Torben sheet metal

Torben sheet metal
Sheet metal at the U23 European Championships 2017
nation	Germany
birthday	February 12, 1995
place of birth	Siegen ,  Germany
size	193 cm
Weight	84 kg
job	Student ( psychology )
Career
discipline	Pole vault
Best performance	5.60 m (hall); 5.80 m (open air)
society	Bayer 04 Leverkusen , first club: CVJM Siegen SG
Trainer	Christine Adams , first trainer: Armin Kring
status	active
Medal table
Summer Universiade 0 × 1 × 0 × European team championship 0 × 1 × 0 × German championships 0 × 1 × 1 × German indoor championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Universiade silver 2019 Naples 5.76 m  European team championship silver 2019 Bydgoszcz 5.46 m  German championships bronze 2019 Berlin 5.51 m silver 2020 Braunschweig 5.50 m  German indoor championships silver 2019 Leipzig 5.50 m
last change: August 17, 2020

Torben Blech (born February 12, 1995 in Siegen ) is a German athlete who specializes in the pole vault . Before that he was a decathlete for a few years .

career path

Blech is studying psychology at the University of Cologne and wants to graduate with a bachelor's and master's degree.

Athletic career

Torben Blech initially did eight and nine fights and began pole vaulting when he was 14/15, which he enjoyed from the start. Later he was a decathlete for a few years , but injury problems never let him reach the top of the all-rounder. So he returned to the pole vault in 2019. Blech has been a competitive athlete since 2012.

In 2016, Blech became German U23 decathlon champion and German U23 runner-up with the 4 x 100 meter relay , with which he also became German runner-up .

In 2017, Blech won the relay title and bronze in the pole vault at the German U23 championships . In the decathlon he reached 9th place at the U23 European Championships .

In 2018, Blech did not contest a decathlon due to injury. With the baton he reached 6th place at the German Championships .

In 2019, Blech gave up the decathlon and started the new year in the pole vault at the Season Opening in Leverkusen and the New Year's competition in the Zeltpalast in Merzig with two personal indoor best performances and increased to 5.55 m at the 21st  International Indoor Meeting in Chemnitz. In Leipzig he became German indoor runner-up . At the Summer Universiade in Naples , Blech came second with a personal best of 5.76 m. On July 24, he met the standard for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo with a height of 5.80 m at Bayer Classics in Leverkusen . Since the beginning of the year, Blech had increased his best performance from 5.42 m (2018) to 5.80 m and led the German best list with Raphael Holzdeppe . At the European team championship he came with the team on the 2nd place. At the World Championships in Doha , sheet metal retired as eleventh in his qualifying group (23rd overall). Sheet metal is in the perspective of the DLV .

Club affiliations

Blech has started for TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen since 2014 , previously he was with LG Kindelsberg Kreuztal and CVJM Siegen SG .

Personal best

(As of January 31, 2020)

Hall

• Pole vault: 5.60 m, Karlsruhe, January 31, 2020

open air

• Pole vault: 5.80 m, Leverkusen, July 24, 2019
• Decathlon: 7872 points, Filderstadt, June 11, 2017

successes

national

• 2016: German U23 champion (decathlon)
• 2016: German U23 runner-up (4 × 100 m)
• 2016: German runner-up (4 × 100 m)
• 2017: German U23 champion (4 × 100 m)
• 2017: 3rd place German U23 championships (pole vault)
• 2018: 6th place German championships (pole vault)
• 2019: German indoor runner-up (pole vault)
• 2019: 3rd place German Championships (pole vault)

international

• 2017: 9th place U23 European Championships (decathlon)
• 2019: Silver Summer Universiade (pole vault)
• 2019: 2nd place European team championship (team)
• 2019: 11th place World Championships (pole vault)

Web links

Commons : Torben Blech  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Torben sheet in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Torben sheet in the database of European Athletics (English)
• WM 2019 Doha DLV team brochure, p. 9 (pdf 25.4 MB)
• Torben Blech on sportschau.de
• Torben sheet on the club side
• Athlete profiles Summer Universiade 2019 - Naples -
• Performance profile on Leichtathletik-datenbank.de
• Athlete profile (TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen) on ladv.de
• Athlete profile (LG Kindelsberg Kreuztal) on ladv.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} On the club website and on sportschau.de, the 17th is given as the birthday.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Athlete profiles Summer Universiade 2019 - Naples - , on: adh.de, accessed October 7, 2019 (pdf 10.2 MB)
3. ↑ Manuel Keil: Torben Blech: "Sometime heights of 5.80 meters jump" , interview of the week, on: Leichtathletik.de, from January 15, 2019, accessed October 7, 2019
4. ↑ ^{a b} WM 2019 Doha , on: Leichtathletik.de, DLV team brochure, p. 9, accessed October 6, 2019 (pdf 25.4 MB)
5. ↑ Pole Vault men IAAF World Athletics Championships, DOHA 2019