Birgit Kober
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Nationality | German | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Munich, West Germany | 10 July 1971||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability | Ataxia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | shot put Javelin throw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Joachim Lipske | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Birgit Kober (born 10 July 1971) is a German Paralympic athlete.
Career history
Early history
Kober was born in 1971 and grew up in
Athletics career
Kober returned to athletics in 2008, mainly as a form of enjoyment with no serious ambitions to take the sport further. She joined TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen where she was coached by Joachim Lipske. Kober was quickly identified as a potential talent in throwing events and by 2009 she was competing in national competitions. Classified as a T/F34 category para-athlete, Kober specialized in both the javelin and shot put. She qualified for the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships in Christchurch, New Zealand, and took gold in both her events. In the shot put, where she competed in a mixed F32/33/34 grouping, she threw a distance of 9.30m, a new world record.[5]
In 2012, in the build-up to the Summer Paralympics in London, she entered the European Championships in Stadskanaal in the Netherlands. She again dominated the field taking both gold medals and recording a world record in the shot put with a throw of 10.06m.[6] At the Paralympics she recorded a distance of 27.03m in the javelin and three days later she threw 10.25m in the shot put. Both distances were new world records in the F34 classification and gave her gold in both events.[7][8]
Kober defended her World titles when she travelled to Lyon for the 2013 World Championships. She took both the javelin throw (F33/34) and shot put titles, equaling her world record throw in the javelin.
References
- ^ "Kober, Birgit". IPC Athletics. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
- ^ "Kugelstoßen mit Birgit Kober "Nimm die Hüfte mit"" (in German). Der Spiegel. 16 September 2016.
- ^ Para Athletics World Records - Women's Shot Put
- ^ "Looking towards athletics in Rio: T36 women's world records". Archived from the original on 2019-02-09. Retrieved 2017-04-30.
- ^ "IPC (International Paralympic Committee) World Cup 2011 in Christchurch, New Zealand - 2 Day" (in German). germanz.co.nz. 24 January 2011. Archived from the original on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
- ^ "Kober, Birgit". ipcat.msl.es. Archived from the original on 9 August 2013. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
- ^ Morgan, Brad (4 September 2012). "SA improves on Paralympics medal tally". southafrica.info. Archived from the original on 14 January 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
- ^ "Paralympics: Ladies night in London". athletics.com.au. 7 September 2012. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
External links
- Official website (in German)
- Birgit Kober at the International Paralympic Committee
- Birgit Kober at IPC.InfostradaSports.com (archived)
- Birgit Kober at Team Deutschland Paralympics (in German)