Hannah Mergenthaler
Hannah Mergenthaler 
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| birthday | 9th March 1997 (age 23) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Schwetzingen , Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||
| size | 178 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 63 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||
| job | Student (teacher) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| discipline | sprint | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Best performance | Hall: 60 m: 7.94 s; 200 m: 24.46 s; 400m 53.39 s Open air: 100 m 12.02 s; 400 m 52.83 s |
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| society | MTG Mannheim , first club: LG Kurpfalz | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Trainer | Rüdiger Harksen, before: Michael Manke-Reimers, Benjamin Dietrich, Lucas Epperlein, Silke Hildenbrand |
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| status | active | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| last change: February 26th, 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hannah Mergenthaler (born March 9, 1997 in Schwetzingen , Baden-Württemberg ) is a German athlete who specializes in the 400-meter run and also runs relays .
career path
Mergenthaler graduated from the Carl-Theodor-Schule in Schwetzingen in 2016 and has been studying primary school teaching at the Heidelberg University of Education since April 2017 .
Athletic career
Hannah Mergenthaler specialized in the 400-meter sprint early on.
2014, it was German U18 champion on the 400 meters and came in the U20 World Championships in Eugene (Oregon) with the 4 x 400-meter relay team to 3rd place
In 2015 Mergenthaler was able to become German U20 champion on the stadium circuit. At the German U23 championships she took 3rd place. At the U20 European Championships in Eskilstuna , Sweden , she could not qualify for the final in the four-hundred-meter run, but came in 5th place with the relay.
In 2016 she was again German U20 champion on the stadium circuit and took 3rd place over 200 meters. Previously, Mergenthaler had reached the semi-finals over 400 meters at the U20 World Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland , and had reached 4th place in the relay. In the adult class, she was unable to take part in the German championships due to flu and was subsequently not nominated as a substitute runner for the 400-meter relay at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro .
In 2017 Mergenthaler came 5th at the German indoor championships over 400 meters in Leipzig . In Leverkusen she was allowed to call herself German U23 champion at this distance in mid-June and came third with the 4 x 100 meter relay . A week later, Mergenthaler became European team champion in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France ( metropolitan region of Lille ) , to which she contributed by taking 3rd place in the 400 series with Ruth Sophia Spelmeyer , Laura Müller and Nadine Gonska . At the German Championships on July 9th she came in 4th place with the 4 x 100 meter relay in Erfurt . Barely a week later, Mergenthaler was U23 Vice European Champion with the 4 x 400 meter relay in Bydgoszcz, Poland . On August 13th, she finished 6th in the same formation as in the European Team Championship at the World Championships in London .
Mergenthaler has been part of the Olympic squad (OK) of the German Athletics Association (DLV) since the competitive sports reform . Before that she was in the B-team .
Club affiliations
Hannah Mergenthaler has been with MTG Mannheim since she was 15 years old .
Best times
(As of February 26, 2020)
- Hall
- 60 m: 7.94 s, Karlsruhe , February 8, 2014
- 60 m hurdles: 8.94 s, Karlsruhe , January 26, 2014
- 200 m: 24.46 s, Mannheim , January 29, 2017
- 400 m: 53.39 s, Leipzig , February 23, 2020
- 4 × 200 m: 1: 36.36 s, Mannheim , January 20, 2018
- open air
- 100 m: 12.02 s (+1.1 m / s) , Clermont, Florida , May 14, 2016
- 100 m hurdles: 14.35 s (+1.5 m / s) , Mannheim , May 10, 2014
- 200 m: 24.06 s (+1.6 m / s) , Mönchengladbach , July 30, 2016
- 400 m: 52.83 s, Nuremberg , July 22, 2018
- 4 × 100 m: 44.83 s, Erfurt , July 9, 2017
- 4 × 400 m: 3: 27.45 min, London , 13 August 2017
successes
- national
- 2014: German U18 champion (400 m)
- 2015: German U20 champion (400 m)
- 2015: 3rd place German U23 championships (400 m)
- 2016: German U20 champion (400 m)
- 2016: 3rd place German U20 championships (200 m)
- 2017: 5th place German indoor championships (400 m)
- 2017: German U23 champion (400 m)
- 2017: 3rd place German U23 championships (4 × 100 m)
- 2017: 4th place German championships (4 × 100 m)
- 2018: German runner-up (400 m)
- 2020: 3rd place German Indoor Championships (400 m)
- international
- 2014: 3rd place U20 World Championships (4 × 400 m)
- 2015: 5th place U20 European Championships (4 × 400 m)
- 2016: 4th place U20 World Championships (4 × 400 m)
- 2016: Semi-finals U20 World Championships (400 m)
- 2017: European team champion , also 3rd place (4 × 400 m)
- 2017: U23 Vice European Champion (4 × 400 m)
- 2017: 6th place World Championships (4 × 400 m)
Web links
- Hannah Mergenthaler in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Hannah Mergenthaler in the database of European Athletics (English)
- official homepage
- Hannah Mergenthaler in a portrait of the sports show
- Athlete portrait on Leichtathletik.de
- EM-U23 2017 Bydgoszcz team brochure of the DLV, p. 28 (pdf 26.6 MB)
- Competitive performance on Leichtathletik-datenbank.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official homepage - About me , at: hannah-mergenthaler.com, accessed August 13, 2017
- ↑ Sibylle Dornseiff: Body Feeling and Köpfchen , Lokalsport Mannheim, on: morgenweb.de, July 8, 2017, accessed August 14, 2017
- ↑ a b c fighting spirit on all levels! on: gbg-mannheim.de, in: GeBorGenheit, March 2017 edition, p. 15, accessed August 14, 2017 (PDF 5.5 MB)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Mergenthaler, Hannah |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1997 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwetzingen |