Verena Sailer

Verena Sailer
	Sailer at the 2013 World Championships
Personal information
Full name	Verena Sailer
Born	16 October 1985; Illertissen, West Germany
Height	1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Sport
Country	Germany
Sport	Running
Event(s)	60 metres, 100 metres
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	100m: 11.02 s (Weinheim; August 2013);
Women's athletics
Representing Germany
World Championships
European Championships
European Indoor Championships
European U23 Championships

Verena Sailer (born 16 October 1985 in Illertissen) is a retired German sprinter, who specialised 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. During her sporting career she was 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

Sailer after her win at the 2010 European Championships

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Germany
2004	World Junior Championships	Grosseto, Italy	5th	100 m	11.49 (wind: +1.5 m/s)
2004	World Junior Championships	Grosseto, Italy	4th (h)^†	4 × 100 m relay	44.58^†
2005	European U23 Championships	Erfurt, Germany	3rd	100m	11.53 (wind: +1.5 m/s)
2005	European U23 Championships	Erfurt, Germany	2nd	4 × 100 m relay	44.89
2007	European U23 Championships	Debrecen, Hungary	1st	100m	11.66 (wind: -2.0 m/s)
	European U23 Championships	Debrecen, Hungary	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
2009	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
	World Championships	Beijing, China	5th	4 × 100 m relay	42.64

^†: Disqualified in the final.

References

Schwankhart, Anton (23 August 2009). "Allgäuerin Verena Sailer spurtet zu Bronze". Augsburger Allgemeine (in German). Archived from the original on 24 May 2012. Retrieved 22 July 2010.
"Verena Sailer Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
"LONDON 2012 - ATHLETICS - 4 X 100M RELAY WOMEN - FINAL". www.olympic.org. IOC. Retrieved 3 January 2016.

External links

Verena Sailer at World Athletics

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[AA-1] Schwankhart, Anton (23 August 2009). "Allgäuerin Verena Sailer spurtet zu Bronze". Augsburger Allgemeine (in German). Archived from the original on 24 May 2012. Retrieved 22 July 2010.

[2] "Verena Sailer Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2016-01-03.

[3] "LONDON 2012 - ATHLETICS - 4 X 100M RELAY WOMEN - FINAL". www.olympic.org. IOC. Retrieved 3 January 2016.