Verena Mayr
Austrian athlete
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Birth name | Verena Preiner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1995-02-01) 1 February 1995 (age 29) Ebensee, Austria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Education | Johannes Kepler University Linz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Austria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Heptathlon, Pentathlon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Verena Mayr (née Preiner, born 1 February 1995[2]) is an Austrian athlete competing in the combined events. She won the bronze medal in the heptathlon at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. In 2017, Mayr took a silver in the heptathlon at the European Under-23 Championships and a gold at the Summer Universiade.
She represented Austria at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, placing eleventh in the heptathlon.[3] Mayr is the Austrian record holder in the event and won 11 national titles (mostly for the combined events).
Statistics
International competitions
Personal bests
- Heptathlon – 6591 pts (Ratingen 2019) NR
- 100 m hurdles – 13.25 s (+0.6 m/s, Doha 2019)
- High jump – 1.80 m (Ratingen 2019)
- Shot put – 15.07 m (Maria Enzersdorf 2020)
- 200 metres – 23.66 s (+0.2 m/s, St. Pölten 2016)
- Long jump – 6.36 m (+0.4 m/s, Doha 2019)
- Javelin throw – 49.58 m (Ratingen 2019)
- 800 metres – 2:07.74 min (Ratingen 2019)
- Indoors
- Pentathlon – 4637 pts (Glasgow 2019)
- 60 metres – 7.75 s (Linz 2018)
Circuit wins and titles, National titles
- IAAF Combined Events Challenge Overall winner: 2019
- 2019: Meeting Arona, Mehrkampf-Meeting (NR)
- Austrian Athletics Championships
- 400 m hurdles: 2016
- Shot put: 2020, 2021
- Heptathlon: 2014, 2015, 2016
- Austrian Indoor Athletics Championships
- Long jump: 2022
- Shot put: 2016
- Pentathlon: 2014, 2015, 2019
References
- ^ 2017 Universiade bio
- ^ "Verena MAYR – Athlete Profile". World Athletics. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
- ^ "Verena Preiner". Olympics.com. IOC. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Verena Mayr.
- Verena Mayr at World Athletics
- Verena Mayr at Olympedia
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(1965–1979)
- 1965: Tatyana Shchelkanova (URS)
- 1967: Liese Prokop (AUT)
- 1970: Tatyana Kondrashova (URS)
- 1973: Nadiya Tkachenko (URS)
- 1975: Jane Frederick (USA)
- 1977: Valentina Dimitrova (BUL)
- 1979: Yekaterina Smirnova (URS)
(1981–present)
- 1981: Małgorzata Guzowska (POL)
- 1983: Yekaterina Smirnova (URS)
- 1985: Małgorzata Guzowska (POL)
- 1987: Liliana Năstase (ROU)
- 1989: Larisa Nikitina (URS)
- 1991: Birgit Clarius (GER)
- 1993: Urszula Włodarczyk (POL)
- 1995: Jane Jamieson (AUS)
- 1997: Mona Steigauf (GER)
- 1999: Tiffany Lott (USA)
- 2001: Jane Jamieson (AUS)
- 2003: Kylie Wheeler (AUS)
- 2005: Lyudmyla Blonska (UKR)
- 2007: Viktorija Žemaitytė (LTU)
- 2009: Jessica Samuelsson (SWE)
- 2011: Olga Kurban (RUS)
- 2013: Laura Ikauniece (LAT)
- 2015: Anna Maiwald (GER)
- 2017: Verena Preiner (AUT)
- 2019: Miia Sillman (FIN)
- 2021: Isabel Posch (AUT)
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