Kristin Gierisch

Kristin Gierisch
Greed at the German Championships 2015
nation	Germany
birthday	20th August 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	Zwickau ,  GDR
size	178 cm
Weight	59 kg
job	Police chief
Career
discipline	Triple jump
Best performance	14.59 m (indoor), 14.61 m (open air)
society	LAC Erdgas Chemnitz vorm. SV Forward Zwickau
Trainer	Harry Marusch, in front of Angela Geyer
Medal table
European championships 0 × 1 × 0 × Indoor world championships 0 × 1 × 0 × European Indoor Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × German championships 3 × 4 × 2 × German indoor championships 4 × 6 × 1 ×
European championships silver Berlin 2018 14.45 m  Indoor world championships silver Portland 2016 14.08 m  European Indoor Championships gold Belgrade 2017 14.37 m  German championships bronze Ulm 2009 13.73 m silver Braunschweig 2010 13.69 m bronze Wattenscheid 2012 13.43 m silver Ulm 2013 13.00 m gold Ulm 2014 14.34 m gold Nuremberg 2015 14.38 m silver Kassel 2016 14.05 m gold Erfurt 2017 14.40 m silver Nuremberg 2018 14.15 m gold Berlin 2019 14.26 m  German indoor championships silver Leipzig 2009 13.65 m silver Karlsruhe 2010 13.53 m gold Karlsruhe 2012 14.19 m bronze Karlsruhe 2012 6.41 m silver Dortmund 2013 13.71 m gold Leipzig 2014 14.03 m gold Karlsruhe 2015 14.11 m silver Leipzig 2016 13.97 m silver Leipzig 2017 13.69 m gold Leipzig 2019 14.38 m silver Leipzig 2020 14.03 m
last change: February 23, 2020

Kristin Gierisch (born August 20, 1990 in Zwickau , Karl-Marx-Stadt district , GDR ) is a German athlete who specializes in the triple jump .

career path

In 2012 Kristin Gierisch began training with the Federal Police and is a police master.

Athletic career

In the fourth grade, Gierisch came to SV Vorwärts Zwickau through her math teacher and, from 2006, devoted himself to the triple jump.

In 2007 she became German U18 champion and reached sixth place at the youth world championships in Ostrava . In 2009 she won the German U20 and U23 championships . She jumped the German youth record with 14.02 meters. At the Junior European Championships in Novi Sad she came in fifth. At the German Junior Championships in 2010 in Regensburg, she won the runner-up. In 2011, Gierisch reached the final at the U23 European Championships , where she did not appear due to an injury.

In 2012, Gierisch was again U23 champion and in the adult area for the first time German champion in the hall. It reached a width of 14.19 meters in Karlsruhe. Shortly afterwards she took part in the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul , where she was eliminated in qualification.

In 2014 and 2015, Gierisch won the German championship titles both indoors and outdoors. At the European Indoor Championships 2015 in Prague , she reached 4th place.

In 2016 she was German runner-up in indoor and outdoor areas, in Portland (Oregon) with 14.30 meters indoor runner-up world champion and fulfilled the standard for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro at the jumpers' meeting on May 22nd in Garbsen , where she came 11th in the final with 13.96 m.

In 2017 Gierisch won the title of German indoor runner-up in Leipzig and, in Belgrade, with a season best of 14.37 m, the European indoor champion . In Lille in the north of France , she was European team champion . In the triple jump she got ten points for the German team with 2nd place. At the German Championships 2017 in Erfurt , Gierisch won the German championship title in this discipline for the third time and set a new personal best with 14.40 m. At the World Championships in London she came in 5th place.

In 2018, Gierisch was unable to contest a competition in the indoor season due to injury. In Nuremberg she became German runner-up . At the European Championships in Berlin, she won the silver medal with a personal best of 14.45 m. At the Continental Cup in Ostrava , Gierisch took 2nd place with the European team, to which she contributed with a 6th place in the individual.

On February 10, 2019, Gierisch improved Katja Demut's seven-year-old German indoor record by 12 cm to 14.59 m. The following European Indoor Championships in Glasgow she missed due to a knee injury suffered in the final training. In her first competition in the open-air season on June 2 in Garbsen , she jumped 14.50 m after attempts to 14.50 m and in the last attempt 14.61 m, thus increasing the German outdoor record, also previously held by humility, by 4 cm .

In 2020 Gierisch was not back in the form of 2019 in the indoor season, but was able to become German indoor runner- up.

Club membership

Gierisch first started for SV Vorwärts Zwickau and then switched to LAC Erdgas Chemnitz .

Honors

In 2018 Kristin Gierisch was named “Sportswoman of the Year” by Chemnitz with the Chemmy .

Top performances

open air

• Long jump : 6.21 m (−0.7 m / s) on May 31, 2014 in Weinheim 
• Triple jump : 14.61 m (−0.4 m / s) on June 2, 2019 in Garbsen 

Hall

• 60-meter run : 7.59 s on February 12, 2012 in Leipzig 
• Long jump : 6.46 m on January 17, 2015 in Chemnitz 
• Triple jump : 14.59 m on February 10, 2019 in Chemnitz 

successes

In the triple jump she was:

national

• 2007: German youth champion (U18)
• 2009: German youth (U20) and junior champion (U23)
• 2010: German Junior Champion (U23)
• 2012: German indoor champion and German junior champion
• 2012: 3rd place in the German championships
• 2013: 2nd place in the German championships (indoor and outdoor)
• 2014: Two-time German Champion ( indoor and outdoor )
• 2015: two-time German champion ( indoor and outdoor )
• 2016: Two-time German runner-up ( indoor and outdoor )
• 2017: German Vice Champion ( Halle )
• 2017: German Champion ( outdoor )
• 2018: German runner-up ( open air )
• 2019: German Champion ( hall )
• 2020: German Vice Champion ( Halle )

international

• 2014: 9th place at the European Championships in Zurich
• 2015: 4th place at the European Indoor Championships in Prague
• 2015: 8th place at the World Championships in Beijing
• 2016: Indoor Vice World Champion in Portland
• 2016: 11th place at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro
• 2017: European indoor champion in Belgrade
• 2017: European team champion in Lille, also 2nd place in the triple jump
• 2017: 5th place at the World Championships in London
• 2018: 2nd place Continental Cup in Ostrava (European team, 6th place individual)

Web links

Commons : Kristin Gierisch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kristin Gierisch in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Kristin Gierisch in the DLV database
• Athlete portrait on the club side
• European Athletics Team 2015 Cheboksary / Russia DLV team brochure, p. 15

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Long jump
2. ↑ Silke Bernhart: Top athletes of the Federal Police honored , German Athletics Association October 11, 2012
3. ↑ Polizeisport Depesche , Olympic Special Edition 2016, p. 7, on: dpsk.de, accessed March 4, 2017 (pdf 5.4 MB)
4. ↑ Anja Herrlitz: Kristin Gierisch - Jumping instead of falling deep , on: Leichtathletik.de, February 16, 2009, accessed March 31, 2016
5. ↑ Gierisch improves German indoor record . In: moz.de , February 10, 2019.
6. ↑ Kristin Gierisch has to cancel the start in Glasgow. In: Leichtathletik.de. March 1, 2019, accessed June 2, 2019 . 
7. ↑ German triple jump record for Kristin Gierisch. In: Leichtathletik.de. June 2, 2019, accessed June 2, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Chemnitz athlete of the year honored with Chemmy. In: Freiepresse.de. May 4, 2019, accessed May 5, 2019 .