Verena Mayr
Appearance
![]() Preiner in 2018 | |
Personal information | |
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Birth name | Verena Preiner |
Born | Ebensee, Austria | 1 February 1995
Education | Johannes Kepler University Linz |
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)[1] |
Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) |
Sport | |
Country | Austria |
Sport | Athletics |
Event(s) | Heptathlon, Pentathlon |
Medal record |
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
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International competitions
[edit]Personal bests
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ 2017 Universiade bio
- ^ "Verena MAYR – Athlete Profile". World Athletics. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
- ^ "Verena Preiner". Olympics.com. IOC. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
External links
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- 1995 births
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- Austrian heptathletes
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for Austria
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 European Games
- European Games gold medalists for Austria
- European Games medalists in athletics
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Austria
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Austria
- People from Gmunden District
- Sportspeople from Upper Austria
- 21st-century Austrian women
- 21st-century Austrian people
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