Tim Lobinger

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Tim Lobinger at the Indoor Championships 2007
Tim Lobinger with his trainer Chauncey Johnson after the Hoepfner Sports Night, Karlsruhe , July 26, 2006

Tim Lobinger (born September 3, 1972 in Rheinbach ) is a former German pole vaulter and former athletic coach of the RB Leipzig soccer club .

Athletic career

From the late 1990s, Lobinger was one of the best pole vaulters in Germany. He achieved his strongest season performances in 1997 and 1999 when he was the first German to jump 6.00 meters outdoors at the ASV sports festival in the Cologne- Müngersdorf stadium .

Lobinger achieved his greatest successes in the hall. In 2003 he was world champion in Birmingham and European champion in 1998 in Valencia . He also won the bronze medal at the 2006 World Championships in Moscow. Outdoors he won bronze at the 2002 European Championships in Munich and silver at the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg . Lobinger was unable to win a medal at outdoor world championships: in 1993 in Stuttgart he was eliminated from the qualification, in 1995 in Gothenburg he was eleventh, in 1997 in Athens, fourth in 1999 in Seville, sixth in 2003 in Paris / Saint-Denis and in 2005 in Helsinki and fifth 2007 in Osaka eighth.

The Olympic Games, on the other hand, were rather disappointing for Lobinger. He was seventh in Atlanta in 1996 , thirteenth in Sydney in 2000 and eleventh in Athens in 2004 . In 2008 in Beijing , he failed in the qualification.

The eccentric athlete caused a sensation on various occasions. At the 2003 World Finals in Monaco, after winning the title for joy, he did a lap of honor through the stadium, pulled down his pants and showed the audience and the official cameras his bare bottom . For this he later had to apologize to the world association.

Lobinger was awarded the Rudolf Harbig Memorial Prize in 2011 .

During his playing days he was 1.93 m tall and had a competition weight of 85 kg.

After the sport

In 2011 he worked as a personal fitness trainer for soccer player Aljaksandr Hleb .

In the 2012/13 season Lobinger was an athletic trainer for the then second division soccer club RB Leipzig . After one season with the U-23, he ended his job there in the summer of 2016.

illness

On March 3, 2017, he was diagnosed with "a particularly aggressive form" of the blood disease leukemia , multiple myeloma . He himself announced this to the public in May 2017. After four chemotherapies , a donor for a stem cell transplant was found at the end of August 2017 . After another chemotherapy, the cancer cells were considered to have been successfully destroyed, but "a slightly mutated form returned" in spring 2018, as Lobinger himself explained in an interview with the star .

Private

Lobinger was married to the former triple jumper Petra Lobinger (née Laux) from 1994 to 2003 . The couple had two children, a daughter and a son. The son Lex-Tyger Lobinger is a soccer player and has been playing for Fortuna Düsseldorf's second team since the 2019/20 season . In August 2011, Lobinger married the television presenter Alina Baumann (now Alina Lobinger) in Bad Wiessee , whom he met in 2002. He has a son with her (* 2016). The separation took place in 2017.

Tim Lobinger is ambassador for the German José Carreras Leukemia Foundation and Interplast-Germany .

Trivia

Lobinger worked at times as a model .

In 1999 he played in the episode Your little child comes from the series Dr. Stefan Frank - The doctor whom women trust a gardener.

In 2011 he took part in the fourth season of the RTL dance show Let's Dance , where he and his dance partner Isabel Edvardsson took penultimate place.

On June 30, 2012, he competed in the fourth season of Schlag den Star against candidate Steffen and won after eight games with a final score of 23:13.

On September 17, 2019, he and his son Lex-Tyger played as a team in the game show Renn zum Million ... if you can! on.

Web links

Commons : Tim Lobinger  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Spiegel Online : Nudism in the stadium: Lobinger's expensive butt show , September 15, 2003
  2. ^ Spiegel Online : Quote of the day: Stubborn pole vaulter , September 21, 2003
  3. ↑ Mood remains in the arena Inquired ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Stuttgarter Nachrichten, August 18, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de
  4. ^ Lobinger in front of the DFB Cup hit against Augsburg: "Wants to go to the Bundesliga with RB Leipzig" LVZ.de, July 31, 2013, accessed on September 9, 2013
  5. ^ RB Leipzig II - training start with a new trainer and without Tim Lobinger Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, June 27, 2016
  6. ^ A b Mathias Schneider, Anika Geisler: Tim Lobinger no longer likes to make a forecast. Die Welt , April 11, 2018, accessed April 11, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Tim Lobinger: Athlete and Patient . Photo gallery. Published in Stern on April 15, 2018 . Accessed April 15, 2018.
  8. ↑ Achim Dreis: Tim Lobinger suffers from leukemia. FAZ.net , May 18, 2017, accessed April 11, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Pamela Ruprecht: Hope: Tim Lobinger finds stem cell donors. Leichtathletik.de ( DLV ), August 25, 2017, accessed on April 11, 2018 .
  10. ↑ a b Tim Lobinger: A hearty dream wedding at Tegernsee. In: Bunte . August 8, 2011, accessed February 7, 2014 .
  11. ↑ He breaks out in tears at Markus Lanz. In: gala.de. April 13, 2018, accessed April 15, 2014 .
  12. ↑ Dr. Stefan Frank - Your little children come on Fernsehserien.de, accessed on February 14, 2017.
  13. ↑ rtl.de: Let's Dance 2011: The end for Tim Lobinger , March 30, 2011
  14. ↑ Run for a million ... if you can! - Strong father-son team: pole vault world champion Tim Lobinger competes with son Tyger at #RennzurMillion. September 16, 2019, accessed September 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lobinger, Tim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pole vaulter
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd September 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheinbach