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