Sarah Lagger

Sarah Lagger
Lagger at the 2017 U20 European Championships
nation	Austria
birthday	3rd September 1999 (age 20)
place of birth	Spittal an der Drau , Austria
size	175 cm
Career
discipline	Heptathlon , pentathlon , long jump
Best performance	6225 points, 4372 points, 6.31 m
society	TGW decathlon union
Trainer	Georg Werthner
status	active
Medal table
U20 world championships 1 × 1 × 0 × U20 European Championships 0 × 0 × 1 × U18 world championships 0 × 1 × 0 × U18 European Championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
U20 world championships gold Bydgoszcz 2016 5960 points silver Tampere 2018 6225 points  U20 European Championships bronze Grosseto 2017 6083 points  U18 world championships silver Cali 2015 5992 points  U18 European Championships silver Tbilisi 2016 6175 points
last change: May 16, 2020

Sarah Lagger (born September 3, 1999 in Spittal an der Drau ) is an Austrian heptathlete .

Athletic career

In 2015 Sarah Lagger set a new U18 world record in a heptathlon in Carinthia at the age of 15 and thus qualified for participation in the U18 World Championships in Cali , where she won the silver medal with 5992 points. The following year, she won the silver medal at the U18 European Championships, which was held for the first time, and had to admit defeat to the Ukrainian Alina Schuch .

Just a week later, she also took part in the U20 World Championships and surprisingly won the gold medal with a new Austrian junior record of 5960 points. At the Hypomeeting 2017 in Götzis, she improved her own personal best to 6012 points, making it only the third Austrian who exceeded this mark. At the U20 European Championships in Grosseto, she won the bronze medal with a new personal bursting mark of 6083 points.

In 2018 Sarah Lagger improved her own junior record at the Hympomeeting to 6156 points and qualified for the European Championships in Berlin . She then took part as defending champion in the U20 World Championships in Tampere , Finland , and had to admit defeat there despite the increase to 6225 points by Briton Niamh Emerson . At the European Championships she scored 6058 points and thus reached rank 13. The following year she took part in the U23 European Championships in Gävle and came there with 6026 points in fifth place, which was the first time she won a medal at the junior championships.

In 2015 and 2017 Lagger was Austrian champion in the long jump outdoors and in 2015 and 2019 also in the hall. In addition, she became national champion in the heptathlon in 2017 and 2018 and in the indoor pentathlon in 2016. In 2017 she also won the championship title with the 4 x 100 meter relay and in 2018 the indoor championship title in the high jump. In 2020 she won the indoor championships in the shot put and in the 4 x 200 meter relay. According to the evaluation of the IAAF World Annual Best List 2018, the three Austrian heptathletes Sarah Lagger (6225 points), Verena Preiner (6337 points; Union Ebensee) and Ivona Dadic (6552 points; Union St. Pölten) took first place in the global nation ranking for the first time.

Personal best

• High jump: 1.79 m, August 29, 2015 in Wels
  • High jump (hall): 1.77 m, February 18, 2018 in Wels
• Long jump: 6.31 m (+0.6 m / s), August 8, 2015 in Kapfenberg
  • Long jump (hall): 6.18 m February 16, 2019 in Vienna
• Shot put: 15.23 m, July 11, 2019 in Gävle
  • Shot put (hall): 14.98 m, February 22, 2020 in Linz
• Heptathlon: 6225 points, July 13, 2018 in Tampere ( Austrian junior record )

discipline	Result	Points
100 m hurdles	14.21 s	949
high jump	1.77 m	941
Shot put	14.38 m	819
200 m	24.86 s	900
Long jump	6.15 m	896
Javelin throw	45.76 m	778
800 m	2: 11.53 min	942

• Pentathlon (hall): 4372 points, February 3, 2019 in Linz

discipline	Result	Points
60 m hurdles	9.09 s	891
high jump	1.75 m	916
Shot put	14.01 m	795
Long jump	6.17 m	902
800 m	2: 16.80 min	868

Web links

Commons : Sarah Lagger  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Sarah Lagger in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete profile at the ÖLV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Phil Minshull: Shukh's world U18 heptathlon best highlights European Youth Championships ( English ) IAAF. July 17, 2016. Retrieved May 28, 2017.
2. ↑ Jon Mulkeen: Report: heptathlon day two - IAAF World U20 Championships Bydgoszcz 2016 ( English ) IAAF. July 22, 2016. Retrieved May 29, 2017.
3. ↑ List of results from the Hypomeeting in Götzis 2017
4. ↑ Heptathlon: Shukh edges out Ruckstuhl . In: grosseto2017.eu . ( grosseto2017.eu [accessed August 9, 2017]).
5. ↑ Austria's number 1 female heptathlete in the world