Anita Weyermann

Anita Weyermann
nation	Switzerland
birthday	8th December 1977 (age 42)
place of birth	Wynigen, Switzerland
job	Editor
Career
discipline	Long distance running
Best performance	3: 58.20 min (1500 m) 8: 35.83 min (3000 m)
End of career	2008
last change: September 11, 2018

Anita Weyermann (born December 8, 1977 in Wynigen ) is a former Swiss medium and long-distance runner .

Career

At the 1997 World Championships in Athens and at the 1998 European Championships in Budapest , she won the bronze medal in the 1,500-meter run . She is two-time junior world champion. She trained in the Gymnastics Society Bern (GGB), her father Fritz Weyermann was her trainer until 2000. Anita Weyermann was then looked after by various trainers, but her father Fritz Weyermann was still available to her.

After that, Weyermann struggled with injuries: several knee operations, a broken elbow while mountain biking , a fatigue fracture in the pelvis. After a torn muscle while preparing for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , she resigned from elite sport on March 5, 2008.

Anita Weyermann attended the Seidenberg secondary school in Gümligen with class teacher Ueli Nacht, coach of the Swiss national handball team. After graduating from high school, she studied at the University of Bern. She then completed an apprenticeship in sports marketing and finished her studies (Bachelor in Economics) at the Distance University in Hagen . From autumn 2008 she did an internship at Radio Berner Oberland ( Radio BeO ) and then became an editor there.

Weyermann is married. In 2011 she became the mother of a daughter; In 2013 she gave birth to triplets: two girls and a boy.

Awards

• The Swiss Sports Aid Foundation recognized Anita Weyermann as the young athlete of the year 1994.
• 1999 Swiss sportswoman of the year

Performance development

year	800 meters (in min)	1500 meters (in min)	3000 meters (in min)	5000 meters (in min)	10,000 meters (in min)
1993	-	4: 28.37	10: 08.62	-	-
1994	2: 05.14	4: 13.97	9: 19.25	-	-
1995	-	4: 15.53	9: 10.89	16: 01.72	-
1996	-	4: 03.45	8: 50.73	14: 59.28	-
1997	-	4: 04.70	8: 37.69	15: 06.97	-
1998	2: 02.73	3: 58.20	8: 54.97	15: 26.41	-
1999	-	3: 59.82	8: 35.83	15: 41.91	-
2000	-	4: 05.38	-	-	-
2001	-	4: 19.73	9: 42.01	-	-
2002	-	-	-	-	-
2003	-	4: 14.70	-	-	-
2004	-	-	-	-	-
2005	-	-	-	16: 57.99	-
2006	-	-	-	-	-
2007	-	-	-	-	-

successes

• 1994: Junior World Champion (1500 m)
• 1995: 2nd place European Athletics Junior Championships (3000 m)
• 1996: Junior World Champion (3000 m)
• 1997: 3rd place World Championships (1500 m)
• 1998: 3rd place European Championships (1500 m), 4th place Cross World Championships
• 1999: European cross champion

Personal best

• 1500 m : 3: 58.20 min ( Swiss record ), August 8, 1998 in Monaco
• 1 mile: 4: 23.92 min (Swiss record), July 1, 1998 in Bellinzona
• 3000 m: 8: 35.83 min (Swiss record), July 7, 1999 in Rome
• 3000 m obstacle : 9: 57.06 min, June 4th 2001 in Hengelo
• 5000 m : 14: 59.28 min (Swiss record), June 5, 1996 in Rome
• 10'000 m : 33: 06.89 min, April 6, 2002 in Camaiore

"Gring abe u seckle"

After the semi-final over 1500 m at the 1997 World Championships, where she qualified fifth for the final, Weyermann answered the question of what she had thought during the run with the Bernese words "Gring abe u vou seckle" ( head down and run full ). The saying quickly developed into a catchphrase in Switzerland , in the sense of bite through .

Web links

• Anita Weyermann in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Website by Anita Weyermann
• Resignation report, March 2008
• Anita Weyermann in Athens, with picture

Individual evidence

1. ^ Radio BeO - the regional radio in the Bernese Oberland
2. ↑ Anita Weyermann - your daughter Lara is here. In: Schweizer Illustrierte of December 9, 2011
3. ↑ Anita Weyermann - Your triplets are in the world. In: Schweizer Illustrierte of October 30, 2013