Jana Maisel

Jana Maisel (* 1961 in Gera ) is a German dry angler and with 76 world championship titles is the most successful German athlete in this precision sport.

Life

At the age of six Jana Maisel started with tournament fishing, as casting was called in GDR times. Her father was a national coach and her mother was also a coach of this fringe sport . She was often taken as a mascot in competitions. Nevertheless, she also tried out roller skating speed skating (today's speed skating ) and gymnastics.

In the GDR she was able to compete on an international level for the first time in 1989, the last World Cup start for a GDR team before that took place in 1973. After the fall of the Berlin Wall , she started racing and won 72 world championship titles and 42 European championship titles between 1990 and 2012. She has already received an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for 36 world titles . In 2005 she also took part in the World Games and received a gold medal in each of the disciplines Fly Target Women and Weight Precision Women. In 1996 she was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by Federal President Johannes Rau .

In 2010 she appeared with her sport in the ARD show Quiz der Deutschen . She ended her competitive career in 2012.

Jana Maisel is now a primary school teacher in Gera.

Individual evidence

↑ Fly fishing - A fairly unusual sport . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . ( deutschlandfunkkultur.de [accessed on August 12, 2018]).
↑ ^a ^b ^c Casting world champion Jana Maisel in an interview of the week . In: OTZ . ( otz.de [accessed on August 12, 2018]).
↑ ^a ^b The most successful German athlete in terms of titles comes from Thuringia . In: Thuringian General . ( thueringer-allgemeine.de [accessed on August 12, 2018]).
↑ Robert Dunker: Jana Maisel: Nobody knows the most successful female athlete in the world . In: THE WORLD . December 29, 2010 ( welt.de [accessed August 12, 2018]).

personal data
SURNAME	Maisel, Jana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sportswoman
DATE OF BIRTH	1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gera

[1] Fly fishing - A fairly unusual sport . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . ( deutschlandfunkkultur.de [accessed on August 12, 2018]).

[:0-2] Casting world champion Jana Maisel in an interview of the week . In: OTZ . ( otz.de [accessed on August 12, 2018]).

[:1-3] The most successful German athlete in terms of titles comes from Thuringia . In: Thuringian General . ( thueringer-allgemeine.de [accessed on August 12, 2018]).

[4] Robert Dunker: Jana Maisel: Nobody knows the most successful female athlete in the world . In: THE WORLD . December 29, 2010 ( welt.de [accessed August 12, 2018]).