Isabel Posch
Austrian athlete (born 2000)
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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.[1]
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| Nationality | Austrian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 28 February 2000 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Heptathlon | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Heptathlon : 6107 (Chengdu, 2023) Pentathlon: 4174 (Linz, 2024) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Early life
From Vorarlberg,[2] she is member of TS Lustenau in Lustenau.[3]
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.[4][5] At the same Austrian championships she won the national indoor title in the long jump with a distance of 6.14 metres.[6]
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.[7] In June, she was part of the Austrian women’s 4 x 100 metres team which set a new national record at the 2023 European Athletics Team Championships.[8]
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.[9][10]
She retained her national indoors long jump title with a distance of 6.19 meters in Linz in February 2024.[11] She also placed second in the 60 metres final at the championships behind Magdalena Lindner.[12]
She was selected for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome.[13]
