Tim Lobinger

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Tim Lobinger in a promotional video

Medal record
EAA European Championships
Silver	1998 Budapest	Pole Vault
Bronze	2002 Munich	Pole Vault
Silver	2006 Gothenburg	Pole Vault

Tim Lobinger (born September 3, 1972 in Rheinbach, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German track and field athlete.

His discipline is pole vault and he has been an elite competitor since the 1990s. His best results came in 1997 and 1999 when he jumped over 6.00 meters. His best medals so far have been silver at the 1998 European Athletics Championships and the 2006 European Athletics Championships. He has also won bronze at the 2002 European Championships in Athletics and the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships.

Success has eluded him at the Olympics however. In Atlanta in 1996 he placed 7th. In Sydney in 2000 he achieved 13th, and in Athens in 2004, 11th. At the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki he jumped over only 5.50 meters, well under his abilities.

In 2003 he courted controversy when he bared his backside at the crowd after winning the World Athletics Final in Monaco. The IAAF withheld US$5,000 of his winnings as punishment.

He currently has a sponsorship with the sportswear manufacturer Puma.

Tim Lobinger is married to triple jumper Petra Lobinger although they are now separated. He is the father of two children Kendra (born 1995) and Lex (born 1998). He is now partnered to journalist Alina Baumann. His critics say that he never wins the important world events, rather that he is concerned with other things. He has been described as the "Anna Kournikova of pole-vaulting."^{[citation needed]}