Wolfgang Kreissig

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Wolfgang Kreissig (born August 29, 1970 in Gehrden ) is a former German high jumper . He became German champion in this discipline in 1996 and 2000 and took part in the Olympic Games in 1996 and 2000. On March 27, 2017, he was appointed President of the State Office for Communication Baden-Württemberg .

Life

Kreiffekt played soccer in his youth and did not get to high jump until he was 16. In 1989 he was German junior champion and seventh in the German championships in the adult division. At the Junior European Championships , which took place in Varaždin that same year , he won the bronze medal.

In 1994 he crossed 2.21 m. In the following years he established himself as one of the best German high jumpers, together with his colleagues Ralf Sonn and Wolf-Hendrik Beyer . In 1996 Kreißig was German champion with 2.24 m and qualified for the Olympic Games in Atlanta, where he was ninth with 2.29 m. During these games he met his future wife Alina Astafei . Both started for MTG Mannheim . At the 1997 World Indoor Championships , Kreissig was seventh.

In the following years he continuously increased his best performance to 2.34 m, but could not defeat the aspiring Martin Buss in three attempts at German championships . Buss injured himself in the 2000 Olympic year, and Kreiffekt won his second championship title with 2.30 m and qualified for the Olympic Games in Sydney. There KreiWEIS was eighth again with 2.29 m. The following year, Kreissig ended his career.

Kreissig is 1.96 m tall and weighed 82 kg during his sports career. His best performance is 2.34 m, set up in Mannheim in 1999.

After his career as an athlete, the doctor of law became a judge at the Stuttgart Regional Court , later he moved to the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg , where he last headed the media department. The Association Day of the German Athletics Association (DLV) brought personnel renewals in November 2017, and Kreißig became chairman of the DLV Legal Committee, an activity that he already carries out in the Württemberg Athletics Association (WLV). He lives in Stuttgart with his wife Alina Astafei. They have two children and a daughter from Astafei's first marriage. His father-in-law is former pole vaulter Petre Astafei .

successes

Publications

  • Kreianzig, Wolfgang: The sports club in crisis and insolvency , Frankfurt (Main), 2004, ISBN 978-3-631-52768-9 . (also dissertation, University of Mainz 2003)

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b What are Alina Astafei and Wolfgang Kreißig doing? , dlv-sport-de, 5/2007.
  2. ↑ http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/l/leichtathletik/hst/25.html
  3. ↑ http://www.spogo.de/portraits/alinaastafei/alinaastafei.html
  4. ↑ Tom Sprenger: New LFK President appointed: Wolfgang Kreißig follows Thomas Langheinrich. Radiowoche.de announcement of March 28, 2017.
  5. ↑ Ewald Walker: Wolfgang Kreißig: Höhenflug even after the high jump career , chairman of the DLV legal committee, from January 30, 2018, accessed January 31, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Kreissig, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high jumper
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Gehrden