Jenny Elbe

Jenny Elbe
Jenny Elbe 2012
nation	Germany
birthday	18th April 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	Karl-Marx-Stadt ,  German Democratic Republic
size	180 cm
Weight	64 kg
job	Food chemist
Career
discipline	Triple jump
Best performance	Hall: 14.27 m; Open air: 14.28 m
society	Dresdner SC
Trainer	Jörg Elbe
status	resigned
End of career	November 2019
Medal table
Summer Universiade 0 × 1 × 0 × German championships 3 × 3 × 0 × German indoor championships 3 × 4 × 0 ×
Universiade silver Gwangju 2015 13.86 m  German championships silver Kassel 2011 13.37 m gold BO-Wattenscheid 2012 14.06 m gold Ulm 2013 13.58 m silver Ulm 2014 14.03 m silver Nuremberg 2015 13.89 m gold Kassel 2016 14.28 m  German indoor championships silver Leipzig 2011 13.75 m silver Karlsruhe 2012 14.02 m gold Dortmund 2013 13.86 m silver Leipzig 2014 13.83 m gold Leipzig 2016 14.15 m gold Leipzig 2017 14.07 m silver Leipzig 2019 13.76 m
last change: February 19, 2019

Jenny Elbe (born April 18, 1990 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) is a former German athlete who specialized in the triple jump .

career path

Elbe was a student at the Dresden Sports High School until 2009 and then studied food chemistry at the TU Dresden. At the end of 2017, she completed her studies as a food chemist .

Athletic career

Elbe came to athletics in 1998 at Dresdner SC 1898 . In 2006 she first drew attention to herself when she became German B youth champion (U18) in the triple jump. She also competed in other disciplines, then focused on the triple jump.

In 2008 Elbe reached tenth place at the U20 World Championships in Bydgoszcz .

In 2009 she won bronze at the U20 European Championships in Novi Sad .

In 2010 and 2011 Elbe became German Junior Champion . At the U23 European Championships in 2011 in Ostrava , she came in fourth. In the adult class, she was able to win the German runner-up title both indoors and outdoors .

In 2012 Elbe jumped over 14 meters for the first time and came second again at the German Indoor Championships in Karlsruhe. In the open air she became German champion for the first time in the Bochum district of Wattenscheid . At the European Championships , which were held shortly afterwards in Helsinki , she came in 14th.

In 2013 Elbe became German indoor champion in Dortmund and German champion again in Ulm . In Gothenburg she reached seventh place at the European Indoor Championships .

In 2014 Elbe was able to win the German runner-up title both indoors and outdoors . Internationally, she came in 11th place at the European Championships in Zurich with 13.68 m.

In 2015 she was German runner-up again in Nuremberg and took second place at the Summer Universiade in the South Korean city ​​of Gwangju .

In 2016 Elbe was again German indoor champion . At the DSC youth meeting on May 14, 2016 in Dresden, she jumped a new personal best with 14.28 m, making her the sixth best German triple jumper of all time. At the European Championships in Amsterdam Elbe came seventh with 14.08 m. Since she had reached the qualifying distance in the triple jump of 14.15 m, she was able to take part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . There she missed the qualification as thirteenth with 14.02 m in the final.

In 2017, Elbe again won the indoor championship title . At the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade , she jumped a personal best in the qualification with 14.27 m and finished 6th in the final. Due to a knee injury, Elbe had to end the open-air season prematurely by order of the doctors and used the time to graduate.

At the end of January 2018, Elbe had to cancel the indoor season due to a bruised heel.

Elbe also had to cancel the 2018 and 2019 summer seasons due to injury. She ended her career at the end of 2019

Elbe was part of the perspective squad of the German Athletics Association (DLV) .

Private

Jenny Elbe is the daughter of Jörg Elbe , GDR runner-up in the triple jump, and Birgit Elbe, Spartakiade winner in the heptathlon. She lives in Dresden and works for AOK Plus.

Top performances

Performance development triple jump

year	Hall	open air
2006	12.47 m	12.93 m
2007		13.12 m
2008		13.27 m
2009	13.58 m	13.66 m
2010		13.69 m
2011	13.92 m	13.89 m
2012	14.02 m	14.06 m
2013	13.96 m	14.12 m
2014	13.83 m	14.20 m
2015	13.56 m	14.16 m
2016	14.15 m	14.28 m
2017	14.27 m	-
2018	13.48 m	13.87 m
2019	13.76 m	13.92 m

Top performances

• Personal best in the hall: 14.27 m ( Belgrade , European Indoor Championships , March 3, 2017)
• Personal best outdoors: 14.28 m ( Dresden , youth meeting , May 14, 2016)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Pamela Ruprecht: Flash News of the Day - Jenny Elbe: With a diploma in her pocket, headed for 2018 ( Memento of the original from December 24, 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. , Notes, dated December 23, 2017, accessed December 23, 2017 
2. ↑ Interview with Jenny Elbe on: Leichtathletik.tv, February 25, 2012
3. ^ Sächsische Zeitung of August 18, 2014
4. ↑ Season end for triple jump champion Jenny Elbe ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Dresden, June 22, 2017, accessed December 23, 2017  
5. ↑ Pamela Ruprecht: Jenny Elbe has to end the indoor season, bad luck with injuries, from January 31, 2018, accessed January 31, 2018

Web links

• Jenny Elbe in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait. on: Leichtathletik.de
• Athlete portrait. on: dsc1898.de