Merle Homeier
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| Born | 27 August 1999 Bückeburg | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Track and Field | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Long Jump | ||||||||||||||
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Merle Homeier (born 27 August 1999) is a German track and field athlete who competes as a long jumper. She competed at the 2022 World Athletics Championships.
Early life
[edit]Homeier competed as a member of VfL Bückeburg won German age-group championships in multi-events in 2013 and 2014.[1]
Career
[edit]In 2018 she became the German U20 long jump champion indoors and was runner up to Lea-Jasmine Riecke at the U20 German outdoor championships.[2] She competed for LG Göttingen to be coaches under Frank Reinhardt in 2019.[3] That year, she was runner-up in the long jump at the 2019 German Athletics Championsips.[4] Homeier also finished second at the 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships jumping a personal best 6.69m to finish behind Hungarian Petra Farkas.[5] In Leipzig, in February 2022, Homeier finished runner up at the German indoor championships to Olympic champion Malaika Mihambo with a jump of 6.66 metres.[6]
In Eugene, Oregon in July 2022, Homeier competed in the 2022 World Athletics Championships but did not finish in the qualifying positions which would have progressed her to the final, in difficult wind conditions her best jump was one of 6.09 metres.[7] In August 2022, Homeier qualified for the final with a 6.49m jump at the 2022 European Championships long jump competition in Munich, and in the final she finished in ninth place overall.[8]
She was announced as joining Hannover 96 in late 2023.[9] She made her debut for Hannover competing indoors in January 2024.[10]
Personal life
[edit]She studied at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences in 2023.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ "Merle Homeier is block competition champion again". Leichtathletik.de. 5 July 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
- ^ "Merle Homeier is having a great 2018". Sportbuzzer.de. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
- ^ "Long jumps "made in Göttingen": Frank Reinhardt and his "jumping family"". Leichtathletik.de. 16 June 2023. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
- ^ "Bulmahn & Homeier". lsb-niedersachsen.de. 5 August 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
- ^ "Ceh breaks championship record to win in Tallinn". World Athletics. 11 July 2021. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
- ^ "Day 2 of the indoor championships: Malaika Mihambo towers over, Hamburg becomes a sprint stronghold". leichtathletik.de. 27 February 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
- ^ "Merle Homeier jumps to 6.09 meters in difficult wind conditions". NLV-LA.De. 24 July 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
- ^ "European Championships 2022:60 Medaillen, 24 Mal Gold – Deutschland gewinnt Nations-Trophy als beste Nation". rp-online.de. 22 August 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
- ^ "The carousel of changes is particularly active in Baden-Württemberg". Leichtathletik.de. 12 December 2023. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
- ^ "Vivian Groppe improves to 7.96 seconds". seknews.de. 9 January 2024. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
- ^ "Sports Minister Behrens visits the Lower Saxony Olympic Training Centre". lsb-niedersachsen.de. 16 August 2023. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
