Ruth Sophia Spelmeyer

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Spelmeyer at the German Championships 2015

Full name Ruth Sophia Spelmeyer
nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 19th September 1990 (age 29)
place of birth Goettingen ,  Germany
size 173 cm
Weight 60 kg
job Student (psychology)
Career
discipline 200 m , 400 m
Best performance Hall: 60 m: 7.60 s; 200 m: 23.90 s
Open air: 200 m: 23.43 s; 400 m: 51.43 s
society VfL Oldenburg
Trainer Edgar Eisenkolb,
first trainer: Jürgen Wegner
status active
Medal table
U20 European Championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
German championships 3 × gold 2 × silver 1 × bronze
German indoor championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
EAA logo Junior European Championships
gold Novi Sad 2009 4 × 100
DLV logo German championships
silver Ulm 2013 400 m
silver Ulm 2014 400 m
gold Wattenscheid 2015 400 m
gold Kassel 2016 400 m
gold Erfurt 2017 400 m
bronze Braunschweig 2020 400 m
DLV logo German indoor championships
bronze Leipzig 2014 400 m
gold Karlsruhe 2015 400 m
last change: August 17, 2020

Ruth Sophia Spelmeyer (born September 19, 1990 in Göttingen ) is a German athlete who specializes in the 400-meter run .

Life

Spelmeyer is the daughter of an emigrated Argentine woman and a Protestant pastor. After passing the Abitur in May 2010, she moved to Hanover to study German and philosophy and to train in the sports center . Spelmeyer has been studying psychology in Hildesheim since 2011 and lives in a shared flat for athletes in Hanover. She still belongs to her hometown club in Oldenburg.

Athletic career

As a ten-year-old Spelmeyer started athletics at DSC Oldenburg , but soon stopped again. At the age of 14 she started again at VfL Oldenburg , where her sprinting ability proved . Since then she has been active as a competitive athlete . Over 100 as well as over 300 meters she became national champion. In addition, there was the North German title in the 300-meter long sprint.

Spelmeyer won a German championship title for the first time at the German youth championships in Berlin in 2008 , back then over 200 meters . In 2009 she repeated this success and was also runner-up in the juniors. At the U20 European Championships in the same year, she finished 4th over 200 meters and became U20 European champion with the 4 x 100 meter relay . In the following year Spelmeyer still contested her first German championship in the adults over the 200 meters . She completed her first run over 400 meters in 2011 at the North German Championships in Celle. There she qualified for the 2011 German Championships in 54.91 s , where she qualified for the finals two weeks later with an increase in 54.19 s. In 2012 Spelmeyer became German U23 runner-up over 400 meters.

Spelmeyer had her international baptism of fire at the 2013 European Team Championships in Gateshead in the north-east of England , where she came in 6th place as the final runner with the 4 x 400 relay and became Vice European Champion with the team.

After a 3rd place indoors and a runner-up in the open air over 400 meters at the German championships in 2014, Spelmeyer won both German championship titles in 2015. With a personal best of 52.04 s, she took 4th place at the Universiade in Gwangju ( South Korea ) over 400 meters in the same year .

At the beginning of 2016, Spelmeyer was unable to defend her indoor title due to an infection. On June 4, 2016, she achieved the Olympic standard at the Sparkasse Gala in Regensburg with a personal best of 51.92 seconds. In Kassel she became German champion with 52.17 seconds and thus secured herself participation in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she was eliminated in the semifinals of the 400-meter run, because of the norm she had achieved.

