Carolin Schäfer

Carolin Schäfer
Shepherd after winning the silver medal in the heptathlon at the 2017 World Championships in London
nation	Germany
birthday	5th December 1991 (age 28)
place of birth	Bad Wildungen , Germany
size	178 cm
Weight	66.5 kg
job	Police commissioner
Career
discipline	Heptathlon
society	LG Eintracht Frankfurt
Trainer	Jürgen Sammert, 1st trainer: Erika Keller
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 1 × 0 × European championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Junior World Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Junior European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × German championships 2 × 0 × 0 ×
World championships silver London 2017 Heptathlon  European championships bronze Berlin 2018 Heptathlon  Junior World Championships gold Bydgoszcz 2008 Heptathlon  Junior European Championships gold Novi Sad 2009 Heptathlon  German championships gold Situation 2013 Heptathlon gold Vaterstetten 2020 Heptathlon
last change: August 23, 2020

Carolin Schäfer (* 5. December 1991 in Bad Wildungen ) is a German athlete , referring to the heptathlon specializes. She also competes in the 100-meter hurdles and high jump . Her greatest achievement is the silver medal in the heptathlon at the 2017 World Championships in London .

career path

Carolin Schäfer has been the police commissioner since January 2016 and belongs to the sports promotion group of the Hessian police .

Athletic career

Schäfer got into athletics through her brother. In 2007 she attracted international attention for the first time when she was runner-up in the heptathlon at the U18 World Championships . In 2008 Schäfer became German B youth champion in both the heptathlon and indoor pentathlon and won her first international title as world champion in the heptathlon at the U20 world championships . In 2009 she confirmed her form and became German A youth champion in indoor pentathlon and U20 European champion in heptathlon .

On July 17, 2011, she finished 5th at the U23 European Championships in Ostrava with 5941 points . In 2012, Carolin Schäfer achieved her personal best at the all-around meeting in Ulm with 6072 points. It narrowly missed the Olympic standard (6150), but exceeded the EM benchmark (5960) and was nominated for this competition. At the European Championships in Helsinki in 2012 , she finished 11th with 6003 points and with this placement she also established herself on the international stage of adults. After the disqualification of the Ukrainian silver medalist Lyudmyla Jossypenko, she moved up to 10th place. 2013 she won in the absence of the year's best Rath , powerful and Biesenbach with 5804 points in location discharged German all-around championships.

On June 1, 2014, she improved her best performance by 314 to 6386 points at the Götzis all- around meeting . She traveled to the European Championships in Zurich as the second best German and achieved fourth place with a new personal best of 6395 points, setting new best performances in the individual disciplines long jump and 100 meter hurdles. In 2015 she could not finish the pentathlon of the European Indoor Championships in Prague because of calf problems. On May 31, 2015, she increased to 6547 points at the all-around meeting in Götzis after she had shown herself in good early form in a four-way fight in Neuwied on May 9. In the heptathlon in Ratingen a month later, she only completed five disciplines and renounced the 200 and 800 meter runs because she did not feel fit enough after a cold. In the high jump and hurdles sprint she competed at the German Championships , where she was sixth with 1.75 m and fourth with 13.58 s.

She finished the heptathlon at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in fifth place, with 6540 points just below her personal best. In Götzis, she improved her personal record by 279 points to 6836 points in 2017. With five new best performances in the disciplines, she finished second behind last year's Olympic champion Nafissatou Thiam . The performance also marked the best result for a German heptathlete since Sabine Braun's German record .

Since January 1, 2017, she has started again for LG Eintracht Frankfurt , where she was already in 2014. From January 1, 2015, Schäfer belonged to her hometown club TV Friedrichstein Alt-Wildungen 1911 e. V. , where she was before her first move to Frankfurt and where the basis for success was created in her youth. Despite the club change, Schäfer lives and trains in Frankfurt with the Eintracht multi-fighters. After 2017, Schäfer was voted Hesse’s Sportswoman of the Year again in 2018.

With a height of 1.78 m, Schäfer has a competition weight of 64 kg.

Awards

• 2014: Sports badge of the state of Hesse
• 2014: Hesse's sportswoman of the year
• 2017: Hesse's sportswoman of the year
• 2017: Frankfurt's female athlete of the year
• 2018: Hesse's sportswoman of the year
• 2018: Godmother of the Hessian police boat HESSEN 3 in Gernsheim

Trivia

Schäfer was in a relationship with the volleyball player Dennis Hefter until his accidental death .

