Rosina Schneider
German athlete (born 2004)
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Rosina Schneider (born 18 August 2004) is a German hurdler. A double European U20 champion in 2023, she became German national indoor champion over 60 m hurdles in 2024.[1]
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| Born | 18 August 2004 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Germany | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||
Event | Hurdles | |||||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | 60 m hurdles 7.96 (Düsseldorf, 2025) 100 m hurdles: 12.76 (Birmingham, 2026) | |||||||||||||||||
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Early life
She 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]
Career
She 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 100 m hurdles and 4 × 100 m relay in Jerusalem in 2023. In the hurdles she won gold with a personal best and championship record time of 13.06 seconds, with compatriot Lia Flotow claiming the bronze medal in the race.[6][7][8]
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.[9]
She won the senior German national title in the 60 m hurdles in February 2024.[10] She finished second in the 100 m hurdles at the Liese Prokop Memorial In St. Pölten, Austria on 17 May 2024, running 13.08 seconds.[11] She was selected for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome.[12]
She ran under 8 seconds for the 60 m hurdles for the first time on 9 February 2025, at the ISTAF Indoor in Düsseldorf, where she ran a personal best 7.96 seconds.[13] She competed at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, where she qualified for the semi-finals of the 60 metres hurdles with a time of 7.97 seconds. In the semi-final she ran 8.01 seconds but did not qualify for the final.[14]
Schneider went below eight seconds again the following year in the 60m hurdles at the Erfurt Indoor 2026, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Challenger meeting, finishing runner-up to Marlene Meier in 7.99 seconds.[15] She placed third behind Meier and Ricarda Lobe at the German Indoor Championships in the 60 metres hurdles final on 28 February 2026.[16] In August 2026, she competed at the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham, England, in the women's 100 metres hurdles, reaching the semi-finals having ran a personal best of 12.76 seconds.[17]
