Lia Flotow
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| Born | 19 August 2004 | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | Germany | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Hurdles | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 60 m hurdles 8.09 (2026) 100 m hurdles: 13.01 (2025) | ||||||||||||||
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Lia Flotow (born 19 August 2004) is a German sprint hurdler. She placed third over 100 metres hurdles at the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships and 2025 German Athletics Championships.[1]
Career
From Rostock, Flotow is a member of 1. LAV Rostock, where she is coached by Birger Voigt.[2]
Flotow was runner-up in the heptathlon at the German U20 Championships in 2022. That year, she ran 13.54 seconds at the German Youth Championships in Ulm for the 100 metres hurdles, and began to focus more on hurdles than the combined events. She won the Junior Gala in Mannheim over 100 metres hurdles in June 2023, running 13.12 seconds, and beating the personal best she set the week prior, of 13.46 seconds.[3] She was the bronze medalist at the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships in Jerusalem, Israel, in the 100 metres hurdles, with compatriot Rosina Schneider claiming the gold medal in the race.[4]
After missing the vast majority of the indoor season in 2024, Flotow returned to she won the North German Championships in June 2024 in Rostock, running 13.31 seconds. Later that month, ran a personal best 13.09 seconds for the 100 metres hurdles as she placed fourth overall at the senior German Athletics Championships in Braunschweig.[5][2]
In January 2025, Flotow ran a personal best 8.19 seconds for the 60 metres hurdles to win the 26th International Indoor Meeting in Chemnitz.[6] At the International Indoor Meeting in Erfurt the following month, she ran the 60m hurdles in 8.18 seconds, a new best.[7] That summer, she made steady improvements to her time for the 100 metres hurdles. In June, Flotow lowered her personal best to 13.05 seconds and then 13.03 seconds.[8][9] Flotow placed third in the 100 metres hurdles at the German Athletics Championships in August 2025, running 13.02 seconds in Dresden.[10] In August, she lowered her best again to 13.01 seconds in Sondershausen.[11]
References
- ^ "Lia Flotow". World Athletics. Retrieved 14 February 2026.
- ^ a b "Hurdler Lia Flotow flies to a new personal best". nordkurier.de. 29 June 2024. Retrieved 14 February 2026.
- ^ "Lia Flotow: "I was overwhelmed with emotions"". Leichtathletik. 26 June 2023. Retrieved 14 February 2026.
- ^ "Jerusalem 2023 U20 European Championships Day 2 - German hurdlers win gold and bronze". Leichtathletik. 8 August 2023. Retrieved 14 February 2026.
- ^ Gerick, Andre (18 June 2024). "Lia Flotow impresses in the 100-meter hurdles and with the relay team". nordkurier.de. Retrieved 13 February 2026.
- ^ "Favorites Haase, Hess and Mordi win – Olympic stars impress". Leichtathletik.de. 25 January 2025. Retrieved 14 February 2026.
- ^ Zimmer, Katrin (4 February 2025). "Mecklenburg-Vorpommern record broken: Lia Flotow from LAV Rostock runs a new best time in the hurdles". ostsee-zeitung.de. Retrieved 14 February 2026.
- ^ "Lia Flotow is approaching the 13-second mark". Leichtathletik. 8 June 2025. Retrieved 14 February 2026.
- ^ "Gina Lückenkemper sprintet mit zu viel Rückenwind 10,93 Sekunden". Leichtathletik. 21 June 2025. Retrieved 14 February 2026.
- ^ "German Championships". World Athletics. 3 August 2025. Retrieved 14 February 2026.
- ^ "Internationales Nordthüringer Leichtathletikmeeting". World Athletics. 15 August 2025. Retrieved 14 February 2026.