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Nationality | German | ||||||||
Born | 25 April 2000 | ||||||||
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Sport | Track and Field | ||||||||
Event | long jump | ||||||||
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Lea-Jasmin Riecke (born 25 April 2000) is a German athlete who won the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships in the long jump. [1]
Lea-Jasmin Riecke won the silver medal at the German Youth All-Around Championships in Lage in 2015 . She won gold in the 4 x 200m relay at the German Youth Indoor Championships in Dortmund in 2016 and took part in the 2016 European Youth Championships in Tbilisi. [2]
In 2017 she became German U18 long jump champion at the German Youth Championships in Ulm with a distance of 6.19m. She then won the gold medal in the long jump at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships in Tampere with a personal best 6.51m. [3] At the German Youth Championships in 2018 in Rostock she gained gold medals in the long jump with 6.34m jump and in the 4x100m relay from. That year the German Sports Foundation nominated for the Junior Sportswoman of the Year. [4]
At the German Youth Championships 2019 in Ulm, she won the gold medal with 6.43m jump. Then she won the bronze medal at the German Championships in Berlin. [5]
After missing huge chunks of competition time in 2021 Riecke claimed third place at the German indoor championships long jump competition in Leipzig in February 2022, jumping 6.26m to finish behind Merle Homeier and long jump Olympic champion Malaika Mihambo. [6] [7]
Bärbel Wöckel is a former East German sprinter. She never ran a world record in the individual disciplines. However, she ran several world records as part of relay teams with Doris Maletzki, Renate Stecher and Christina Heinich over 4 x 100 meters, the last time on September 8, 1974, in Rome. At the GDR Championships she took first place in the 4 x 100-meter relay in 1974, 1977, 1978, 1981 to 1984. In 1976 she won third place with the team.
Sabine John is a retired East German heptathlete. She broke the world record in 1984 with a score of 6946 points, and won silver medals at the 1983 World Championships, and the 1988 Olympic Games.
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Ivana Španović is a Serbian long jumper, the 2023 World champion, a two-time World indoor champion, a two-time European champion, a three-time European indoor champion and a five-time Diamond League Trophy Winner. Considering her achievements and longevity, Ivana Španović is regarded as one of the greatest female long jumpers of all time, with her indoor 7.24m jump ranked 3rd in all-time records.
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