Jonna Tilgner Explained

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Jonna Tilgner
Fullname:Jonna Valesca Tilgner
Birth Date:18 November 1984
Birth Place:Hannover, Lower Saxony,
West Germany
Weight:550NaN0
Sport:Athletics
Event:4 × 400 metres relay
Club:Bremer Leichtathletik Team
Coach:Jens Ellrott
Pb:400 m: 51.90 s (2008)
400 m hurdles: 55.71 (2009)
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Jonna Valesca Tilgner (born November 18, 1984, in Hannover, Lower Saxony) is a German sprinter and hurdler, who specialized in the 400 metres.[1] She won two medals, silver and bronze, in the women's 400 m hurdles at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand, and at the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade, Serbia, clocking at 56.27 and 56.02 seconds, respectively.[2] [3] Tilgner is also a member of Bremer Leichtathletik Team, and is coached and trained by Jens Ellrott.[4]

Tilgner competed for the women's 4 × 400 m relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, along with her teammates Claudia Hoffmann, Florence Ekpo-Umoh, and Sorina Nwachukwu. Running the start-off leg, Tilgner recorded her individual-split time of 53.12 seconds, and the German team went on to an eighth-place finish in the final, for a total time of 3:28.45.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Jonna Tilgner. https://web.archive.org/web/20200417224234/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ti/jonna-tilgner-1.html. dead. 17 April 2020. 26 January 2013.
  2. News: Universiade-Ergebnisse vom 09.07.2009 – Leichtathletik: Silber für Jonna Tilgner, Bronze für Mareike Rittweg. Universiade results from 09.07.2009 – Athletics: Silver for Jonna Tilgner, bronze for Mareike Rittweg. German. Allgemeiner Deutscher. 9 July 2009. 26 January 2013.
  3. News: Clavelo Robinson. Javier. Second gold for Akkas, historic wins for Egypt and Portugal and two records fall, WUG 5th day. IAAF. 14 August 2007. 25 January 2013.
  4. Web site: Profile – Jonna Tilgner. German. Leichtathletik Deutsche. 26 January 2013.
  5. Web site: Women's 4×400m Relay Final. NBC Olympics. 26 January 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20120821150106/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/trackandfield/resultsandschedules/rsc=ATW404100/index.html. 21 August 2012. dead.