Amewu Mensah

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Antoinette Amewu Mensah (born March 21, 1977 in Accra , Ghana ) is a German climate scientist and former high jumper .

Life

Mensah, who was born in Ghana, came to Berlin in 1979 as a foster child. It was as a teenager in 1993 German champion in the heptathlon , then specialized but in the high jump. She finished seventh at the 1994 Junior World Championships , the following year she was fifth at the 1995 European Junior Championships and fourth at the 1997 U23 European Championships .

After Mensah had become German high jump champion as a youth and junior, she placed third in the adult division at the German championships in 1997 . In 1999 she became German university champion in the hall. In the outdoor season she won the German runner-up and the silver medal at the U23 European championships with a jumped height of 1.93 meters. Then she was nominated for the World Championships in Seville, where she survived the qualification, but remained in the final battle without a valid attempt. In 2000 Mensah took part in the European Indoor Championships in Ghent. In July 2000 she won the German championship in Braunschweig . Then she took part in the Olympic Games in Sydney, where she qualified for the final and reached eighth place.

In 2001, Mensah was found to have traces of the anabolic steroid oxandrolone and was banned from doping for two years . After the suspension she was runner- up in 2004 behind Ariane Friedrich , but missed qualifying for the Olympic Games in Athens.

Amewu Mensah started for the Berliner SC , TSV Bayer Leverkusen , OSC Berlin and ASV Köln .

She studied biochemistry and chemistry at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Cologne , where she received her doctorate in 2010. She conducts research at the Institute for Atmosphere and Climate at ETH Zurich .

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ person detail. Retrieved June 22, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Mensah, Amewu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mensah, Antoinette Amewu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high jumper and climatologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Accra