Leena Günther
Leena Günther ( born April 16, 1991 in Cologne ) is a German track and field athlete. It was 2012 European Champion with the German 4 x 100 - meter relay.
Life
It operates since 2002 Athletics. The sprinter starts for the LT DSHS Cologne. Günther in 2008 German Youth B champion in the 100 meters and 2010 German youth champion in the 100 meters, 200 meters and the 4 x 100 - meter relay team of the LT DSHS Cologne. They thus became the most successful athlete of the championships. 2011 Gunther was German junior champion over 100 meters and the 4 x 100 - meter relay. At her first start in the active class in 2011, she was second over 60 meters in the hall and in the same year about 100 meters outdoors.
International won the silver medal with the German Günther Season 4 x 100 - meter at the U20 European Championships 2009 in Novi Sad and at the U20 World Championships 2010 in Moncton / Canada. In individual she became vice European U23 Champion 2011 for the 2011 World Championships in Daegu she was by the DLV for the season and -. Nominated for a single start over 100 meters - the only German sprinter next to Yasmin Kwadwo.
Your biggest success so far Günther celebrated at the European Championships 2012 in Helsinki, as they with the German 4 x 100 - meter relay to Anne Cibis, Tatjana Pinto and Verena Sailer European champion was as first leg. In the same cast, the squadron reached at the Olympic Games in London in fifth place.
Günther began after graduating from the Cologne Apostle School to study medicine.