Verena Mayr

Verena Mayr (née Preiner; born 1 February 1995 ) is an Austrian athlete competing in the combined events. She won the bronze medal in the heptathlon at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. In 2017, Mayr took a silver in the heptathlon at the European Under-23 Championships and a gold at the Summer Universiade.

She represented Austria at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, placing eleventh in the heptathlon. Mayr is the Austrian record holder in the event and won 11 national titles (mostly for the combined events).

Statistics Preiner receiving Newcomer of the Year award at the 2019 Austrian Sports Personality of the Year gala.

International competitions

Personal bests Heptathlon – 6591 pts (Ratingen 2019) 100 m hurdles – 13.25 s (+0.6 m/s, Doha 2019) High jump – 1.80 m (Ratingen 2019) Shot put – 15.07 m (Maria Enzersdorf 2020) 200 metres – 23.66 s (+0.2 m/s, St. Pölten 2016) Long jump – 6.36 m (+0.4 m/s, Doha 2019) Javelin throw – 49.58 m (Ratingen 2019) 800 metres – 2:07.74 min (Ratingen 2019) Indoors Pentathlon – 4637 pts (Glasgow 2019) 60 m hurdles – 8.38 s (Glasgow 2019) High jump – 1.75 m (Glasgow 2019) Shot put – 14.90 m (Linz 2020) Long jump – 6.21 m (Linz 2020) 800 metres – 2:09.45 min (Linz 2019) 60 metres – 7.75 s (Linz 2018)

Circuit wins and titles, National titles IAAF Combined Events Challenge Overall winner: 2019 2019: Meeting Arona, Mehrkampf-Meeting Austrian Athletics Championships 400 m hurdles: 2016 Shot put: 2020, 2021 Heptathlon: 2014, 2015, 2016 Austrian Indoor Athletics Championships Long jump: 2022 Shot put: 2016 Pentathlon: 2014, 2015, 2019