Rosina Schneider
Rosina Schneider (born 18 August 2004) is a German hurdler. A double European U20 champion in 2023, she became German national indoor champion over 60m hurdles in 2024.[1] Early lifeShe grew up in Empfingen in Baden-Württemberg, near the Black Forest. She started athletics at the age of eight and is a member of her hometown club TV Sulz. She moved in 2021 to a boarding school at a sports school in Stuttgart and joined the training group of former sprinter Cathleen Tschirch.[2][3] CareerShe reached the semifinals in the 100 metres at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia in August 2022.[4] In February 2023, she won double gold at the German Youth Indoor Championships in Dortmund, winning over 60 metres hurdles and 200 metres.[5] She was European U20 champion in the 100m hurdles and 4x100m relay in Jerusalem in 2023. In the hurdles she won gold with a personal best and championship record time of 13.06 seconds.[6][7] In the winter of 2023-24 she trained in Florida with Olympic triple jump champion Christian Taylor and his wife Beate Schrott, who finished seventh in the 2012 Olympic hurdles, and then trained for three and-a-half weeks in Jamaica with the training group of Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.[8] She won the senior German national title in the 60m hurdles in February 2024.[9] She finished second in the 100m hurdles at the Liese Prokop Memorial In St. Pölten, Austria on 17 May 2024, running 13.08 seconds.[10] She was selected for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome.[11] References
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