Lisa Mayer (athlete)

Lisa Mayer
Mayer at the 2016 European Championships in Amsterdam
nation	Germany
birthday	2nd May 1996 (age 24)
place of birth	Giessen ,  Germany
size	171 cm
Weight	57 kg
job	Student (German Studies and Geography)
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	60 m: 7.12 s (hall) 100 m: 11.14 s (−0.2 m / s) 200 m: 22.64 s (+1.7 m / s)
society	Sprint team Wetzlar
Trainer	David Corell, formerly: Rüdiger Harksen , Rainer Finkernagel
status	active
Medal table
World Relays 1 × 0 × 1 × U20 world championships 0 × 0 × 1 × European championships 0 × 0 × 1 × U20 European Championships 0 × 1 × 0 × German championships 0 × 2 × 0 × German indoor championships 0 × 1 × 2 ×
IAAF World Relays gold Nassau 2017 4 × 100 m bronze Yokohama 2019 4 × 100 m  European championships bronze Amsterdam 2016 4 × 100 m  Junior World Championships bronze Eugene 2014 4 × 100 m  Junior European Championships silver Eskilstuna 2015 100 m  German championships silver Kassel 2016 100 m silver Kassel 2016 200 m  German indoor championships silver Leipzig 2016 200 m bronze Leipzig 2017 60 m bronze Leipzig 2020 60 m
last change: August 26, 2020

Lisa Mayer (born May 2, 1996 in Gießen , Hessen ) is a German athlete who specializes in 100 and 200 meter runs .

career path

After graduating from high school in 2014 at the Butzbacher Weidigschule , Mayer is currently studying German and geography . The move followed in autumn, accompanied by the opportunity to train daily and not just twice a week in the athletics hall in Kalbach .

She was part of the Hesse team in 2016 , those athletes who are supported by Sporthilfe and enjoy the highest level of support in order to prepare themselves as well as possible for the upcoming major sporting events.

Athletic career

Lisa Mayer had no weakness for sport when her talent was discovered at the turn of the year 2007/2008. Her interest was piqued when she won the forest run district championships in March 2008. When trying out their skills, it turned out that throwing disciplines are not their thing.

In the following years Mayer won several titles and was three times champion at the Hessian indoor championships in Stadtallendorf in the age group of 15-year-old students (W15): over 60 meters , in the long jump and on the 300-meter long sprint distance of the students.

In 2013 Mayer qualified for participation in the U18 world championships and finished seventh in the 200-meter run.

In 2014 she became German U20 runner-up in the 100 meters and came third with the 4 x 100 meter relay at the U20 World Championships .

2015, the achievements lined up: German university hall champion and German U20-Halle runner- each over 60 meters, German U20-Halle champion over 200 meters, German U20 champion and German U23 runner- each about 100 and 200 meters, as well as U20 European Vice Champion in the 100 meters .

2016 started just as successfully for Mayer as the German university hall champion over 60 meters and German vice champion over 200 meters. During the training camp in the USA to prepare for the European Championship and Olympic season, she made her first appearance in the active class on April 30th in a test competition with a world-class cast in Clermont (Florida) and achieved the norm for in a personal best of 23.06 s the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . Mayer was not only the fastest European, but also beat the Hessian record (23.17 s) set by Christiane Kaufmann in 1972. One week later, on May 7th, when the railway opened in Wetzlar , the standard for the 100-meter route was complied with with 11.25 seconds. Mayer ran the world best time of 42.00 s on June 5, 2016 at the Sparkasse Gala in Regensburg in the 4 x 100 meter relay with Tatjana Pinto , Gina Lückenkemper and Rebekka Haase and improved her own on the 200 meter distance personal best to 23.04 s. In June she won two runner-up titles at the German championships , over 100 and 200 meters. At the European Championships in Amsterdam in 2016 , she won the bronze medal with the German relay. At the Olympic Games she took fourth place with the German 4 x 100 meter relay. In the 200-meter run she reached the semi-finals.

In 2017 Mayer started with a third place at the German indoor championships over the 60 meters. In April 2017 she won gold for Germany at the World Relays in the Bahamas with the 4 x 100 meter relay consisting of Alexandra Burghardt, Lisa Mayer, Tatjana Pinto and Rebekka Haase (42.84 s) in front of the international top -Teams from Jamaica, China and the Netherlands. Although she was able to set a personal best in her parade discipline, the 200 m, early in the competition season at the Kurpfalzgala in Weinheim, her season did not go as planned due to an injury. So she had to do without a single start at the World Championships . But there she took fourth place with the 4 x 100 meter relay (Pinto, Mayer, Lückenkemper, Haase).

