Eileen Demes

Eileen Demes (born 13 October 1997) is a German track and field athlete who competes in the 400m hurdles.

Career
A member of TV Neu-Isenburg athletics club in Neu-Isenburg, Demes won the German U18 title in 400m hurdles in 2014. Demes qualified as a semi-final winner for the final of the 400m hurdles at the 2016 World Athletics U20 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland, as an 18-year-old, improving her personal best twice, from 55.77 in the preliminary heat to 57.13 seconds in the semi-final. She finished fourth in the final.

Demes won the German U23 title over 400m hurdles in 2018, but her athletic progress was halted by a viral infection that was not initially accurately diagnosed, and from which recovery was not quick.

Demes finished second in the 400m hurdles at the German national championships in Kassel in July 2023, with a personal best time of 55.72. It was the first competition she has tried out an altered technique, taking fourteen steps before the first hurdle.

Selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023, she qualified for the semi-final in a personal best time of 55.29.

She was selected for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, reaching the semifinals and running a personal best 55.29 seconds.