Verena Preiner
Verena Preiner 
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| birthday | 1st February 1995 (age 25) | ||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Ebensee , Austria | ||||||||||||||||||
| size | 177 cm | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 64 kg | ||||||||||||||||||
| job | Student, military athlete | ||||||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Heptathlon , pentathlon (hall) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Best performance |
Pentathlon : 4486 points Heptathlon : 6591 points 
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| society | Union Ebensee | ||||||||||||||||||
| Trainer | Wolfgang Adler | ||||||||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||||||||
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| last change: June 6, 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||
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Verena Preiner (born February 1, 1995 in Ebensee , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian athlete and multiple national champion in heptathlon .
Athletic career
In 2011 Verena Preiner took part in an international championship for the first time, the youth world championships in Lille , France , where she finished 23rd in the heptathlon. In 2014 she took part in the Junior World Championships in Eugene , where she finished ninth with a personal best of 5530 points. In 2015, Preiner made her debut in the senior class at the Götzis all-around meeting , where she was the only Austrian to start. She was able to qualify with the performance there for the U23 European Championships in Tallinn , Estonia , where she finished fourth overall behind her compatriot Ivona Dadic . She was also part of the Austrian 4 x 400 meter relay, which was disqualified in the final.
At the European Championships in Amsterdam in July 2016 , she achieved seventh place in the heptathlon with a new personal best of 6050 points and thus achieved more than 6000 points for the first time. Originally, Preiner could not qualify for the European Championships, but moved into the starting field due to her good season best performance.
In the indoor pentathlon, she recorded her best performance at 4486 points, set up in January 2017 in Linz, and at that time represented the Austrian record. With this performance Preiner qualified for the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade , where she finished sixth.
After an ankle injury at the beginning of the outdoor season, Preiner was given the right to start the U23 European Championships . There she improved Ivona Dadic's Austrian U23 record to 6232 points, winning the silver medal behind the Swiss Caroline Agnou . With this performance she also qualified for the World Championships in London in August . There she was in 18th place after six disciplines and probably could have made up a few places through the 800 meter run, but in the meantime she suffered a severe asthma attack that made it impossible for her to finish the competition. Three weeks later she showed her good form once more when she won the gold medal at the Student World Games in Taipei . She not only set herself apart from the competition by around 400 points, but also came within eight points of her personal best.
In 2018, Preiner again improved her best performance at the Hypomeeting to 6308 points and thus qualified again for the European Championships in Berlin , where she finished eighth with 6337 points. At the European Indoor Championships 2019 in Glasgow , Verena Preiner finished sixth in the pentathlon with a new personal best of 4637 points. She celebrated her greatest success so far at the World Championships in Doha , where the 24-year-old won the bronze medal with 6560 points behind Briton Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Nafissatou Thiam from Belgium. She also secured the overall ranking of the IAAF Combined Events Series.
According to the evaluation of the IAAF World Annual Best List 2018, the three Austrian heptathletes Verena Preiner (6337 points), Ivona Dadic (6552 points; Union St. Pölten) and Sarah Lagger (6225 points; TGW Decathlon Union) took the first place in the global nation ranking 1.
In June 2019 she improved the Austrian heptathlon record to 6591 points at the Ratingen all- around meeting .
In 2014, 2015 and 2016 Preiner was Austrian champion in the heptathlon and in 2014, 2015 and 2019 in the indoor pentathlon. In addition, she won the championship title in the 400-meter hurdles in 2016 . When Austria's athletes of the year 2019 were honored, she was named climber of the year .
Private
Verena Preiner is studying mathematics and biology to become a teacher. But she had to postpone her studies due to her strong athletic performance. She has been engaged to her boyfriend Thomas Mayr since June 2020. The two plan to get married in June 2021 (before the Summer Olympics ). Preiner is supposed to take the name of her fiancé and will compete as Verena Mayr at the Olympic Games .
Personal best
Heptathlon
- 6591 points, June 30, 2019, Ratingen
| PB in the disciplines | Result | Points |
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| 100 m hurdles | 13.25 s | 1087 |
| high jump | 1.80 m | 978 |
| Shot put | 14.34 m | 817 |
| 200 m | 23.96 s | 985 |
| Long jump | 6.36 m | 962 |
| Javelin throw | 49.58 m | 852 |
| 800 m | 2: 07.74 min | 998 |
Pentathlon
- 4637 points, March 1st, 2019, Glasgow
| discipline | Result | Points |
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| 60 m hurdles | 8.53 s | 1044 |
| high jump | 1.75 m | 916 |
| Shot put | 14.32 m | 815 |
| Long jump | 6.15 m | 896 |
| 800 m | 2: 09.91 min | 966 |
Web links
- Verena Preiner in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Athlete profile at the ÖLV
Individual evidence
- ^ Competitions - European Athletics Championships - History - European Athletics. Retrieved August 1, 2017 .
- ↑ Verena Preiner sets a new pentathlon record. Retrieved August 1, 2017 .
- ↑ Final Results. Retrieved August 1, 2017 .
- ↑ Competitions - European Athletics U23 Championships - European Athletics. Retrieved August 1, 2017 .
- ^ Preiner consoled himself with the student world title. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 28, 2017 ; accessed on August 27, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Austria's number 1 female heptathlete in the world
- ↑ Verena Preiner crowns Ratinger Heptathlon with an Austrian record (June 30, 2019)
- ^ Gerhard Marschall: Preiner is a combative all-rounder. In: Courier. Kurier, June 29, 2019, accessed October 4, 2019 (German).
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| SURNAME | Preiner, Verena |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1995 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ebensee |