Dream toss by Thomas Schmitt improving his PB by over 2m
- Florian van Dijck
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With an immense improvement shot putter Thomas Schmitt is pressing ahead in the national top list. In Ubach-Palenberg near Aachen, the 26-year-old catapulted the 7.26kg iron ball to 21.35 m - the eight best performance of all Germans so far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxdqwhB-2bQ
Right at the beginning Thomas Schmitt improved his previous personal best of 19.07m by 37cm to 19.44m. "I felt that even more would be possible and the 20m should be reachable," said the 26 year old physics student who wanted to begin his master thesis. But in the meantime he turned his knowledge of the interactions of matter and energy in handy.
After "slipped" 18.77m Thomas improved further with a massive toss closely to the 20m mark. This toss was measured 19.94m, the 20m mark well in sight. The fourth round was the one no one expected to happen. Technically perfect Thomas Schmitt catapulted the 7.26kg ball to unbelieveable 21.35m. It was an improvement by 2.28m from his previous personal best. "Everyone was gobsmacked, I still can not believe it," the German shot put giant shook his head in disbelief even hours later.
Meticulously inspected
"It was an attempt, in which everything was fine and of which each shot putter dreams of. I stopped competiting after the last attempt because I was a nervous wreck completely at the end." Among the spectactors rumors of a possible manipulation made the rounds. The ball was re-weighted several times, judges searched the sports bag of the new north rhine westphalia record holder. The old record, held by Udo Gelhausen stood at 20.74m since 1977.
In the eternal German leaderboard Thomas Schmitt is now in eighth place. And about on a par with former European champion Ralf Bartels, who succeeded in 2009 by his best attempt 21.37 meters. The DLV standard for the World Cup in Beijing (China, August 22 to 30) is 20.60m.
Mostly injured
Most recently, Thomas Schmitt had mainly dealt with the discus throw. A joint injury prevented an accented shot put training. "Maybe that has cleared my head," Schmitt said.
The long-time protégé of former national coach Edvard Harnes coached himself the past three weeks before the competition. Sabrina Werrstein, who looked after him since last year, moved from the Cologne Sport University to the Institute for Applied Training Science (IAT) in Leipzig.
Source: Leichtathletik.de by Harold Koken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxdqwhB-2bQ
Right at the beginning Thomas Schmitt improved his previous personal best of 19.07m by 37cm to 19.44m. "I felt that even more would be possible and the 20m should be reachable," said the 26 year old physics student who wanted to begin his master thesis. But in the meantime he turned his knowledge of the interactions of matter and energy in handy.
After "slipped" 18.77m Thomas improved further with a massive toss closely to the 20m mark. This toss was measured 19.94m, the 20m mark well in sight. The fourth round was the one no one expected to happen. Technically perfect Thomas Schmitt catapulted the 7.26kg ball to unbelieveable 21.35m. It was an improvement by 2.28m from his previous personal best. "Everyone was gobsmacked, I still can not believe it," the German shot put giant shook his head in disbelief even hours later.
Meticulously inspected
"It was an attempt, in which everything was fine and of which each shot putter dreams of. I stopped competiting after the last attempt because I was a nervous wreck completely at the end." Among the spectactors rumors of a possible manipulation made the rounds. The ball was re-weighted several times, judges searched the sports bag of the new north rhine westphalia record holder. The old record, held by Udo Gelhausen stood at 20.74m since 1977.
In the eternal German leaderboard Thomas Schmitt is now in eighth place. And about on a par with former European champion Ralf Bartels, who succeeded in 2009 by his best attempt 21.37 meters. The DLV standard for the World Cup in Beijing (China, August 22 to 30) is 20.60m.
Mostly injured
Most recently, Thomas Schmitt had mainly dealt with the discus throw. A joint injury prevented an accented shot put training. "Maybe that has cleared my head," Schmitt said.
The long-time protégé of former national coach Edvard Harnes coached himself the past three weeks before the competition. Sabrina Werrstein, who looked after him since last year, moved from the Cologne Sport University to the Institute for Applied Training Science (IAT) in Leipzig.
Source: Leichtathletik.de by Harold Koken
Replies 23
Do you mean 7.26 kilo shot? Not pound?
Florian van Dijck
Thanks for pointing that out. Not sure why i made that mistake
Throwholics Bot
Source: https://throwholics.com/2015/0…t-smashes-through-21m-70/
ThrowerFanatic
How's that even possible to improve by over 2m in shot put?!
Are you guys sure it was a 7kg ball?
Florian van Dijck
The officals stated that the distance has been measured twice and the shot put was weighted couple of times as well.
I sure hope he can reproduce the result soon. At least tossing the ball over 20m line
Odysseus
It happens, Eldred Henry was under 18m last season and just popped 20m a few weeks ago, but it's unlikely. It happens when you have that 'Ah-ha!' moment in training and you realize you can replicate in the meet. When I jumped about 1.3m from my previous PR in 2013, yeah, lol, it'll make you feel 10feet tall.
Dylan Wilson
What is happening with Thomas Schmitt? I have not heard anything anymore. Does anyone have updates for me?
Pauline Pauwels
Maybe he is injured? Can @Florian van Dijck tell us more?
Florian van Dijck
Sure I can.
As far as I know he has some troubles getting close to even 18m right now. All past competitions ( I guess 4-5 of them) were even below 18...
I'm not sure what the reason is but something seems to be off
Dylan Wilson
That's a pity. It would have been great to have another shot putter next to Storl from Germany