Tatjana Pinto

Tatjana Pinto
Pinto (right) after winning the bronze medal over 100 meters at the U20 European Championships 2011 in Tallinn
Full name	Tatjana Lofamakanda Pinto
nation	Germany
birthday	2nd July 1992 (age 28)
place of birth	Munster , Germany
size	170 cm
Weight	56 kg
job	Student ( social work )
Career
discipline	60 meters , 100 meters , 200 meters
Best performance	Hall : 60 meters 7.06 s; 200 meters 23.19 s Open air : 100 meters 11.00 s; 200 meters 22.63 s
society	LC Paderborn , formerly: LG Ratio Münster
Trainer	Rana Reider, previously Thomas Prange ; Elke and Frank Bartschat; Thomas Kremer; Nanny Wichmann
Medal table
Junior World Championships 0 × 1 × 0 × European championships 1 × 0 × 2 × U23 European Championships 1 × 0 × 1 × Junior European Championships 1 × 0 × 1 × German championships 4 × 1 × 1 × German indoor championships 3 × 2 × 2 ×
European championships gold 2012 Helsinki 4 × 100 m bronze 2016 Amsterdam 4 × 100 m bronze 2018 Berlin 4 × 100 m  U23 European Championships gold 2013 Tampere 4 × 100 m bronze 2013 Tampere 100 m  Junior World Championships silver 2010 Moncton 4 × 100 m  Junior European Championships gold 2011 Tallinn 4 × 100 m bronze 2011 Tallinn 100 m  German championships silver 2012 Wattenscheid 100 m gold 2014 Ulm 100 m gold 2016 Kassel 100 m bronze 2017 Erfurt 100 m gold 2019 Berlin 100 m gold 2019 Berlin 200 m  German indoor championships bronze 2012 Karlsruhe 60 m silver 2013 Dortmund 60 m gold 2016 Leipzig 60 m silver 2016 Leipzig 4 × 200 m gold 2018 Dortmund 60 m and 200 m bronze 2018 Dortmund 4 × 200 m
last change: August 5, 2019

Tatjana Lofamakanda Pinto (born July 2, 1992 in Münster ) is a German athlete who specializes in sprinting . She was German champion in 2014 , 2016 and 2019 over 100 meters as well as in 2019 in 200 meters and was European champion in 2012 with the 4 x 100 meter relay .

Life and career path

Tatjana Pinto is the daughter of a Portuguese father and an Angolan mother. She grew up in her native city of Münster. In 2012 she completed her high school diploma in social and health care. Pinto studies social work .

Athletic career

Pinto didn't start athletics until the age of 14 , having previously tried ballet , swimming, and volleyball .

Pinto achieved his first international success in the junior division. At the 2010 Junior World Championships in Moncton ( Canada ), she won the silver medal in the 4 x 100 meter relay and finished sixth in the 100 meter run. At the European Junior Championships 2011 in Tallinn ( Estonia ) she won the bronze medal over 100 meters and the title with the relay. The team around Alexandra Burghardt , Katharina Grompe , Tatjana Pinto and Anna-Lena Freese improved the 23-year-old junior European record to 43.42 seconds.

In 2012, Pinto increased her 100-meter best at the Kurpfalz-Gala in Weinheim by 27 hundredths of a second to 11.19 s. In doing so, she fulfilled the qualification standard of the German Athletics Association for the Olympic Games in London and secured her participation. At the European Championships in Helsinki , Pinto won the title in the 4 x 100 meter relay together with Leena Günther , Anne Cibis and Verena Sailer . She finished eighth in the 100-meter run.

At the Olympic Games in London , Pinto reached fifth place in the 4 x 100 meter relay with Günther, Cibis and Sailer. Over 100 meters, she retired prematurely as fourth in her run in 11.39 s. In 2013, she won the bronze medal and the relay title at the U23 European Championships in Tampere (Finland) over 100 meters. In Ulm , she became German champion on the 100-meter course at the 113th German championships in 2014 with a time of 11.20 s.

