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]
Personal life and death
Lobinger was married to triple jumperPetra 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]
