Eline Berings (born 28 May 1986) is a

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athlete, who competes in the

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. She is the 2005 European junior champion, and took her first

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as a senior by winning the

2009 European 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

. Her personal best times are 12.72 and 7.92 in the 100 and

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respectively.

Biography

Junior career

Berings was born in

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. As a junior athlete she finished seventh at the 2003 World Youth Championships, failed to reach the final at the 2004 World Junior Championships, and won the gold medal at the 2005 European Junior Championships. Her personal best time in 2005, her last year as a junior, was 13.39 seconds, achieved in July 2005 in

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.. Retrieved on 7 March 2009.

Senior career

In the 2005–06 indoor season, she lowered her personal best time in the 60 m hurdles from 8.48 to 8.17 seconds, in a meet in February in Ghent. In the summer she competed in the 2006 European Championships, but with a time of 13.42 seconds in the heat, she did not progress from the first round. In

during May, she had lowered her personal best time to 13.27 seconds. In the 2006–07 indoor season, she ran the 60 m hurdles in 8.07 seconds in February. Three weeks later, she competed at the 2007 European Indoor Championships, where she achieved the same time in the initial rounds. She reached the final for the first time in a senior championships, and finished eighth. In the summer she competed at the

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. She did not progress from the first round, but the time of 12.97 seconds was a new personal best. Her next major event was the 2008 World Indoor Championships. Here, she achieved another personal best time of 8.05 seconds in the heats, but with 8.10 in the semi-final, she was knocked out. She performed slightly worse during the summer, with 13.09 seconds in July in

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as the season's best. In the 2008–09 indoor season, she returned to form as she competed at the

. After 8.00 in the heats and 8.01 in the semi-final, she took the gold medal ahead of Lucie Škrobáková, 2006 World Indoor Champion

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and Christina Vukicevic. Her time of 7.92 seconds was a new national indoor record. She was a semi-finalist in the 60 m hurdles at the

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, but failed to progress beyond the heats stage at the

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later that year. A knee injury and a serious muscle tear in her thigh brought a premature end to her 2011 season, as she missed out on defending her European indoor title. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 100 m hurdles, reaching the semi-finals. At the 2014 European Championships, she reached the final, finishing in 8th place.

Personal life

Berings studies

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Berings, Eline 1986 births Living people Belgian female hurdlers Sportspeople from Ghent Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Belgium World Athletics Championships athletes for Belgium