The former German pole vaulter Tim Lobingerthe world indoor champion in 2003, died Thursday in Munich at the age of 50 as a result of cancer, the family reported in a statement sent to the media.
“The former pole vault legend sleeps peacefully in the closest circle. He did not lose his fight against cancer, he won in his own way,” the family said.
Lobinger, the first German pole vaulter to overcome the six-meter barrier, after jumping 6.00 on August 24, 1997 in Cologne, was declared European indoor champion a year later in Valencia.
An indoor continental title that the German repeated four years later, in 2002, in Vienna.
Although Tim Lobinger’s great international success came in 2003 when he was crowned indoor world champion in the British city of Birmingham.
An impressive track record to which should be added the two silver medals -1998 and 2006- and one bronze -2002- achieved by Lobinger at the outdoor Europeans, as well as the bronzes he achieved at the 2006 Moscow Indoor World Championships and at the Indoor Europeans in Madrid 2005.
Lobinger, who fell ill in 2017, recounted his battle with cancer in the book “Losing is not an option. My fight against cancer.”
Source: La Verdad
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