She won the silver medal in the
discus throw at the
2015 University Games in
Gwangju. She is a member of TSV Bayer 04's track and field department in
Leverkusen, and threw a new personal best distance of 63.24 metres whilst competing in May 2019. Steinacker threw the Olympic qualifying standard in May 2021 at the Halle Throwing Days event, managing a new personal best of 64.03 metres. She subsequently competed in the
women's discus throw event at the delayed
2020 Olympic Games in
Tokyo, Japan in August 2021, playing eighth overall. She would go on to throw a new personal best of 64.55m in 2022. She threw the new Olympic standard in May 2024, whilst competing in
Wiesbaden, where she managed a distance of 67.31 metres. This distance was also a TSV Bayer 04 club distance, the previous of which had been held since 1972 by
Liesel Westermann, with 64.96m. She went into the summer months ranked as the number one in Europe and fourth in the world. She had a disappointing twelfth place finish at the
2024 European Athletics Championships in
Rome, Italy in June 2024. Later that month she finished runner-up at the German Athletics Championships. She competed at the
2024 Olympic Games in
Paris, France, where she qualified for the final before throwing 65.37 metres to place fourth overall. She finished in place third at the
2025 European Throwing Cup in
Nicosia, Cyprus with a throw of 61.57 metres, in March 2025. ==References==