Sanaa Koubaa

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Sanaa Koubaa athletics

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Sanaa Koubaa 2016

nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday January 6, 1985
place of birth Langenfeld , Germany
size 168 cm
Weight 57.5 kg
job Teacher
Career
discipline 3000 m obstacle , 1500 m , 3000 m , road run
Best performance Open air : 1500 m: 4: 13.48 min; 3000 m: 9: 20.65 min
2000 m Hi: 6: 20.80 min; 3000 m Hi: 9: 35.15 min;
Hall : 1500 m: 4: 27.00 min; 3000 m: 9: 30.87 min
society TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen , formerly: LG Hilden
Trainer Paul-Heinz Wellmann , formerly: Wolfgang Kamps
and Tobias Kofferschläger
status active
Medal table
German championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 2 × bronze
DLV logo German championships
silver Wattenscheid 2012 3000 m Hi
bronze Nuremberg 2015 3000 m Hi
bronze Kassel 2016 3000 m Hi
last change: July 25, 2016

Sanaa Koubaa-Schretzmair , b. Sanaa Koubaa, (born January 6, 1985 in Langenfeld (Rhineland) ) is a German athlete with Moroccan roots who specializes in obstacle and long-distance running, but also competes in road runs .

career path

Sanaa Koubaa visited the Elbseegrundschule in Hilden and made the Lore-Lorentz-Gymnasium in Dusseldorf her high school with a focus on sport and health. She studied social education with a focus on adventure and experience at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences , and wrote her thesis in 2008 . As a social worker, Koubaa worked for many years at her former elementary school, where she also taught sports. When she discovered when she started her career that she liked working with children, she began studying to be a teacher in Wuppertal, specializing in German, mathematics and sport. This triple burden of teaching in the morning, studying in the afternoon and training in the evening impaired her athletic performance, which in 2010 resulted in the abandonment of studies in favor of sport. The end of 2014 Koubaa went professionally and privately new ways moved to Cologne , joined the club and worked as a substitute teacher in Gummersbach and Kathe Kollwitz - vocational school in Remscheid worked. She is now employed full-time at a vocational school in Gummersbach.

Athletic career

Already in elementary school, Koubaa discovered her weakness for sport and her talent for athletics. Her class teacher at the time and long-time trainer had introduced her to athletics, and since 1994 she had been a successful athlete at LG Hilden .

In her youth, she won the West German Junior Championships over 1500 meters and was runner-up over 2000 meters in German youth championships. During her long sporting career, Koubaa was consistently one of the German top 6 in her discipline.

In the middle of her education studies, around 2006, an American coach offered her a sports scholarship in the USA . In the state of Oklahoma , Koubaa continued her studies and trained in the university's athletics team, but, despite the best conditions and a four-year contract, broke off her personal adventure after ten months because she trained too much, competed too much and over time slowed down.

Koubaa (back left) at the European Championships 2012 in Helsinki in the final of the 3000 m obstacle course

In 2012 Koubaa had her greatest successes to date, she became German runner-up in the 3000 meter obstacle course and reached the final at the European Championships in Helsinki . Participation in the Olympic Games in London was denied her because she did not meet the standard time. She missed this by 4 seconds in a run-up and had to pay tribute to the slow pace of the favorites in the final. Then followed two years of bad luck with injuries and illnesses.

In 2014, Koubaa reported back over 3000 meters with a 4th place at the German Championships .

In 2016, as in 2015, a third place at the German Championships followed . Koubaa did not take part in the European Championships in Amsterdam , she had missed the norm by seven hundredths of a second, and Jana Sussmann got the starting place. When she met the standards for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , she made it exciting again. Just two days before the deadline for compliance with standards managed Koubaa the Flanders Cup in Belgium Kortrijk the default and stayed with 9: 38.11 minutes for the first time in her career under 9:40 minutes, almost seven seconds under the Olympic standard and almost four seconds under her four year old best. With this, Koubaa had moved up to second place in the year's best list and was nominated for participation in Rio de Janeiro. This time Jana Sussmann was left behind, as she now took fourth place. In Rio, Koubaa took 27th place in the 3000 meter obstacle course with another personal best of 9: 35.15 min.

In 2017, Koubaa-Schretzmair had to undergo a prophylactic operation and skip the summer season.

Club memberships

Sanaa Koubaa has started for TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen since 2015 and was previously with LG Hilden for over 20 years .

Honors

  • 2017 Award from the city of Hilden.

family

Shortly after the 2016 Summer Olympics, she married and has been called Koubaa-Schretzmair ever since. She is the mother of a son.

Personal bests

As of August 4, 2016

Hall
  • 1500 m: 4: 27.00 min, Leverkusen , February 5, 2012
  • 3000 m: 9: 30.87 min, Leverkusen , January 14, 2012
open air

successes

national
international

Web links

Commons : Sanaa Koubaa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sanaa Schretzmair: "Over 70 km a week on the treadmill"
  2. ↑ Christian Werth: Sanaa Koubaa: Got up again after every setback , in: Laufreport.de (March 2015), accessed on July 30, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Moritz Müller: Sporty, committed, interested , athletics, on: rp-online.de, from June 27, 2008, accessed July 26, 2016
  4. ↑ a b c d e Dagmar Wienke: Sanaa Koubaa: "I still have potential, definitely" , on: dagmarwienke.de, from November 2012, available on July 25, 2016
  5. ↑ a b Birgit Sicker: Sanaa Koubaa dreams of the 2016 Olympics in Rio , athletics, on: rp-online.de, from November 15, 2014, accessed July 26, 2016
  6. ↑ Andreas Dach: Obstacles don't stop Sanaa Koubaa , athletics, on: rga.de, from July 11, 2016, accessed July 26, 2016
  7. ↑ a b Birgit Sicker: Koubaa succeeds in jumping to the Olympics , on :, July 17, 2016, accessed July 25, 2016
  8. ↑ Silke Morrissey: Sanaa Koubaa uses last chance for Rio , Meeting Kortrijk, on: Leichtathletik.de, July 9, 2016, accessed July 25, 2916
  9. ↑ a b Alexandra Dersch: Flash News of the Day - Sanaa Koubaa-Schretzmair is expecting a baby  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Notes, from: Leichtathletik.de, March 26, 2018, accessed March 27, 2018@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.leichtathletik.de  
  10. ↑ Sandra Grünwald: [1] , Hilden, on: rp-online.de, from April 3, 2017, accessed March 27, 2018
  11. ↑ Alexandra Dersch: Sanaa Koubaa - Olympia in Weiß , people, on: Leichtathletik.de, August 4, 2016, accessed March 27, 2018
  12. ↑ Sanaa Schretzmair: "Over 70 km a week on the treadmill"
personal data
SURNAME Koubaa, Sanaa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koubaa-Schretzmair, Sanaa (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German obstacle runner
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenfeld (Rhineland)