Lisa Ecker
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Full name | Lisa Ecker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country represented | Austria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Linz, Austria | 19 September 1992|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 55 kg (121 lb)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Level | Senior international elite | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years on national team | 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | ASKO Kleinmunchen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Head coach(es) | Johanna Gratt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Lisa Ecker (born 19 September 1992)[2] is an Austrian female artistic gymnast who competed at the senior international elite level. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, placing 43rd; it was only the second time that Austria was represented in artistic gymnastics at the Olympics, after a hiatus of 48 years.[3][4] In 2017, she retired from competition, having won seven World Challenge Cup medals and 14 national titles, and having reached one European Championship final.[4]
Early life and training
Ecker first did gymnastics in kindergarten, and started training competitively in 2000 at the age of eight.[5][6] She was coached by Johanna Gratt, who was also her physiotherapist, for 16 years.[4][6] As of 2016, she was training at the TGW gymnastics performance center at the Linz winter port.[5] Her home club was ASKÖ Kleinmünchen.[5]
Gymnastics career
Ecker's first Austrian all-around title came in 2012, when she won in the absence of Barbara Gasser.[7] Her victory came after a year out with injury, due to a torn ACL,[8][7] which she sustained shortly after the 2011 World Championships in Tokyo.[8] She also took home her first international medal, winning silver at the 2012 FIG World Challenge Cup in Ostrava.[9] That year, she was named Austria's Gymnast of the Year.[10]
In 2013, Ecker reached the finals at the European Championship in Moscow, placing 19th in the individual all-around, the best result for an Austrian woman in 50 years.[8] She subsequently won a bronze medal on the balance beam at the 2013 FIG World Challenge Cup in Ljubljana.[8]
Ecker won her third national title in all-around artistic gymnastics in November 2014, despite having undergone knee surgery the year before.[11] In 2015, Ecker participated at the 2015 World Championships in Glasgow.[12]
In February 2016, Ecker won the bronze medal in vault at the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan, with a score of 13.775 points.[13] In April, she qualified for 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, with an error-free performance on all four devices, ranking 12th with 53.132 all-around points.[14][15] She qualified despite an injury to her fourth metatarsal which she had sustained in March.[16] It was only the second time that Austria had qualified for the Olympics in artistic gymnastics after its absence for nearly half a century.[3]
In July 2016, Ecker competed in the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup in Mersin, Turkey, and won four medals, one on each device.[17] At the 2016 Summer Olympics the following month, she finished 43rd in the preliminary phase of the women's artistic gymnastics with an all-around score of 52.966.[1][18] She failed to qualify for the final or set a personal record, following a fall from the uneven bars.[19]
Although Ecker had originally considered retiring immediately after the Olympics, she took a break instead.[10] She retired in 2017, aged 24, due in part to an ankle injury and the unavailability of a suitable coach to replace Gratt.[4]
Personal life
Ecker is from Linz, Austria.[15] Before retiring from competition, she studied as a masseuse and applied for a Fachhochschule course in physiotherapy.[5] In 2020, she married her long-time partner Lukas Kranzlmüller,[20] an international gymnast who had won the Austrian national men's title in 2014.[21] Kranzlmüller is pursuing a career as a police officer, while Ecker works as a physiotherapist.[20]
References
- ^ a b c "Lisa Ecker". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
- ^ "Lisa Ecker". L'Équipe. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
- ^ a b "Linzerin Ecker mit souveräner Vorstellung zum Olympia-Ticket". Der Standard (in German). Austria. Austria Presse Agentur. 18 April 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
- ^ a b c d "Rücktritt von Lisa Ecker". www.oeft.at. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
- ^ a b c d Stelzel-Pröll, Claudia (1 May 2016). "Mit Riesensprüngen in Richtung Rio". Kurier (in German). Austria. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
- ^ a b Ertl, Josef (15 May 2016). ""Kunstturnen ist mein Lebenstraum"". kurier.at (in German). Retrieved 4 July 2023.
- ^ a b "Ecker und Schwab österreichische Mehrkampf-Meister". DER STANDARD (in German). Austria Presse Agentur. 10 November 2012. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
- ^ a b c d Crumlish, John (July–August 2013). "Lisa Ecker: From torn to reborn". International Gymnast. 55 (6): 31. ISSN 0891-6616 – via EBSCOHost.
- ^ Meißl, Nina (3 May 2013). "Linzerin Lisa Ecker glänzte bei World-Challenge-Cup". MeinBezirk.at (in German). Retrieved 13 July 2023.
- ^ a b "Turnen: Olympia-Teilnehmerin Lisa Ecker erklärte ihren Rücktritt". Tiroler Tageszeitung (in German). Austria Presse Agentur. 6 May 2017. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
- ^ "Lisa Ecker ist Staatsmeisterin im Kunstturnen 2014". EDER.at. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
- ^ "2015 World Gymnastics Championships Athlete Profiles – Lisa Ecker". 2015worldgymnastics.com. Archived from the original on 19 June 2018. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
- ^ "FIG World Challenge Cup: Uzbek gymnast grabs gold medal in vault". Trend News Agency. Azerbaijan. 21 February 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
- ^ "Ecker: "Ich bin verdammt glücklich"". Laola1 (in German). 18 April 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
- ^ a b "Olympiaticket für Turnerin Lisa Ecker". VN.at (in German). 18 April 2016. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- ^ "Ecker geht in Turnqualifikation auf ihre Punktebestmarke los". Kurier. 5 August 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
- ^ "Turnweltcup Türkei - Erfolg für Lisa Ecker". ASKÖ Bundesorganisation (in German). 4 July 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
- ^ "Artistic Gymnastics: Women's Qualification Subdivision 2 Results". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
- ^ "Sturz kostet Ecker Rekord". DER STANDARD (in German). Retrieved 3 July 2023.
- ^ a b "Hochzeit von Lisa Ecker und Lukas Kranzlmüller!". www.oeft.at. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
- ^ "Turnen: Mehrkampftitel an Lisa Ecker und Lukas Kranzlmülle". Tiroler Tageszeitung (in German). Austria Presse Agentur. 22 November 2014. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
External links
- Official website (in German)
- Lisa Ecker at the International Gymnastics Federation
- Lisa Ecker at the 2016 European Championships (YouTube)