Rosina Schneider (born 18 August 2004) is German hurdler. A double European U20 champion in 2023, she became German national indoor champion over 60m hurdles in 2024.[1]

Rosina Schneider
Personal information
NationalityGerman
Born (2004-08-18) 18 August 2004 (age 20)
Sport
SportAthletics
EventHurdles
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)60m hurdles 8.08 (Leipzig, 2024)
100m hurdles: 12.89 (La Chaux-de-Fonds, 2024)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Germany
European U20 Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Jerusalem 100m hurdles
Gold medal – first place 2023 Jerusalem 4x100m relay

Early life

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She grew up in Empfingen in Baden-Württemberg, near the Black Forest. She started athletics at the age of eight and is a member of her hometown club TV Sulz. She moved in 2021 to a boarding school at a sports school in Stuttgart and joined the training group of former sprinter Cathleen Tschirch.[2][3]

Career

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She reached the semifinals in the 100 metres at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia in August 2022.[4]

In February 2023, she won double gold at the German Youth Indoor Championships in Dortmund, winning over 60 metres hurdles and 200 metres.[5]

She was European U20 champion in the 100m hurdles and 4x100m relay in Jerusalem in 2023. In the hurdles she won gold with a personal best and championship record time of 13.06 seconds.[6][7]

In the winter of 2023-24 she trained in Florida with Olympic triple jump champion Christian Taylor and his wife Beate Schrott, who finished seventh in the 2012 Olympic hurdles, and then trained for three and-a-half weeks in Jamaica with the training group of Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.[8]

She won the senior German national title in the 60m hurdles in February 2024.[9] She finished second in the 100m hurdles at the Liese Prokop Memorial In St. Pölten, Austria on 17 May 2024, running 13.08 seconds.[10] She was selected for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome.[11]

References

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  1. ^ "Rosina Schneider". World Athletics. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
  2. ^ Lenk, Christian (21 January 2020). "Guter Start in die Hallensaison". Schwarzwaelderbote.de.
  3. ^ "Rosina Schneider – Von Empfingen nach Stuttgart und in die große, weite Welt". Leichathletik.de. 25 January 2024. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
  4. ^ "Sprinterin Rosina Schneider schafft es in Halbfinale". Schwarzwaelder-bote.de. 8 August 2022. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
  5. ^ "Rosina Schneider schnappt sich zweiten Titel". wlv-sport.de. 26 February 2023. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
  6. ^ "The world awaits Schneider after her breakthrough double gold in Jerusalem". European Athletics. 5 September 2023. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
  7. ^ "Rising Stars: Five Outstanding Athletes Who Shined at the European Athletics U20 Championships". Watch Athletics. 12 August 2023. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
  8. ^ "Rosina Schneider – meteoric rise within two years". Leichathletik.de. April 3, 2024. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
  9. ^ "Triumph after photo finish: Rosina Schneider from TV Sulz is German champion". Nektar/chronik.de. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
  10. ^ "Liese Prokop Memorial". World Athletics. 17 May 2024. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
  11. ^ "DLV vergibt weitere EM-Startplätze für Rom an Normerfüller und Staffelmitglieder". Leichtathletikaccessdate=29 May 2024. 29 May 2024.