Sören Klose
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| Nationality | German | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (2002-06-14) 14 June 2002 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Hammer throw | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | Hammer: 77.49m (2024) | ||||||||||||||
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Sören Klose (born 14 June 2002) is a German hammer thrower. He won the German Athletics Championships in 2023 and 2024. He competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships and the 2024 Olympic Games.[1]
Career
He is a member of Eintracht Frankfurt athletics club. He is coached by Helge Zöllkau.[2] He was a bronze medalist at the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo, Finland in the hammer throw, finishing behind compatriot Merlin Hummel, who won the silver medal, and Ukrainian Mykhaylo Kokhan.[3][4]
He became senior national champion at the German Athletics Championships for the first time in July 2023.[5] He competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in the hammer throw where he threw 72.23 metres but did not proceed to the final.[6]
He set a new personal best of 77.49 metres, achieving a throw over 77 metres for the first time, at the International Sparkasse Hammer Throw Meeting in Fränkisch-Crumbach in May 2024.[7] He competed in the 2024 European Championships in Rome in the hammer throw, throwing 72.96 metres without reaching the final.[8] He retained his German national title in June 2024.[9] He competed in the hammer throw at the 2024 Paris Olympics where he threw 71.20 metres but did not progress through to the final.[10][11]
Personal life
He is from near Porta Westfalica in the district of Minden-Lübbecke, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is from a family of hammer throwers. His father Holger Klose took part in World and European championships in the 1990s and 2000s and his mother Kirsten Münchow won bronze at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.[12] He is good friends with fellow German athlete and hammer thrower Merlin Hummel.[2]
References
- ^"Sören Klose". World Athletics. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
- ^ ab"Merlin Hummel & Sören Klose: Competition stimulates business". Leichtathletik.de. 5 March 2024. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
- ^"European Athletics U23 Championships". World Athletics. 12 July 2023. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
- ^"Kulmbacher steht vor dem Aus und behält die Nerven". Fraenkischertag.de. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
- ^"German Championships". World Athletics. 6 July 2023. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
- ^"Men's hammer throw". World Athletics. 20 August 2023. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
- ^"Erster Wurf über 77 Meter: Sören Klose weiter im Aufwind". Leichtathletik. 19 May 2024. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
- ^"Men Hammer Throw Results - European Athletics Championships 2024". Watch Athletics. 7 June 2024. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
- ^"Klose and the big hit". faz.net. 1 July 2024. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
- ^"Men's Hammer Throw Results - Paris Olympic Games 2024 Athletics". World Athletics. 2 August 2024. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
- ^"Jubel nach engem Finish - Farken erreicht 1500-m-Halbfinale". sportchau.de. 2 August 2024. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
- ^"Sören Klose from Porta Westfalica and Kristin Pudenz from Löhne start today at Olympia". Radiowestfalica.de. 2 August 2024. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
