Carolin Walter (athlete)

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Carolin Walter athletics

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Walter at the German Championships 2015

nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 29th February 1988 (age 32)
place of birth Karlsruhe , Germany
size 168 cm
Weight 54 kg
job PhD student in meteorology
Career
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
society starts for TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen ,
before: LG Karlsruhe / SVK Beiertheim
Trainer Olaf Klein, Sebastian Weiß,
formerly: Adi Zaar
status active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
European championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
German championships 4 × gold 4 × silver 4 × bronze
German indoor championships 3 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
DLV logo German championships
bronze Ulm 2006 4 × 400 m
bronze Berlin 2008 3 × 800 m
bronze BO-Wattenscheid 2012 4 × 400 m
gold MG-Rheydt 2012 3 × 800 m
gold Ulm 2014 4 × 400 m
silver Ulm 2014 800 m
gold BO-Wattenscheid 2014 3 × 800 m
gold Nuremberg 2015 4 × 400 m
bronze Nuremberg 2015 800 m
silver Jena 2015 3 × 800 m
silver Kassel 2016 4 × 400 m
silver Mönchengladbach 2016 3 × 800 m
DLV logo German indoor championships
gold Karlsruhe 2012 800 m
gold BO-Wattenscheid 2016 3 × 800 m
silver Leipzig 2016 800 m
silver Leipzig 2017 400 m
gold Sindelfingen 2017 3 × 800 m
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.

German Championships 2015: On the podium in the 800-meter run - from left Christina Hering , Fabienne Kohlmann , Carolin Walter

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
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
international

Web links

Commons : Carolin Walter  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sv-karlsruhe-beiertheim.de
  2. ↑ Dipl.-Met. Carolin Walter , on:, accessed May 16, 2017
  3. ↑ German university hall master (400 m)
  4. ↑ German university runner-up (800 m)
  5. ↑ German university hall champion (800 m)
  6. ↑ German university champion (400 m and 800 m)
  7. ↑ 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@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.sv-karlsruhe-beiertheim.de  
personal data
SURNAME Walter, Carolin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walter, Caroline (misspelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete
DATE OF BIRTH February 29, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe