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European Athlete Of The Month
The European Athlete of the Month is an award that can be won by athletes participating in events within the sport of athletics organised by the European Athletic Association (EAA). The election has been organised since 2007. Winners Multiwinners (4+) ;Men * Renaud Lavillenie (pole vault) – 11 wins * Jakob Ingebrigtsen (middle distance, cross country) – 7 wins * Karsten Warholm (400m, 400m hurdles) – 7 wins * Ivan Ukhov (high jump) – 6 wins * Bohdan Bondarenko (high jump) – 5 wins * Serhiy Lebid (cross country, marathon) – 4 wins ;Women * Jessica Ennis-Hill (heptathlon) – 7 wins * Katerina Stefanidi (pole vault) – 6 wins * Blanka Vlašić (high jump) – 6 wins * Barbora Špotáková (javelin throw) – 5 wins * Elvan Abeylegesse (5000m, 10,000m) – 4 wins * Ana Dulce Felix (distance running - cross, road, track) – 4 wins * Yelena Isinbayeva (pole vault) – 4 wins * Dafne Schippers (100m, 200m) – 4 wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renaud Lavillenie
Renaud Lavillenie ( or ; born 18 September 1986) is a French pole vaulter. Lavillenie won the gold medal at the 2012 Olympics in London and the silver medal at the 2016 Olympics in Rio. In addition to his Olympic success, he has won three World Indoor Championships gold medals (record), three European Championships gold medals and four European Indoor Championships gold medals. He has also won one silver medal and four bronze medals at the World Championships. As of 25 August 2016, he holds the French national records for the highest pole vault clearance both outdoors (6.05 m) and indoors (6.16 m). The 6.16 was the absolute world record for the pole vault for over six years, 2014–2020. He was the pole vault overall winner of the IAAF Diamond League in seven consecutive years, from 2010 to 2016. Outside pole vaulting, Lavillenie is a keen motorcyclist, and raced in the 2013 Le Mans 24 Hours for motorcycles, finishing 25th. Lavillenie subsequently entered the 2014 race, aim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal
Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal (born 14 June 1990) is a Norwegian middle-, long-distance and steeplechase runner. She won bronze medals for the 10,000 metres at the 2016 European Championships, and in the 3000 m steeplechase at the 2018 European Championships. Grøvdal earned nine individual medals at the European Cross Country Championships, an unsurpassed record by a female athlete in the meet history. In 2007, she won the bronze medal in the 2000 m steeplechase at the World Youth Championships and gold for the 3000 m steeplechase at the European Junior Championships. At the 2009 European Junior Championships, she won gold for two events: 5000 m and 3000 m steeplechase. Grøvdal represented Norway at the 2012 London, 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympics as well as at nine World Athletics Championships. She holds four Norwegian records ( One mile, indoor 3000 m, 5000 m, 3000 m steeplechase) plus two bests ( 2000 m, 2000 m s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Battocletti
Nadia Battocletti (born 12 April 2000) is an Italian female Middle-distance running, middle- and Long-distance running, long-distance runner. She won the gold medal for the 5000 metres at the 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships, 2021 European Under-23 Championships. Battocletti earned four individual gold medals in the U20 and U23 age groups at the European Cross Country Championships. She is the List of Italian records in athletics, Italian record holder for the indoor 3000 metres and 5K run, 5 km road race. As a 17-year-old, Battocletti won the bronze medal in the 3000 m at the 2017 European Athletics U20 Championships, 2017 European U20 Championships. At the 2019 European Athletics U20 Championships, 2019 edition of this championships, she earned silver for the 5000 m. She represented Italy at the Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics, 2020 Tokyo Olympics competing in the 5000 m. She won an Italian Athletics Championships, Italian national title at Op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariana Machado
Mariana Machado (born 12 November 2000) is a Portuguese middle-distance and cross country runner. She competed in the women's 3000 metres event at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships. She is the daughter of Portuguese Olympic runner Albertina Machado. Awards References External links * 2000 births Living people Portuguese female middle-distance runners Place of birth missing (living people) Sportspeople from Braga 21st-century Portuguese women World Athletics Championships athletes for Portugal FISU World University Games gold medalists for Portugal Medalists at the 2021 Summer Universiade FISU World University Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field) European Games competitors for Portugal Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 European Games {{Portugal-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ouassim Oumaiz
Ouassim Oumaiz (born 30 March 1999) is a Spanish long-distance runner. He is the Spanish national record holder in the 5km road race with a time of 13:19, which he set in 2020 at the Seven Hills 5K Invitational. He also won the Cross de Atapuerca cross-country race in 2019. Personal bests Outdoor *1500 m: 3:36.83 (Nerja 2021) *3000 m: 7:40.62 (Barcelona 2020) *5000 m: 13:06.74 (Huelva 2022) * 5km: 13:19 (Nijmegen 2020) NR * 10km: 28:35 (Madrid 2020) Indoor *1500 m: 3:47.41 (Ourense 2018) *3000 m: 7:44.39 (Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ... 2020) Achievements References {{DEFAULTSORT:Oumaiz, Ouassim 1999 births Living people Spanish male long-distance runners Sportspeople from the Province of Málaga Spanish sportspeople of Moroccan descent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
Katarina Mary Johnson-Thompson (born 9 January 1993) is an English athlete primarily known as an elite multi-eventer, both as a heptathlete and an indoor pentathlete. She has been World Champion in both disciplines, and a double Commonwealth Games champion in heptathlon for England. Representing Great Britain, she won the gold medal at the 2019 World Championships and broke the British record with a score of 6,981 points, which ranks her at No. 6 on the all-time heptathlon lists. She also holds the British record indoors of 5,000 points for the women's pentathlon and won gold in that event at the 2018 World Indoor Championships, as well as the 2015 and 2019 European Indoor Championships. She has also on occasion represented Great Britain in her two strongest multi-event disciplines, the individual high jump and long jump events. She holds the British high jump records with 1.98 m outdoors (2016) and 1.97 m indoors (2015), and in the long jump, she was the 2012 World Jun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Emilie Møller
