Full name Jonna Valesca Tilgner Name Jonna Tilgner Events 4 × 400 metres relay Coached by Jens Ellrott Weight 55 kg | Sport Athletics Height 1.69 m Nationality Germany Role Olympic athlete | |
Born 18 November 1984 (age 39) ( 1984-11-18 ) Hannover, Lower Saxony,
Germany Club Bremer Leichtathletik Team Personal best(s) 400 m: 51.90 s (2008)
400 m hurdles: 55.71 (2009) | ||
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Jonna Valesca Tilgner (born November 18, 1984 in Hannover, Lower Saxony) is a German sprinter and hurdler, who specialized in the 400 metres. She won two medals, silver and bronze, in the women's 400 m hurdles at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand, and at the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade, Serbia, clocking at 56.27 and 56.02 seconds, respectively. Tilgner is also a member of Bremer Leichtathletik Team, and is coached and trained by Jens Ellrott.
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Tilgner competed for the women's 4 × 400 m relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, along with her teammates Claudia Hoffmann, Florence Ekpo-Umoh, and Sorina Nwachukwu. Running the start-off leg, Tilgner recorded her individual-split time of 53.12 seconds, and the German team went on to an eighth-place finish in the final, for a total time of 3:28.45.