In 2018, Mayer was able to increase her personal best over 60 meters at the indoor meeting in Karlsruhe to 7.12 seconds, but shortly afterwards canceled her participation in the German indoor championships. Because of a thigh injury, she had to announce her season out in the middle of the year, which meant that the start at the European Home Championships in Berlin was canceled.

In 2019, after surviving an injury break, Mayer was nominated for the 4 x 100 meter relay at the World Relays in Yokohama , the unofficial relay world championships, and won bronze in the team with Lisa Marie Kwayie , Alexandra Burghardt , Gina Lückenkemper and Rebekka Haase . However, this was her only appearance in the season, because muscular problems paired with flu-like infections forced her to end the season.

In 2020 she took bronze in the German Indoor Championships in Leipzig in 7.24 seconds over 60 meters . At the German championships in Braunschweig, which were held later than planned due to the Covid 19 pandemic , Mayer qualified for the finals of the 100-meter run, but had to withdraw at short notice because her flexor caused problems. Due to her continuing injury concerns, she said she needed a fresh start and started training with David Corell at the end of August.

Mayer was part of the Olympic squad of the German Athletics Association (DLV) and has been in the perspective squad since 2018/19 .

Club affiliations

Lisa Mayer started for LG Langgöns / Oberkleen in her youth . In 2017 she switched to the Wetzlar sprint team .

Private

Mayer is in a relationship with the 800-meter runner Marc Reuther (* 1996).

Top performances

Hall

• 60 m: 7.12 s, Karlsruhe, Indoor Meeting, February 3, 2018
• 200 m: 23.30 s, Leipzig, German Indoor Championships , February 28, 2016

open air

• 100 m: 11.14 s (−0.2 m / s) , Berlin, August 27, 2017
• 200 m: 22.64 s (+1.7 m / s) , Weinheim, May 27, 2017

successes

National

• 2014: German U20 runner-up (100 m)
• 2015: German university hall champion (60 m)
• 2015: German U20 indoor runner-up (60 m)
• 2015: German U20 indoor champion (200 m)
• 2015: German U20 champion (100 m and 200 m)
• 2015: German U23 runner-up (100 and 200 m)
• 2016: German university hall champion (60 m)
• 2016: 5th place German indoor championships (60 m)
• 2016: German indoor runner-up (200 m)
• 2016: German runner-up (100 and 200 m)
• 2017: 3rd place German indoor championships (60 m)
• 2020: 3rd place German indoor championships (60 m)

International

• 2013: 7th place U18 World Championships (200 m)
• 2014: 3rd place U20 World Championships (4 × 100 m)
• 2015: U20 European Champion (100 m)
• 2016: 3rd place European Championships (4 × 100 m)
• 2016: 4th place Olympic Games (4 × 100 m)
• 2017: 1st place World Relays (4 × 100 m)
• 2017: 4th place World Championships (4 × 100 m)
• 2019: 3rd place World Relays (4 × 100 m)

Web links

Commons : Lisa Mayer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Lisa Mayer in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Lisa Mayer in the database of European Athletics (English)
• EM 2016 Amsterdam team brochure of the DLV, p. 35
• Athlete portrait on Leichtathletik.de
• U20-EM 2015 Eskilstuna team brochure of the DLV, p. 27
• Competitive performance in the athletics database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Uwe Martin: Lisa Mayer takes off , on: hlv.de, from July 4, 2013, accessed March 10, 2018
2. ↑ Tammo Lotz: Lisa Mayer - Waiting for the attack , people, on: Leichtathletik.de, February 13, 2015, accessed June 6, 2016
3. ↑ ^{a b} Tammo Lotz: Gold / Silber / Gold in 80 Minuten , on: hlv.de, from February 17, 2015, accessed March 10, 2018
4. ↑ Hessenteam 2016 , on: stiftung-sporthilfe-hessen.de, accessed June 7, 2016
5. ↑ Lisa Mayer Festival in the Herrenwaldhalle , on: giessener-allgemeine.de, from March 2, 2011, accessed June 7, 2016
6. ↑ Sports from the region. Lisa Mayer cracks the Rio norm ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2016 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. , on: Mittelhessen.de, from May 1, 2016, accessed June 7, 2016 
7. ↑ Alexandra Dersch: Out of season for Lisa Mayer , injury bad luck, on: Leichtathletik.de, June 30, 2018, accessed February 23, 2020
8. ↑ Injury: top sprinter Lisa Mayer misses home European Championship. Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 30, 2018, accessed on August 21, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Alexandra Dersch: Lisa Mayer wants to forget about injury concerns , Back in training, on: Leichtathletik.de, October 29, 2019, accessed February 23, 2020
10. ↑ Lisa Mayer starts preparing for the Olympics with trainer David Corell , change of trainer, on: Leichtathletik.de, from August 26, 2020, accessed August 27, 2020