Alexandra Burghardt

Alexandra Burghardt
Alexandra Burghardt at the 2015 Athletics Championships
nation	Germany
birthday	28th April 1994 (age 26)
place of birth	Mühldorf am Inn ,  Germany
size	181 cm
Weight	71 kg
job	Student (culture and economy)
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	7.19 s (60 m) 11.32 s (100 m)
society	SV Wacker Burghausen , formerly: MTG Mannheim , SV Teising
Trainer	before: Philipp Unfried, first trainer: Angela Salzinger
Medal table
U20 world championships 0 × 1 × 0 × U20 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U23 European Championships 0 × 1 × 0 × German indoor championships 0 × 2 × 0 ×
Junior World Championships silver Barcelona 2012 4 × 100 m  Junior European Championships gold Tallinn 2011 4 × 100 m  U23 European Championships silver Tallinn 2015 100 m  German indoor championships silver Karlsruhe 2015 60 m silver Leipzig 2019 60 m
last change: February 18, 2019

Alexandra Burghardt (born April 28, 1994 in Mühldorf am Inn ) is a German sprinter .

career path

After starting a degree in communication sciences , she studied culture and economics at the University of Mannheim with a sports scholarship since moving to MTG Mannheim .

Athletic career

As a teenager, Burghardt was active in both flat and hurdles sprints. In the 4 x 100 meter relay , she won gold at the 2011 European Junior Championships in Tallinn and silver at the 2012 Junior World Championships in Barcelona.

After a fatigue fracture in 2013 and other health problems, Burghardt decided to give up the hurdles. After having previously started for the LAZ Inn and LG Stadtwerke München , she moved to MTG Mannheim in 2014 . There she was trained by Valerij Bauer until the end of 2017, and then looked after by the Austrian Philipp Unfried.

2015 they missed at the European Indoor Championships in Prague about 60 meters just under the final and won at the U23 European Championships in Tallinn over 100 meters silver. At the World Championships in Beijing , she came in fifth place with the German 4 x 100 meter relay. At the German Championships in 2015 , she won the title with the 4 x 100 meter relay.

2016 she won at the German Championships 4th place in the 100 meters and was with the 4-by-100-meter relay MTG Mannheim German champion . At the German U23 championships in Bochum-Wattenscheid, she became German U23 champion in the 100-meter run. At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , it was planned as a replacement for the 4 x 100 meter relay.

In 2017, Burghardt celebrated her greatest success to date in April at the World Relays in the Bahamas , the unofficial relay world championships of the IAAF World Athletics Federation . As the starting runner of the German 4 x 100 meter relay, she unexpectedly won the gold medal in 42.84 seconds together with Lisa Mayer , Tatjana Pinto and Rebekka Haase . In the northern French town of Lille , Burghardt was European team champion , to which she contributed by winning the 4 x 100 meter relay . At the German Championships in Erfurt, she finished 5th in the 100 meter run.

In 2018, Burghardt finished fourth in the 100-meter run at the German Championships .

Burghardt belongs to the perspective squad of the German Athletics Association (DLV) and was previously in the B squad .

Club affiliations

Burghardt has been with SV Wacker Burghausen since 2019 and was previously with MTG Mannheim . Your first club was the SV Teising .

Best times

(As of February 18, 2019)

Hall

• 60 m: 7.19 s, February 18, 2017, Leipzig and March 5, 2017, Belgrade
• 60 m hurdles: 8.20 s, February 2, 2013, Karlsruhe

open air

• 100 m : 11.32 s, June 13, 2015, Wetzlar
• 100 m hurdles : 13.41 s (+0.4 m / s) , August 30, 2012, Zurich
• 4 × 100 m: 42.17 s, August 27, 2017, Berlin
• 4 × 200 m: 1: 31.16 min, April 22, 2017, Nassau (Bahamas)

successes

International

• 2011: U20 European champion (relay / ER), fourth U18 world championships ( hurdles )
• 2012: Second U20 World Championships ( relay )
• 2015: Participation in the European Indoor Championships
• 2015: Fifth World Championships ( relay ), U23 vice European champion ( 100 m) , first relay
• 2017: Winner World Relays ( 4 × 100 m ), Sixth European Indoor Championships ( 60 m )

National

• 2013: Seventh German Athletics Championships ( 100 m )
• 2015: German Vice Indoor Champion ( 60 m ), Fourth German Championships ( 100 m) , Third U23-DM (100 m)
• 2016: Fourth German Championships ( 100 m ), German U23 champion (100 m)
• 2017: Fifth German Championships ( 100 m )
• 2018: Fourth German Championships ( 100 m )
• 2019: German Vice Indoor Champion ( 60 m )

Web links

Commons : Alexandra Burghardt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Alexandra Burghardt in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait on Leichtathletik.de
• EM Amsterdam 2016 team brochure of the DLV, p. 10 (PDF 3,906 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alexandra Burghardt in portrait lawm.sportschau.de. Retrieved October 3, 2015.
2. ↑ Silke Bernhart: Alexandra Burghardt is setting a new course. April 16, 2014. Leichtathletik.de. Retrieved October 3, 2015.
3. ↑ Silke Bernhart: Flash News of the Day - Alexandra Burghardt changes to Philipp Unfried ( Memento from December 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Notes, from December 7, 2017, accessed December 9, 2017
4. ↑ Alexandra Burghardt can hope for a World Cup ticket: In the sprint relay there is probably no way around the girl from Töginger. heimatzeitung.de. Retrieved October 3, 2015.
5. ↑ On to the Olympics OVB online. Retrieved August 5, 2016
6. ↑ Silke Bernhart: Sensational gold for German 4x100 meter sprinters. Leichtathletik.de, April 24, 2017, accessed May 2, 2017 .