Celina Leffler
Celina Leffler 
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| birthday | 9th April 1996 (age 24) | ||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Lübeck , Germany | ||||||||||||||||||
| size | 174 cm | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 66 kg | ||||||||||||||||||
| job | Medical student | ||||||||||||||||||
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Heptathlon (open air) Pentathlon (indoor) |
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| Best performance | Indoor: 4347 points (pentathlon; 2016) Open air: 6070 points (heptathlon; 2017) |
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| society | SSC Koblenz-Karthauser | ||||||||||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||||
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| last change: December 30, 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||
Celina Leffler (* 9. April 1996 in Lübeck , Schleswig-Holstein ) is a former German track and field athlete , referring to the heptathlon had specialized and also in hurdle races and the long jump took.
Professional career
In 2013 Leffler graduated from high school and did an internship at the Sportbund Rheinland in Koblenz. She has been a medical student since the 2015 summer semester. 2020 will be her practical year for Leffler and after successful exams and license to practice medicine , she could become a doctor by the middle of the year.
Athletic career
In elementary school, Leffler came to sport through the National Youth Games . She has always liked athletics and was on the sports field.
In 2012, Leffler made a lot of technical progress in many disciplines and made up her stamina after a long injury in 2011.
2013 was an outstanding year. Leffler passed the Abitur, set numerous records and collected gold five times, a. a. she became U18 world champion in heptathlon.
In 2014, Leffler managed the age-related transition to higher hurdles and heavy balls better than she expected. Over 100 meter hurdles and in the long jump, she was U20 runner-up .
In 2015 Leffler won the German U20 Championship over 100 meter hurdles, and in this discipline she also competed at the U20 European Championships and reached the semi-finals.
In 2016 Leffler became German champion in her first pentathlon in the active class with a personal best of 4,347 points at the German Indoor Championships, and reached eleventh place at the Indoor World Championships in Portland (Oregon) , her first international championship among the active.
In 2017 Leffler increased her best heptathlon performance twice, first in mid-June at the all- around meeting in Bernhausen by 115 to 5961 points and in mid-July at the U23 European Championships in Bydgoszcz by a further 109 to 6070 points with which she won bronze. In mid-August she became German U23 champion in the all-around competition in Kienbaum .
In 2018 she was again German U23 champion in the all- around with 6050 points and at the end of the year she took third place in the U23 best list.
In 2019, Leffler was unable to qualify for the World Championships due to injury and decided in the middle of the year to retire from competitive sports due to her repeated and persistent injuries, but would like to work as a trainer in the youth field.
Club affiliations
Leffler started for the SSC Koblenz-Karthause and was trained by Holger Klein .
Honors
- 2013 Pierre-de-Coubertin-Abitur award from the State Sports Association of Rhineland-Palatinate
successes
- national
- 2013: German U18 champion (relay / long jump / heptathlon)
- 2014: German U20 runner-up (100 m hurdles and long jump)
- 2015: German U20 champion (100 m hurdles)
- 2016: German indoor champion (pentathlon)
- 2017: German U23 champion (heptathlon)
- 2018: German U23 champion (heptathlon)
- international
- 2013: U18 world champion (heptathlon)
- 2014: 4th place U20 World Championships (heptathlon)
- 2015: 10th place U20 European Championships (100 m hurdles)
- 2016: 11th place indoor world championships (heptathlon)
- 2017: 3rd place U23 European Championships (heptathlon)
Web links
- Celina Leffler in the database of World Athletics (English)
- www.celina-leffler.de
- Athlete profile on Leichtathletik.de
- Athletics Indoor World Championships 2016 Portland / USA Team brochure of the DLV
Footnotes
- ↑ Athletics: Celina Leffler towers over the Koblenz multi-fight days, LSB RLP press office on June 4, 2013, on: lsb-rlp.de, accessed April 2, 2016
- ↑ a b Heptathlete Celina Leffler ends her career , after many injuries, on: Leichtathletik.de, from June 26, 2019, accessed December 30, 2019
- ↑ Articles from January 2014: The changeover well mastered , mbn, on: celina-leffler.de, January 29, 2014, accessed April 2, 2016
- ↑ Annika Gäb: Athletics: Celina Leffler and Kai Kazmirek get the DM title , on: lsb-rlp.de, on March 16, 2016, accessed April 2, 2016
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| SURNAME | Leffler, Celina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1996 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck , Germany |