Carolin Nytra | |
Birth Date: | 26 February 1985 |
Birth Place: | Hamburg, West Germany |
Height: | 1.75 m |
Country: | Germany |
Sport: | Athletics |
Event: | 100 metres hurdles |
Regionals: | 3rd at the 2010 European Athletics Championships |
Nationals: | 1st at the 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012 German Athletics Championships |
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Show-Medals: | yes |
Carolin Nytra (born 26 February 1985 in Hamburg), also known as Carolin Dietrich, is a German athlete who specialises in the 100 metres hurdles. With a personal best time of 12.57 seconds, she became the seventh fastest German ever over this distance at the Diamond League meet in Lausanne on 8 July 2010.[1]
Nytra represented Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics[2] and the 2009 World Championships in Athletics,[3] at both events being eliminated at the semi-final stage. However, she did win a silver medal at the 2010 European Team Championships in Bergen, Norway, with a time of 12.81 seconds.[4] She subsequently came first in the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Paris.
Nytra won the German Athletics Championships for four consecutive years, from 2007 until 2010,[5] [6] and then again in 2012. In 2012, she again competed in the Olympics.
Her partner is the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Champion Sebastian Bayer.[7]