Betty Heidler
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Nationality | German |
Born | East Berlin,East Germany | October 14, 1983
Education | Bachelor of Laws |
Alma mater | University of Hagen |
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1] |
Weight | 83 kg (183 lb)[1] |
Sport | |
Country | Germany |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Hammer throw |
Club | LG Eintracht Frankfurt |
Turned pro | 2004 |
Coached by | Bernd Madler |
Achievements and titles | |
Olympic finals |
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World finals |
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Personalbest |
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Updated on 13 August 2012 |
Betty Heidler(born 14 October 1983) is a retired Germantrack and fieldathlete who competed in thehammer throw.She held theworld recordfrom 2011 until 2014 with her personal best throw of 79.42m(260 ft 6 in). She is the2012 Olympic silver medallist,the2007 World championand the 2009 and 2011World Championship silver medallist.She also finished fourth in the Olympic finals in 2004 and 2016.
Career
[edit]She now lives in Frankfurt and is a member of theEintracht Frankfurtathletics team. She works for theGerman Federal Policewhere she is a member of the sports support group and started studyingBachelor of Lawsat theFernuniversität Hagenin 2007.
She put in a dominant performance at the2010 European Cup Winter Throwingwith a winning mark of 72.48 m, beating her nearest rival by more than three metres.[2]
Heidler won the inauguralIAAF Hammer Throw Challengein 2010, finishing at the top of the rankings ahead ofAnita Wlodarczyk.[3]She won the gold medal at the2010 European Athletics Championshipsthen went on to take the silver medal at the2011 World Championships in Athletics.In May 2011, in Halle, she achieved a new world record in hammer throw, with a result of 79.42 m.[4]She began the 2012 season with a series of wins, performing at theColorful Daegu Meeting,Golden Spike Ostrava,andPrefontaine Classic.[5]
Heidler won a medal at the2012 London Olympics.The event was not without controversy as the referees first failed to correctly measure Heidler's bronze-winning throw.[6]She was then later promoted to the silver medal position, afterTatyana Lysenkowas disqualified for a doping violation in 2016.
Achievements
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ab"Betty Heidler".London2012.com.London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.Archived fromthe originalon 27 August 2012.Retrieved14 August2012.
- ^Mikhnevich and Müller put on a show at the European Cup Winter Throwing[permanent dead link].European Athletics(20 March 2010). Retrieved 23 March 2010.
- ^Sampaolo, Diego (29 August 2010)."Rudisha lowers 800m World record again, 1:41.01; Carter dashes 9.78sec in Rieti – IAAF World Challenge".IAAF.Retrieved8 May2016.
- ^"Das Leichtathletik-Portal - Start".
- ^Gains, Paul (2 June 2012)."Dibaba 30:24.39 and Kiprop 27:01.98 on stunning but wet first night in Eugene – Samsung Diamond League".IAAF.Retrieved8 May2016.
- ^"London 2012 - Event Report - Women's Hammer Throw Final".IAAF. 10 August 2012.Retrieved8 May2016.
External links
[edit]- Betty HeidleratWorld Athletics
- Betty HeidleratEuropean Athletics(archive)
- Betty HeidleratOlympics.com
- Betty Heidlerat OlympicChannel.com (archived)
- Betty Heidlerat Olympic.org (archived)
- Betty HeidleratTeam Deutschland(in German)
- Betty HeidleratOlympedia
- Betty HeidleratOlympics at Sports-Reference.com(archived)
- 1983 births
- Living people
- Athletes from Berlin
- German female hammer throwers
- German national athletics champions
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Germany
- Eintracht Frankfurt athletes
- World record setters in athletics (track and field)
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Germany
- Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for Germany
- Olympic silver medalists for Germany
- World Athletics Championships winners
- IAAF World Athletics Final winners
- Medalists at the 2009 Summer Universiade