At the German Indoor Championships in Leipzig in 2016 she was German champion over the 60-meter distance with 7.07 s and moved to third place in the current world rankings behind Dafne Schippers (7.00 s) and Marie Josée Ta Lou (7, 06 s). So she ran the fourth-best time of a German athlete to date. Only the three GDR sprinters Marita Koch (7.04 s), Silke Möller (7.04 s) and Katrin Krabbe (7.06 s) ran faster times. At German indoor championships, only Katrin Krabbe was ever faster. With this performance Pinto managed to get a place in the squad for the 16th World Indoor Championships in Portland , where she was eliminated as the fifth of her semi-final run with 7.22 s.

In Kassel , she was able to repeat her success from 2014 and again became German champion in the 100-meter course at the 116th German Championships in 2016 with a time of 11.22 seconds. She qualified for the European Championships in Amsterdam , where she was sixth over 100 meters and won bronze in the sprint relay. On July 29, 2016, at a meeting in Mannheim , she set a new personal best over the 100-meter distance with 11.00 s and a tail wind of 1.2 meters per second. At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , she took fourth place with the German 4 x 100 meter relay. In the 100-meter run she reached the semi-finals.

In 2017 Pinto won the silver medal in the 4 x 200 meter relay in a time of 1: 30.68 min at the IAAF World Relays 2017 in the Bahamas, together with Lara Matheis , Rebekka Haase and Gina Lückenkemper . The team narrowly prevailed against the team from the United States. In Erfurt she took 3rd place at the German championships in the 100 meter run.

In 2018, Pinto won the 60 m title at the German Indoor Championships with a personal best and a championship record of 7.06 s and the 200 m title one day later with a personal best of 23.19 s. With the 4 x 200 meter relay of the LC Paderborn she came in 3rd place. This she achieved months later in August at the European Championships with the 4 x 100 meter relay.

In 2019, as the reigning German indoor champion, Pinto was unable to defend her title over 60 and 200 meters due to problems with the ischial tuberosity and, due to the lack of training, also decided not to start at the European indoor championships and the so-called relay world championships because she is preparing for the world championships in the long term .

At the German championships she won double gold with a season best over 100 and personal best of 22.65 s over 200 meters.

Tatjana Pinto is 1.70 m tall and has a competition weight of 56 kg.

Club affiliations

Pinto has competed for the LC Paderborn since 2016. Until 2015 she started for the LG Brillux Münster , which until 2013 was called LG Ratio Münster.
She has been trained by Rana Reider since March 2019, after having previously been supervised by Thomas Prange , by Frank and Elke Bartschat until 2012 and by Thomas Kremer until 2014.

Awards

• Tatjana Pinto was named Sportswoman of the Year by the Sports Association of the City of Münster at the Ball des Sports 2010 .
• In 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2020 Pinto received the Sportswoman of the Year award from her hometown Paderborn in mid-January .

Best times

(As of September 30, 2019)

Hall

• 60 m: 7.06 s, February 17, 2018, Dortmund
• 200 m: 23.19 s, February 18, 2018, Dortmund

open air

• 100 m: 11.00 s (+1.2 m / s) , July 29, 2016, Mannheim
• 200 m: 22.63 s, September 30, 2019, Doha

successes

national

• 2009: 2nd place German championships (B-youth / U18; 100 m)
• 2009: 1st place German championships (A-youth / U20; 4 × 100 m)
• 2010: 2nd place German championships (A-youth / U20; 100 m)
• 2010: 2nd place German championships (A-youth / U20; 4 × 100 m)
• 2010: 2nd place German indoor championships (A-youth / U20; 60 m)
• 2011: 1st place German championships (A-youth / U20; 100 m)
• 2012: 3rd place German indoor championships (60 m)
• 2012: 2nd place German Championships (100 m)
• 2013: 2nd place German indoor championships (60 m)
• 2014: 1st place German U23 championships (100 m)
• 2014: 1st place German Championships (100 m)
• 2016: 1st place German indoor championships (60 m)
• 2016: 2nd place German indoor championships (4 × 200 m)
• 2016: 1st place German Championships (100 m)
• 2017: 3rd place German Championships (100 m)
• 2018: 1st place German indoor championships (60 m and 200 m)
• 2018: 3rd place German indoor championships (4 × 200 m)
• 2018: 4th place German championships (4 × 100 m)
• 2019: 1st place German Championships (100 m and 200 m)

