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51-530: Theisen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Brianne Theisen (born 1988), Canadian heptathlete and women's pentathlete Joseph M. Theisen (1877–1946), American politician Paul Theisen (born 1922), Danish fencer Roger Theisen (born 1932), Luxembourgian fencer William Theisen , American restaurant entrepreneur See also [ edit ] Theisen's , American retail company [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

102-517: A € 242 million renovation ahead of the 2006 Football World Cup . The marathon races, as well as the racewalking events, had their start and finish at the Brandenburg Gate , with the race walks routed along the Unter den Linden boulevard and the marathon passing through Pariser Platz and going past Berlin's other points of interest. An estimated 400,000 tickets were sold by

153-475: A double medal meeting after Warner won bronze at the world championships; however, a double gold for the power couple of Eaton and Eaton-Theisen was narrowly missed. She commented on her achievement saying "I'm at peace getting silver knowing I gave it 110 per cent. Ashton and I talked about both being on the podium here. I watched Ashton the last couple of years winning his medals and could only imagine what that actually felt like." In her last outing that year, she

204-545: A few tears [on the podium]. It's just representing your country and knowing everybody back home is happy and watching and supporting you. It feels really good." Theisen-Eaton did not compete in the Heptathlon at the 2015 Pan American Games in her home country of Canada. Instead she chose to compete in the long jump event in Toronto . There she finished fourth , just one centimetre off the podium. She also participated in

255-474: A gold medal. Nelson Évora of Portugal achieved a result of 17.55m earning him a silver medal and the Cuban athlete Alexis Copello earned third place with a jump of 17.36m. In the discus final, Robert Harting of Germany won gold in front of a home crowd, trowing 69.43 metres. Piotr Małachowski of Poland and Gerd Kanter of Estonia winning silver and bronze, respectively. Jamaican Brigitte Foster-Hylton ran

306-585: A mention for All-Academic honours that year. Theisen continued her strong college form into the following year, winning her first pentathlon title at the 2010 NCAA Indoors with 4396 points and repeating as the Pac-10 Outdoor heptathlon champion. She also took a second consecutive victory at the NCAA Outdoors, improving her personal record to 6094 points. This total ranked her within the top twenty athletes in her discipline worldwide that year. At

357-455: A result, Berlin's mayor, Klaus Wowereit , stated that the city would consider applying to host another athletics event in the future, such as the 2016 European Athletics Championships . A limited edition € 10 coin was produced for the event by the German government, which was only the third occasion that they had done so for a sporting event. The organising committee held a contest to decide

408-571: A result, for the first time in history of World Championships in Athletics, two Polish athletes took gold and silver medal in the same event. Poland is 16th nation to win gold and silver in the same event in the history of World Championships in Athletics. The previous 15 nations were: Canada, China, Cuba , Ethiopia , Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Jamaica , Kenya , Romania , Russia, Spain, United States and also Soviet Union and East Germany . In women's triple jump final, Yargelis Savigne won

459-638: A season's best of 12.51 in the Women's 100m hurdles to take gold. Priscilla Lopes-Schliep of Canada (12.54) took silver and Jamaica's Delloreen Ennis-London won bronze. In the men's 200 metres , Usain Bolt broke his own world record with a time of 19.19 seconds. Alonso Edward of Panama won silver with a national record of 19.81. Wallace Spearmon of the USA won bronze, in 19.85. In the women's 400m hurdles, Melaine Walker of Jamaica won in 52.42sec, eight hundredths of

510-479: A season's best of 44.60, winning the silver medal. In the women's hammer throw , Anita Włodarczyk of Poland won gold medal with a distance of 77.96m, which is a new world record. Dwight Phillips , USA, won the men's world long jump title for the third time with a jump of 8.54 metres. Phillips received his gold medal from Jesse Owens ' granddaughter Marlene Dortch. Godfrey Khotso Mokoena of South Africa won silver (8.47m). Jamaica's 4 × 100 m relay teams highlighted

561-504: A second outside Yulia Pechonkina 's world record (52.34). Trey Hardee of the USA had won the decathlon, but Leonel Suárez of Cuba reversed positions on Aleksandr Pogorelov in the final event. In the 200m, Allyson Felix of the USA crossed the line first in 22.02 seconds with double Olympic champion Veronica Campbell Brown from Jamaican coming second with 22.35. In the 400m men final, LaShawn Merritt and Jeremy Wariner battled it out with Merritt securing gold with 44.06. Wariner ran

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612-419: A throw of 78.09m. In the men's 10,000 m final, Kenenisa Bekele won with a time of 26:43:31, which is a Championship record. Zersenay Tadese of Eritrea earned the silver medal with a time of 26:50:12 and Moses Ndiema Masai of Kenya took the bronze with a time of 26:57:39. In women's 100 metres , Shelly-Ann Fraser of Jamaica triumphed with the time of 10.73s. Kerron Stewart finished second with