At the European Indoor Championships 2017 in Belgrade , Spelmeyer came in 6th place with the 4 x 400 meter relay . At the IAAF World Relays 2017 in Nassau (Bahamas) , the 4 x 400 meter relay with Laura Müller , Laura Gläsner , Lara Hoffmann and Spelmeyer came fourth in the lead with reference to rule 170.11 and a different one compared to the report Starting order disqualified. In the northern French town of Lille , Spelmeyer was team European champion , to which she contributed with a 3rd place in the 4 x 400 meter relay. At the German Championships , she won the 400-meter run for the third time in a row. Spelmeyer was nominated for the World Championships in London , where she was eliminated as the second fastest European in the semi-finals of the 400-meter run . With Laura Müller, Nadine Gonska and Hannah Mergenthaler , she came in 6th place in the 4 x 400 meter relay.

In 2018 Spelmeyer had to forego the indoor season due to injury, and later also the outdoor season and therefore the preparations for the European Championships in Berlin .

Spelmeyer belongs to the Olympic squad of the German Athletics Association (DLV) and was previously part of the DLV B-squad .

Honors

  • Oldenburg Athlete of the Year 2015. She won the women's vote for the fourth time within five years and, with her two triumphs in the junior division, she is the record individual winner of the Oldenburg athlete election.
  • As Lower Saxony's Sportswoman of the Year 2017 at the Hanoverian "Ball des Sports" in 2018 awarded.

Personal bests

(As of May 16, 2019)

Hall
  • 60 meters: 7.60 s, February 6, 2016 in Hanover
  • 200 meters: 23.90 s on February 7, 2016 in Hanover
  • 400 meters: 52.87 s, February 21, 2015 in Karlsruhe
open air
  • 100 meters: 11.83 s (+0.8 m / s) , May 31, 2014 in Hanover
  • 200 meters: 23.43 s (+0.8 m / s) , July 29, 2016 in Mannheim
  • 400 meters: 51.43 s, August 13, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro

successes

national
international

Web links

Commons : Ruth Sophia Spelmeyer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Family separated at the final. In: nwzonline.de. July 11, 2014, accessed May 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Bernd Teuber: Ruth Spelmeyer has the Olympics firmly in her sights , athlete from Oldenburg, on: nwzonline.de, from December 2, 2015, accessed June 13, 2016
  3. ↑ Ruth Sophia Spelmeyer - 2011 ( Memento from June 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), on: portallogin1.de, accessed June 14, 2016
  4. ↑ Ambassador for the sports city of Oldenburg , um-bt, on: nlv-la.de, from December 21, 2015, accessed June 14, 2016
  5. ↑ Ruth Sophia Spelmeyer - Detours to happiness. In: Leichtathletik.de. October 24, 2013, accessed May 16, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Spelmeyer Ruth Sophia ( Memento from June 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), on: gwangju2015.com, accessed June 14, 2016
  7. ↑ Silke Bernhart: DLV sprinters storm the relay silver , World Relays 2017, on: Leichtathletik.de, from April 23, 2017, accessed July 4, 2017
  8. ↑ Pamela Ruprecht / Jan-Henner Reitze: Hallen-DM 2018 Dortmund: The big preview of women From discipline to discipline, on: Leichtathletik.de, from February 14, 2018, accessed July 24, 2018
  9. ↑ Alexandra Dersch: EM-Aus for Ruth Sophia Spelmeyer - Jackie Baumann also injures injury concerns, on: Leichtathletik.de, June 19, 2018, accessed July 24, 2018
  10. ↑ Silke Bernhart: Flash News of the Day - Ruth Sophia Spelmeyer again symptom-free Notes, on: Leichtathletik.de, from May 10, 2018, accessed July 24, 2018
  11. ↑ Birgit Surmann: Ruth Spelmeyer and Kathrin Walter are "Sportswomen of the Year 2015" , on: Leichtathletik-in-oldenburg.de, April 12, 2016, accessed June 13, 2016
  12. ↑ Simon Lange: Peschel and Spelmeyer are athletes of the year , Ball des Sports, on: haz.de, February 9, 2018 9:33 p.m., updated February 9, 2018 11:13 p.m., accessed February 12, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Spelmeyer, Ruth Sophia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spelmeyer, Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen , Germany