Anne Möllinger is a track and field

Track and field

Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

 sprint athlete

Sprint (race)

Sprints are short running events in athletics and track and field. Races over short distances are among the oldest running competitions. The first 13 editions of the Ancient Olympic Games featured only one event—the stadion race, which was a race from one end of the stadium to the other...

 who competes internationally for Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

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Möllinger represented Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Germany competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China. A total of 439 athletes were nominated to participate in the Games...

 in Beijing

Beijing

Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...

. She competed at the 4x100 metres relay together with Verena Sailer

Verena Sailer

Verena Sailer is a German sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres. Her personal best time is 11.10 seconds, achieved when winning the final and taking the gold medal at the 2010 European Athletics Championships in Barcelona.Sailer represented Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing...

, Cathleen Tschirch

Cathleen Tschirch

Cathleen Tschirch is a German sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres.Her personal best time on the individual distance is 22.97 seconds, achieved in August 2007 in Bochum...

 and Marion Wagner

Marion Wagner

Marion Wagner is a German sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres. Her personal best time is 11.31 seconds, achieved in July 2003 in Mals, . She represents the sports club USC Mainz....

. In their first round heat they placed third behind Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

 and Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

 and in front of China

China

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. 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.

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