Steffi Nerius
Steffi Nerius medal table |
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Germany | ||
Olympic games | ||
silver | 2004 Athens | 64.84 m |
World championships | ||
bronze | 2003 Paris | 62.70 m |
bronze | 2005 Helsinki | 65.96 m |
bronze | 2007 Osaka | 64.42 m |
gold | 2009 Berlin | 67.30 m |
European championships | ||
silver | 2002 Munich | 64.09 m |
gold | 2006 Gothenburg | 65.82 m |
Steffi Nerius (born July 1, 1972 in Bergen auf Rügen ) is a former German athlete and current trainer . She was the 2009 javelin world champion .
career path
Steffi Nerius is a qualified sports teacher with an A license from the DLV and works for TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen in disabled sports . In 2004 she looked after two athletes at the Paralympics in Athens . In 2016 she was a trainer at the Paralympics in Rio . She trains u. a. Markus Rehm .
Athletic career
Steffi Nerius began as a volleyball player and became a GDR student champion in the GDR with the team of Dynamo Saßnitz . Because she was too young for a volleyball career, she was sent to athletics . She acquired her athletic basics until 1986 at the SG Empor Saßnitz under the coach Günter Piniak . From 1987 to 1991 she started for SC Empor Rostock , then for TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen . She trained with Rudi Hars († 1996), later with Helge Zöllkau . Her mother, herself a GDR youth javelin champion and now a volleyball trainer, taught her how to throw a javelin.
In 1986 Steffi Nerius was delegated to the children's and youth sports school (from 1991 CJD Christophorus School ) in Rostock. In 1987 she came third in the GDR Children's and Youth Party in age group 14, and at the last GDR championships in 1990 she came fifth in the adult class.
In 1991 she achieved her first international success as third in the European Junior Championships. In the same year she moved from Rostock, where conditions for track and field athletes had deteriorated after the end of the GDR, to Leverkusen.
This was followed by years of stagnation, injuries and slumps at international highs. The only big success of the 1990s was the victory at the European Cup final in 1995 (68.42 m).
Her breakthrough to the top of the world came at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, where she was fourth with a width of 64.84 m.
After she has always been on the podium at major events since the European Championships in Munich in 2002 (the only German athlete who succeeded), but never at the top, she fulfilled her long-term dream on August 13, 2006 in Gothenburg and celebrated with the victory the European Championships her first major title. With 65.82 m she threw 18 cm further than the Czech Barbora Špotáková (65.64 m).
At the World Championships 2009 in Berlin, she won the gold medal with a width of 67.30 m at the end of her career.
In 2008 Nerius was awarded the Rudolf Harbig Memorial Prize by the German Athletics Association . In 2009 she was named athlete and athlete of the year in Germany.
Her personal best is 68.34 m and with the so-called old javelin 69.42 m. At a height of 1.78 meters, she had a competition weight of 72 kilograms
Success at international highlights
- 2000: Olympic Games : 4th place (64.84 m)
- 2001: World Championships : 5th place (62.08 m)
- 2002: European Championships : 2nd place (64.09 m)
- 2003: World Championships : 3rd place (62.70 m)
- 2004: Olympic Games : 2nd place (64.84 m)
- 2005: World Championships : 3rd place (65.96 m)
- 2006: European Championships : 1st place (65.82 m)
- 2007: World Championships : 3rd place (64.42 m)
- 2008: Olympic Games : 4th place (65.29 m)
- 2009: World Championships : 1st place (67.30 m)
Awards
- 2004: Athlete of the year
- 2008: Rudolf Harbig Memorial Prize
- 2008: "Felix" - Trainer of the Year from North Rhine-Westphalia
- 2009: Sportswoman of the year
- 2009: Athlete of the year
- 2009: "Felix" - Sportswoman of the Year from North Rhine-Westphalia
- 2011: Leverkusener Löwe for improving the reputation and image of the city of Leverkusen
Web links
- Steffi Nerius in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Official website
- Portrait on club side
- Steffi Nerius in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Athlete portrait on Leichtathletik.de ( Memento from April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- Entry in the Leverkusen who's who
Individual evidence
- ↑ Steffi Nerius ( Memento from March 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), athletics trainer, on: tsvbayer04.de, accessed March 12, 2018
- ↑ Paralympics: 18 athletes from TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the German team for Rio
- ↑ Sporting successes at the CJD Rostock ( memento from June 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), seen on May 30, 2011
- ↑ Steffi Nerius takes fourth place at the Olympic Games
- ↑ Steffi Nerius received the Leverkusen Lion
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Nerius, Steffi |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German athlete and trainer |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1972 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Mountains on Rügen |