Tim Lobinger

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Tim Lobinger
Athletics
EventPole vault
Achievements and titles
Personal best
  • Pole vault: 6.00 m (1997)
Medal record
Men's
Athletics
Representing  Germany
World Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2003 Birmingham Pole vault
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Moscow Pole vault
European Championships
Silver medal – second place
1998 Budapest
Pole vault
Silver medal – second place 2006 Gothenburg Pole vault
Bronze medal – third place
2002 Munich
Pole vault
European Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place
1998 Valencia
Pole vault
Gold medal – first place
2002 Vienna
Pole vault
Bronze medal – third place
2005 Madrid
Pole vault

Tim Lobinger (3 September 1972 – 16 February 2023) was a German pole vaulter.

Career

Lobinger's discipline was

2002 European Championships in Athletics and the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships
.

Success eluded him at the Olympics however. In Atlanta in 1996 he placed seventh. In Sydney in 2000 he achieved 13th, and in Athens in 2004, eleventh. At the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki he jumped over only 5.50 meters, well under his abilities.

Lobinger completed a

decathlon best for the ten-event contest.[3]

Personal life and death

Lobinger was married to triple jumper Petra Lobinger (née Laux) from 1994 to 2003. He was the father of two children with her, Fee (born 1995) and Tyger (born 1999), the latter of which plays as a professional footballer.[4] He had another son, born in 2016, with Alina Lobinger (née Baumann) from whom he separated in 2017.

On March 3, 2017, Lobinger was diagnosed with multiple myeloma.[5] He died from cancer on 16 February 2023, at the age of 50.[6]

Achievements

Year Competition Venue Position Notes
Representing  West Germany
1990 World Junior Championships Plovdiv, Bulgaria 20th (q) 4.70 m
Representing  Germany
1993 Universiade Buffalo, United States 10th 5.30 m
World Championships
Stuttgart, Germany
32nd (q) 5.35 m
1994 European Indoor Championships
Paris, France
NM
European Championships
Helsinki, Finland
21st (q) 5.40 m
1995 World Indoor Championships
Barcelona, Spain
18th (q) 5.50 m
World Championships
Gothenburg, Sweden
11th 5.40 m
1996 European Indoor Championships
Stockholm, Sweden
6th 5.65 m
Olympic Games
Atlanta, United States
7th 5.80 m
1997 World Indoor Championships
Paris, France
5th 5.75 m
World Championships
Athens, Greece
4th 5.80 m
1998 European Indoor Championships
Valencia, Spain
1st 5.80 m
European Championships
Budapest, Hungary
2nd 5.81 m
1999 World Championships
Seville, Spain
6th 5.70 m
2000 European Indoor Championships
Ghent, Belgium
8th NM
Olympic Games
Sydney, Australia
13th 5.50 m
2002 European Indoor Championships
Vienna, Austria
1st 5.75 m
European Championships
Munich, Germany
3rd 5.80 m
2003 World Indoor Championships
Birmingham, United Kingdom
1st 5.80 m
World Championships
Paris, France
5th 5.80 m
2004 World Indoor Championships
Budapest, Hungary
5th 5.70 m
Olympic Games
Athens, Greece
11th 5.55 m
2005 European Indoor Championships
Madrid, Spain
3rd 5.80 m
World Championships
Helsinki, Finland
5th 5.50 m
2006 World Indoor Championships
Moscow, Russia
3rd 5.60 m
European Championships
Gothenburg, Sweden
2nd 5.65 m
2007 European Indoor Championships
Birmingham, United Kingdom
5th 5.51 m
World Championships
Osaka, Japan
8th 5.81 m
2008 World Indoor Championships
Valencia, Spain
5th 5.70 m
Olympic Games
Beijing, China
16th (q) 5.55 m
2011 European Indoor Championships
Paris, France
8th 5.41 m

See also

References

  1. ^ "National Lists of Germany (Men)". apulanta.fi. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
  2. ^ "All-time men's best pole vault (indoor jumps)". alltime-athletics.com. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
  3. ^ van Kuijen, Hans (12 September 2013). Eaton and Melnychenko lead Talence fields, Lavillenie to make Decathlon debut – IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-09-12.
  4. ^ Buschmann, Heiko (10 October 2018). "Lex-Tyger Lobinger: Kicken statt Hochsprung" [Lex-Tyger Lobinger: Kicking instead of high jump]. Fussball.de (in German). Retrieved 8 May 2021.
  5. ^ Mathias Schneider, Anika Geisler (11 April 2018). "Eine Prognose mag bei Tim Lobinger niemand mehr abgeben". stern.de (in German). Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  6. ^ Laut Medienberichten Tim Lobinger ist nach erneuter Krebsdiagnose gestorben (in German)

External links

Sporting positions
Preceded by
Dmitriy Markov
Men's Pole vault Best Year Performance
alongside Jeff Hartwig (USA)

2002
Succeeded by