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Talea Prepens

b. 2001

German athletics competitor

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Born 2001. Talea Prepens is a German athletics competitor.

Talea Prepens (born 28 December 2001) is a German sprinter and bobsledder. She won the 2017 IAAF World U18 Championships title over 200 metres. She won a bronze medal in the two-woman bobsleigh at the 2026 European Championships.

Biography She is from Cloppenburg and is a member of TV Cloppenburg as well as being trained by her father Harald Prepens.

She won the 2017 IAAF World U18 Championships title over 200 metres in Nairobi, Kenya, at the age of 15 years old. She won this title despite being the youngest athlete in the field. She won the title with her second personal best at the championships, running 23.51 seconds in the final, after running 23.64 in the semi-finals.

At the 2019 European Athletics U20 Championships in Borås, she won bronze with the German relay team in the 4 × 100 m relay alongside compatriots Kathleen Reinhardt, Denise Uphoff, and Chiara Schimpf.

She won back-to-back sprint doubles over 100 metres and 200 metres at the German Athletics U23 Championships in 2022 and 2023. She finished fourth in the 200 m at the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo, Finland. She competed at the delayed 2021 University Games in Chengdu, China in 2023 finishing sixth in the 100 metres.

She ran a personal best of 22.83 over 200 metres at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome to qualify for the semi-finals. In the semi-final, she ran 22.99 seconds to place fourth in her heat but did not proceed to the final.

Prepens won a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 metres at the 2025 Summer World University Games. In January 2026, she won a bronze medal competing in Bobsleigh at the 2026 IBSF European Championships. She was selected for the Germany team for the 2026 Winter Olympics. August 2026, she competed at the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham, England, in the women's 200 metres, reaching the semi-finals.

Personal life She plays double bass and played in a youth symphony orchestra. Her brother Torben Prepens competes in the decathlon.

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German athletics competitor

When was Talea Prepens born?

Talea Prepens was born on 28 December 2001 in Cloppenburg.

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Talea Prepens is an athletics competitor.

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Talea Prepens is German.

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· Wikipedia: Talea Prepens

· Wikidata: Q112083913

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