Yasmin Kwadwo

Yasmin Kwadwo
Kwadwo at the German Championships 2015
nation	Germany
birthday	9th November 1990 (age 29)
place of birth	Recklinghausen ,  Germany
size	171 cm
Weight	62 kg
job	Student (grammar school teacher)
Career
discipline	sprint
society	TV Wattenscheid 01 (2001–2012) MTG Mannheim (2013–2017) TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen (2018–2019) LC Paderborn (since 2020)
Trainer	Thomas Prange, formerly: Valerij Bauer
status	active
Medal table
Junior European Championships 2 × 0 × 0 × German championships 6 × 2 × 2 × German indoor championships 2 × 3 × 0 ×
Junior European Championships gold Novi Sad 2009 100 m gold Novi Sad 2009 4 × 100 m  German championships gold Ulm 2009 4 × 100 m bronze Braunschweig 2010 100 m gold Braunschweig 2010 4 × 100 m silver Kassel 2011 4 × 100 m bronze Ulm 2013 100 m gold Ulm 2013 4 × 100 m gold Nuremberg 2015 4 × 100 m gold Kassel 2016 4 × 100 m gold Erfurt 2017 4 × 100 m silver Nuremberg 2018 4 × 100 m  German indoor championships gold Karlsruhe 2010 60 m silver Karlsruhe 2010 4 × 200 m silver Karlsruhe 2012 60 m gold Karlsruhe 2012 4 × 200 m silver Leipzig 2014 60 m
last change: July 23, 2018

Yasmin Kwadwo (born November 9, 1990 in Recklinghausen ) is a German athlete in the sprint disciplines and starts for the LC Paderborn.

career path

Kwadwo attended the Märkisches Gymnasium in Wattenscheid with the advanced courses in sports and English and graduated from school in June 2010 with the Abitur. As "Elite Student of the Year", she received an invitation to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , which she turned down in order to prepare for high school. Kwadwo studied English and history in Heidelberg to become a teacher.

Athletic career

Yasmin Kwadwo grew up in Dortmund and started athletics as a member of TV Wattenscheid 01 after the family moved to Wattenscheid in 2001 , her trainer there was Slawomir Filipowski. She competes as a sprinter over 100 meters and in the sprint relay , rarely over 200 meters . In 2007 she was still third at the German Youth Championships in the 100-meter run, in the two following years she won the title, also in the hall she won the championships over 60 meters . In 2009, an increase in her best time to 11.38 s brought her to qualify for the European Junior Championships (U20). Started as the favorite, she won both the 100-meter run in 11.42 s and the 4 x 100-meter relay (Yasmin Kwadwo, Leena Günther , Nadja Bahl, Ruth Sophia Spelmeyer ) in a time of 44 , 86 p. With the season of TV Wattenscheid she won her first German championship title in the performance area.

In her first year with women, Kwadwo won the title at the German Indoor Championships . In Karlsruhe she ran the 60 meters in a personal best of 7.29 s and beat Anne Möllinger and Marion Wagner , but missed the norm for the indoor world championships by five hundredths of a second. The DLV still nominated her for Doha , with 7.39 s - in the run-up it was a hundredth of a second faster - but she did not get past the semi-finals. In June 2010, Kwadwo ran for 11.38 seconds at a sports festival in Regensburg, but she injured her thigh and had to pause for a few weeks. In her next competition, the Junior Gala in Mannheim , she had to share victory with Möllinger in 11.33 seconds, but both of them undercut the qualification standard for the European Championships in Barcelona. For Kwadwo, it was the first standard fulfillment and at the same time a new record. When Verena Sailer won the German Championships in Braunschweig, she finished third after 11.50 s, just behind Möllinger. With the Wattenscheider season in the line-up of Karoline Köhler , Katja Tengel and Maike Dix , she defended the title as the final runner. Because of these achievements, she was nominated for the European Championships . In Barcelona she was eliminated in the individual competition with 11.68 s as fourth of her heat.

At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu , Yasmin Kwadwo ran as the starting runner in the 4 x 100 meter relay, but the handover of the baton to the next runner, Anne Möllinger , failed because Kwadwo was disabled. In 2012 she won the German championship in the hall with the Wattenscheider 4 x 200 meter relay . At the Olympic Games in London , Kwadwo was a substitute runner for the DLV quartet. At the end of the season she moved to MTG Mannheim , to the training group of Valerij Bauer, of which Verena Sailer also belonged.

Club affiliations

Kwadwo started for the LC Paderborn in 2020 and is trained by Thomas Prange . From 2018 to 2019 Kwadwo started for TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen , to which she came from MTG Mannheim . From 2001 until the end of the 2012 season she was a member of TV Wattenscheid 01 .

Trivia

Kwadwo's parents are from Ghana . Her sister Keshia is also a sprinter, while brother Leroy plays football professionally .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Yasmin Kwadwo in the database of World Athletics (English)
2. ↑ Portrait on Olympia.ard.de.
3. ↑ LC is happy about strong newcomers. November 30, 2019, accessed on August 10, 2020 (German). 
4. ↑ pm / fc: Yasmin Kwadwo between Ghana and Gala . Leichtathletik.de. June 22, 2010. Retrieved July 24, 2010.
5. ↑ "You have a scary thump in your foot". In: FAZ.NET . October 12, 2010, accessed October 12, 2010 . 
6. ↑ Jan-Henner Reitze: Yasmin Kwadwo: “Setting new impulses” , www.leichtathletik.de, November 12, 2012
7. ^ Christian Fuchs, Christian Ermert: Yasmin Kwadwo as third in the semifinals . Leichtathletik.de. March 12, 2010. Retrieved July 24, 2010.
8. ↑ pm / fc: concerns with Yasmin Kwadwo . Leichtathletik.de. June 5, 2010. Retrieved July 24, 2010.
9. ↑ Michael Wiener, Anja Herrlitz: EM standards in Mannheim . Leichtathletik.de. July 3, 2010. Retrieved July 24, 2010.
10. ↑ Peter Schmitt: With 74 athletes to the EM in Barcelona . Leichtathletik.de. July 19, 2010. Retrieved July 24, 2010.
11. ↑ German squadrons screw up the final entry on spiegel.de v. 4th September 2011 .
12. ↑ Jan-Henner Reitze: Yasmin Kwadwo: “Setting new impulses” , www.leichtathletik.de November 12, 2012
13. ↑ ^{a b} Speed ​​runs in the family at Kwadwo , reviersport.de, accessed on September 28, 2019
14. ↑ Finally 18 - The House Visit , taz.de, accessed on October 18, 2019

Web links

Commons : Yasmin Kwadwo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Yasmin Kwadwo in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait by Yasmin Kwadwo on Leichtathletik.de