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World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	Heptathlon
2019	Doha, QAT	3rd (6560)
2017	London, GBR	DNF

European Championships

Year	Location	Heptathlon
2018	Berlin, GER	8th (6337)

World Combined Events Challenge

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
1	Heptathlon	2019	Ratingen, GER	6591
1	Heptathlon	2019	Arona, ESP	6472
3	Heptathlon	2019	Doha, QAT	6560
5	Heptathlon	2018	Gotzis, AUT	6308
6	Heptathlon	2018	Talence, FRA	6133
8	Heptathlon	2018	Berlin, GER	6337
DNF	Heptathlon	2017	London, GBR	DNF

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Skiing, swimming, reading, cinema, shopping. (worldathletics.org, 27 Feb 2020; Facebook page, 24 Mar 2020)

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English, German

Union Ebensee [Austria]

Wolfgang Adler

She competed in cross-country running in her youth and won an Austrian national U16 title in the sport. (worldathletics.org, 27 Feb 2020)

She withdrew from the 2017 World Championships in London, England, due to asthma. (worldathletics.org, 27 Feb 2020)

She suffered from foot and ankle injuries in 2017. (worldathletics.org, 27 Feb 2020)

She had a foot injury in 2016. (worldathletics.org, 27 Feb 2020)

She was introduced to athletics at the Ebensee club in upper Austria at age six. She entered her first heptathlon at age 15 in Linz, Austria. (worldathletics.org, 27 Feb 2020; verenapreiner.at, 24 Mar 2020)

She was curious about all athletics disciplines. (worldathletics.org, 27 Feb 2020)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (worldathletics.org, 27 Feb 2020)

She trains at the Olympic Centre in Linz, Austria, and has up to 12 sessions a week. (verenapreiner.at, 24 Mar 2020)

Winning a bronze medal at the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Qatar. (worldathletics.org, 27 Feb 2020)

Austrian athlete Ivona Dadic, British athlete Jessica Ennis-Hill. (worldathletics.org, 27 Feb 2020)

"I was not the best at a young age but I always try to do better. It is not in my mind that I will not succeed. I try to be the best I can in every area of my life." (worldathletics.org, 27 Feb 2020)

In 2020 she won a Traunstein Salzkammergut Award in the sport category. (verenapreiner.at, 27 Jan 2020)

In 2019 she was named Austrian Athlete of the Year at the Austrian Athletics Federation [OLV] awards ceremony. (verenapreiner.at, 10 Feb 2020)

She was named the 2019 Rising Star of the Year by the Sports Media Austria sports journalists association at the Lotterien-Sporthilfe Gala in Vienna, Austria. (verenapreiner.at, 31 Oct 2019)