Linn Kleine

Sport

• Athletics

Date of birth

• 10.05.2001

Degree course

• Psychology

Current club

• VfB Stuttgart

Squad status

• former perspective squad (PK)

What fascinates me about my sport ...

• the enormous variety of disciplines! This creates a colorful community in which everyone can find their place. At the same time, I love the unique atmosphere at competitions. When the whole stadium cheers you can feel that athletics is more than just an individual sport - it's pure emotion.

When I'm not doing my sport, then...

• i'm often in the thick of it anyway - as a presenter at competitions, from German championships to the Diamond League. I also get involved professionally and voluntarily where it is particularly important to me: in child and adolescent psychiatry, in prevention projects for mental health and as a youth ambassador for sports psychology for the German Athletics Youth.

My previous successes

• 4th place U18 European Championships in Györ (3000m)
• 6th place U20 European Championships in Boras (5000m)
• 14th place at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires (3000m + cross-country)
• Participation in U23 European Championships in Tallinn (10,000m)
• Vice World Champion WUC Cross Country Team in Aveiro (cross country)
• 6-time German (youth) champion

My goals for the future

• After a few setbacks due to injury, my health is my top priority in the long term. In addition to sport, I would like to successfully complete my degree in psychology and then continue my professional development - ideally in the therapeutic field, ideally with a connection to clinical research. Where exactly the journey will take me remains to be seen.