Jennifer Oeser (born 29 November 1983 in Brunsbüttel,

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) is a retired

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Career

Oeser's first international championship was the

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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 The 4th European Athletics U23 Championships were held in Bydgoszcz, Poland at the Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium Zdzisław may refer to: People * Zdzisław (given name), a Slavic male given name Places * Zdzisław, Lubusz Voivodeship Zdzisł ...

. 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 The 11th World Championships in Athletics, () under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), were held at Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan from 24 August to 2 September 2007. 200 of the IAAF's 212 member federat ...

. Oeser was eleventh at the 2008 Summer Olympics in

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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

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. The following year she was at the Erdgas Meeting in

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, Germany, holding off her domestic rival

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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

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