Verena Sailer

Verena Sailer

Verena Sailer 2015

nation

Germany

birthday

October 16, 1985

place of birth

Illertissen , Germany

size

166 cm

Weight

57 kg

Career

discipline

sprint

Best performance

11.02 s (100 m)

society

MTG Mannheim

Trainer

Valery Bauer

status

resigned

End of career

2015

Medal table

World championships	0 ×	1 ×
European championships	2 ×	0 ×
European Indoor Championships	0 ×	2 ×

World championships
bronze	Berlin 2009	4 × 100 m relay
European championships
gold	Barcelona 2010	100 meters
gold	Helsinki 2012	4 × 100 m relay
European Indoor Championships
bronze	Turin 2009	60 meters
bronze	Prague 2015	60 meters

last change: September 7, 2015

Verena Sailer (born October 16, 1985 in Illertissen ) is a former German sprinter . In 2010 she won the gold medal in the 100-meter run at the European Athletics Championships in Barcelona . At the International Stadium Festival Berlin (ISTAF) in September 2015, Sailer surprisingly announced the end of her sporting career.

Professional background

In 2009 she studied sports management at the University of Applied Management in Erding . After completing her bachelor's degree in sports management, Sailer wants to complete a master's degree in business psychology after completing her sports career . Sailer is the first to receive a scholarship from the BMI springboard funding initiative with which the Federal Ministry of the Interior wants to support former top athletes entering their professional lives.

Athletic career

Sailer began in 1997 as a twelve-year-old student at the Vöhringen sports club with athletics. In 2003 she became German Junior Champion, 2004 and 2005 German Junior Champion. In 2003 she reached sixth place at the Junior European Championships, in 2004 she came fifth at the Junior World Championships. In 2005 she won bronze in the 100-meter run and silver in the 4-by-100-meter relay at the U23 European Championships . In 2006 and 2007 she was German champion over 100 meters outdoors and runner-up over 60 meters indoors. In 2006 she also started at the European Championships in Gothenburg , where she reached the semi-finals. She finished the U23 European Championships in 2007 with gold in the 100-meter run and silver with the relay.

Also in the 2007 World Championships in Osaka stepped Sailer of singles and reached the intermediate run. With the German relay she took part in the final and finished seventh in 43.51 s. In 2008 she became German indoor champion over 60 meters and won the third German championship title in a row over 100 meters outdoors. In addition, she improved her personal record in this discipline on July 5 in Nuremberg to 11.28 s. At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, she reached 4th place in the 4 x 100 meter relay in the final.

In 2009 she won the bronze medal at the European Indoor Championships in Turin over 60 meters with a time of 7.22 s. In the open-air season in Ulm 2009 she became German champion over 100 meters with a new personal best of 11.18 s. At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, Sailer won the bronze medal as the final runner in the 4 x 100 meter relay. This made her the fastest European and the fastest white woman in the world on the short haul this year.

At the 2013 World Championships

2010 Sailer became German champion for the fifth time in a row in Braunschweig . With the fastest lead time of 11.27 s on 100 meters, she reached the semi-finals of the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona . In the semifinals she qualified for the finals with the fastest time, 11.06 s, albeit with a slightly too strong tailwind. There she won the gold medal in a time of 11.10 s. She missed a medal with the 4 x 100 meter relay after a mistake with Anne Möllinger in the run-up. Due to complaints with the Achilles tendon, Sailer prematurely ended the 2011 season in order not to endanger her participation in the 2012 Olympic Games in London .

In June 2012 she fulfilled the norm for the Olympic Games in Mannheim and a week later she became German champion for the sixth time in Bochum-Wattenscheid with 11.22 seconds. At the European Championships in Helsinki in 2012 , she reached the finals of the 100 meter discipline with a time of 11.42 s. the 6th place. Then she led the German 4 x 100 meter relay around Leena Günther , Anne Cibis and Tatjana Pinto as the final runner to win the title. In her last competition before the Olympic Games in Weinheim she set a new personal best with 11.05 seconds. With a time of 11.12 s she reached the semi-finals in the 100-meter run at the Olympic Games in London . With the 4 x 100 meter relay, which competed in the same line-up as shortly before at the European Championships, she reached the finals and finished 5th in 42.67 s.

At the European Indoor Championships 2015

In 2013 Sailer became German indoor champion over 60 meters for the fifth time. A week later she improved her best time at the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg to 7.12 s and finished eighth. In Ulm she became German champion again in 11.09 s. Shortly before the World Championships in Moscow , she set a new personal best at the Weinheimer Meeting with 11.02 seconds before she even reached the semi-finals at the World Championships.

In 2015 she won the bronze medal at the European Indoor Championships in Prague. With the German 4 x 100 meter relay, she finished fourth at the World Championships in Beijing with Rebekka Haase , Alexandra Burghardt and Gina Lückenkemper, fifth. After the world championships, Sailer ended her career at the ISTAF in Berlin. In addition to her international success, she was a total of eight times over 100 meters and three times with the 4 x 100 meter relay German champion.

Verena Sailer is 1.66 m tall and the competition weight was 57 kg. It started until the end of 2008 for the LAC Quelle Fürth . Then she moved to MTG Mannheim with her trainer Valerij Bauer .

Personal best

100 meters: 11.02 s, Weinheim, August 2, 2013
60 meters (hall): 7.08 s, Prague, March 8, 2015

With her time of 11.02 seconds, Sailer is eighth on the all-time German best list. According to doping expert Werner Franke , however, she is the fastest German because the women in front of her would have scored their times unclean. In the meantime, the two sprinters Tatjana Pinto (11.00) and Gina Lückenkemper (10.95) have beaten Verena Sailer's time.