Thomas Röhler
Thomas Röhler 
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| birthday | 30th September 1991 (age 28) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Jena , Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| size | 191 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 92 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| job | Bachelor (Sport and Business) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Javelin throw | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best performance | 93.90 m (2017) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| society | Athletics Club Jena | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Trainer | Harro Schwuchow, formerly: Burkhard Looks, 1st trainer: Wolfgang Lecht, Waltraud Strotzer |
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| status | active | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Thomas Röhler (born September 30, 1991 in Jena ) is a German athlete who specializes in throwing a javelin . He is Olympic champion in 2016 and European champion in 2018 .
career path
Röhler attended the sports high school in his hometown Jena and graduated from high school in 2011. He started studying sports and economics at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena , where he obtained a bachelor's degree in 2016 .
Athletic career
Thomas Röhler came to sport through an AG in elementary school and then joined an athletics club. In 1998 he started jumping and all-around and switched to javelin throwing at the end of 2009. The Thuringian’s first spear throwing coach was Burkhard Looks. Since October 2013 he has been working with trainer Harro Schwuchow in Jena. In 2010 Thomas Röhler was accepted into the national team of national coach Boris Henry . Participation in the U20 World Championships 2010, the U23 European Championships 2011 and the European Championships 2012 in Helsinki prove the performance development of the first years of the throwing career. Between 2012 and 2015 he was the German javelin thrower .
In 2014 Röhler became the overall winner of the Diamond League . In Kuortane he achieved a personal best on August 8, 2015 with 89.27 m. At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing , he was fourth with 87.41 m; the bronze medal was only 23 cm short. He improved his best performance on June 9, 2016 in Oslo to 89.30 m and on June 29, 2016 at the meeting in Turku to 91.28 m. At the European Championships in Amsterdam in 2016 he could not confirm this performance and finished fifth with 80.78 m.
On August 20, 2016, he won the gold medal in the javelin throw at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro with a throw over 90.30 m .
In 2017 Röhler achieved a width of 93.90 m at the Diamond League meeting in Doha ( Qatar ) on May 5, surpassing the previous German record set by Raymond Hecht (92.60 m) in 1995 by more than one meter . The throw was the world's longest javelin throw since 1997 and made Röhler the second best thrower in the history of the new javelin introduced in 1986, only surpassed by Jan Železný from the Czech Republic (world record: 98.48 m). On July 11th, Röhler lost the German record again when Johannes Vetter achieved a distance of 94.44 m in Lucerne and pushed Röhler to third place on the all-time best list. At the 2017 European Team Championship in Lille , northern France , Röhler won the title with the German team; in his discipline he took third place. At the 2017 World Championships in London , as in 2015, he narrowly missed the podium and finished fourth with 88.26 m.
On August 9, 2018, Röhler became European Champion with 89.47 m in Berlin . At the Continental Cup in Ostrava , he finished second with the European team, to which he contributed by winning the individual.
In 2019 Röhler came bronze with 82.70 m at the German Championships and was eliminated from the qualification at the World Championships in Doha with 79.23 m.
In 2020 he decided not to take part in the German Championships, the decision of which, according to his own statements, was based on "the mix of family focus and reliable planning for 2021".
Association functions
During the 2017 World Athletics Championships, Thomas Röhler was elected to the IAAF Athletes Commission and has been a member of this commission for a total of four years since January 1, 2018. He is the first German athlete to be elected to this commission.
Club affiliations
Röhler starts for the Athletics Club Jena . His first club was the TuS Jena .
Private
In July 2020, Röhler and his fiancée Lucia Schauerhammer became the parents of a boy.
