Tobias Dahm
Tobias Dahm | |
nation | Germany |
birthday | 23rd May 1987 (age 33) |
place of birth | Boeblingen , Germany |
size | 203 cm |
Weight | 114 kg |
job | Motorcar mechanic |
Career | |
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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
Web links
- Tobias Dahm in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Athlete portrait on the club side
- Athlete portrait on Leichtathletik.de
- 2016 Indoor World Championships Portland Team Brochure by DLV, p. 6 (pdf 9.9 MB)
Footnotes
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Silke Morrissey: Indoor World Cup norm: Tobias Dahm broke the knot , Meeting Sassnitz, February 14, 2016, on: Leichtathletik.de, accessed March 23, 2016
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Dahm, Tobias |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German athlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1987 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Boeblingen , Germany |