Nina Eim

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Nina Eim
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Personal information
NationalityGerman
Born (1998-08-01) 1 August 1998 (age 26) [1]
Sport
Sport Athletics, Triathlon
Event Cross country running
Medal record
Representing Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
World Triathlon Mixed Relay Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2019 Hamburg Mixed relay
Europe Triathlon Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2022 Munich Mixed Relay
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2019 Weert Mixed Relay

Nina Eim (born 1 August 1998) is a German triathlete.

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Career

In 2015, at the age of 17 years-old, she won a junior European Cup race in Tulcea, Romania. In 2017, in Kitzbühel she ran as part the German junior mixed-relay squad that finish third at the junior European Championship. She gained her first win at the elite level at the ATU sprint African Cup in Yasmine Hammamet in 2018. That year, she finished in third place in the European Cup sprint race in Olsztyn, Poland and finished third in Weert, Netherlands over the Olympic distance. [2]

Eim won a first global medal (bronze) at the World University Triathlon Championships in Kalmar, Sweden in September 2018. [3] In February 2019, she retained her ATU sprint African Cup title in Zimbabwe. [4]

She was part of the German team that won silver medals at the 2019 European Triathlon Championships in Weert in June 2019, [5] and at the 2019 Triathlon Mixed Relay World Championships in July 2019 in Hamburg. [6]

In 2022, she won the Europe Triathlon Sprint Championships in Olsztyn. [7] [8] Later that year, she finished fourth in the Individual event and won silver in the mixed relay at the 2022 European Triathlon Championships in Munich. [9] [10]

In October 2023, she won the inaugural Rome World Cup. [11] She gained qualification for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris by finishing sixth in the test event on the course. [12] At the Games themselves, she finished in twelfth place in the individual event, held on 31 July 2024. [13]

Personal life

She is from Itzehoe in Schleswig-Holstein. [14]

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