1. Robert Harting represents the sports club SCC Berlin, his coach is Torsten Schmidt.
11 Facts About Robert Harting
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Robert Harting is a former Olympic, World, and European champion in the men's discus throw.
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Robert Harting won a silver medal at the 2001 World Youth Championships.
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Robert Harting was less successful at subsequent championships and finished in eighth in the qualifiers 2002 World Junior Championships.
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Robert Harting took the gold medal at the 2005 European Athletics U23 Championships.
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Robert Harting began competing at the senior level soon after and took part in the 2006 European Championships, where he just missed the qualifying mark in the earlier round of the competition.
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Robert Harting was fourth at the 2007 IAAF World Athletics Final and then was second at the European Winter Throwing Cup the following year.
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Robert Harting closed the season with a bronze medal at the 2008 IAAF World Athletics Final.
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At the Berlin 2009 World Championships, Harting was sitting in the silver medal position coming into the 6th round of the final, he then threw a personal best of 69.43 metres to gain the lead and ultimately win the gold medal.
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Robert Harting won his third straight world championship title at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow.
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Robert Harting is known for exuberant victory celebrations, including ripping the shirt off his chest, running with a German flag over the hurdles from the hurdles race, placing mascots on his shoulders and jogging on the track.