991 World Championships . In 1992 he finished 9th at the European Indoor Championships with 2.23 meters. With the same amount he missed the finals at the 1992 Olympic Games . This was followed by 9th place with 2.24 meters at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in 1993 and 2.20 meters in qualification at the 1993 World Championships .
In 1994 he took fourth place at the European Indoor Championships in Paris with a height of 2.31 meters. At the European Championships in Helsinki Hoen won with 2.35 meters in front of the Pole Artur Partyka and the British Steve Smith . The 2.35 meters remained the European championship record until Andrei Silnow crossed 2.36 meters in Gothenburg in 2006 .
Steinar Hoen took fourth place in 1995 at the World Indoor Championships in Barcelona and at the World Championships in Gothenburg. In Barcelona he missed bronze with 2.32 meters at the same height as the third-placed American Tony Barton . In Gothenburg, Partyka, Smith and Hoen were tied with 2.35 meters, Partyka won bronze, Hoen and Smith were fourth together. At the European Indoor Championships in Stockholm in 1996, Hoen crossed 2.31 meters and won bronze. At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Hoen was fifth with 2.32 meters.
1997 Hoen was eighth with 2.25 meters at the World Indoor Championships in Paris. At the World Championships in Athens, he was fourth with 2.32 meters. His last international final ranking reached Hoen at the European Championships in Budapest in 1998, where he was sixth again with 2.30 meters.
Hoen was the Norwegian high jump champion in 1991 and from 1993 to 1998. He set a total of nine Norwegian records. His best performance, set up in Oslo in 1997, was still a national record on December 31, 2006. In 1994 he had already crossed 2.36 m in the hall in Balingen.
literature
- Peter Matthews (Ed): Athletics 2000 . Surbiton 2000 ISBN 1-899807-071
- Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Field Athletics , Berlin 1999, published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoen, Steinar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hoen, Steinar Breidsvoll (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oslo |