Career
His current personal best is 5.93 metres, but through his indoor best performance of 6.00 metres he has a place in the so-called 6 metres club 5.93 ranks him fourth among German pole vaulters, behind Tim Lobinger, Andrei Tivontchik and Michael Stolle. At the Olympic Games he finished eighth in 2000 and fifth in 2004.
His team is Bayer 04 Leverkusen.
Danny Ecker married in 2006. He has one daughter. He stated that he would retire from competition at the end of the 2012 season after he missed the German Championships (and qualification for the European Championships and Olympic Games) due to an injury.