international

• 2009: 5th place European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) (100 m)
• 2009: 5th place European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) (4 × 100 m)
• 2010: 6th place U20 World Championships (100 m)
• 2010: 2nd place U20 World Championships (4 × 100 m)
• 2011: 3rd place U20 European Championships (100 m)
• 2011: 1st place U20 European Championships (4 × 100 m)
• 2012: 8th place European Championships (100 m)
• 2012: 1st place European Championships (4 × 100 m)
• 2012: 5th place Olympic Games (4 × 100 m)
• 2013: 3rd place U23 European Championships (100 m)
• 2013: 1st place U23 European Championships (4 × 100 m)
• 2016: 6th place European Championships (100 m)
• 2016: 3rd place European Championships (4 × 100 m)
• 2016: 4th place Olympic Games (4 × 100 m)
• 2018: Semi-finals Indoor World Championships (60 m)
• 2018: 3rd place European Championships (4 × 100 m)

Web links

Commons : Tatjana Pinto  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Tatjana Pinto in the database of World Athletics (English)
• 2016 Indoor World Championships Portland Team Brochure by DLV, p. 13 (pdf 9.9 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten: Tatjana Pinto from Münster celebrates Olympic premiere , Welt Online August 3, 2012
2. ↑ Martin Ilgen: After EM gold: All of Münster is proud of Tatjana Pinto ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) , Münsterland Zeitung July 2, 2012.
3. ↑ ^{a b} 2016 Indoor World Championships Portland Team Brochure of the DLV, p. 13 (PDF 9.9 MB)
4. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: U20-EM: Relay clears ancient record , July 25, 2011.
5. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Tatjana Pinto flies to the Olympic norm , May 26, 2012.
6. ↑ Athlete profile ( memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ).
7. ↑ ^{a b} Westfälische Nachrichten : Tatjana Pinto flies to gold - athletics: Münster woman makes a fairytale comeback / Malkus has to fit / Klehn shines in Padua , local sport, Münster, wis, February 29, 2016
8. ↑ ^{a b} Westfälische Nachrichten : Sport: Pinto wins championship title , front page, February 29, 2016
9. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : With Pinto, but without Holzdeppe - Athletics: DLV nominates twelve starters for the Indoor World Championships in Portland , Sport, Darmstadt, dpa , March 2, 2016
10. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : Tatjana Pinto with the title after Rio: Sprinter after 2014 again German champion over 100 meters / Lena Malkus disappointed in Kassel , local sport, Kassel, Jürgen Beckgerd, June 20, 2016
11. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : Pinto for the EM, Malkus not , local sport, athletics, 23 June 2016
12. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : Pinto expresses his own best performance , sports, athletics, August 1, 2016
13. ↑ Bob Ramsak: Women's 4x200m final - IAAF / BTC World Relays Bahamas 2017 ( English ) IAAF. April 22, 2017. Retrieved April 23, 2017.
14. ↑ Tatjana Pinto secures the bronze medal with the relay (August 14, 2018)
15. ↑ Pamela Lechner: DLV travels with a top line-up to the relay world championships in Yokohama , nomination, on: Leichtathletik.de, from April 24, 2019, accessed August 5, 2019
16. ↑ Pamela Lechner: Flash-News of the day - Tatjana Pinto cannot defend the indoor championship title , notes, on: Leichtathletik.de, from January 30, 2019, accessed August 5, 2019
17. ↑ Pamela Lechner: Flash News of the Day - Tatjana Pinto back in training , notes, on: Leichtathletik.de, February 14, 2019, accessed August 5, 2019
18. ↑ Tatjana Pinto: With all my heart on new paths. In: Leichtathletik.de. July 6, 2019, accessed July 6, 2019 . 
19. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : The last round has started - high-speed final spurt: Many candidates are already giving full throttle in the new year , Münster's athlete of the year 2012, January 30, 2013
20. ↑ https://www.stadtsportverband-paderborn.de/10-Sportler-des- Jahreses.html
21. ↑ Pinto again athlete of the year. January 15, 2020, accessed on August 10, 2020 (German).