Tim Lobinger

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

Career Lobinger's discipline was pole vault and he was an elite competitor from the 1990s. His best results came in 1997 and 1999 when he jumped over 6.00 meters, becoming the first German to join the six metres club. His best medals were silver at the 1998 European Athletics Championships and the 2006 European Athletics Championships. He won bronze at the 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 in 1999 and cleared 5.76 m in the pole vault – a decathlon best for the ten-event contest.

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. He had another son, born in 2016, with Alina Lobinger (née Baumann) from whom he separated in 2017.

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

Achievements

Personal bests Indoor Event Performance Location Date+Individual events Pole vault Chemnitz 18 February 2000

Outdoor +Individual events Event Performance Location Date Pole vault Cologne 24 August 1997

+Combined events Event Performance Location Date Points Decathlon Leverkusen 15–16 September 1999 7,346 points 100 metres 11.20 Leverkusen 15 September 1999 817 points Long jump Leverkusen 15 September 1999 732 points Shot put Leverkusen 15 September 1999 672 points High jump Leverkusen 15 September 1999 776 points 400 metres 52.80 Leverkusen 15 September 1999 690 points 110 metres hurdles 14.78 Leverkusen 16 September 1999 876 points Discus throw Leverkusen 16 September 1999 723 points Pole vault Leverkusen 16 September 1999 1,152 points Javelin throw Leverkusen 16 September 1999 520 points 1500 metres 5:32.38 Leverkusen 16 September 1999 388 points Virtual Best Performance 7,346 points

Decathlon best