Astrid Plessl
Astrid Plessl (born January 4, 1984 in Leoben , Styria ) is an Austrian memory athlete from Mürzzuschlag .
Career
- Second at the 2001 World Memory Championship
- Women's world champion 2002: She was the first woman to exceed the 6000 point limit, which only five men achieved before her (6673 points, the world champion Andi Bell reached 6701 points)
- Women's World Champion 2003, overall runner-up
- Women's World Champion 2004. She was the first woman to achieve more than 7000 points. Nobody has achieved this before her, and at the 2004 World Cup, apart from her, only Ben Pridmore , the world champion, did it.
Records (extract)
- Memorize 302 decimal digits in five minutes
- Memorize 345 words of a text in 15 minutes (world record)
- 72 photo flashes (1 second) (world record)
Others
From 2002 to 2008 she studied medicine at the Medical University of Vienna and is now working in the Department of Biomedicine at the University Hospital Basel .
Awards
Web links
Commons : Astrid Plessl - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Statistics page with their best performances
- Astrid Plessl at the Department of Biomedicine at the University Hospital Basel
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Plessl, Astrid |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian memory athlete, women's world champion (2001-2004) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th January 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leoben , Styria |