Verena Sailer
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Sailer at the 2013 World Championships
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Full name | Verena Sailer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Illertissen, West Germany |
16 October 1985 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Running | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 60 metres, 100 metres | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Verena Sailer (born 16 October 1985 in Illertissen) is a German sprinter, who specialises in the 100 metres. Her personal best time is 11.02 seconds, achieved in August 2013. She won the gold medal at the 2010 European Athletics Championships in Barcelona. She is a member of MTG Mannheim.
Sailer represented Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed in the 4 × 100 metres relay together with Anne Möllinger, Cathleen Tschirch and Marion Wagner. In their first round heat they placed third behind Jamaica and Russia and in front of China. Their time of 43.59 seconds was the eighth time overall out of sixteen participating nations. With this result they qualified for the final, in which they sprinted to a time of 43.28 seconds, which was the fifth place. At the 2009 IAAF World Championships in Berlin, she made it to the semifinal of the 100 m and ran 11.24 seconds. She was the fourth leg of the German 4 × 100 m squad, which secured the bronze medal in a season's best time of 42.87 seconds.[1]
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the individual 100 m as well as the 4 × 100 m.[2] Although she did not reach the individual final, the German team (Sailer, Leena Günther, Anne Cibis and Tatjana Pinto) did, finishing in 5th place.[3]
Achievements
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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2004 | World Junior Championships | Grosseto, Italy | 5th | 100 m | 11.49 (wind: +1.5 m/s) |
4th (h)† | 4 × 100 m relay | 44.58† | |||
2005 | European U23 Championships | Erfurt, Germany | 3rd | 100m | 11.53 (wind: +1.5 m/s) |
2nd | 4 × 100 m relay | 44.89 | |||
2007 | European U23 Championships | Debrecen, Hungary | 1st | 100m | 11.66 (wind: -2.0 m/s) |
2nd | 4 × 100 m relay | 43.75 | |||
World Championships | Osaka, Japan | 7th | 4 × 100 m relay | 43.51 | |
2009 | European Indoor Championships | Turin, Italy | 3rd | 60 m | 7.22 |
World Championships | Berlin, Germany | 3rd | 4 × 100 m relay | 42.87 | |
2010 | European Championships | Barcelona, Spain | 1st | 100 m | 11.10 (wind: -0.6 m/s) |
2012 | European Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 6th | 100 m | 11.42 (wind: -0.7 m/s) |
2015 | European Indoor Championships | Prague, Czech Republic | 3rd | 60 m | 7.09 |
World Championships | Beijing, China | 30th (h) | 100 m | 11.41 | |
5th | 4 × 100 m relay | 42.64 |
†: Disqualified in the final.
References
External links
- Verena Sailer profile at IAAF
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- IAAF ID different in Wikidata
- 1985 births
- Living people
- People from Illertissen
- German sprinters
- German national athletics champions
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of Germany
- World Championships in Athletics medalists
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- World Championships in Athletics athletes for Germany
- German athletics biography stubs