Elena Kelety
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| Born | 4 September 1999 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Hurdles | ||||||||||||||
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Elena Kelety (born 4 September 1999) is a German hurdler and former multi-event athlete.[1]
Early and personal life
From Frankfurt, she is a member of Frankfurt Athletics having started in the sport at the age of four years-old and previously also been a member of Königsteiner LV. She studied for a degree in biochemistry in Cologne before studying biomedical science at the University of South Carolina in the United States, and later also studied nutritional therapy. She competes in glasses having once lost a contact lens during a race.[2]
Career
Initially a multi-event athlete she competed in the heptathlon at the 2015 World Athletics Youth Championships in Cali, Colombia.[2] After having elbow surgery in 2016, she won the German U20 Championships with 5331 points for the heptathlon in 2017.[3] She was a silver medalist in Grosseto, Italy as a member of the German women’s 4 x 400 metres relay team at the 2017 European Athletics U20 Championships.[4]
Complications following a fractured arm from a pole vault fall led her to focus on 400 metres hurdles, and she placed third in the German U23 Championships in 2019. However, more injury problems resulted in foot surgery. In 2023, she began to coached by Robert Schieferer.[2] She ran 55.05 seconds for the 400 metres hurdles in Leuven, Belgium in July 2024, before lowering her personal best to 54.86 in Dresden in August 2024.[5][6]
She finished fourth over 400 metres hurdles at the 2025 BAUHAUS-galan event in Stockholm, part of the 2025 Diamond League, running a personal best 54.79 seconds.[7] She placed fourth in the 400 metres hurdles at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships First Division in Madrid on 28 June 2025.[8]
References
- ^ "Elena Kelety". World Athletics. Retrieved 15 June 2025.
- ^ a b c "Elena Kelety – Overcoming Obstacles to Success". Leichtathletik.de. January 8, 2025. Retrieved 16 June 2025.
- ^ "Heptathlon coup by Elena Kelety - record for Andreas Bechmann - team gold for LAV Kassel". hlv.de. 15 August 2017. Retrieved 16 June 2025.
- ^ "European U20 Championships". World Athletics. 20 July 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2025.
- ^ "Flash-News am Sonntag". Leichtathletik.de. 28 July 2024. Retrieved 16 June 2025.
- ^ "Simon Wulff, Elena Kelety und Robert Farken in Dresden in Bestform". leichtathletik.de. 31 August 2024.
- ^ "Results - Stockholm Diamond League Bauhaus Galan 2025". Watch Athletics. 15 June 2025. Retrieved 16 June 2025.
- ^ Broadbent, Chris (28 Jun 2025). "Crucial 400m hurdles victories for Portugal and Czechia". Eurorpean Athletics. Retrieved 28 June 2025.