Thomas Fahner

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Thomas Fahner (born July 18, 1966 in Fürstenberg / Havel , GDR ) is a former German decathlete in athletics who competed for the GDR.

Life

Fahner started for the ASK Vorwärts Potsdam . With a height of 1.86 m, he had a competition weight of 85 kg. In 1985 at the European Junior Athletics Championships in Cottbus, after Eckart Müller (1975) and Siegfried Wentz (1979), he was the third German to win the decathlon title. He had his first decathlon with more than 8000 points in 1986 at the Götzis all-around meeting . He achieved the best result of his career in 1988, also in Götzis, when he came third with 8362 points (95th place on the all-time world best list, as of July 24, 2017), but with this performance he had to admit defeat to Uwe Freimuth by 19 points and the tied Canadian Dave Steen . In the same year he was again second behind Freimuth at the championships of the GDR; it was his best competition year with more than 8,200 points in all starts. An injury in the immediate preparation for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul ended 1988. In 1987 he was third behind Voss and Schenk in the GDR championships. His second best performance came when he won in Karl-Marx-Stadt in June 1989 with exactly 8300 points. In 1990 he broke off the competition in Götzis after the shot put because of an injury. This was also his last appearance at an international event.

Athletic top performances

  • Decathlon: 8362 points, drawn up on June 19, 1988 in Götzis
  • 100 m: 10.82 s
  • Long jump: 7.55 m
  • Shot put: 15.17 m
  • High jump: 2.00 m
  • 400 m: 47.90 s
  • 110 m hurdles: 14.54 s
  • Discus throw: 48.70 m
  • Pole vault: 5.10 m
  • Javelin throw: 68.40 m
  • 1,500 m: 4:27:53 min
  • Heptathlon: 5881 points, recorded on February 26, 1988 in Senftenberg

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society
  • zurgams (editor): Time leaps . 35 years of the Mösle all-around meeting in Götzis. Bucher Verlag, Hohenems 2009, ISBN 978-3-902679-23-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Fahner biography (PDF; 56 kB) Retrieved on June 16, 2009.
  2. ↑ Decathlon All Time List ( English ) www.iaaf.org . Retrieved July 24, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b Athletics - GDR - Championships (decathlon - men) . www.sport-komplett.de. Retrieved June 16, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Fahner, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German decathletes in the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Fürstenberg / Havel