Wolfgang Knabe (athlete)
Wolfgang Knabe (born July 12, 1959 in Damme ) is a former German triple jumper .
In 1981 he was eighth at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Grenoble . At the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 1983 , he was eliminated in qualification.
In 1988 he was German champion, in 1983 and 1992 runner-up. In the hall he was German champion in 1986 and runner-up in 1983 and 1988.
Wolfgang Knabe started for OSC Damme until 1976 , from 1977 to 1982 for BLK Bersenbrück, from 1983 to 1984 for Union Gross-Ilsede and from 1985 to 1995 for TV Wattenscheid 01 . In 1996 he returned to OSC Damme, of which he is currently first chairman. In the senior sector he was world and European champion several times, and in 2005 he set a world record for the M45 age group of 15.13 m. In the M50 age group he reached 14.44 m and in 2014 Knabe increased his world record at the Senior European Championships in Izmir to 14.13 m.
As part of the #TruAthletes advertising campaign of the German Athletics Association , Knabe is one of the ten advertising media in 2018.
Personal best
- Triple jump: 17.12 m, September 23, 1988, Düsseldorf
- Long jump : 7.63 m, August 23, 1986, Hanover
Web links
- Senior athlete portrait - Wolfgang Knabe on Leichtathletik.de (PDF 757 kB)
Footnotes
- ↑ Wolfgang Knabe GmbH: World Champion Wolfgang Knabe ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2011 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.
- ↑ https://www.leichtathletik.de/news/news/detail/wolfgang-knabe-steigert-seinen-weltrekord-weiter/
- ↑ https://www.osc-damme.de/category/news-leichtathletik/
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boy, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German triple jumper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Damme (Dumber) |