Jennifer Oeser

{{short description|German heptathlete}}

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| image = Jennifer Oeser Berlin 2009.JPG

| caption = Oeser at the 2009 Berlin World Championships

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| nationality = German

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1983|11|29|df=y}}

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| weight ={{convert|67|kg|lb|abbr=on}}

| country = {{GER}}

| sport =Athletics

| event =Heptathlon

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| coach = Karl-Heinz Due

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{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}

{{MedalSilver|2009 Berlin|Heptathlon}}

{{MedalSilver|2011 Daegu|Heptathlon}}

{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}

{{MedalBronze|2010 Barcelona|Heptathlon}}

| updated = 4 August 2012

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Jennifer Oeser (born 29 November 1983 in Brunsbüttel, Schleswig-Holstein) is a retired German heptathlete.

Career

Oeser's first international championship was the 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics and she finished in eighth place with a score of 5405 points. She improved her personal best to 5901 points to win the gold medal at the 2003 European Athletics U23 Championships. Moving up to the senior ranks, she finished fourth in the heptathlon at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg and was seventh in the event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics. Oeser was eleventh at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.http://www.leverkusen.com/presse/db/presse.php?view=00014485 Olympia: Von Platz fünf bis neun für Leverkusen alles dabei She set a personal best of 6493 points to win the silver medal in the heptathlon at the 2009 IAAF World Championships in Berlin. The following year she was at the Erdgas Meeting in Ratingen, Germany, holding off her domestic rival Lilli Schwarzkopf to win with a total of 6427.van Kuijen, Hans (2010-06-20). [http://www.iaaf.org/WCE10/news/newsid=57103.html Garcia and Oeser prevail in Ratingen - IAAF Combined Events Challenge]. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-06-21.

Personal bests

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!Event

!Mark

100 m hurdles

|13.14 s

High jump

|1.86 m

Shot put

|14.29 m

200 metres

|23.95 s

Long jump

|6.68 m

Javelin throw

|51.30 m

800 metres

| 2:10.39 min

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Heptathlon

| 6683 points

Major competition record

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2002

|World Junior Championships

|Kingston, Jamaica

|8th

|Heptathlon

|5405 pts

2003

|European U23 Championships

|Bydgoszcz, Poland

|bgcolor=gold|1st

|Heptathlon

|5901 pts

2006

|European Championships

|Gothenburg, Sweden

|4th

|Heptathlon

|6376 pts

2007

|World Championships

|Osaka, Japan

|7th

|Heptathlon

|6378 pts

2008

|Olympic Games

|Beijing, China

|11th

|Heptathlon

|6360 pts

2009

|World Championships

|Berlin, Germany

|bgcolor=silver|2nd

|Heptathlon

|6493 pts

2010

|European Championships

|Barcelona, Spain

|bgcolor=CC9966|3rd

|Heptathlon

|6683 pts

2011

|World Championships

|Daegu, South Korea

|bgcolor=silver|2nd

|Heptathlon

|6572 pts

2015

|World Championships

|Beijing, China

|10th

|Heptathlon

|6308 pts

2016

|Olympic Games

|Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

|9th

|Heptathlon

|6401 pts

References

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