Alexandra Wester

Alexandra Wester
Wester at the Kurpfalz Gala in Weinheim 2014
nation	Germany
birthday	21st March 1994 (age 26)
place of birth	Bakau ,  Gambia
size	180 cm
Weight	64 kg
job	Student
Career
discipline	Long jump
Best performance	6.95 m long jump (indoor) 6.79 m long jump (open air)
society	ASV Cologne
Trainer	Ulrich Knapp, first trainer: Kati Barthel
Medal table
German championships 0 × 3 × 0 × German indoor championships 1 × 1 × 0 ×
German championships silver Kassel 2016 6.64 m silver Erfurt 2017 6.71 m silver Nuremberg 2018 6.69 m  German indoor championships gold Leipzig 2016 6.75 m silver Leipzig 2017 6.48 m
last change: July 24, 2018

Alexandra Valerie Wester (born March 21, 1994 in Bakau , Gambia ) is a German athlete who specializes in the long jump . She also did sprints and heptathletes .

Life and work

Wester was born to a German father and a Ghanaian mother in the West African Gambia . She has a sister named Melanie. At the age of three, Wester moved with her family to Germany, where she grew up in Saulheim in Rhineland-Palatinate . She did her federal voluntary service at her home club USC Mainz . She studied with a scholarship at the University of Miami sports science ; she also completed training as a personal trainer . Since October 2015 she has been studying at the German Sport University Cologne . In addition to her sporting career, she also worked as a model and appeared on the catwalk at Berlin Fashion Week .

Wester is in a relationship with basketball player Joshiko Saibou .

Athletic career

Even as a child, Wester showed a great urge to move, which prompted her grandparents to build a long jump pit in their garden. As a six-year-old Wester began athletics at TuS Saulheim and moved to USC Mainz in 2008 . In 2009 she became German student champion in the heptathlon and set a German record with 4094 points. Wester showed great long jump talent when she won second place in the long jump at the German U18 championships that same year against the two years older competition. In 2009, she set several records: in the 100-meter run , with the 4 x 100-meter relay , in the heptathlon individually as well as in the team and in the block competition team.

In 2011 she wanted to compete in the all- around at the U18 World Championships in Lille , but fell seriously two weeks before the start of the tournament in the hurdles and tore a cruciate ligament and meniscus in her left knee . After she was thrown back from injuries in the following years, she gave up the all-around competition and concentrated on the long jump after these setbacks.

In 2015 she achieved a new personal best of 6.59 m in the long jump at the PSV Grün-Weiß Kassel meeting in the Auestadion . Since this year she has started for ASV Köln , where she was initially trained by former triple jump world champion Charles Friedek .

On February 13, 2016, Alexandra Wester won the ISTAF indoor Berlin in the Mercedes-Benz Arena with an annual and personal best performance in the 6.95 m hall , which exceeded the indoor world championship norm by 20 centimeters. Two weeks later she became German indoor champion with 6.75 m in Leipzig . She made her debut in the national jersey a little later at the World Indoor Championships in Portland and finished 6th with 6.67 m. Before she became runner-up at the German Championships in Kassel in June , Wester achieved the standard for the Olympic Games on May 21 at the long jump meeting in Bad Langensalza with 6.74 m . In July 2016 she took part in the European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam and finished 7th with 6.51 m. At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , Alexandra Wester took part in the long jump competition for Germany together with Malaika Mihambo and Sosthene Moguenara , but was eliminated in qualification.

In 2017, Wester was runner-up behind Claudia Salman-Rath at the German Indoor Championships and the German Championships .

In 2018 Wester switched to the training group of long jump national trainer Ulrich Knapp. In September 2018 at the ISTAF in Berlin, she suffered a quadruple ligament tear in the ankle foot during the last attempt to jump.

controversy

In a video posted on Instagram in 2020 , Wester claimed she was being deprived of her freedom by the coronavirus measures. She spoke of a compulsory vaccination for the population as well as doctors and lawyers who defend human rights and would be locked up in prison psychiatrics for it. For this Wester was criticized by head coach Annett Stein . In another entry, Wester made the claim that "most of the world" is dominated by "a horror drug" ( adrenochrome ) and "perversions of the mind ( pedophilia )". She referred to the conspiracy theory that adrenochrome is seen as a rejuvenating serum and tapped by children trapped in caves. The DLV then “clearly distanced itself from conspiracy myths such as Pizzagate and Adrenochrom”.

Top performances

Hall
discipline	Result	date	place
60 meter run	7.53 s	February 6, 2015	Blacksburg , Virginia
60 meter hurdles (83.8 cm high)	8.47 s	17th January 2015	State College , Pennsylvania
Long jump	6.95 m	February 13, 2016	Berlin

open air
discipline	Result	date	place
Heptathlon	5523 points	May 25, 2014	Mainz
Long jump	6.79 m	5th June 2016	Oberteuringen

successes

National

• 2009: German U16 / student A champion (heptathlon)
• 2009: German U18 runner-up (long jump)
• 2009: Team winner DJMM / DSMM final fight
• 2011: German U18 indoor all-round runner-up (indoor pentathlon)
• 2016: German indoor champion (long jump)
• 2016: German runner-up (long jump)
• 2017: German Vice Hall Champion (long jump)
• 2017: German runner-up (long jump)

International

• 2016: 6th place indoor world championships (long jump)
• 2016: 7th place European Championships (long jump)

Web links

Commons : Alexandra Wester  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Alexandra Westerwelle in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait on Leichtathletik.de

Footnotes

1. ↑ Alexandra Wester in portrait , on sportschau.de , July 18, 2016, accessed on August 20, 2016
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Alexandra Wester changes trainer and club pm / sim, exchange exchange, to: Leichtathletik.de, from November 17, 2015, accessed March 27, 2016
3. ↑ USC supports its own athletes , Updates, October 20, 2013, at: usc-mainz.com, accessed March 27, 2016
4. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Reinsch: From the catwalk to the long jump pit. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 18, 2016, accessed on May 23, 2016 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Andreas Riechert and Marvin Lauser: Alexandra Wester leaves USC Mainz , on: Allgemeine-zeitung.de, from November 18, 2015, accessed March 27, 2016
6. ↑ Homepage of the German Sport University Cologne: Well-known students and alumni of the German Sport University Cologne
7. ↑ ^{a b} Pizzagate and Adrenochrom - top athlete couple spreads crude coronavirus theses www.tagesspiegel.de, May 26, 2020
8. ↑ German record by Alexandra Wester , News, August 3, 2009, on: usc-mainz.com, accessed March 27, 2016
9. ↑ Rhineland-Palatinate records of the WJ U16 . lvrheinland.de, accessed March 27, 2016.
10. ↑ ad./dpa: Athletics: Long jumper Wester with top width. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 13, 2016, accessed on August 23, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Long jumper Alexandra Wester from ASV Köln celebrates her debut in the national jersey at the World Indoor Championships in Portland . asv-koeln.de, March 21, 2016, accessed March 26, 2016.
12. ↑ Kai Klankert: Knapp is going to the EM with a quintet. Retrieved October 5, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Alexandra Wester suffers four torn ligaments . In: www.leichtathletik.de | The athletics portal . October 4, 2018 ( Leichtathletik.de [accessed October 5, 2018]).