Tobias Potye

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Tobias Potye athletics

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Potye at the German Championships 2015 in Nuremberg

nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 16th March 1995 (age 25)
place of birth Munich ,  Germany
size 198 cm
Weight 72 kg
job Student (Multimedia and Fine Arts)
Career
discipline high jump
Best performance 2.22 m (indoor) and 2.27 m (open air)
society LG Stadtwerke München / USC München ,
formerly: FC Aschheim
Trainer Sebastian Kneifel, Manfred Knopp, Max Mühlbauer
Medal table
German championships 0 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
German indoor championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
DLV logo German championships
silver 2018 Nuremberg 2.22 m
silver 2020 Braunschweig 2.20 m
DLV logo German indoor championships
silver 2017 Leipzig 2.20 m
last change: August 17, 2020

Tobias Potye (born March 16, 1995 in Munich , Bavaria ) is a German athlete who specializes in high jump .

career path

Potye graduated from high school in Kirchheim in 2013 . He studied multimedia and art history (fine arts) at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich at Bachelor.

Athletic career

Tobias Potye started high jump at FC Aschheim in 2008 . His older brother Simon, also a high jumper, had brought him to athletics.

In 2012 he became German U18 runner-up in Mönchengladbach with a height of 2.01 m .

In 2013 Potye increased enormously and became U20 European champion in Rieti with a personal best of 2.20 m , and a week later in Rostock with 2.18 m German U20 champion . At the end of the year he led the German U20's annual best list with 2.20 m.

In 2014 he was in Sindelfingen with 2.18 m German U20 indoor champion and came in 9th place at the U20 World Championships in Eugene (Oregon) with 2.17 m.

In 2015, at the age of 20, Potye won the German U23 runner-up title in Wetzlar with 2.21 m and finished 8th at the U23 European Championships with 2.18 m in Tallinn . Two weeks later he reached 4th place at the German Championships with 2.15 m in Nuremberg

In 2016 Potye was again German U23 runner-up in Wattenscheid .

In 2017 he became German indoor runner-up in Leipzig with 2.20 m and German U23 runner-up for the third time in a row in Leverkusen . Four weeks later Potye came in 10th place with 2.10 m at the U23 European Championships in Bydgoszcz . In the course of the year he had set a new personal best with 2.25 m.

In 2018 Potye took 4th place at the German Indoor Championships in Dortmund with 2.10 m. In the outdoor season he jumped continuously over 2.20 m and set further records. At the end of May Potye set a new personal best with 2.26 m in Aschheim and thus exactly met the norm for the European Championships in Berlin . Only a few days later he increased to 2.27 m in Regensburg , which also meant a Bavarian record. At the Athletics World Cup in London he came in 3rd place with 2.24 m and was German runner-up in Nuremberg with 2.22 m . At the European Championships in Berlin Potye could not qualify for the final with 2.21 m and came in 16th place.

In 2019 he did not contest a competition.

In 2020, Potye returned to the indoor season at the end of January with a height of 2.20 m.

Potye has been in the junior squad (NK1 U23) of the German Athletics Association (DLV) since the competitive sports reform 2017/18 and has been in the perspective squad since 2018/19 .

Club membership

Tobias Potye has been with LG Stadtwerke München , parent club USC Munich , since 2015 and was previously at FC Aschheim .

Performance development

(As of January 25, 2020)

year Hall open air
2009 1.79 m
2010 1.91 m
2011 1.98 m
2012 2.02 m 2.07 m
2013 2.12 m 2.20 m
2014 2.16 m 2.23 m
2015 2.15 m 2.23 m
2016 - 2.26 m
2017 2.20 m 2.25 m
2018 2.22 m 2.27 m
2019 - -
2020 2.20 m
Top performances
  • Hall: 2.22 m, ( Munich , February 10, 2018)
  • Open air: 2.27 m, ( Regensburg , June 3, 2018)

successes

national
international

Web links

Commons : Tobias Potye  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b huge leap in performance , sport, on: ovb-online.de, from July 22, 2013, accessed August 5, 2018
  2. ↑ Tobias Potye on sportschau.de, accessed August 5, 2018
  3. ↑ EM 2018 Berlin team brochure of the DLV, p. 53 (pdf 21.3 MB), on: Leichtathletik.de, accessed on August 6th
  4. ↑ a b Christian Stüwe: On the hunt for the magic brand , Sport, on: ovb-online.de, from June 15, 2018, accessed August 5, 2018
  5. ↑ As of January 24, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Potye, Tobias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high jumper
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich