Maja Neuenschwander

Maja Neuenschwander
Maja Neuenschwander at the Olympic Summer Games in London, 2012
nation	Switzerland
birthday	13th February 1980 (age 40)
job	History and sports teacher
Career
Best performance	1:10:46 h (half marathon) 2:26:49 h (marathon, SR)
status	active
Medal table
Swiss championships 6 × 0 × 0 ×
Swiss championships gold 2001 Cross-country run long gold 2008 marathon gold 2010 Cross-country run long gold 2012 marathon gold Brugg 2013 10,000 meter run gold Zurich 2013 half marathon
last change: October 11, 2018

Maja Doris Neuenschwander (born February 13, 1980 ) is a Swiss historian and athlete . She specializes in long-distance running .

Career

Neuenschwander lives in Rubigen and is a history and sports teacher. She works part-time at the Eidgenössische Hochschule für Sport Magglingen (EHSM). She is trained by the former top runners Sandra Gasser and Beat Aeschbacher. She wrote her licentiate thesis with Christian Pfister on the topic of promoting top-class sport in Switzerland.

She started at the 2001 European Cross Country Championships (4.65 km) in Thun and finished 69th. In the same year she became Swiss cross-country champion and she was able to secure this title again in 2010.
At the Summer Universiade 2005 Maja Neuenschwander reached tenth place in the half marathon in Turkey in August . In 2008 and again in 2012 she became the Swiss marathon champion .

2012 Summer Olympics

In 2012 she started in London at the Summer Olympics and finished 53rd in the marathon . In 2014 she finished ninth at the European Championships in Zurich.

In April 2013 she finished second in the Hamburg marathon and in 2013 she was also the Swiss champion in the half marathon in 1:13:44 h.

In April 2015 she became the first Swiss woman to win the Vienna City Marathon . In autumn 2015, she increased her personal best at the Berlin Marathon to 2:26:49 h and improved the Swiss record significantly.

At the Grand Prix of Bern (run over ten miles through downtown Bern) she came second behind Martina Strähl in May 2018 . In 2018, the 38-year-old suffered a fatigue fracture and had to forego a planned participation in the European Athletics Championships 2018 in Berlin in August.

Sporting successes

• 2014: Swiss record 25 km: 1:27:01 (Big 25 Berlin)
• 2014: Swiss record marathon (WOM only): 2:31:08 (EC Zurich)
• 2015: Swiss record 15 km: 50: 21.0 (The Hague)
• 2015: Swiss record 20 km: 1:07:22 (The Hague)
• 2015: Swiss record marathon: 2:26:49 (Berlin)

Personal best

• Half marathon : 1:10:46 h, March 11, 2018 in The Hague
• Marathon : 2:26:49 h, September 27, 2015 in Berlin

literature

• 'Winners don't fall from the sky'. Promotion of elite sport in Switzerland 1964 - 2000 ; Bern 2008.

Web links

Commons : Maja Neuenschwander  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Maja Neuenschwander's website
• Maja Neuenschwander in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Report about Maja Neuenschwander in derbund.ch 2010
• Maja Neuenschwander in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kreienbühl runs to the championship title - Spirig strong (September 21, 2013)
2. ↑ New duel between Anna Hahner and Caroline Chepkwony (March 17, 2015)
3. ↑ Maja Neuenschwander with a fatigue fracture (September 10, 2018)