Vanessa Grimm (athlete)

Vanessa Grimm

Vanessa Grimm in 2023
Personal information
Nationality	German
Born	(1997-04-22) 22 April 1997 (age 28)
Sport
Sport	Track and Field
Event	Heptathlon
Achievements and titles
Personal best	Heptathlon: 6323 (Götzis 2022)

Vanessa Grimm (born 22 April 1997) is a German multi-event athlete. She competed in the heptathlon at the 2023 World Athletics Championships and the 2020 Olympic Games, and in the pentathlon at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships. ^[1]

Career

Grimm won the German national indoor pentathlon title in Leverkusen in February 2020. ^{[2] [3]} Grimm recorded a personal best heptathlon score of 6316 on 30 May 2021 at the Mösle-Stadium, Götzis, Austria. ^[4] She also competed in the heptathlon at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo in 2021. ^[5]

She recorded a third place finish at the Hypo-Meeting in Götzis in May 2022 with 6,323 points. However, she missed a lot of competitive action in 2022, including a home European Championships and the 2022 World Championships, due to a cruciate ligament tear in her knee which occurred in June of that year. She returned to action in early 2023 during the indoor season after opting not to have surgery on her knee. ^[6] Selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, she finished in 14th place overall. ^[7]

Competing in Tallinn in February 2024, she set a new personal best for the pentathlon of 4494 points. It was her first indoor competition for three years. ^[8] Competing in Götzis in May 2024, she scored 6,307 points for the heptathlon. The following month at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, she placed eleventh overall in the Women's heptathlon with 6036 points. ^[9]

She was selected for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing in March 2025, where she placed fourth overall in the pentathlon. ^{[10] [11]}

She was selected for the German team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. ^[12]

Personal life

From Hofgeismar in Northern Hesse, Grimm moved to Frankfurt in 2015 to pursue athletics. She is a member of Königsteiner LV. She also works as a police officer in Frankfurt. ^{[13] [14]}

References

1. "Vanessa Grimm". World Athletics. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
2. Storm, Katja (28 January 2022). "The Rise of Vanessa Grimm". faz.net. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
3. Koken, Harold (February 2, 2020). "Vanessa Grimm wins the pentathlon title with a house record". Leichtathletik.de. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
4. Remsperger, Thorsten (1 June 2021). "Vanessa Grimm becomes a candidate for the Olympics". fnp.de. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
5. "Vanessa Grimm". Olympics.com. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
6. Scholz, Martin (21 January 2023). "Vanessa Grimm starts the World Cup year with optimism". hna.de. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
7. "Women's Heptathlon Results: World Athletics Championships 2023". Watch Athletics. 20 August 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
8. "Vanessa Grimm with house record on the podium". Leichtathletik.de. 4 February 2024. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
9. "European Championship Day 1 and 2 - Championship record by Thiam, Vanessa Grimm in eleventh place". leichtathletik.de. 8 June 2024. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
10. "Acht DLV-Athlet:innen reisen zur Hallen-WM nach Nanjing". Leichtathletik.de. 12 March 2025. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
11. "Vanninen takes convincing pentathlon win in Nanjing". 1News. 21 March 2025. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
12. "76 für Tokio: Das deutsche WM-Team steht". Leichtathletik.de. 29 August 2025. Retrieved 29 August 2025.
13. Reichert, Sebastian (5 May 2020). "Vanessa Grimm: Not just training with car tires". hna.de. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
14. Remsperger, Thorsten (1 June 2022). "Vanessa Grimm's record is a special story". fnp.de. Retrieved 9 April 2025.