Lilli Schwarzkopf

Lilli Schwarzkopf

Schwarzkopf in Hamburg, 2012.
Personal information
Full name	Lilli Schwarzkopf
Born	(1983-08-28) 28 August 1983 (age 40) Novopokrovka, Kirghiz SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	65 kg (143 lb)
Website	lilli-schwarzkopf.de
Sport
Country	Germany
Sport	Athletics
Event	Heptathlon
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	200 m: 24.72 (July 2011) 800 m: 2:09.63 (June 2006) 100 m hurdles: 13.26 (August 2012) High jump: 1.84 (June 2014) Long jump: 6.34 (June 2007) Shot put: 14.89 (August 2011) Javelin: 55.25 (June 2009) Heptathlon: 6649 (August 2012)
Medal record Heptathlon Representing  Germany Olympic Games 2012 London Heptathlon European Championships 2006 Gothenburg Heptathlon

Her first major global competition was the 2005 World Championships in Athletics, where she finished in 13th place. She won the bronze medal at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. She followed this up on the world stage with a fifth-place finish at the 2007 World Championships and eighth place at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She failed to finish the heptathlon at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics in Berlin and chose to omit the 2010 European Athletics Championships to focus on her studies but came back to place sixth at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu.

Schwarzkopf won the silver medal in the heptathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Initially after the 800 metres, Schwarzkopf was disqualified for breaking lane, but this later turned out to be a mistake, Kristina Savitskaya in the neighbouring lane having done so, and Schwarzkopf was re-instated.