Carolin Schäfer

Carolin Schäfer (born 5 December 1991) is a German athlete who specialises in the heptathlon. She won the silver medal in the event at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics. Schäfer took bronze at the 2018 European Athletics Championships.

At the age of 15, she won the silver medal at the 2007 World Youth Championships. She was the heptathlon 2008 World junior and 2009 European junior champion. Schäfer represented Germany at the 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympics, where she finished fifth and seventh respectively.

Personal bests

 * Heptathlon – 6836 pts (Götzis 2017)
 * 100 m hurdles – 13.07 s (+2.0 m/s, Ratingen 2017)
 * High jump – 1.86 m (Götzis 2017)
 * Shot put – 14.84 m (London 2017)
 * 200 metres – 23.27 s (+0.3 m/s, Ratingen 2017)
 * Long jump – 6.57 m (+0.9 m/s, Götzis 2017)
 * Javelin throw – 54.10 m (Tokyo 2021)
 * 800 metres – 2:13.95 min (Ratingen 2022)
 * Indoors
 * Pentathlon – 4098 pts (Hamburg 2009)
 * 60 m hurdles – 8.35 s (Sindelfingen 2023)
 * High jump – 1.79 m (Hanau 2015)
 * Shot put – 14.24 m (Frankfurt 2016)
 * Long jump – 6.12 m (Frankfurt 2017)
 * 800 metres – 2:16.61 min (Frankfurt-Kalbach 2014)
 * 60 metres – 7.72 s (Ludwigshafen 2023)

Circuit wins and titles, National titles

 * World Athletics Combined Events Tour Overall winner: 2016, 2017, 2018
 * 2014: Décastar
 * 2017: Mehrkampf-Meeting
 * 2018: Mehrkampf-Meeting, Décastar
 * German Athletics Championships
 * Heptathlon: 2013, 2020