The US-American Marian Connelly throws in 1914 as the First of the Discus 16,64 meters. Today, the Best four Times so far. Also Claudine Vita, which goes for Germany at the Start.
Calm the Discus is in her right Hand. With the Arm swings. Once. Twice. Lightning quickly turns in the Ring, jumps on the other leg. Then the powerful drop. Far the flat discus disc flies and hits only about 60 meters away on the grass. This is repeated a few times. At first glance, a monotonous Training. For Claudine Vita is not a Problem. She loves to throw the discus. “Me, the complicated sequence of movements fascinated in the Ring. Many of the components have to reach for a successful throw together”, Germany’s best discus thrower this season. “It’s a great feeling, after looking disc, if you fly away.”
This morning she bumped her trainer, Astrid Kumbernuss, once Olympic champion and world champion in the ball, alone on the throwing system in the Federal performance centre Kienbaum, East of Berlin. These are the last days before the European championship, which this year is part of the European Championships. Now is the time to get stability in the complicated sequence of movements. And also to raise self-esteem, as the trainer says.
Enormous increase in performance this year
With your 1,79 meters Claudine Vita is a tall, young woman. As a discus thrower, it is rather small. Team-mate Nadine Müller, for example, measures of 1.96 meters. The missing inches but not as a disadvantage. “I have quite long arms, so a good leverage effect,” she told DW. “Besides, I’m a “Little” more nimble and can turn faster than the Larger ones.” Their performance in the last few years supports this Thesis.
Claudine Vita counts as one of the European hopes of the German team
Now the 21-Year-old from Neubrandenburg, is facing its first major championship in the senior area. The year 2018 is over for Vita so far, extremely well. In may, they set 65,15 meters, a new personal best. It improved year-on-year to 70 centimeters. At the Athletics World Cup in London, she won against international competition, the gold medal.
It seems that the Vita could build on their successful years in the Junior area. Since they won the title at the U-20 and U-23 CHAMPIONSHIPS. “In the juniors, the pressure for me was enormous. Now the power density is much greater,” she said. “There is an error and it is quickly the very back of the field.” So a bitter experience you had to make this year at the Diamond Meeting in Rome, where she was eliminated already In the preliminaries after only three throws.
From the home for asylum seekers in the world’s top
Vita can tell an unusual life history. She was born in Frankfurt-on-Oder, a town on the border with Poland. Her parents had fled at the beginning of the 1990s, prior to the civil war in Angola. She and her five siblings grew up in a home for asylum seekers. It was not an easy time. In the meantime, the Integration is managed. The family lives in Berlin. Vitas father works as a mathematics teacher. All the children have made the Abitur. Four study.
Vita feels in Germany
The allegations of the footballer Mesut Özil, that in Germany there is an increasingly racist discrimination, has registered Vita. Can’t confirm that. “Of course, there were occasionally funny looks because of my skin color,” she says with a straight face. “However, I have enough friends where I feel in good hands. Since the skin color plays no role at all.”
With hopes for EM
On the European championship in Berlin Vita is happy. You know that you will be cheered on by the audience. The Croatian Sandra Perkovic is the big favourite. The exceptional athlete was Olympic champion, world champion and four times European champion. Behind it all seems to be possible. “Silver-up to seventh place, everything is in there,” says the young Athlete. “I would like to especially enjoy the atmosphere and a good performance. Everything else can be found,” she says and goes back into the casting ring to throw the next disk.