663-474: A time of 10.75s and American Carmelita Jeter took the bronze medal with a time of 10.90s. In women's pole vault final, the biggest surprise of the day was the Olympic champion and current world record holder, Yelena Isinbayeva , failing to clear any height. Anna Rogowska of Poland earned the gold with the result of 4.75m. Monika Pyrek and Chelsea Johnson shared second place with the result of 4.65m. As

714-492: A time of 9.71, a US national record. Britain's Jessica Ennis won the heptathlon title with a world-leading points score of 6731. In the men's hammer throw , the Olympic champion Primož Kozmus of Slovenia, pulled off the win with a throw of 80.84m, which is a seasonal best. Szymon Ziółkowski of Poland achieved a result of 79.30m earning him a silver medal and the Russian athlete Aleksey Zagornyi earned third place with

765-519: A total of 4540 points from five events. She suffered an injury in the outdoor season that year and missed ten months as a result. She returned at the Texas A&;M Challenge in January 2012 and recorded a score of 4555 points to win the meet. This was a new collegiate and Canadian national record for the event, beating Jill Ross-Giffen 's previous score, and Theisen improved her personal bests in

816-427: A world title in the indoor pentathlon. She won the title as world champion in the pentathlon, though rival Ennis-Hill was absent. In the process of her win she set a world leading score and North American record for the pentathlon. During the beginning of the outdoor season, at the 2016 Hypomeeting, Theisen-Eaton continued her momentum, winning another event that was again missing Ennis-Hill. Theisen-Eaton finished with

867-458: A world-leading 6765 points. Theisen-Eaton competed for Canada in the heptathlon at the 2016 Summer Olympics . After the first day she trailed in sixth place, despite going into the Olympics with the world leading score. During the second day she performed well in the long-jump and javelin events, getting near personal bests which put her into the third-place position going into the final event,

918-558: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Brianne Theisen A national junior champion in 2006, she took the heptathlon gold medal at the Pan American Junior Championships the following year. She enrolled at the University of Oregon and broke a number of school records in her first three years, winning back-to-back NCAA heptathlon titles in 2009 and 2010. She also won twice at

969-460: The 2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics , finishing seventeenth in the girl's heptathlon. She was the national junior champion in the heptathlon in 2006 and took part in the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Beijing . In her senior year in high school, she won the gold medal at the 2007 Pan American Junior Championships . Theisen-Eaton received a sports scholarship at

1020-476: The Canadian Track and Field Championships and went on to finish eleventh in the heptathlon at the 2012 London Olympics . A score of 6376 points at the 2013 Hypo Meeting was enough to win the high-profile event ahead of Tatyana Chernova , and she formed a rare Canadian combined events double alongside the men's winner Damian Warner . The 2013 World Championships in Athletics was a wide open event in

1071-684: The Olympiastadion , while the marathon and racewalking events started and finished at the Brandenburg Gate . Berlin was announced the winning bidder by the IAAF on 6 December 2004 beating out bids from Split ( Croatia ), Valencia (Spain), Brisbane (Australia), Brussels (Belgium), Delhi (India), Casablanca ( Morocco ) and Daegu ( South Korea ). The city of Berlin and the Deutscher Leichtathletik-Verband (German Athletics Association) are responsible for

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1122-682: The United Nations Environment Programme , forty-seven trees (one for each athletics event) were planted to create an "Avenue of Champions" in Berlin. The official song for the event was " Foot of the Mountain " by Norwegian group A-ha . The broadcasting rights for the Championships were sold to 213 countries, a new high for the event. ARD and ZDF were the host broadcasting TV networks and producers of

1173-555: The University of Oregon , where she started a major in business administration in late 2007. In her first year, she was the runner-up at the Pac-10 championships and came fourth in the heptathlon at the NCAA Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championship . Theisen began her second year with a third-place finish in the pentathlon at the NCAA Women's Indoor Track and Field Championship . The outdoor season saw her establish herself among

1224-550: The University of Oregon . The two of them starred in a Visa Inc. advertisement that aired during the 2016 Summer Olympics, which poked fun at their romance despite representing different countries. [1] [2] They have two children. 2009 World Championships in Athletics The 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics ( German : Leichtathletik-Weltmeisterschaften 2009 ) were held in Berlin, Germany from 15 to 23 August 2009. The majority of events took place in

1275-411: The surname Theisen . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theisen&oldid=1144670159 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

