Jolanda Kallabis
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| Born | 18 February 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Middle distance running | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 800m: 2:01.80 (2025) 1500m: 4:07.44 (2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Jolanda Kallabis (born 18 February 2005) is a German middle-distance runner. She won the German Indoor Championships over 800 metres in 2023. The previous year, she set a U18 world-best time in the 2000 metres steeplechase.[1]
Career
[edit]She competed as a 16 year-old for Germany in the 1500 metres at the 2021 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, narrowly missing a place in the final.[2]
She won the gold medal in the 2000 metres steeplechase at the 2022 European Athletics U18 Championships in Jerusalem, Israel, in a championship record time of 6:20.22.[3] That year, she ran the 800m in 2:04.57 to break the German indoor U18 record, which had been held by Hildegard Ullrich since 1976 and won win the German indoor U20 title, despite still being 17 years-old. In September 2022, she set a world-best under-18 time for the 2000 metres steeplechase, running a time of 6:07:32.[4] She was named Youth Athlete of 2022 by the German Athletics Association (DLV).[5]
Competing for FT 1844 Freiburg, she won the senior German Indoor Athletics Championships over 800 metres in Dortmund in February 2023 one day after her eighteenth birthday, although she subsequently missed the outdoor season that year with a foot injury.[6][7][5] She won the bronze medal in the 1500 metres at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru.[8][9]
She finished third over 1500 metres at the German Indoor Championships in Dortmund in February 2025.[10] She competed for Germany at the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen, Norway.[11]
Personal life
[edit]From Freiburg, she is the daughter of Damian Kallabis, who won the 3000m steeplechase title at the European Athletics Championships in 1998.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Jolanda Kallabis". World Athletics. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
- ^ a b "Kallabis looking to follow in her father's footsteps with steeplechase gold in Jerusalem". European Athletics. 30 June 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
- ^ "Dominant Kallabis shatters championship record for 2000m steeplechase gold". European Athletics. 6 July 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
- ^ "Track prodigy Jolanda Kallabis reinforces OAC Europe". Running-insights. Retrieved 17 July 2025.
- ^ a b Gulde, George (19 Feb 2023). "First birthday, then gold: Jolanda Kallabis from Freiburg becomes German indoor champion over 800 meters". badische-zeitung.de. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
- ^ "German Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 18 Feb 2023. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
- ^ "Jolanda Kallabis on new paths towards Rome". wlv-soort. November 20, 2023. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
- ^ "Women's 1500m Results - World Athletics Junior U20 Championships 2024". Watch Athletics. 31 August 2024. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
- ^ "Reid anchors Jamaica to 4x100m title to secure golden double in Lima". World Athletics. 1 September 2024. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
- ^ "German Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 23 Feb 2025. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
- ^ "European Athletics U23 Championships". World Athletics. 18 July 2025. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
