Daniel Jasinski (born 5 August 1989 in
Bochum
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) is a male
discus throw
The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disk (mathematics), disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than their competitors. It is an classical antiqui ...
er from
Germany
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. He won the
Olympic bronze medal in 2016. It was an unexpected first medal in a major championship.
Career
He competed at the
2015 World Championships in Beijing without qualifying for the final. In addition, he finished seventh at the
2014 European Championships in Zürich.
His father and coach Mirosław Jasiński, a former discus thrower himself, comes from
Bydgoszcz, Poland
Bydgoszcz ( , , ; german: Bromberg) is a city in northern Poland, straddling the meeting of the River Vistula with its left-bank tributary, the Brda. With a city population of 339,053 as of December 2021 and an urban agglomeration with more ...
.
His father had previously coached
Michael Möllenbeck
Michael Friedrich Möllenbeck (12 December 1969 – 2 November 2022) was a German discus thrower.
Möllenbeck's greatest achievements were two World Championship bronze medals, and his bronze at the 2005 World Championships was especially welc ...
and
Oliver-Sven Buder
Oliver-Sven Buder (born 23 June 1966 in Steinheidel-Erlabrunn, Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt) is a German track and field athlete, who in the 1990s belonged to the best shot-putters in the world. The high point of his career came at the World Champ ...
to world championship medals.
[
His personal best in the event is 67.16 metres set in ]Wiesbaden
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in 2016.
Competition record
See also
* Germany at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics
References
External links
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1989 births
Living people
German male discus throwers
Sportspeople from Bochum
World Athletics Championships athletes for Germany
German people of Polish descent
Ruhr University Bochum alumni
Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Germany
Olympic bronze medalists for Germany
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
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