1326-412: The women's 4 × 400 m relay , this time helping the team to a bronze medal. She went into the 2015 World Championships in Athletics as the favourite to win, having achieved higher scores than rival Jessica Ennis-Hill since Hill's return from pregnancy. Despite this, Hill won by 115pts with a season's best 6,669. Theisen-Eaton was disappointed with her silver medal saying "I'm disappointed. I went in as

1377-530: The 800 metres. She would finish third in her heat and win the bronze medal scoring 6653 behind winner Nafissatou Thiam , with Jessica Ennis-Hill finishing second. She said of day two that "I'm happy with today, really happy with today. I never would have guessed after that kind of first day I would end up with a medal and actually [my] score wasn't half bad either." She married American decathlete Ashton Eaton in July 2013. The pair met while competing together at

1428-591: The NCAA Indoor Championship, including a collegiate pentathlon record in 2011. She and her husband, Ashton Eaton , announced their retirement from track and field on 3 January 2017. Theisen-Eaton was raised in Humboldt, Saskatchewan and attended Humboldt Collegiate Institute. While in high school , she took part in track and field , volleyball , and soccer . She found her niche in the track and field combined events and represented Canada at

1479-664: The NCAA Outdoors, she had her second win of the competition when she helped the Oregon women's team to the 4×400-meter relay title. That year, she also led Oregon to a decathlon/heptathlon double at the Texas Relays , as she claimed the win alongside her schoolmate Ashton Eaton to whom she was engaged. They married in July 2013. In 2011, she won at the NCAA Indoor Championships for a second time and broke Jacquelyn Johnson 's collegiate record mark with

1530-556: The TV signal, and they founded a company named BERTA which provided the signal in high-resolution HDTV for TV stations around the world. The average viewing figures in Germany were 5 million with peaks of 9.9 and 8.6 million for the men's 100 metres final and the women's high jump , respectively. The average audience figures in France were 3.5–4 million, 2.5–3.5 million in

1581-521: The United Kingdom and 4–5 million in Japan. The IAAF website received a record number of page hits and unique users: having around 1 million unique users accessing the website on days five and six, and a total of over 90 million page views over the course of the nine days of the competition. Around 3500 media representatives were estimated to have attended the event. To provide

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1632-508: The anti-doping rules. Two athletes failed anti-doping tests during the championships: Moroccan steeplechaser Jamel Chatbi tested positive for the stimulant clenbuterol and Nigerian hurdler Amaka Ogoegbunam was found to have Metenolone , an anabolic steroid, in her sample. Another Nigerian hurdler, Olutoyin Augustus , was banned from the championships for having abnormal levels of testosterone . * Runners who participated in

1683-474: The city to account for accommodation, with the hope that the booking of the Hotel Estrel (950 rooms) and Hotel Berlin (650 rooms) for athletes would create an atmosphere similar to an Olympic Village . Overall, the event was an economic success for the capital. A total of 417,156 tickets were sold over the nine-day period, and estimates placed the total visitor spend in the city at around €120 million. As

1734-401: The day by capturing the gold medal in both disciplines. Bai Xue of China wins gold in the women's marathon, Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia took the 5,000 metres world title, and Olympic champion Andreas Thorkildsen of Norway won the men's javelin with a throw of 89.59 metres. Brittney Reese won the women's long jump with 7.10 metres, beating defending champion Tatyana Lebedeva of Russia. In

1785-598: The event broke the previous championship record of 1,821 athletes set at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics in Seville . The 100 metres race attracted 100 entries, while the Marathon race listed 101 athletes for competition. The event was expected to be the largest sports gathering in 2009, continuing in the vein of the World Championships in Athletics being the third largest sports event after

1836-495: The event organisers for the event. In memory of their historic Olympic achievements at the Olympiastadion in 1936, a meeting took place between the families of Luz Long and Jesse Owens . Long's long jump advice to rival Owens remains a prominent example of sportsmanship and friendship in athletics. A reward of US$ 100,000 was given to any athlete who broke a world record at the competition. The event featured one of

1887-467: The favourite and I didn't compete how I had to to win gold. And that was my own fault. So I am disappointed with it, but there are some lessons that I have learned from it that hopefully I can take into next year...I mean, I scored 250 points less than I already have this year, and had I just done the same thing I had done already previously this year, it would have got me a gold." The following season Theisen-Eaton followed up her outdoor disappointment with

1938-407: The gold and Mabel Gay took second place. Both of the Cuban athletes did not cross the line of 15m. In the women's 3000m steeplechase , Marta Dominguez of Spain won the gold with a time of 9:07:32. Yuliya Zarudneva won the silver and Milcah Chemos Cheywa earned the bronze medal. In men's triple jump , Phillips Idowu of Great Britain, produced a world leading distance of 17.73m earning him

