Yasmin Giger
Yasmin Giger 
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| Full name | Yasmin Giger | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| birthday | 6th November 1999 (age 20) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| size | 180 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 60 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| job | Training as a clerk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Heptathlon , 400-meter run , 400-meter hurdles |
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| society | Amriswil Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Trainer | Werner Dietrich | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yasmin Giger (born November 6, 1999 ) is a Swiss athlete . She is U20 European Champion and silver medalist at U18 European Championships as well as at the European Summer Youth Olympic Festival 2015 . She holds the Swiss U20 record over 400 meters hurdles with 55.90 s and is multiple Swiss junior champion.
Athletic career
At the European Summer Olympic Youth Festival 2015, Giger took silver over 400 meters behind Romanian Andrea Miklós with a time of 55.02 seconds . At the same time, she also improved her previous personal best .
A year later she won her second silver medal at the U18 European Championships in Tbilisi in the 400-meter hurdles. With a time of 58.39 s she was only 11 hundredths of a second slower than the first placed Viivi Lehikoinen from Finland , at the same time she also improved her best time in this discipline. In the relay race , her team was the only one who could not reach the finish.
After she was only 25th in Belgrade in March 2017 over 400 meters with a time of 54.76 s, she won gold for the first time on July 23 at the U20 European Championships in Grosseto in the 400-meter hurdles. She undercut her best time by 1.52 seconds and qualified two tenths below the limit for the World Championships in London. At her first world championship she retired on August 10 in the same discipline in 36th place in the heats.
In July 2018 she won her first world championship medal. At the U20 World Championships in 2018 in Tampere , Finland , she won bronze in the 400 meter hurdles. She also took part in the European Championships in Berlin in August and made it to the semifinals, in which she was eliminated with 58.81 s and failed with the Swiss 4 x 400 meter relay in 3: 32.86 min Leader.
In 2019 she retired from the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow in the 400-meter run with 53.84 seconds in the first round and finished sixth in the relay in 3: 33.72 minutes. Then she reached seventh place at the World Relays in Yokohama in 3: 32.32 minutes and won the bronze medal at the U23 European Championships in Gävle in 56.37 seconds behind the Belgian Paulien Couckuyt and Linda Olivieri from Italy. With the relay she took part in the World Championships in Doha in late summer , but did not reach the final with 3: 30.63 minutes.
In 2019 Giger became Swiss champion in the 400-meter hurdles and won over 400 meters indoors from 2017 to 2019 and over 800 meters in 2015 and 2016.
Yasmin Giger lives in Romanshorn in the canton of Thurgau , she competes for the Amriswil Athletics team and is trained there by Werner Dietrich.
Personal best
- 400 meters: 52.91 s on July 5, 2019 in Lausanne
- 400 meters (hall): 53.01 s, February 3, 2019 in Magglingen
- 800 meters: 2: 10.24 min, June 2, 2019 in Zurich
- 800 meters (hall): 2: 13.58 min, January 24, 2015 in Magglingen
- 400 m hurdles: 55.90 s, July 23, 2017 in Grosseto
Web links
- Yasmin Giger in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Junior squad and talent cards Swiss Athletics 2017
- Homepage of the Friends of Yasmin Giger - Eastern Switzerland
Individual evidence
- ↑ It was a strong performance. In: lgeo.ch. August 9, 2017. Retrieved August 19, 2017 .
- ↑ Werner Dietrich is the father of the athletics miracle. June 18, 2017. Retrieved August 19, 2017 .
- ↑ YASMIN GIGER. In: winforce.com. Retrieved August 19, 2017 .
- ↑ Strong performance by Yasmin Giger at the junior SM. In: sbw.edu. September 19, 2016. Retrieved August 19, 2017 .
- ↑ Swiss Championships in Hochdorf, no getting past Yasmin Giger. (No longer available online.) In: elitesportschule.ch. September 27, 2016, archived from the original on August 20, 2017 ; Retrieved August 19, 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.
- ↑ Yasmin Giger wins silver in Georgia. In: tagblatt.ch. August 4, 2015. Retrieved August 19, 2017 .
- ↑ With a personal best on silver. In: swissolympicteam.ch. July 31, 2015, accessed August 19, 2017 .
- ↑ U20 EM gold and World Cup limits for Giger. In: srf.ch. July 23, 2017. Retrieved August 19, 2017 .
- ↑ Yasmin Giger storms to bronze under 20 World Cup! , yasmin-giger.ch, accessed on November 3, 2018
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| SURNAME | Giger, Yasmin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1999 |