Laura Lindemann

0 Laura Lindemann
Personal information
Date of birth	26th June 1996 (age 24)
place of birth	Berlin , Germany
size	169 cm
Weight	57 kg
societies
Since 2012	Triathlon Potsdam
Since 2017	B-squad of the DTU
Since 2018	Perspektivenkader (PK) of the DTU
successes
2013	Vice European Champion Triathlon Juniors
2014	German champion junior triathlon sprint distance
2014, 2015	2 × European champion triathlon juniors
2014, 2015	2 × World Champion Triathlon Juniors
2015, 2018	2 × German champion U23 triathlon sprint distance
2015, 2017, 2018, 2019	4 × German champion triathlon sprint distance
2016	U23 world champion triathlon
2017	European champion triathlon sprint distance

Laura Lindemann (born June 26, 1996 in Berlin ) is a German triathlete . She is four-time German champion over the triathlon sprint distance (2015, 2017, 2018, 2019), junior European champion (2014, 2015), two-time junior world champion (2014, 2015), U23 world champion (2016), and European triathlon champion -Spring distance (2017).

Career

Laura Lindemann trained as a child at Wasserfreunde Spandau 04 and switched to the elite sports school in Potsdam on the recommendation of a club colleague . Since then she has been active in the Potsdam swimming club and her specialty was breaststroke swimming . After she had reached the limit of her ability in this discipline in the opinion of her coach, she switched to triathlon in 2012 on his recommendation.

In the following year, she was the 2013 triathlon vice-European champion in the juniors (18-19 years) and third in the world championships .

In 2020, Lindemann registered for the 5000 meter run at the German Athletics Championships in Braunschweig.

Junior European Triathlon Champion 2014

In June 2014 Laura Lindemann became European triathlon champion . In the same month she won the team sprint with the German team at the European Triathlon Championships in Kitzbühel, Austria (with Lena Meißner , Valentin Wernz and Lasse Lührs ) and was also Junior European Champion.

Junior world champion triathlon 2014

In August in Canada she became the individual junior world champion, in the team relay she took fourth place together with her club colleague Lasse Lührs as well as Anna Schmidt and Lasse Nygaard-Priester.

In June 2015 she won the elite and U23 DM title in Düsseldorf, and in July she defended her junior European champion in Geneva. In July in Hamburg, in front of around 150,000 spectators on the track, she achieved her best position so far at an ITU World Cup as the best German starter in seventh place . At the world championships in mixed relay , Laura Lindemann moved to her teammate Justus Nieschlag in second place , only a 10-second time penalty because the helmet of the second woman in the team, Rebecca Robisch , had opened again, prevented a podium finish. DTU head coach Ralf Ebli sees Laura Lindemann as an exceptional talent, while the 2008 Olympic champion in Beijing, Jan Frodeno , said at the World Cup, “She is a hope for the future”.

Laura Lindemann was a member of the C-team (juniors) of the German Triathlon Union (DTU). She starts in the Triathlon Bundesliga for the Triathlon Potsdam association . In the French championship series Grand Prix de Triathlon , she started in the 2015 season for E. C. Sartrouville . Since 2012 she has been trained by Ron Schmidt at the Olympic base in Potsdam . Laura Lindemann is a student at the “Friedrich Ludwig Jahn” sports school in Potsdam , where she uses the opportunities of the additive Abitur . She hopes that this extension of schooling will provide the necessary training time to prepare for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , and she plans to complete her Abitur in 2017. In 2014 Laura Lindemann vm DOSB was named elite student of the year . In the 2015 Triathlon World Championship racing series , she finished 24th as the fourth-best German. In November 2015 she was named junior athlete of the year .

In the two-year qualification period for a starting place at the 2016 Olympic Summer Games , Laura Lindemann achieved the sixth-best placement of the German athletes on the ITU Olympic qualification list with 65th place, and also missed the sporting qualification criteria agreed by the DTU and DOSB . For team tactical reasons, Lindemann was nevertheless suggested by the DTU as one of the best swimmers in the national team for a start alongside Anne Haug on August 20 in Rio de Janeiro, on July 12, 2016 the DOSB refused to participate, two of the three starting places in the Women for whom the DTU athletes had met the international qualification criteria should remain vacant. On July 19, the DOSB announced that it would nominate Lindemann after a decision by the Frankfurt Regional Court. Two days earlier, Lindemann had finished ninth at the World Championship race in Hamburg and won the bronze medal at the World Championship in Mixed Relay. As the best German in Rio de Janeiro, she finished in 28th place.

