Carolin Walter (athlete)
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nation | Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | 29th February 1988 (age 32) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Karlsruhe , Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 168 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 54 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
job | PhD student in meteorology | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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discipline | Long sprints , medium distance runs and relays | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Best performance | Hall: 400 m: 53.60 s Open air: 200 m 25.38 s; 800 m: 2: 03.11 min |
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society | starts for TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen , before: LG Karlsruhe / SVK Beiertheim |
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Trainer | Olaf Klein, Sebastian Weiß, formerly: Adi Zaar |
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status | active | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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last change: May 13, 2017 |
Carolin Walter (born February 29, 1988 in Karlsruhe ) is a German athlete who specializes in long sprints and the middle distance and also runs relays .
career path
Walter is a graduate meteorologist and doctoral candidate at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), (also called “Universität Karlsruhe”), at the Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research - Department of Tropospheric Research (IMK-TRO).
Athletic career
Carolin Walter took 6th place in the U20 Junior World Championships in 2006 with the 4 x 400 meter relay . In 2007 she was U20 runner-up in the 400-meter run at both the German Youth Indoor Championships and the German Youth Championships . In 2008 she won the championship title in the junior class with the 4 x 400 meter relay at the German U23 championships and in 2009 was German university champion in the hall over 400 meters and later university vice champion over 800 meters . Walter was quite successful in the 400 meters and in the 400 meter relay until 2009, but after protracted injuries she turned more to the 800 meters.
2012 turned out to be a very successful year for Walter. First she became German university champion in the hall over 800 meters, then German hall champion at this distance with a championship record. At the German University Championships, Walter won the 400 and 800 meter titles and was German champion in the women's age group at the German Youth Championships with the 3 x 800 meter relay .
In 2014 Walter was again able to become German champion with the 4 x 400 meter relay and German runner-up over 800 meters. With the 3-by-800-meter relay, she again won the championship title in the age group (AK) of women within the framework of the German Youth Championships .
In 2015 she won the title again at the German championships with the 4 x 400 meter relay, took 3rd place over 800 meters and was runner-up in the women's age group at the German youth championships .
2016 started for Walter with a German indoor record of 6: 22.59 min in the 3 x 800 meter relay with Rebekka Ackers and Lena Klaassen in the women's class at the German Youth Championships . She won the runner-up title at the German indoor championships over 800 meters, outdoors with the 3-by-800-meter relay and at the German championships with the 4-by-400-meter relay.
In 2017 Walter again improved the German indoor record over 3 x 800 meters in the AK women with Sarah Schmidt and Konstanze Klosterhalfen by just under six seconds to 6: 16.25 minutes in the German Youth Indoor Championships (U20) . With a personal best of 53.60 s, she was German vice indoor champion over 400 meters and also came in 6th place with a personal best at the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade with the 4 x 400 meter relay.
Walter is not in the squad of the German Athletics Association (DLV) .
Club affiliations
Carolin Walter has started for TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen since 2010 . Before that she started for the LG Karlsruhe . The parent club is the SVK Beiertheim . Although at Bayer 04 Leverkusen, she has been training with the Beiertheim athletes again since 2012. At the university championships, she competed for the "Competitive Community of Karlsruhe Universities" (WG Karlsruhe) and for the "University of Karlsruhe".
Honors
- She was honored by the city of Karlsruhe as a particularly successful athlete (fourth on the 2007 best list over 800 meters).
Personal bests
(As of May 13, 2017)
- Hall
- 60 meters: 7.94 s, January 13, 2008 in Mannheim
- 200 meters: 25.06 s on January 18, 2009 in Mannheim
- 400 meters: 53.60 s on February 19, 2017 in Leipzig
- 800 meters: 2: 01.29 min, February 26, 2012 in Karlsruhe
- 4 × 200 meters: 1: 40.64 min, February 28, 2016 in Leipzig
- 4 × 400 meters: 3: 34.60 min, March 5, 2017 in Belgrade
- Record holder over 800 meters in 2: 01.29 min, set up at the German Indoor Championships in 2012
- open air
- 200 meters: 25.38 s (- 0.8 m / s), June 26, 2016 in Rheinau - Freistett
- 400 meters: 53.96 s, July 26, 2008 in Recklinghausen
- 800 meters: 2: 03.11 min, July 27, 2014 in Ulm
- 4 × 400 meters: 3: 35.54 min, July 27, 2014 in Ulm
successes
- national
- 2006: 5th place German Youth Indoor Championships U20 (800 m)
- 2006: 4th place German U20 youth championships (400 m)
- 2006: 3rd place German championships (4 × 400 m)
- 2007: German youth indoor runner-up U20 (400 m)
- 2007: German U20 junior runner-up (400 m)
- 2007: 4th place German championships (4 × 400 m)
- 2008: 3rd place German youth championships AK women (3 × 800 m)
- 2008: German U23 champion (4 × 400 m)
- 2008: 3rd place German U23 championships (400 m)
- 2009: German university hall champion (400 m)
- 2009: 4th place German indoor championships (400 m)
- 2009: German university runner-up (800 m)
- 2009: 4th place German U23 championships (800 m)
- 2009: 5th place German U23 championships (4 × 400 m)
- 2009: 7th place German Championships (400 m)
- 2010: 9th place German championships (800 m)
- 2012: German university hall champion (800 m)
- 2012: German indoor champion (800 m) with championship record
- 2012: German university champion (400 and 800 m)
- 2012: 3rd place German championships (4 × 400 m)
- 2012: 4th place German Championships (800 m)
- 2012: German Champion AK women (3 × 800 m)
- 2014: 5th place German indoor championships (400 m)
- 2014: German Champion (4 × 400 m)
- 2014: German runner-up (800 m)
- 2014: German Champion AK women (3 × 800 m)
- 2015: German Champion (4 × 400 m)
- 2015: 3rd place German Championships (800 m)
- 2015: German runner-up AK women (3 × 800 m)
- 2016: German indoor champion AK women (3 × 800 m) with German indoor record
- 2016: German indoor runner-up (800 m)
- 2016: 8th place German indoor championships (4 × 200 m)
- 2016: German runner-up (4 × 400 m)
- 2016: 9th place German Championships (800 m)
- 2017: German indoor runner-up (400 m)
- 2017: German indoor champion AK women (3 × 800 m) with German indoor record
- international
- 2006: 6th place U20 Junior World Championships (4 × 400 m)
- 2012: 12th place indoor world championships (800 m)
- 2017: 6th place European Indoor Championships (4 × 400 m)
Web links
- Carolin Walter in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Carolin Walter in the database of European Athletics (English)
- Indoor European Championships 2017 Belgrade DLV team brochure, p. 25 (pdf 31.5 MB)
- Carolin Walter on: Leichtathletik.de
- Portrait on club side
- Carolin Walter (pdf 475 kB)
- Carolin Walter (pdf 422 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Richard Fallert: German runner-up for Carolin Walter and participation in the European Indoor Championships ( memento of the original from May 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , from: sv-karlsruhe-beiertheim.de, from February 23, 2017, accessed May 13, 2017
- ↑ Dipl.-Met. Carolin Walter , on:, accessed May 16, 2017
- ↑ German university hall master (400 m)
- ↑ German university runner-up (800 m)
- ↑ German university hall champion (800 m)
- ↑ German university champion (400 m and 800 m)
- ↑ Honored by the city and DLV-Bestennadeln ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , from: sv-karlsruhe-beiertheim.de, accessed May 14, 2017
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Walter, Carolin |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Walter, Caroline (misspelling) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German athlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 29, 1988 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe |