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Full name | Jonna Valesca Tilgner | |||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Germany | |||||||||||||||||
Born | Hannover, Lower Saxony, West Germany | 18 November 1984|||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 6+1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 55 kg (121 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||
Event | 4 × 400 metres relay | |||||||||||||||||
Club | Bremer Leichtathletik Team[1] | |||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Jens Ellrott[1] | |||||||||||||||||
Achievements and titles | ||||||||||||||||||
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.[2] 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.[3][4] Tilgner is also a member of Bremer Leichtathletik Team, and is coached and trained by Jens Ellrott.[1]
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.[5]