U23 world champion triathlon 2016

In September 2016 she became the U23 world champion on the Olympic short distance in Mexico.

In 2017 she started in the B-team of the DTU. In June 2017 she became European champion on the sprint distance in the elite class in Düsseldorf. The then 21-year-old clinched her first podium in a race of the world championship series in Hamburg in July with third place.

In July 2018 she became German champion on the triathlon sprint distance for the third time in Düsseldorf. In the 2018 ITU World Championship racing series, the 22-year-old finished ninth as the best German after the last race (fourth place) in Gold Coast (Australia) on September 15 .

Awards

• 3rd place " Elite Student of Sports " 2014
• Laura Lindemann was named the best young athlete of the year (“Biggest Women's Rising Star 2016”) by the International Triathlon Union (ITU ) in December 2016.

Sporting successes

Web links

• Official website of Laura Lindemann
• Profile and results of Laura Lindemann in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on February 14, 2020 (English).
• Profile for Laura Lindemann at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on October 3, 2014
• DOSB video about Laura Lindemann as part of her honor as an elite student of sport

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} "The Olympic Games in Rio are definitely a big goal" Interview of the DOSB with Laura Lindemann
2. ↑ Interview with Laura Lindemann after the 2013 World Cup
3. ↑ Laura Lindemann wins the Junior European Championship (June 20, 2014)
4. ↑ ETU-EM Kitzbühel: Team Sprint Juniors - European Champion 2014 (June 22, 2014)
5. ↑ Laura Lindemann sprints to the gold medal (August 30, 2014)
6. ↑ Exceptional talent is not allowed to go to Rio In: Nordwest-Zeitung from July 19, 2015
7. ↑ C-squad of the DTU ( Memento from July 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Triathlon Potsdam e. V. - Triathlon Bundesliga women
9. ↑ https://twitter.com/laura_lindemann/status/630828533934391296
10. ↑ ITU Points List | Elite Women (as of November 23, 2015)
11. ↑ ITU Olympic Qualification List: Rio 2016 | Women's Standings In: ITU May 14, 2016
12. ↑ Fabian Fiedler: Via Abu Dhabi to Rio de Janeiro In: tri-mag.de , January 28, 2016
13. ↑ Frank Wechsel: DTU nominates Lindemann, Knapp, Justus and Buchholz In: tri-mag.de June 19, 2016
14. ↑ Oliver Kubanek: "Apart from Anne Haug, nobody has a personal right to start Rio 2016" In: Deutsche Triathlon Union May 20, 2016
15. ↑ http://mobil.n-tv.de/sport/Laura-Lindemann-schreiben-an-Angela-Merkel-article18199151.html
16. ↑ Triathlete Laura Lindemann and two canoeists nominated ( memento from August 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: DOSB July 19, 2016
17. ↑ Nathalie Mainka: Spectacular finish sprint secures World Cup bronze In: Stuttgarter Zeitung July 18, 2016
18. ↑ Laura Lindemann is European Champion (June 24, 2017)
19. ↑ Angela Merkel gave her the last boost - Laura puts Hamburg in ecstasy (July 15, 2017)
20. ↑ DM Elite: Lindemann and Lührs cheer in Düsseldorf (July 2, 2018)
21. ↑ Best of 2016: Biggest Women's Rising Star (December 12, 2016)
22. ↑ Lindemann storms onto the podium in Hamburg (July 15, 2017)
23. ↑ Triathlon World Championship: Junior Laura Lindemann wins gold (August 30, 2014)
24. ↑ Haug and Zipf German champions for the first time (August 31, 2013)
25. ↑ Anniversary at the 20th Potsdam New Year's Eve Run (December 31, 2016)