1989-429: The heats only and received medals. * Runners who participated in the heats only and received medals   *    Host nation ( Germany ) * Number of gold medals for Spain reduced due to disqualification of Marta Domínguez At the competition, three world records , nine Championship records , eight area records and 57 national records were broken. Valeriy Borchin of Russia won gold in

2040-520: The heptathlon in that two of the world's best competitors in Chernova and Jessica Ennis-Hill both missed the competition as a result of injuries. Despite putting up a personal best 6,530 points, she had to settle for silver, just 56 points behind eventual World Champion Hanna Melnichenko . After Gotzis, this was the second major competition in a row where the Canadian men and women multi-eventers had

2091-546: The last two events of the Championships, the United States won both 4 × 400 m relays. The entry list released on the IAAF Website before the championships contained 2098 athletes from 202 countries and territories. Out of these athletes, a total of 1984 competed (1086 male, and 898 female) at the championships, with 201 of the 213 IAAF National Member Federations represented. The number of athletes competing at

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2142-489: The men's 20 km race walk in a time of 1:18:41, Hao Wang of China won silver and Eder Sanchez of Mexico won bronze. Linet Chepkwemoi Masai of Kenya won gold in the women's 10,000m in 30:51.24, Meselech Melkamu of Ethiopia won silver and the bronze medal went to Wude Ayalew of Ethiopia. In the men's shot put, Christian Cantwell of the United States won gold with a mark of 22.03m. Tomasz Majewski of Poland took silver and Ralf Bartels of Germany took bronze. In

2193-551: The most comprehensive anti-doping initiatives ever undertaken by the IAAF. A total of 1000 samples were collected from athletes and tested at labs accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency , and additional educational anti-doping activities were available. Diack stressed that samples are retained for future analysis, thus currently undetectable drugs could be tested for in the future, preventing athletes from flouting

2244-655: The name of its mascot, a running anthropomorphic bear , and the name " Berlino " was chosen. The colour scheme of the event, including the official logo, advertising, and the Olympiastadion 's track and field, was blue and green. The committee stated that blue represented reliability while green represented the event's environmental ambitions. The event featured a number of environmentally friendly initiatives, including: free public transport with every ticket sold, efforts to reduce energy usage, considerations for waste and recycling management, and environmentally conscious construction and building management. Furthermore, as part of

2295-532: The organisation of the event. The Berlin Organising Committee 2009 GmbH , a corporation established by the DLV in 2005, will supervise the operative organisation of the competition. Building upon Germany's history of successful athletics events, including the 1974 and 2006 FIFA World Cups the 1993 World Championships in Athletics , the 1936 and 1972 Summer Olympics , IAAF president Lamine Diack

2346-446: The public with an opportunity to participate in the event, the local organizers also conducted a Champions Run 10K on 22 August between the scheduled time for the men's and women's marathons, using a portion of the official marathon course which passes various Berlin landmarks with a finish at the Brandenburg Gate . The field was limited to 10,000 runners. The Championships were staged in the 74,845-seat Olympiastadion, which underwent

2397-412: The shot put (12.87 m) and high jump (1.88 m) events. A third NCAA Indoor title came two months later with a winning score of 4536 points, which included a 60 m hurdles best of 8.25 seconds. She also repeated as the heptathlon champion and her personal best score of 6440 points included four new bests in individual events (hurdles, shot put, long jump and javelin). Theisen placed second at

2448-466: The women's 20 km race walk, the Olympic champion from last years games, Olga Kaniskina , took an expectant win by almost a full minute. In the women's shot put, the Olympic gold medallist from last years games and defending world champion, Valerie Vili , won with a throw of 20.44. In the men's 100 metres dash, Usain Bolt broke his own 100 metres sprint world record with a time of 9.58. The defending world champion, Tyson Gay finished second with

2499-535: The world elite in the heptathlon. She won the Pac-10 title, then set a personal record of 6086 points to win her first NCAA outdoor title, before finally going on to take the national heptathlon title that summer. This earned her a spot on the national team to make her senior international debut at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics . As Canada's only representative in the event, she came in fifteenth place. In addition to her athletic breakthrough, she also received

2550-406: Was confident of a well organised competition. The organizers announced a budget of €49.8 million to stage the event, which includes the travel and accommodation costs for all participating athletes. Revenues include €17 million from ticketing and €7 million from marketing. The city of Berlin will cover a deficit up to €20 million. The organising committee secured 9000 rooms in

2601-680: Was third at the Decastar meet in France. At the 2014 World Indoor Championships in Poland, Theisen captured silver in pentathlon with a personal best score of 4768, breaking her own national record . She next competed at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow where she went on to win the gold medal in the women's heptathlon event ahead of compatriot Jessica Zelinka . After she said, "So this gold medal makes me really happy. I always said I don't think I would get choked up but I had to fight back

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