David Storl

David Storl

Storl in 2015
Personal information
Nationality	German
Born	(1990-07-27) 27 July 1990 (age 34) Rochlitz, East Germany
Height	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)
Weight	117 kg (258 lb)
Sport
Country	Germany
Sport	Track and field
Event	Shot put
Club	SC DHfK Leipzig
Coached by	Sven Lang
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	22.20 m 22.73 m (6 kg)
Medal record Men's athletics Representing  Germany Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 0 1 0 World Championships 2 1 0 World Indoor Championships 0 3 0 European Championships 3 0 0 European Indoor Championships 1 2 1 Continental Cup 1 0 0 Junior / Youth Championships 4 0 0 Total 15 6 1 Olympic Games 2012 London Shot put World Championships 2011 Daegu Shot put 2013 Moscow Shot put 2015 Beijing Shot put World Indoor Championships 2012 Istanbul Shot put 2014 Sopot Shot put 2018 Birmingham Shot put European Championships 2012 Helsinki Shot put 2014 Zürich Shot put 2016 Amsterdam Shot put European Indoor Championships 2015 Prague Shot put 2011 Paris Shot put 2019 Glasgow Shot put 2017 Belgrade Shot put Continental Cup 2014 Marrakech Shot put World Junior Championships 2008 Bydgoszcz Shot put World Youth Championships 2007 Ostrava Shot put European U23 Championships 2011 Ostrava Shot put European Junior Championships 2009 Novi Sad Shot put

David Storl (born 27 July 1990) is a German track and field athlete who specialises in the shot put. He was successful on the youth and junior athletics circuit, winning gold medals at the World Youth Championships and World Junior Championships. Storl won his first senior medal, a silver, at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships.

He held the world junior record of 22.73 m with the 6 kg shot. His personal best with the senior implement is 22.20 m.

He won the gold medal in the shot put competition at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, and the Silver Medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Storl is one of only eleven athletes (along with Valerie Adams, Usain Bolt, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Armand Duplantis, Jacques Freitag, Yelena Isinbayeva, Kirani James, Faith Kipyegon, Jana Pittman, and Dani Samuels) to win world championships at the youth, junior, and senior level of an athletic event.

Storl uses the glide technique for shot putting.^{[citation needed]}