Tim Lobinger (3 September 1972 – 16 February 2023) was a German pole vaulter.

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Tim Lobinger

Lobinger in 2007
Personal information
Nationality	German
Born	(1972-09-03)3 September 1972 Rheinbach, Germany
Died	16 February 2023(2023-02-16) (aged 50) Munich, Germany
Sport
Country	Germany
Sport	Athletics
Event	Pole vault
Achievements and titles
Personal best	Pole vault: 6.00 m (1997)
Medal record Men's Athletics Representing  Germany World Indoor Championships 2003 Birmingham Pole vault 2006 Moscow Pole vault European Championships 1998 Budapest Pole vault 2006 Gothenburg Pole vault 2002 Munich Pole vault European Indoor Championships 1998 Valencia Pole vault 2002 Vienna Pole vault 2005 Madrid Pole vault

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Lobinger's discipline was pole vault and he was an elite competitor from the 1990s. His best results came in 1997 and 1999 when he jumped over 6.00 meters.^[1][2] His best medals were silver at the 1998 European Athletics Championships and the 2006 European Athletics Championships. He won bronze at the 2002 European Championships in Athletics and the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships.

Success eluded him at the Olympics however. In Atlanta in 1996 he placed seventh. In Sydney in 2000 he achieved 13th, and in Athens in 2004, eleventh. At the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki he jumped over only 5.50 meters, well under his abilities.

Lobinger completed a decathlon in 1999 and cleared 5.76 m in the pole vault – a decathlon best for the ten-event contest.^[3]

Lobinger was married to triple jumper Petra Lobinger (née Laux) from 1994 to 2003. He was the father of two children with her, Fee (born 1995) and Tyger (born 1999), the latter of which plays as a professional footballer.^[4] He had another son, born in 2016, with Alina Lobinger (née Baumann) from whom he separated in 2017.

On March 3, 2017, Lobinger was diagnosed with multiple myeloma.^[5] He died from cancer on 16 February 2023, at the age of 50.^[6]

• Germany all-time top lists – Pole vault