Jennifer Wenth

Jennifer Wenth
Jennifer Wenth, 2016
nation	Austria
birthday	24th July 1991 (age 29)
place of birth	Vienna , Austria
size	166 cm
Weight	48 kg
job	Army athlete
Career
Best performance	15: 16.12 min (5000 m) 1:14:44 h (half marathon)
society	SV Schwechat, athletics
Trainer	Ilija Popov and Karl Sander
National squad	since Austrian national team
status	resigned
End of career	February 26, 2018
Medal table
Austrian championships 20 × 0 × 0 ×
Austrian championships gold 2009 , 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015 1500 meters gold 2009 , 2010 Cross-country run gold 2009 , 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 1500 meters (hall) gold 2011 800 meters gold 2011 800 meters (hall) gold 2014 , 2015 3000 meters (hall) gold 2014 half marathon gold 2015 10,000 meters of track gold 2015 10 km road run gold 2016 5000 meters
last change: August 1st, 2018

Jennifer Wenth (born July 24, 1991 in Vienna ) is a former Austrian middle and long distance runner . She is multiple Austrian champion and Olympian (2016).

Career

In July 2011 she started at the U23 European Athletics Championships in Paris over 1500 m and was eliminated in the preliminary run.

In May 2013 she won the Steffl Tower Run in Vienna. It took 1: 53.70 min for the 343 steps and 67 meters in altitude in the narrow south tower of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna.

In 2014 she finished eleventh in the 5000 meter run at the European Athletics Championships in Zurich and took 18th place at the European Cross Country Championships in Samokow .

In February 2015, Wenth managed 15: 43.88 min over the 5000 m at the athletics indoor meeting "XL-Galan" in Stockholm , the second fastest time for a European woman in the current season and at the same time the first ÖLV indoor record holder in the 5000 meter run . Two days later in Linz she became national champion 3000 m in 9: 17.16 minutes.

In 2015 she was ninth over 3000 m at the European Indoor Championships in Prague and came 15th at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing over 5000 m. At the women's run in Vienna's Prater in May she came third in the 5-kilometer competition after 15: 45.5 minutes.

She was five times Austrian champion over 1500 m, twice in cross-country and once over 800 m , over 5000 m, over 10,000 m as well as in the half marathon . In the hall she won the national title five times over 1500 m, three times over 3000 m and once over 800 m.

At the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in August 2016, Jennifer Wenth qualified for the final in the women's 5000-meter run and finished in 16th place.

On February 26, 2018, the then 26-year-old declared her active career ended after twelve years due to persistent health problems on social media.

Private

Jennifer Wenth visited the BORG Wiener Neustadt . She was in a relationship with the athlete Christoph Sander (* 1988).

Personal bests

• 800 m: 2: 06.64 min, August 30, 2011, Vienna
  • Hall: 2: 07.23 min, February 16, 2010, Vienna
• 1000 m : 2: 38.18 min, July 5, 2011, Vienna
• 1500 m: 4: 11.07 min, July 30, 2011, Gent
  • Hall: 4: 16.25 min, February 13, 2011, Gent
• 3000 m: 9: 01.9 min, June 19, 2010, Belgrade
  • Hall: 8: 59.84 min, March 7, 2015, Prague
• 5000 m: 15: 16.12 min, July 18, 2015, Heusden-Zolder
  • Hall: 15: 43.88 min, February 19, 2015, Stockholm (Austrian record)
• 10,000 m: 33: 54.61 min, May 1, 2015, Vienna (mixed race)
• Half marathon: 1:14:44 h, October 5, 2014, Salzburg

Jennifer Wenth in the women's 5000 meter run at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Web links

Commons : Jennifer Wenth  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Official website
• Jennifer Wenth in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait at the ÖLV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jennifer Wenth runs ÖLV indoor record over 5000 meters (February 19, 2015)
2. ↑ Jennifer Wenth from Vienna, third in the women's run in the Prater (May 31, 2015)
3. ↑ The Healing Wandering of Jennifer Wenth (May 19, 2017)