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German athlete
Eileen Demes
Eileen Demes in 2023
Personal information
NationalityGerman
Born (1997-10-13) 13 October 1997 (age 27)
Sport
SportAthletics
Event400m hurdles
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)400m hurdles 55.25 (Rome, 2024)

Eileen Demes (born 13 October 1997) is a German track and field athlete who competes in the 400m hurdles.

Career

A member of TV Neu-Isenburg athletics club in Neu-Isenburg, Demes won the German U18 title in 400m hurdles in 2014. Demes qualified as a semi-final winner for the final of the 400m hurdles at the 2016 World Athletics U20 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland, as an 18-year-old, improving her personal best twice, from 55.77 in the preliminary heat to 57.13 seconds in the semi-final. She finished fourth in the final.

Demes won the German U23 title over 400m hurdles in 2018, but her athletic progress was halted by a viral infection that was not initially accurately diagnosed, and from which recovery was not quick.

Demes finished second in the 400m hurdles at the German national championships in Kassel in July 2023, with a personal best time of 55.72. It was the first competition she has tried out an altered technique, taking fourteen steps before the first hurdle.

Selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023, she qualified for the semi-final in a personal best time of 55.29.

She was selected for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, reaching the semifinals and running a personal best 55.29 seconds. She competed in the women's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2024 Paris Olympics. She also competed in the mixed 4x400m relay at the Games.

References

  1. "Eileen Demes". World Athletics. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
  2. "Eileen Demes: "My first German championship title as a youth"". Leichtatgletik. 9 August 2014. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
  3. "Final! A medal is possible for Eileen Demes". hlv.de. 21 July 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
  4. Galadima, Yemi (July 22, 2016). "USA's Anna Cockrell powers to PB to win 400mH @ World U20 Championships". Making of Champs. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
  5. "On the road to Munich: Eileen Demes from TV 1861 Neu-Isenburg wants to take part in the European Athletics Championships in Munich in 2022". Frankfurter.de. 1 December 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
  6. Ricke, Theresa (July 14, 2023). "Hurdler from TV Neu-Isenburg before the World Cup: "It should go faster"". op-online.de. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
  7. Ricke, Theresa (August 16, 2023). "Eileen Demes can't get out of step in preparation for the World Cup". Op-online.
  8. "Women's 400m Hurdles Results: World Athletics Championships 2023". Watch Athletics. 22 August 2023. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
  9. "DLV vergibt weitere EM-Startplätze für Rom an Normerfüller und Staffelmitglieder". Leichtathletikaccessdate=29 May 2024. 29 May 2024.
  10. "European Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 10 June 2024. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
  11. "Women's 4 x 400 Metres Relay - Paris Olympic Games 2024 Athletics". Watch Athletics. 10 August 2024. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  12. "Mixed 4 x 400 Metres Relay - Paris Olympic Games 2024 Athletics". Watch Athletics. 3 August 2024. Retrieved 28 December 2024.

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