Marion Wagner (born 1 February 1978, in

Mainz Mainz (; #Names and etymology, see below) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, and with around 223,000 inhabitants, it is List of cities in Germany by population, Germany's 35th-largest city. It lies in ...

) is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the

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. Her personal best time is 11.24 seconds, which was achieved in July 2009 at the German Championships in

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. She represents the sports club USC Mainz. Wagner represented

Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics Germany competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, People's Republic of China. A total of 439 athletes were nominated to participate in the Games. The German Olympic Sports Confederation (, ''DOSB'') nominated athletes on 29 May, 23 J ...

in Beijing. She competed in the

4 × 100 metres relay The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners must begin in the same stagger as for the indiv ...

together with Anne Möllinger, Cathleen Tschirch and Verena Sailer. In their first round heat they placed third behind

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and Russia and in front of China. Their time of 43.59 seconds was the eighth time overall out of sixteen participating nations. With this result they qualified for the final in which they sprinted to a time of 43.28 seconds, which was the fifth place. She was an unused reserve for the German 4 × 100 m team at the

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* * 1978 births Living people German female sprinters Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Germany World Athletics Championships medalists European Athletics Championships medalists World Athletics Championships winners Olympic female sprinters Sportspeople from Mainz Athletes from Rhineland-Palatinate 20th-century German sportswomen 21st-century German sportswomen {{Germany-sprint-bio-stub