Anna Emilie Møller (born 28 July 1997) is a Danish athlete competing in the 3000 metres steeplechase. She represented her country at the 2016 Summer Olympics without qualifying for the final. In her heat, however, she set the new national and European junior record in the event. In 2016, she finished in 5th place in the final of the women's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships held in Bydgoszcz, Poland. In 2019, she competed in the senior women's race at the 2019 IAAF World Cross Country Championships held in Aarhus, Denmark. She finished in 15th place. International competitions Personal bests Outdoor *800 metres – 2:05.91 (Aarhus 2016) *1500 metres – 4:09.12 (Watford 2019) *3000 metres – 8:47.83 (Zagreb 2016) *5000 metres – 15:07.70 (Gävle 2019) *10,000 metres – 34:29.41 (Aarhus 2015) *3000 metres steeplechase The 3000 metres steeplechase or 3000-meter steeplechase (usually abbreviated as ) is the most common distance for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnus Kirt
Magnus Kirt (born 10 April 1990) is an Estonian retired athlete who competed in the javelin throw. He won the silver medal at the 2019 World Championships. His personal best of 90.61 m is the Estonian record. Career He competed at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing without qualifying for the final. On 3 June 2018 he broke former world champion Andrus Värnik's long-standing national record with 88.45 m at the 54th Gustav Sule memorial competition in Tartu. He then threw 88.73 m on 5 June 2018 at Paavo Nurmi Games. On 13 July 2018 he further improved at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Rabat, taking the national record and meeting record to 89.75 m. In August, he won bronze at the 2018 European Athletics Championships with a throw of 85.96 m. He threw first time over 90 meters on 20 June 2019 at the Golden Spike in Ostrava with 90.34 m, which he improved two days later in Kuortane to 90.61 m. At the 2019 World Athletics Championships The 2019 IAAF World Athletic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lonah Chemtai Salpeter
Lonah Korlima Chemtai Salpeter ( he, לונה צ'מטאי-סלפטר, , born 12 December 1988) is a Kenyan-Israeli runner. She won the bronze medal in the marathon at the 2022 World Athletics Championships. At the European Athletics Championships, Chemtai took victory in the 10,000 metres in 2018 and earned bronze in 2022. She won the 2020 Tokyo Marathon. Her personal best time for the marathon is 2:17:45, which when she ran it in 2020 made her the sixth-fastest woman in history (currently 11th), the second-fastest European all-time, and set a new Israeli national record. Chemtai represented Israel at the 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympics. As of November 2022 she held six Israeli national records over distances ranging from 3000 metres to marathon. Early and personal life Lonah Chemtai was born and raised in Kenya, a member of the tribe of the Kalenjin, and grew up in a small village without electricity or running water in West Pokot County in western Kenya. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carla Salome Rocha
Carla is the feminized version of Carl, Carlos or Charles, from ''ceorl'' in Old English, which means "free man". Notable people with the name include: * Carla, French singer and former member of the children's music group Kids United * Carla Abellana, Filipina actress and commercial model * Carla Azar, drummer and singer for the band Autolux * Carla Barbarino, retired Italian sprinter and hurdler * Carla Beck, Canadian politician * Carla Berrocal (born 1983), Spanish comics illustrator * Carla Berube, American college basketball coach * Carla Beurskens, prominent long-distance runner from the Netherlands * Carla Blank, American choreographer, writer, and editor * Carla Bley, American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader * Carla Bonner, Australian actress * Carla Borrego, Jamaican basketball and netball player * Carla Boyce (born 1998), Scottish footballer * Carla Boyd, retired Australian basketball player with 2 Olympic medals * Carla Bozulich, lead singer, lyricist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Peleteiro
Ana Peleteiro Brión (born 2 December 1995 in Ribeira, Galicia, Spain) is a Spanish triple jumper and the current national record holder. She won the gold medal in the 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships. She had previously won bronze medals at the 2018 World Indoor Championships and 2018 European Championships. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won the bronze medal with a national record of 14.87 m. She received the award for Best Young Athlete from the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation The Royal Spanish Athletics Federation (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Real Federación Española de Atletismo'', RFEA), is the governing body for the sport of athletics (sport), athletics in Spain. As of 2020, the federation has 1,411 registered clu ... in 2011. International competitions References External linksAna Peleteiroat RFEA * 1995 births Living people People from O Barbanza Sportspeople from the Province of A Coruña Spanish female triple jumpers Spanish f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Urena
Jorge is a Spanish and Portuguese given name. It is derived from the Greek name Γεώργιος (''Georgios'') via Latin ''Georgius''; the former is derived from (''georgos''), meaning "farmer" or "earth-worker". The Latin form ''Georgius'' had been rarely given in Western Christendom since at least the 6th century. The popularity of the name however develops from around the 12th century, in Occitan in the form ''Jordi'', and it becomes popular at European courts after the publication of the '' Golden Legend'' in the 1260s. The West Iberian form ''Jorge'' is on record as the name of Jorge de Lencastre, Duke of Coimbra (1481–1550). List of people with the given name Jorge * Jorge (footballer, born 1946), Brazilian footballer * Jorge (Brazilian singer), Brazilian musician and singer, Jorge & Mateus * Jorge (Romanian singer), real name George Papagheorghe, Romanian singer, actor, TV host * Jorge Betancourt, Cuban diver * Jorge Campos, Mexican football player * Jorge Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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