Verena Sailer

Verena Sailer (born 16 October 1985 in Illertissen ) is a German sprinter. In 2010 she won at the European Athletics Championships in Barcelona gold in the 100 -meter run.

Sporting career

Sailer began in 1997 as a twelve- year-old student at the sports club Vöhringen with athletics. In 2003, she became German Junior Champion, 2004 and 2005 German junior champion. In 2003, she finished sixth at the Junior European Championships, the 2004 fifth place at the Junior World Championships. In 2005, she won at the U23 European Championships bronze in the 100 - meter race and silver in the 4 x 100 - meter relay. 2006 and 2007, they were each German champion in the 100 meters outdoors and vice- champion in the 60 meters in the hall. 2006 they also launched at the European Championships in Gothenburg, where she reached the semifinals. The U23 European Championships in 2007, she finished with gold in the 100 - meter race and silver in the relay.

Sailer also appeared at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka in singles and reached the intermediate run. With the German squadron took part in the finals and placed seventh in 43.51 s 2008, she was German champion in the indoor 60 meters and took outdoors the third national title in a row over 100 meters. They also improved in this discipline on July 5 in Nuremberg her personal best to 11.28 s at the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, it reached the 4 x 100 - meter relay in the final of the 5th Place.

In 2009 she won the European Indoor Championships in Turin on 60 meters the bronze medal with a time of 7.22 s in the outdoor season, she was in Ulm 2009 German champion in the 100 meters with a new personal best of 11.18 s at the World Championships 2009 in Berlin Sailer won the anchor leg of the 4 x 100 - meter relay bronze medal. So it was in this year, the fastest European and the fastest white woman in the world on short-haul routes.

2010 Sailer was in Braunschweig for the fifth consecutive time German champion. With the fastest lead time of 11.27 s at 100 meters, she reached the semifinals of the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona. In the semifinals, she qualified with the fastest time, 11.06 s, but with a bit too strong tailwind, for the final. There she won the gold medal in a time of 11.10 s to win a medal with the 4 x 100 meters relay she missed after a change error with Anne Möllinger in the flow. Because of complaints with the Achilles tendon Sailer ended prematurely the 2011 season in order not to jeopardize their participation in the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

In June 2012, they met in Mannheim, the standard for the Olympic Games and was a week later in Bochum- with 11.22 s for the sixth time German champion. At the European Championships 2012 in Helsinki she reached the finals of the 100 meters with a time of 11.42 discipline see the 6th Place. Then she led the German 4 x 100 - meter relay at Leena Gunther, Anne Cibis and Tatjana Pinto on the anchor leg to win the title. In their last competition before the Olympics she put in Weinheim with 11.05 s, a new personal best. With a time of 11.12 s, she reached the semifinals in the 100 -meter run at the Summer Olympic Games in London. With the 4 x 100 - meter relay team, which took the same cast as the verge at the European Championships, she reached the finals, finishing in 42.67 s 5th place

2013 Sailer was the fifth time German champion in the hall 60 meters. A week later she improved at the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg her personal best to 7.12 s and finished eighth. In Ulm, she was a second time German champion in 11.09 s. Shortly before the World Championships in Moscow, she presented at the Weinheimer meeting with 11.02 s, a new personal best, before they even reached the semifinals at the World Cup.

Verena Sailer is 1.66 m tall and weighs 57 kg. She launched by the end of 2008 for the LAC Quelle Fürth. She then moved with her coach Valerji Bauer for MTG Mannheim. In 2009, she studied sports management at the College of Applied Management in Erding.

Personal best

Power development

Previous clubs

  • TSV 1862 Illertissen
  • SC Vöhringen
  • TV Kempten 1856
  • TSV 1860 Munich ( in the Start Community LAC Quelle Fürth / Munich 1860)
  • MTG Mannheim

Awards and honors

  • Sportswoman of the year 2009, the city of Kempten (Allgäu )
  • 2010: Bambi in the category Sports together with Verena Bentele
  • Place three German Sportswoman of the Year 2010
  • Sportswoman of the years 2010 and 2013 the City of Mannheim
  • Athlete of 2010
2009 World Championships in Athletics 4 × 100 metres relay 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships 60 metres 2010 European Athletics Championships October 16 2006 European Athletics Championships 2007 European Athletics U23 Championships 2007 World Championships in Athletics 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships 2013 German Athletics Championships 2013 World Championships in Athletics Bambi Award Augsburger Allgemeine Heather Armitage Dorothy Hyman Petra Kandarr Katrin Krabbe Irina Privalova Christine Arron Kim Gevaert
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