Sabina Veit

Sabina Veit
Personal information
Nationality  Slovenia
Born 5 December 1985
Maribor, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.66 m (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in)
Weight 56 kg (123 lb)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event(s) Sprint
Club Poljane Maribor
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s) 100 m: 11.83 s (2007)
200 m: 22.74 s (2008)

Sabina Veit (born December 5, 1985 in Maribor) is a Slovenian sprinter.[1] She set a personal best and an Olympic A-standard time of 22.74 seconds, by winning the 200 metres at the Slovenian Open Athletics Championships, coincidentally in her home city.[2] She also won a bronze medal in the same distance at the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade, finishing her time at 23.34 seconds.[3]

Veit represented Slovenia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the women's 200 metres. She ran in the third heat against seven other competitors, including United States' Marshevet Hooker, and four-time Olympian Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie of the Bahamas. She finished the race in fifth place by four hundredths of a second (0.04) behind Cyprus' Eleni Artymata, with a time of 23.62 seconds. Veit, however, failed to advance into the quarterfinals, as she placed thirty-fourth overall, and was ranked below four mandatory slots for the next round. She also tied her overall position with Barbados' Jade Bailey.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Sabina Veit". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
  2. ↑ "Athletics: Spotlight on the sprints at Slovenian championships". Chinese Olympic Committee. 22 July 2008. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
  3. ↑ "Gold, Two Silvers And Bronze At World University Games And Weekly Roundup". Athletics New Zealand. 13 July 2009. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
  4. ↑ "Women's 200m Round 1 – Heat 3". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 16 January 2013.

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