Clemens Prüfer
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| Born | 13 August 1997 Potsdam, Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Discus throw | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Clemens Prüfer (born 13 August 1997) is a German athlete specialising in the discus throw. He competed at the 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games, placing sixth overall in Paris in 2024.[1]
Early and personal life
Clemens and his brother Henning Prüfer both compete in the discus throw and transferred together from Sportclub Neubrandenburg to SC Potsdam. He began studying business informatics at the University of Potsdam in October 2017.[2]
Career
In 2017, Prüfer not won the U23 German championships ahead of his brother Henninh, and finished in third place at the 2017 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland. His best distance with the two-kilogram men's discus improved in 2018 to 62.48 meters.[3] In July 2019, he was a silver medalist at the 2019 European Athletics U23 Championships in Gävle, Sweden.[4]
He represented Germany at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo 2021, where he finished 11th with a distance of 61.75 meters.[5][6]
At the German throwing cup in Brandenburg in May 2024, he threw a new personal best of 69.09 metres, the longest throw by a German athlete since 2013.[7] He was selected for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy, where he placed sixth overall with a throw of 64.60 metres.[8][9] He competed in the discus throw at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in August 2024, qualifying for the final and placing sixth overall with a best throw of 67.41 metres.[10]
He won the silver medal at the 2025 European Throwing Cup in Nicosia, Cyprus, behind compatriot Henrik Janssen, with a throw of 63.55 metres.[11] He threw 71.01 metres in Ramona, Oklahoma on 13 April 2025.[12]
References
- ^ Jan Henner Reitze (1 December 2020). "Clemens Prüfer – Langfristiger Karriereaufbau mit Geduld und Lockerheit". leichtathletik.de (in German). Retrieved 20 November 2022.
- ^ Peter Stein (23 January 2018). "Prüfer-Brüder von Uni Potsdam geehrt". Märkische Allgemeine (in German). Retrieved 20 November 2022.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Lewiswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "European U23 Championships". World Athletics. 11 July 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
- ^ "Athletics - PRUFER Clemens". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 30 July 2021. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
- ^ "Athletics - Final Results - Men's Discus Throw". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 31 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ^ "69,09 Meter: Clemens Prüfer auf Robert Hartings Spuren". leichtathletik.de. 22 May 2024. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
- ^ "Men Discus Throw Results - European Athletics Championships 2024". Watch Athletics. 7 June 2024. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
- ^ "DLV vergibt weitere EM-Startplätze für Rom an Normerfüller und Staffelmitglieder". Leichtathletikaccessdate=29 May 2024. 29 May 2024.
- ^ "Men's Discus Throw Results - Paris Olympic Games 2024 Athletics". Watch Athletics. 7 August 2024. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
- ^ "Pudenz and Janssen shine at German Winter Throwing Championships". European Athletics. 17 February 2025.
- ^ "Alekna shatters discus world record with 75.56m in Ramona". World Athletics. 13 April 2025. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
External links
- Clemens Prüfer at World Athletics
- Clemens Prüfer at Olympedia
- Clemens Prüfer at Olympics.com
- Clemens Prüfer at Team Deutschland (in German)