Katja Demut (born 21 December 1983) is a German

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athlete who specialises in the

triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down th ...

. She has represented Germany internationally at the

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and at the

2009 World Championships in Athletics The 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics () were held in Berlin, Germany from 15–23 August 2009. The majority of events took place in the Olympiastadion, while the marathon and racewalking events started and finished at the Brandenburg ...

. Her personal best of 14.57 metres outdoors and 14.47 m indoors are the German records for the event.

Career

Born in

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, she began competing in the event as a teenager, representing the TuS

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club. Her first international appearance came at the

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, where she jumping in the qualifying rounds. She returned to the competition for the 2002 edition and reached the final, placing seventh overall.Demut, Katja
IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-06-15. Demut won her first national title at the

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2003 and set a personal best of 13.74 m that year for fifth place at the

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. She achieved a jump of 13.96 m in Stuttgart in February 2004 and had consecutive runner-up placings at the German Indoor Championships in 2004 and 2005. A quiet 2006 season for her was highlighted by an outdoor best jump of 13.96 m. She cleared the fourteen-metre mark for the first time the following year and claimed the national title both outdoors and indoors. Demut won the German outdoor title again in 2008 and placed sixth at the European Cup.Athletenportrait - Katja Demut
. Leichathletik. Retrieved on 2011-06-15. She made three international appearances in 2009: she jumped in the triple jump qualifiers at the

2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships The 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held in Turin, Italy, from Friday, 6 March to Sunday, 8 March 2009. The championships took place at the Oval Lingotto indoor arena

, was eleventh at the 2009 European Team Championships, and then represented Germany for the first time at world senior level, taking part in the heats at the

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. That year she had won at the

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, improved her indoor best to 14.06 m and set an outright best of 14.20 m outdoors in

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. Demut retained her indoor German title the year after and had her fourth straight win outdoors at the

2010 German Athletics Championships The 2010 in athletics (track and field), 2010 German Athletics Championships were held at the Eintracht-Stadion in Braunschweig on 17–18 July 2010. Results Men Women References * Results source: External links Official website ...

. She jumped for her country at the

2010 European Athletics Championships The 2010 European Athletics Championships were the 20th edition of the European Athletics Championships, organised under the supervision of the European Athletic Association. They were held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona, C ...

, but failed to record a mark in the triple jump qualifiers. Demut hit a new career high in 2011: she broke Petra Laux-Lobinger's German indoor record in Chemnitz with a clearance of 14.45 m and took it two centimetres further at the PSD Bank Meeting. She entered the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships as the athlete with the leading indoor mark of the season, but failed to match her previous form and was eliminated in the heats stage with a best jump of 13.81 m from her series. Demut set a new best outdoors as well, jumping 14.57 m in

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in June to improve the German outdoor record by eleven centimetres – this bettered Helga Radtke's mark which had stood for almost seventeen years. She was set to be a contender at the

2011 World Championships in Athletics The 13th IAAF World Championships in Athletics () was an international athletics competition that was held in Daegu, South Korea. It started on 27 August 2011 and finished on 4 September 2011. The United States topped the medal standings in th ...

, but a heel injury four days before the competition forced her to withdraw and bring her season to a close.Germany's Demut determined to put Daegu disappointment behind her
European Athletics (2011-11-09). Retrieved on 2011-12-01.

Competition record

References

External links

Official website
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Tilastopaja profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Demut, Katja Living people 1983 births People from Schmölln German female triple jumpers German national athletics champions Sportspeople from Thuringia