Lena Urbaniak
Lena Urbaniak 
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| birthday | 31st October 1992 (age 27) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| size | 174 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| job | Bachelor (International Management) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Shot put | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best performance | 18.32 m (hall) 18.02 m (open air) |
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| society | LG Filstal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| End of career | 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lena Urbaniak (born October 31, 1992 in Schwäbisch Gmünd , Baden-Württemberg ) is a former German athlete who specialized in the shot put .
career path
From 2008 Urbaniak attended the boarding school of the Olympic training center in Stuttgart and the Wirtemberg-Gymnasium in Stuttgart and became a sports soldier and management student at the HS Ansbach as part of the dual career . Urbaniak submitted her bachelor thesis in mid-February 2018.
Athletic career
The mother-child gymnastics was followed by handball and karate. When she was 14, Urbaniak chose athletics because she enjoyed it the most. After many national and international victories in the youth and junior division and several medals in the active category, Urbaniak became German champion in 2015 for the first time when she won the title at the German Indoor Championships in 2015 .
At the Universiade 2015 in Gwangju (South Korea), she not only won the shot put, but also reached the 18-meter mark for the first time with exactly 18.00 m.
Since Urbaniak has been eligible to start as a student at Ansbach University, she became German university champion in the hall and outdoors for the fourth time in a row in 2016 .
With a victory and a new personal best in the hall of 18.32 m, she finished the German Indoor Championships 2016 . At the World Indoor Championships in Portland (Oregon) in 2016 , her first World Cup participation, Urbaniak came in 7th place. At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , she was eliminated in qualification.
In 2017 Urbaniak took second place at the German University Championships, and the General German University Sports Association (adh) nominated her for the Summer Universiade in Taipei , where she came in 7th place.
In 2018 she became German university champion in the hall and German hall vice champion . With the team, Urbaniak took 1st place at the European Winter Throwing Cup in Leiria , to which she contributed by finishing 9th in the individual. In mid-June, she announced that she could no longer train due to physical complaints and had to end the season.
In 2019, Urbaniak will not start in the indoor season and announced her retirement from competitive sports at the end of February because her health is important to her.
Club affiliations
Urbaniak started for LG Filstal , and their trainers were Peter Salzer and formerly Roland Müßnest.
Honors
- Elite student of the year 2010 at the Elite School of Sports in Stuttgart
- University Sportswoman of the Year 2015 of the General German University Sports Association (adh)
Trivia
Her sister Katinka, who is one and a half years younger, was in the final of the 2010 Summer Youth Olympic Games and won bronze at the U18 World Championships in 2011 .
successes
- national
- 2009: German B youth champion
- 2010: German youth champion
- 2011: German youth hall champion
- 2013: 3rd place German championships
- 2013: German junior runner-up (U23)
- 2014: German runner-up
- 2014: 3rd place German Junior Championships (U23)
- 2015: German runner-up
- 2015: German indoor champion
- 2016: German indoor champion
- 2016: German runner-up
- 2017: 4th place German championships
- 2018: German indoor runner-up
- international
- 2009: U18 world champion
- 2011: U20 European champion
- 2013: 3rd place U23 European Championships
- 2015: 11th place European Indoor Championships
- 2015: Gold Summer Universiade
- 2016: 7th place indoor world championships
- 2018: Winterthrow European Cup (1st place team, 9th place individual)
Web links
- Lena Urbaniak in the database of World Athletics (English)
- 2016 Indoor World Championships Portland Team Brochure by DLV, p. 15 (pdf 9.9 MB)
- Lena Urbaniak in a portrait on sportschau.de
Footnotes
- ↑ Shot putter Lena Urbaniak "Elite Student of the Year" , on: wlv-sport.de, accessed April 1, 2016
- ↑ Lena Urbaniak is Germany's University Athlete of the Year , Award, pm / pr, November 22, 2015, accessed April 1, 2016
- ↑ Jochen Weis: Böhmenkirch: Shot putter Lena Urbaniak: "I live my sport" , on: swp.de, from December 31, 2015, accessed April 1, 2016
- ↑ GZ report on Lena Urbaniak - February 21, 2018, on: tg-geislingen.de, February 22, 2018, accessed March 14, 2018
- ↑ Portraits of athletes from the European Indoor Athletics Championships 2015 , from: Leichtathletik.de, accessed April 1, 2016
- ↑ Alexandra Dersch: Flash News of the Day - Season-Off by Lena Urbaniak , Notes, on: Leichtathletik.de, June 19, 2018, accessed December 31, 2019
- ^ WLV of March 1, 2019
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Urbaniak, Lena |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1992 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwäbisch Gmünd |