Carolin Schäfer (born 5 December 1991) is a German athlete who specialises in the heptathlon. She won the silver medal in the event at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics. Schäfer took bronze at the 2018 European Athletics Championships.
At the age of 15, she won the silver medal at the 2007 World Youth Championships. She was the heptathlon 2008 World junior and 2009 European junior champion. Schäfer represented Germany at the 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympics, where she finished fifth and seventh respectively.
Statistics
International competitions 2007World Youth ChampionshipsOstrava, Czech Republic2ndHeptathlon5544 2008World Junior ChampionshipsBydgoszcz, Poland1stHeptathlon5833 pts 2009European Junior ChampionshipsNovi Sad, Serbia1stHeptathlon5697 pts 2011European U23 ChampionshipsOstrava, Czech Republic5thHeptathlon5941 pts 2012European ChampionshipsHelsinki, Finland11thHeptathlon6003 pts2013European U23 ChampionshipsTampere, Finland6thHeptathlon5809 pts2014European ChampionshipsZürich, Switzerland4thHeptathlon6395 pts 2015European Indoor ChampionshipsPrague, Czech Republic– PentathlonDNFWorld ChampionshipsBeijing, China– HeptathlonDNF2016Olympic GamesRio de Janeiro, Brazil5thHeptathlon6540 pts2017World ChampionshipsLondon, United Kingdom2ndHeptathlon6696 pts2018European ChampionshipsBerlin, Germany3rdHeptathlon6602 pts2021Olympic GamesTokyo, Japan7thHeptathlon6419 pts2022European ChampionshipsMunich, Germany6thHeptathlon6223 pts2023World ChampionshipsBudapest, Hungary —HeptathlonDNF2024European ChampionshipsRome, Italy –HeptathlonDNFOlympic GamesParis, France17thHeptathlon6084 pts
Personal bests Heptathlon – 6836 pts (Götzis 2017) 100 m hurdles – 13.07 s (+2.0 m/s, Ratingen 2017) High jump – 1.86 m (Götzis 2017) Shot put – 14.84 m (London 2017) 200 metres – 23.27 s (+0.3 m/s, Ratingen 2017) Long jump – 6.57 m (+0.9 m/s, Götzis 2017) Javelin throw – 54.10 m (Tokyo 2021) 800 metres – 2:13.95 min (Ratingen 2022) Indoors Pentathlon – 4098 pts (Hamburg 2009) 60 m hurdles – 8.35 s (Sindelfingen 2023) High jump – 1.79 m (Hanau 2015) Shot put – 14.24 m (Frankfurt 2016) Long jump – 6.12 m (Frankfurt 2017) 800 metres – 2:16.61 min (Frankfurt-Kalbach 2014) 60 metres – 7.72 s (Ludwigshafen 2023)
Circuit wins and titles, National titles World Athletics Combined Events Tour Overall winner: 2016, 2017, 2018 2014: Décastar 2017: Mehrkampf-Meeting 2018: Mehrkampf-Meeting, Décastar German Athletics Championships Heptathlon: 2013, 2020
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