Katja Tengel
Katja Tengel (born Katja Wakan in Lutherstadt Eisleben on June 27, 1981 ) is a German sprinter .
After Wakan had won bronze at the U23 European Championships in 2003 with the 4 x 100 meter relay , she was nominated for the 2003 World Championships in Paris-Saint-Denis. As the last runner after Melanie Paschke , Marion Wagner and Sandra Möller , she finished fifth in the final in 43.27 seconds. A year later, the German relay with Katja Wakan as the starting runner at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens was eliminated.
At the European Championships in Gothenburg in 2006 , Wakan was eliminated in the run over 100 meters in 11.54 s. The season lost the baton in the finale and had to give up. A year later at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, the season reached the final again and was seventh in 43.51 s in the line-up of Wakan, Cathleen Tschirch , Johanna Kedzierski and Verena Sailer .
In 2005 and 2006 she was able to achieve second place over 100 meters at German championships. Her best performance over 100 meters from 2006 is 11.37 seconds. In 2010 she ended her career.
Katja Wakan was 1.65 m tall and had a competition weight of 57 kg. Until 2003 she started for the SV Halle and from 2004 to 2006 for the new Halle club, the Halle Athletics Friends . Since 2007 she competed for TV Wattenscheid 01 . She is the daughter of the hurdler Gudrun Berend .
literature
- Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005. 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 (published by Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft )
Web links
- Katja Tengel in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Athlete portrait on Leichtathletik.de
- Katja Wakan in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tengel, Katja |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wakan, Katja |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sprinter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 27, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lutherstadt Eisleben , German Democratic Republic |