Larger, with longer arms: Christopher Harting burdened his knee less than Robert
Christopher Harting has no website and no Facebook profile. What he wants to tell, he carries on the skin above his powerful right chest muscle. “A tattoo is the mirror of the soul,” he says. And so his soul is reflected in the form of English words in capitals below his shoulder, ten are black tattooed and four red: pain, faith, hate, love. One likes to believe him that pain is one of the strongest feelings of his life, after all, he’s discus thrower and has a lot to work out in the weight room. Hate and love, all right. Faith? “Or trust,” he says. What is the core of the tattoos, he says, that knows only its owner. And silent.
Author: Michael Reinsch, a correspondent for Sport in Berlin
Christopher Harting is the red-haired brother discus gold medalist Robert Harting. He is with his 25 years the little brother, six years younger than the big brother. But he is 2.07 meters six centimeters longer and with 120 kilos twelve pounds lighter than Robert. One can not him Harting II. Call, because he has not replaced I. Harting. You can tell him that he is upside down with joy the established order – like the hierarchy in his sport. Robert, the king of the discus throwing, missing this season. Since it is to Christoph, to defend the honor of Harting. “The Klitschkos in the discus ring” wrote the journal Athletics in June.
Only 64.06 meters
In May Christoph Harting has made a breakthrough when he excelled 67 meters in two competitions. With 67.93 meters he is still the number three of the leaderboard of the year. When he was in Nuremberg German champion in July and cheering him his brother from the stands, the two-kilogram wheel flew only 64.06 meters.
© dpa Harting Facebook page is his chest: “A tattoo is the mirror of the soul”
Harting Facebook page is his chest: “A tattoo is the mirror of the soul “
Robert Harting, the Olympic champion in London 2012, World Champion of Berlin, Daegu and Moscow with a personal best of 70.66 meters and the habit of tearing the national jersey on his broad chest, holding his brother for even better equipped for the discus throw as himself: “. It is larger and has longer arms” Where Robert ruined the knee with a Stemmschritt, Christoph jumps when dropping off and gives his throwing an incredible explosiveness
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“Robert is uncompromising, cold. Everything has to work the way he wants to, and if it does not, then he makes all fire “, Christoph characterized in a double interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung even his brother. Conversely, it sounded like this: “I think that he is quite powerful in the head. I’m more impulsive and get upset about injustice. He is clever and smart, he thinks a lot. “
Since the fifteen-year-old Robert Christopher from Cottbus took to the elite school of the sport to Berlin, they train together. The weeks before the World Cup they spent together in Kienbaum near Berlin. “I admire him in training,” said the big brother who recovered from a torn ligament in his knee. “He’s really what it be jealous for.” The title is not the job for Christoph, but: Most Piotr Malachowski would fret that his three silver medals – London 2012 “I hope he can annoy some people.” , of Daegu in 2011 and Moscow in 2013 – behind a Harting won. Now even from the other to be defeated, would be terrible for him. But as years Best with 68.29 meters, it seems out of reach.
© dpa The Harting-brothers (left Christoph, right Robert) at the World Championships in Moscow two years ago
The Harting-brothers (left Christoph, right Robert) at the World Championships in Moscow two years ago
Except, of course, the dream of Christopher Harting met on Saturday in Beijing abruptly. “Eighty meters” asserts this, that was his sporting goal. Probably correlates the statement with the word Insanity on his chest, madness. Further than 74.08 meters has ever never thrown anyone in the history of the discus; the world record of the current national coach Jürgen Schult 2016 thirty years old. The next him Virgilius Alekna came with 73.88 meters and fifteen years ago Gerd Kanter, who for many years the “Project 75″ operation, with half a meter less nine years ago. Only 22 athletes have ever thrown the discus further than two hundred feet. Since Christopher Harting will thus need to find a beautiful meadow with very Helpful rich wind. No, he replied that he would be so strong that it will provide the power in a normal competition.
Ever seems length his obsession. A further union is more important than the victory, he asserts; quite possible that he was angry when he would gain a bad competition, even if it were the World Cup. “If I were champion with only 64 meters I would be disappointed.”
“Insane?”
Keyword Insanity. “Insane? Yes, I am very kind, “Christopher Harting said when he recently joined the Berlin tabloid BZ his tattoo explained. “That is that I do not want to let the young cast.”
This is a nice contrast to the athlete who has signed as a police sergeant a contract with the Minister of the Interior, in which he undertakes to reach the World Cup final. But nothing is that seems to be the motto of Christoph Harting, as bad as it looks. On the subject of the recent weeks, the doping cases, doping revelations and doping suspicions he says calmly: “Doping is, so long as there is the sport of athletics, his theme.” For him personally irrelevant. “I am training and I work clean,” he says emphatically. “More I can not do.”
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