Jennifer Oeser (born 29 November 1983 in
Brunsbüttel,
Schleswig-Holstein
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) is a retired
German
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heptathlete
A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek επτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "competition"). A competitor in a hept ...
.
Career
Oeser's first international championship was the
2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics
The 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics were held in Kingston, Jamaica from July 16 to July 21, 2002.
Men's Results
Women's Results
Medal table
Participation
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and she finished in eighth place with a score of 5405 points. She improved her personal best to 5901 points to win the
gold medal at the
2003 European Athletics U23 Championships
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. Moving up to the senior ranks, she finished fourth in the heptathlon at the
2006 European Athletics Championships in
Gothenburg and was seventh in the event at the
2007 World Championships in Athletics
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. Oeser was eleventh at the
2008 Summer Olympics in
Beijing
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. She set a personal best of 6493 points to win the
silver medal in the
heptathlon at the
2009 IAAF World Championships in
Berlin
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. The following year she was at the
Erdgas Meeting in
Ratingen
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Administration
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, Germany, holding off her domestic rival
Lilli Schwarzkopf
Lilli Schwarzkopf (born 28 August 1983 in Novopokrovka, Kirghiz SSR) is a German heptathlete.
Her first major global competition was the 2005 World Championships in Athletics, where she finished in 13th place. She won the bronze medal at the ...
to win with a total of 6427.
[van Kuijen, Hans (2010-06-20).]
Garcia and Oeser prevail in Ratingen - IAAF Combined Events Challenge
IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-06-21.
Personal bests
Major competition record
References
External links
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Leverkusen who's who
1983 births
Living people
People from Brunsbüttel
German heptathletes
Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes of Germany
World Athletics Championships medalists
European Athletics Championships medalists
World Athletics Championships athletes for Germany
Sportspeople from Schleswig-Holstein
20th-century German women
21st-century German women
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