Bernadette Meier-Brändle

Bernadette Meier
nation	Switzerland
birthday	16th January 1972 (age 48)
place of birth	Toggenburg , Switzerland
job	Naturopath
Career
Best performance	17:11 min (5 km street run ) 35:07 min (10 km street run) 1:16:18 h (half marathon) 2:40:55 h (marathon)
society	LC Uzwil (1995-2015)
status	resigned
Medal table
Swiss championships 4 × 11 × 4 ×
Swiss championships gold Tenero 1997 marathon gold Winterthur 1999 marathon gold Tenero 2008 Cross-country skiing (long distance) gold Uster 2009 half marathon
last change: December 20, 2017

Bernadette Meier-Brändle (born January 16, 1972 as Bernadette Brändle in Toggenburg ) is a former Swiss athlete and today's non-fiction author (pseudonym: Bernadette von Dreien , after a hamlet in the municipality of Mosnang ). She is multiple Swiss champion in marathons (1997, 1999), half marathons (2009) and cross (2008). The certified naturopath specializing in TEN deals with consciousness research, ethics, psychosomatics, holistic psychology, consciousness and society change.

Career

Bernadette Meier-Brändle was licensed for the LC Uzwil from 1995 to 2015 .

In 2001 and again in 2003 she took a baby break.

From 2007 she started as a mountain runner and achieved multiple top ten placements at European and World Championships. She is a seven-time team medal winner with Team Suisse (2007–2013).
In 2015 she declared her active time as an elite athlete ended.

The trained medical practice assistant completed an additional training to become a certified naturopath specializing in Traditional European Naturopathy (TEN) between 2013 and 2017 . Bernadette Meier-Brändle has been working as an author since 2015 and her first publication appeared in July 2017 (see publications).

Sporting successes

International success

• 2013: 8th place in the Elite Mountain Run European Championship
  (Silver Team Suisse)
• 2012: 22nd place in the Elite Mountain Running World Championships
  (Bronze Team Suisse)
• 2011: 8th place in the Elite Mountain Run European Championship
  (Silver Team Suisse)
• 2008: 6th place at the European Mountain Running Championships
• 2007: 8th place at the European Mountain Running Championships
  (Gold Team Suisse)

Medal table Swiss Championships Elite

• 2011: 3rd place, mountain run
• 2010: 2nd place, half marathon
• 2009: 1st place, half marathon
• 2009: 2nd place, mountain run
• 2009: 2nd place, marathon
• 2008: 1st place, cross-country skiing (long distance)
• 2008: 2nd place, half marathon
• 2008: 3rd place, Post-Cup
• 2007: 2nd place, cross-country skiing (long distance)
• 2007: 2nd place, mountain run
• 2006: 2nd place, cross-country skiing (long distance)
• 2006: 2nd place, half marathon
• 2005: 2nd place, cross-country skiing (long distance)
• 2004: 3rd place, 10,000 m
• 2002: 2nd place, marathon
• 1999: 1st place, marathon
• 1999: 2nd place, half marathon
• 1999: 3rd place, cross-country skiing (long distance)
• 1997: 1st place, marathon

Personal best

• 5 km road run : 17:11 min, 2009
• 10 km road run: 35:07 min, 2009
• Half marathon : 1:16:18 h, 1998
• Marathon : 2:40:55 h, 1999 ( Winterthur Marathon , course record )

Christina book series

• Heart ethics . Licht-Herz Verlag, 2019 ISBN 978-3-907275-02-3
• Gemini Born as Light (Volume 1). Govinda, Rheinau 2017, ISBN 978-3-905831-48-1 .
• The Vision of the Good (Volume 2). Govinda, Rheinau 2018, ISBN 978-3-905831-50-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernadette Meier-Brändle in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bernadette Meier's website
• Bernadette Meier-Brändle in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernadette von Dreien. Govinda-Verlag, accessed March 6, 2019 .