Jana Becker
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| Full name | Jana Marie Becker | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 May 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Middle-distance running | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 800m: 1:59.59 (Pfungstadt, 2025) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jana Marie Becker (born 11 May 2006) is a German runner who competes over 400 metres and 800 metres. She was German senior indoor champion and European U20 champion over 800 metres in 2025.[1]
Career
She is a member of Königstein Athletics Club in Königstein im Taunus.[2] She won the silver medal over 800 metres at the 2022 European Athletics U18 Championships in a time of 2:09.52 in Jerusalem, Israel.[3]
In July 2024, she was a member of the Königsteiner LV trio with Vanda Skupin-Alfa and Sarah Köcher which won the 3 x 800 metres relay at the German Championahips.[4] She ran the anchor leg in the qualifying round a for the German team which went on to have a sixth place finish in the final of the women's 4 x 400 metres relay team at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru in August 2024.[5]
She won the German U20 Indoor Championships title over 800 metres in February 2025, in an indoor personal best time of 2:04.20 in Dortmund.[6] The following week, she followed that up by winning the senior German National title at the German Indoor Athletics Championships, again in Dortmund, over 800 metres.[7][8]
She won the gold medal in the 800 metres at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland in a time of in 2:01.67.[9] Just an hour later at the same championships, she was a silver medalist in the women’s 4 x 400 metres relay, after being a late replacement into the team after Germany's silver medalist in the individual 400 metres, Johanna Martin, had to withdraw from the squad.[10][11] She set a new personal best for the 800 metres, breaking the two minute barrier for the first time, in August 2025 in Pfungstadt, Germany.[12] The time moved her to second in the Germany senior women rankings for the season, and made her the fastest European in the U20 youth category, and number two in the U20 world rankings.[13]
References
- ^ "Jana Marie Becker". World Athletics. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
- ^ "Königstein athletes in World Cup mood". taunus-nachrichten.de. 21 August 2024. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
- ^ "Jana Becker läuft mit bärenstarker zweiter Runde zu Silber". leichtathletik.de. 7 July 2022. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
- ^ "KÖNIGSTEINER LV TWO GERMAN CHAMPIONSHIP TITLES FOR THE CASTLE TOWN". taunus-nachrichten.de. 3 July 2024. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
- ^ "Lima trip is not a success for Becker". usinger-anzeiger.de. 2 September 2024. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
- ^ Priedemuth, Jens (17 Feb 2025). "Becker dominates over 800 meters". usinger-anzeiger.de. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
- ^ "German Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 21 Feb 2025. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
- ^ Priedemuth, Jens (24 Feb 2025). "Becker stürmt zum DM-Titel". usinger-anzeiger.de. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
- ^ "Norwegian and British distance doubles on dramatic night". European Athletics. 9 August 2025. Retrieved 10 August 2025.
- ^ "European U20 Championships". World Athletics. 10 August 2025. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
- ^ "U20 European Championships 2025 Tampere Day 4 - DLV long sprinters win silver with new line-up – DLV". Germanroadraces. 11 August 2025. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
- ^ Mills, Steven (21 Aug 2025). "Massive breakthrough by Moe Berg! 3:30.28 over 1500m in Pfungstadt". European Athletics. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
- ^ Priedemuth, Jens (21 August 2025). "The two-minute mark broken". usinger-anzeiger.de. Retrieved 26 August 2025.