Verena Sailer

Verena Sailer

Sailer at the 2013 World Championships
Personal information
Full name	Verena Sailer
Born	(1985-10-16) 16 October 1985 (age 39) Illertissen, West Germany
Height	1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Sport
Country	Germany
Sport	Running
Event(s)	60 metres, 100 metres
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	100m: 11.02 s (Weinheim; August 2013)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Germany World Championships 2009 Berlin 4 × 100 m relay European Championships 2010 Barcelona 100 m 2012 Helsinki 4 × 100 m relay European Indoor Championships 2009 Turin 60 m 2015 Prague 60 m European U23 Championships 2007 Debrecen 100 m 2005 Erfurt 4 × 100 m relay 2007 Debrecen 4 × 100 m relay 2005 Erfurt 100 m

Verena Sailer (born 16 October 1985 in Illertissen) is a retired German sprinter, who specialised in the 100 metres. Her personal best time is 11.02 seconds, achieved in August 2013. She won the gold medal at the 2010 European Athletics Championships in Barcelona. During her sporting career she was a member of MTG Mannheim.

Sailer represented Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed in the 4 × 100 metres relay together with Anne Möllinger, Cathleen Tschirch and Marion Wagner. In their first round heat they placed third behind Jamaica and Russia and in front of China. Their time of 43.59 seconds was the eighth time overall out of sixteen participating nations. With this result they qualified for the final, in which they sprinted to a time of 43.28 seconds, which was the fifth place. At the 2009 IAAF World Championships in Berlin, she made it to the semifinal of the 100 m and ran 11.24 seconds. She was the fourth leg of the German 4 × 100 m squad, which secured the bronze medal in a season's best time of 42.87 seconds.^[1]

At the 2012 European Athletics Championships in Helsinki, Sailer was unable to defend her European Championship title and finished 6th in the final heat of the 100 metres event with a time of 11.42 s. She then led the German 4 × 100 metres relay team of Leena Günther, Anne Cibis, and Tatjana Pinto as the final runner with a clear lead to win the title again since 1994 at the same venue.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the individual 100 m as well as the 4 × 100 m.^[2] Although she did not reach the individual final, the German team (Sailer, Leena Günther, Anne Cibis and Tatjana Pinto) did, finishing in 5th place.^[3]

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Germany
2004	World Junior Championships	Grosseto, Italy	5th	100 m	11.49 (wind: +1.5 m/s)
			4th (h)†	4 × 100 m relay	44.58†
2005	European U23 Championships	Erfurt, Germany	3rd	100 m	11.53 (wind: +1.5 m/s)
			2nd	4 × 100 m relay	44.89
2007	European U23 Championships	Debrecen, Hungary	1st	100 m	11.66 (wind: -2.0 m/s)
			2nd	4 × 100 m relay	43.75
	World Championships	Osaka, Japan	7th	4 × 100 m relay	43.51
2009	European Indoor Championships	Turin, Italy	3rd	60 m	7.22
	World Championships	Berlin, Germany	3rd	4 × 100 m relay	42.87
2010	European Championships	Barcelona, Spain	1st	100 m	11.10 (wind: -0.6 m/s)
2012	European Championships	Helsinki, Finland	6th	100 m	11.42 (wind: -0.7 m/s)
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	42.51
2015	European Indoor Championships	Prague, Czech Republic	3rd	60 m	7.09
	World Championships	Beijing, China	30th (h)	100 m	11.41
			5th	4 × 100 m relay	42.64

^†: Disqualified in the final.

• Verena Sailer at World Athletics