Verena Mayr

Preiner in 2018
Personal information
Birth name	Verena Preiner
Born	(1995-02-01)1 February 1995 (age 30) Ebensee, Austria
Education	Johannes Kepler University Linz
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Weight	65 kg (143 lb)
Sport
Country	Austria
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Heptathlon,Pentathlon
Medal record Women'sathletics Representing Austria World Championships 2019 Doha Heptathlon European U23 Championships 2017 Bydgoszcz Heptathlon Universiade 2017 Taipei Heptathlon

Verena Mayr (née Preiner, born 1 February 1995^[2]) is an Austrianathlete competing in thecombined events. She won the bronze medal in theheptathlon at the2019 World Athletics Championships. In 2017, Mayr took a silver in the heptathlon at theEuropean Under-23 Championships and a gold at theSummer Universiade.

She represented Austria at the2020 Tokyo Olympics, placing eleventh in the heptathlon.^[3] Mayr is theAustrian record holder in the event and won 11 national titles (mostly for the combined events).

Representing Austria

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Result	Notes
2011	World Youth Championships	Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France	23rd	Heptathlon	4650 pts
2014	World Junior Championships	Eugene, OR, United States	9th	Heptathlon	5530 pts	PB
2015	European U23 Championships	Tallinn, Estonia	– (f)	4 × 400 m relay	DQ
			4th	Heptathlon	5840 pts	PB
2016	European Championships	Amsterdam, Netherlands	7th	Heptathlon	6050 pts	PB
2017	European Indoor Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	6th	Pentathlon	4478 pts
	European U23 Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	2nd	Heptathlon	6232 pts	NU23R
	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	–	Heptathlon	DNF
	Universiade	Taipei, Taiwan	1st	Heptathlon	6224 pts
2018	European Championships	Berlin, Germany	8th	Heptathlon	6337 pts	PB
2019	European Indoor Championships	Glasgow, United Kingdom	6th	Pentathlon	4637 pts	PB
	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	3rd	Heptathlon	6560 pts
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	11th	Heptathlon	6310 pts	SB
2024	World Indoor Championships	Glasgow, United Kingdom	5th	Pentathlon	4466 pts
	European Championships	Rome, Italy	–	Heptathlon	DNF
2025	European Indoor Championships	Apeldoorn, Netherlands	–	Pentathlon	DNF

• Heptathlon – 6591 pts (Ratingen 2019)NR
  • 100 m hurdles – 13.25 s (+0.6 m/s,Doha 2019)
  • High jump – 1.80 m (Ratingen 2019)
  • Shot put – 15.07 m (Maria Enzersdorf 2020)
  • 200 metres – 23.66 s (+0.2 m/s,St. Pölten 2016)
  • Long jump – 6.36 m (+0.4 m/s,Doha 2019)
  • Javelin throw – 49.58 m (Ratingen 2019)
  • 800 metres – 2:07.74 min (Ratingen 2019)

Indoors

• Pentathlon – 4637 pts (Glasgow 2019)
  • 60 m hurdles – 8.38 s (Glasgow 2019)
  • High jump – 1.75 m (Glasgow 2019)
  • Shot put – 14.90 m (Linz 2020)
  • Long jump – 6.21 m (Linz 2020)
  • 800 metres – 2:09.45 min (Linz 2019)
• 60 metres – 7.75 s (Linz 2018)

• IAAF Combined Events Challenge Overall winner:2019
  • 2019: Meeting Arona,Mehrkampf-Meeting (NR)
• Austrian Athletics Championships
  • 400 m hurdles: 2016
  • Shot put: 2020, 2021
  • Heptathlon: 2014, 2015, 2016
• Austrian Indoor Athletics Championships
  • Long jump: 2022
  • Shot put: 2016
  • Pentathlon: 2014, 2015, 2019

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