Anna Katharina Schmid

Anna Katharina Schmid (born 2 December 1989) is a Swiss pole vaulter. In 2007, she won at the IAAF Junior European Championships in Hengelo the bronze medal and qualified for the World Athletics Championships in Osaka. In the same year she was elected to Swiss athletics Newcomer of the Year and is a Swiss Athletics Youngster of the Year 2007.

The following year she was struggling with health problems. End of October 2008 it declared at the age of just 19 years of her retirement from professional racing with the words: " The track is one on my future path no longer causes ". But in June 2010 they were at the Swiss meeting in Geneva their comeback at the European Team Championship ( Second League) in Belgrade the same month they managed to qualify for the European Athletics Championships, where she failed to qualify for the final. At the U23 European Athletics Championships 2011, she missed the medals in fourth only just a few days later, she managed the limits for the World Athletics Championships in 2011.

Before Schmid joined the Athletics in the summer of 2004, she was active in gymnastics. Schmid studied medicine and resides in the District Konolfingen. It started before her resignation for the LV Thun, after her comeback for the ST Bern.

Achievements

  • 2006: Swiss U18 champion
  • 2007: Swiss champion; 3rd place Junior European Championships; First rank second division European Cup
  • 2010: Swiss champion; Final European Athletics Championships
  • 2011: Swiss champion; 4th place U23 European Athletics Championships; 17th place World Championships in Athletics

Personal Best

  • Pole Vault: 4,45 m, August 5, 2011 in Basel, Switzerland U23 record Pole Vault: 4.30m, July 14, 2007 in Freiburg, Swiss junior record
December 2 2007 World Championships in Athletics 2010 European Athletics Championships 2011 European Athletics U23 Championships
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