Awards
- 2016: Athlete of the year in Germany
- 2016: Silver bay leaf
- 2016: Sportsman of the year , 8th place
- 2018: Sportsman of the year , 9th place
Successes and performance development
| year | Best | place | Placements |
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| 2019 | 82.70 m | Berlin (GER) | 3rd place German championships |
| 2018 | 89.47 m | Berlin (GER) | Gold medal European championships |
| 91.78 m | Doha (QAT) | 1st place IAAF Diamond League Meeting | |
| 2017 | 93.90 m | Doha (QAT) | 1st place IAAF Diamond League Meeting (former German record) |
| 2016 | 90.30 m | Rio de Janeiro (BRA) | Gold medal Summer Olympics |
| 91.28 m | Turku (FIN) | 1st place Paavo Nurmi Games | |
| 89.30 m | Oslo (NOR) | 1st place IAAF Diamond League Meeting | |
| 2015 | 89.27 m | Kuortane (FIN) | 1st place at Kuortane Games |
| 84.73 m | Nuremberg (GER) | 1st place German championships | |
| 87.41 m | Beijing (CHN) | 4th place world championships | |
| 2014 | 87.63 m | Zurich (SUI) | 1st place world class Zurich |
| 86.99 m | Glasgow (GBR) | 1st place Sainsbury's GrandPrix | |
| 81.17 m | Leiria (POR) | 2nd place Winter Throw European Cup | |
| 84.28 m | Ulm (GER) | 1st place German championships | |
| 2013 | 83.95 m | Dessau-Roßlau (GER) | 3rd place |
| 81.87 m | Castellon (ESP) | 2nd place Winter Throw European Cup | |
| 83.26 m | Ancona (ITA) | 1st place international competition / winter throw U23 | |
| 83.56 m | Ulm (GER) | 1st place German championships | |
| 83.31 m | Gateshead (GBR) | 2nd place European team championship | |
| 81.74 m | Tampere (FIN) | 3rd place U23 European Championships | |
| 2012 | 80.79 m | St. Wendel (GER) | 3rd place World Class Meeting |
| 78.58 m | BO-Wattenscheid (GER) | 1st place German championships | |
| 77.53 m | Kandel (GER) | 1st place German Championships U23 | |
| 78.89 m | Helsinki (FIN) | 13th place European Championships | |
| 2011 | 78.20 m | Ostrava (CZE) | 7th place U23 European Championships |
| 74.66 m | Bremen (GER) | 3rd place U23 championships | |
| 2010 | 76.37 m | Ulm (GER) | 2nd place German Athletics Youth Championships |
| 69.93 m | Moncton (CAN) | 9th place U20 World Championships | |
| 2009 | 61.26 m | Hall (GER) |
Web links
- Website by Thomas Röhler
- Thomas Röhler in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Athlete portrait - Leichtathletik.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anne Armbrecht: The Speer and He. FAZ.net, June 30, 2016, accessed on August 21, 2016 .
- ↑ DLV Team Brochure: Athletics Team EM Gateshead / Great Britain 22. – 23. June 2013, p. 43
- ↑ Moncton 2009 U20 World Cup, Ostthüringer Zeitung Article OTZ
- ^ U23 EM Ostrava 2011 Wikipedia
- ↑ Report of the Sportgymnasium Jena Website of the GutsMuths Sportgymnasium Jena
- ↑ Silke Morrissey: Thomas Röhler hits 89.27 meters . Leichtathletik.de. August 8, 2015. Retrieved August 8, 2015.
- ↑ NDR: Thomas Röhler gets javelin gold. In: rio.sportschau.de. Retrieved August 21, 2016 .
- ↑ Jan-Henner Reitze : 9:15 a.m. 93.90 m! German records for Krause and Röhler , Diamond League, on: Leichtathletik.de, from May 5, 2017, accessed May 5, 2017
- ↑ Javelin Throw men - All time best , from: iaaf.org, accessed July 12, 2017
- ↑ Jan-Henner Reitze: 94.44 meters! Record and sensational series by Johannes Vetter , on: Leichtathletik.de, July 11, 2017, accessed July 12, 2017
- ↑ Martin Neumann / dpa: Flash news of the weekend - Thomas Röhler renounces the DM start in Braunschweig , notes, on: athletics, de, from July 26, 2020, accessed July 26, 2020
- ↑ Thomas Röhler elected to the IAAF Athletes Commission. Leichtathletik.de, August 14, 2017, accessed on August 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Silke Bernhart: Thomas Röhler: “We have to pull together more than ever”. DLV , November 15, 2018, accessed on March 19, 2018 .
- ↑ EM 2016 Amsterdam team brochure of the DLV, p. 44
- ↑ Thomas Röhler is a father. In: Leichtathletik.de. July 14, 2020, accessed July 20, 2020 .
1908: Eric Lemming (central grip) & Eric Lemming (free style) | 1912: Eric Lemming (middle grip) & Juho Saaristo (two-handed) | 1920: Jonni Myyrä | 1924: Jonni Myyrä | 1928: Erik Lundqvist | 1932: Matti Järvinen | 1936: Gerhard Stöck | 1948: Tapio Rautavaara | 1952: Cy Young | 1956: Egil Danielsen | 1960: Viktor Zybulenko | 1964: Pauli Nevala | 1968: Jānis Lūsis | 1972: Klaus Wolfermann | 1976: Miklós Németh | 1980: Dainis Kūla | 1984: Arto Härkönen | 1988: Tapio Korjus | 1992: Jan Železný | 1996: Jan Železný | 2000: Jan Železný | 2004: Andreas Thorkildsen | 2008: Andreas Thorkildsen | 2012: Keshorn Walcott | 2016: Thomas Röhler
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| SURNAME | Röhler, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German javelin thrower and 2016 Olympic champion |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1991 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jena , Germany |