Isabel Posch

{{Short description|Austrian athlete (born 2000)}}

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| nationality = Austrian

| sport = Athletics

| event = Heptathlon

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|2000|2|28|df=yes}}

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| pb = Heptathlon : 6107 (Chengdu, 2023)
Pentathlon: 4174 (Linz, 2024)

| medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Women's athletics}}

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{{MedalCompetition|Summer World University Games}}

{{MedalGold|2021 Chengdu|Heptathlon}}

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Isabel Posch (born 28 February 2000) is an Austrian multi-event athlete. She has won national indoor titles in the long jump and the pentathlon.{{cite web|url= https://worldathletics.org/athletes/austria/isabel-posch-14628673|website=World Athletics|accessdate=7 June 2024|title=Isabel Posch}}

Early life

From Vorarlberg,{{cite web|url= https://www.krone.at/3398860 |website=Krone.at|accessdate=7 June 2024|title= Isabel Posch was robbed of her starting place at the European Championships!|date=31 May 2024}} she is member of TS Lustenau in Lustenau.{{cite web|url= https://www.vol.at/weitere-medaille-fuer-isabel-posch-von-der-ts-lustenau/5431979|website=vol.at|accessdate=7 June 2024|title=

Another medal for Isabel Posch from TS Lustenau|date=29 August 2017}}

Career

She became national indoor champion in the pentathlon in Linz in 2023 setting a new Austrian national record points tally, beating the previous record set by Chiara Schuler in 2022.{{cite web|url=https://tvteufen.ch/2022/09/26/isabel-posch-oesterreichische-landesmeisterin-im-7-kampf/|website=tvteufen|accessdate=7 June 2024|title= ISABEL POSCH AUSTRIAN NATIONAL CHAMPION IN 7-FIGHT}}{{cite web|title=Posch pulverized the Ländle record in Linz|url= https://www.krone.at/2929575 |date=14 February 2023|website=Krone.at|accessdate=7 June 2024}} At the same Austrian championships she won the national indoor title in the long jump with a distance of 6.14 metres.{{cite web|url= https://worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7192151?eventId=10229528|website=World Athletics|accessdate=7 June 2024|title= Austrian Indoor Championships|date=18 February 2023}}

She went past 6000 points in the heptathlon for the first time at the Hypomeeting in Gotzis in May 2023, with her efforts including a 6.43m personal best in the long jump.{{cite web|url= https://www.oelv.at/de/newsshow-hypomeeting-goetzis-isabel-posch-uebertrifft-6000-punkte|website=oelv.at|accessdate=7 June 2024|title= Hypomeeting Götzis - Isabel Posch exceeds 6000 points}} In August 2023, she won the heptathlon at the delayed 2021 Summer World University Games.

Separately, she also reached the final of the women's long jump at the championships.{{cite web|url= https://www.oelv.at/de/newsshow-world-university-games-chengdu-tag-5-gold-fuer-isabel-posch-im-siebenkampf|website=oelv.at|accessdate=7 June 2024|title= World University Games Chengdu Tag 5: Gold für Isabel Posch im Siebenkampf}}{{cite web|url= https://www.vol.at/isabel-posch-sorgt-fuer-traumhaften-auftakt/8217463|website=vol.at|accessdate=7 June 2024|title= Isabel Posch sorgt für traumhaften Auftakt|first=Jochen|last=Düsner|date=1 August 2023}}

She retained her national indoors long jump title with a distance of 6.19 meters in Linz in February 2024.{{cite web|url=https://www.vol.at/medaillen-rekorde-und-bestleistungen/8575732|website=vol.at|accessdate=7 June 2024|title= Medaillen, Rekorde und Bestleistungen

|date=19 February 2024}}

She was selected for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome.{{cite web|url=https://www.krone.at/3401523|website=Krone.at|access-date=7 June 2024|title= Isabel Posch competes at the European Athletics Championships in Rome|date=3 June 2024}}

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