Tobias Dahm

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Tobias Dahm athletics

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Tobias Dahm at the German Championships 2015

nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 23rd May 1987 (age 33)
place of birth BoeblingenGermany
size 203 cm
Weight 114 kg
job Motorcar mechanic
Career
discipline Shot put
Best performance Hall : 20.56 m; Open air t: 20.42 m
society VfL Sindelfingen
Trainer Peter Salzer and Joachim Lange
status active
last change: October 13, 2018

Tobias Dahm (born May 23, 1987 in Boeblingen , Baden-Württemberg ) is a German athlete . He competes in the shot put .

job

Dahm works full-time in car development for an automobile manufacturer in Sindelfingen and trains six times a week after work.

Athletic career

In youth Dahm went to the all-around 17 years came at the age of 16, the shot put . For years, Dahm only narrowly missed the 20-meter mark. In 2013 he achieved: 19.96 m, 2014: 19.96 m, 2015: 19.97 m, 2016: initially 19.99 m. At the shot put meeting on February 15, 2016 in Sassnitz , he managed the liberating throw to 20.56 m. With that he had exceeded the indoor world championship standard of 20.50 meters and took part in the 2016 indoor world championships in Portland (Oregon) / USA , where he finished 8th with 20.22 m.

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, he was eliminated from qualifying for the final fight with 19.62 m.

Club affiliations

Dahm starts for VfL Sindelfingen . His first club was VfL Ostelsheim .

successes

national
  • German runner-up in 2013
  • 3rd place German Championships 2014
  • German indoor runner-up 2015
  • German runner-up in 2015 , 2019
  • German indoor champion 2016
  • German indoor runner-up 2018
  • German indoor runner-up 2019
international
  • 8th place indoor world championships 2016
  • Participation Olympic Games 2016

Web links

Footnotes

  1. a b Martin Neumann: Tobias Dahm: "Two and a half years waited for four centimeters" , interview, from February 19, 2016, on: Leichtathletik.de, accessed March 23, 2016
  2. Silke Morrissey: Indoor World Cup norm: Tobias Dahm broke the knot , Meeting Sassnitz, February 14, 2016, on: Leichtathletik.de, accessed March 23, 2016