Top performances

(As of October 15, 2018)

Performance development
year	Age	Points	obstacles	high jump	Shot put	200 m	Long jump	spear	800 m
2007	15th	5545	14.40 s	1.69 m	12.71 m	24.62 s	5.58 m	43.91 m	2: 20.78 min
2008	16	5833	14.40 s	1.78 m	12.67 m	24.62 s	5.78 m	46.78 m	2: 22.94 min
2009	17th	5697	14.27 s	1.74 m	12.78 m	25.08 s	5.83 m	48.51 m	2: 21.67 min
2010	18th	5333	14.32 s	1.74 m	12.84 m	25.20 s	5.69 m	46.80 m
2011	19th	5941	14.32 s	1.79 m	13.11 m	24.40 s	6.03 m	46.55 m	2: 25.38 min
2012	20th	6072	13.68 s	1.74 m	13.50 m	24.19 s	5.91 m	49.50 m	2: 22.88 min
2013	21st	5972	13.54 s	1.75 m	13.20 m	24.40 s	6.00 m	46.68 m	2: 22.91 min
2014	22nd	6395	13.21 s	1.84 m	13.37 m	23.78 s	6.30 m	48.76 m	2: 15.55 min
2015	23	6547	13.44 s	1.84 m	14.06 m	23.53 s	6.23 m	49.08 m	2: 14.10 min
2016	24	6557	13.12 s	1.83 m	14.57 m	23.37 s	6.31 m	50.73 m	2: 16.52 min
2017	25th	6836	13.07 s	1.86 m	14.84 m	23.27 s	6.57 m	49.80 m	2: 14.73 min
2018	26th	6602	13.13 s	1.80 m	14.12 m	23.73 s	6.24 m	53.73 m	2: 14.73 min

• Personal best: 6836 points (May 27/28, 2017) in the heptathlon

successes

National

• 2008: German B youth champion in the indoor pentathlon 2008
• 2008: German B youth champion in the heptathlon 2008
• 2009: German A youth champion in indoor pentathlon 2009
• 2013: German championships (heptathlon)

International

• 2007: Vice-World Champion U18 in Ostrava
• 2008: World Champion U20 World Championships in Bydgoszcz
• 2009: European Champion U20 European Championships in Novi Sad
• 2011: 5th place U23 European Championships in Ostrava
• 2012: 10th place at the European Championships in Helsinki
• 2014: 4th place at the European Championships in Zurich
• 2016: 5th place Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro
• 2017: Silver Medal World Championships in London
• 2018: Bronze medal European Championships in Berlin

Web links

Commons : Carolin Schäfer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Carolin Schäfer's website
• Carolin Schäfer in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait Carolin Schäfer. In: Leichtathletik.de
• 2012 EC Helsinki: 800 meter run / Carolin Schäfer in the following interview (together with Claudia Rath )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heptathlete Carolin Schäfer: "I have benefited from both sports". In: hna.de , April 15. 2016
2. ↑ Julia Nestle: Hessian athletes in the national jersey: Carolin Schäfer. ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: hlv.de 
3. ↑ ^{a b} DLV team brochure for the 2015 World Championships in Beijing. In: Leichtathletik.de , p. 53 (PDF)
4. ↑ Results U23 European Championship 2011 (PDF; 86 kB)
5. ↑ Jan-Henner Reitze: Katarina Johnson-Thompson scores 5,000 points. In: Leichtathletik.de , March 6, 2015
6. ↑ Pamela Ruprecht: Ratingen Day 2 - The all-round competition from discipline to discipline. In: Leichtathletik.de , June 28, 2015
7. ↑ Thorsten Spohr: Carolin Schäfer changes back to Eintracht Frankfurt. In: hna.de. November 7, 2016. Retrieved November 28, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Ann-Kathrin Ernst: Carolin Schäfer returns to Eintracht Frankfurt. In: eintracht-frankfurt.de. November 7, 2016. Retrieved November 28, 2016 . 
9. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Löffler: Athletics: Olympic Fifth Shepherd back to harmony. In: fnp.de. November 8, 2016. Retrieved November 28, 2016 . 
10. ↑ Carolin Schäfer and Patrick Lange are Hessen's athletes of the year 2018 . In: Wiesbaden lives . October 21, 2018 ( wiesbaden-lebt.de [accessed October 22, 2018]).
11. ↑ Carolin Schäfer. In: european-athletics.org
12. ↑ ^{a b c} Athlete portrait Carolin Schäfer. In: deichmeeting.de. Retrieved November 28, 2016 . 
13. ↑ Heptathlon results EM 2012