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Key facts
- Nickname
- Shaggy
- Nationality
- German
- Born
- ( 1984-10-18 ) 18 October 1984 (age 41) , Cottbus , East Germany
- Years active
- 2001–2018
- Height
- 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)
- Weight
- 126 kg (278 lb)
- Country
- Germany
- Sport
- Track and field
- Event
- Discus throw
- Club
- SCC Berlin
- Coached by
- Torsten Schmidt
- Personal best
- 70.66 m
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Robert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- German Democratic Republic
- Place of birth
- Cottbus
- Spouse
- Julia Harting
- Sibling
- Christoph Harting
- Languages spoken
- German
- Participant in
- athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- athletics
- Member of team
- SCC Berlin
- Country for sport
- Germany
- Mass
- 130
- Official website
- www.derharting.de
- Image
- ISTAF Berlin 2012 - Robert Harting, Sieger Diskuswerfen (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 201
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- Commons category
- Robert Harting
- date of birth
- 1984-10-18
- sports discipline competed in
- discus throw
- name in native language
- Robert Harting
- start of work period
- 2001-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Robert Harting ( German pronunciation: [ˈʁoːbɛʁt ˈhaʁtɪŋ] ; born 18 October 1984) is a retired German discus thrower. He represents the sports club SCC Berlin, his coach is Torsten Schmidt. He is a former Olympic, World, and European champion in the men's discus throw. His younger brother Christoph is the event's 2016 Olympic champion.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Robert Harting” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.