Léa Sprunger
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Born | Nyon, VD[1] | 5 March 1990|||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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Country | Switzerland | |||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 200 m, 400 m hurdles[2] | |||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Laurent Meuwly[1] | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Léa Sprunger (born 5 March 1990) is a Swiss track and field athlete.[4] A former heptathlete, she began concentrating on the 200 metres and 400 metres in 2011, and then on the 400 metres hurdles from 2015. Her best times in the 200m and 400m of 22.38 secs (2016) and 50.52 secs (2018), are the Swiss records. She finished fifth in the 400m hurdles final at the 2017 World Championships, and went on to win the gold medal in the 400m hurdles at the 2018 European Championships. She is the younger sister of Ellen Sprunger.
Career
Born in Nyon, Vaud, Sprunger competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's 200 m event and the 4 × 100 m relay. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she competed in the 400 m hurdles event.
Her personal best in the 400 m hurdles is 54.29 s set in Lausanne on 6 July 2017.[5] Four days earlier, she had set a new national record in the 400 metres in La-Chaux-de-Fonds with 51.09 s.[6] She also holds the national record in the 200 metres.[6]
At the 2016 European Championships she finished third in the 400 m hurdles race and she won this event two years later at the 2018 European Championships.
International championships
1Disqualified in the final
2Did not finish in the final
3Disqualified in the semifinals
References
- ^ a b Lea Sprunger - facts Archived 2012-07-30 at the Wayback Machine, London 2012 Official site Archived 2013-02-28 at the UK Government Web Archive. Retrieved on 5 August 2012.
- ^ BBC Sport – Lea Sprunger, BBC. Retrieved on 5 August 2012.
- ^ Léa Sprunger - facts, Swiss Olympic Official site (German). Retrieved on 5 August 2012.
- ^ Léa Sprunger at World Athletics
- ^ Léa Sprunger, IAAF. Retrieved on 19 September 2017.
- ^ a b "Swiss Athletics: Schweizer Rekorde - Outdoor (German)" (PDF). Retrieved 19 September 2017.
- Living people
- Swiss female sprinters
- Swiss heptathletes
- Olympic athletes of Switzerland
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- 1990 births
- People from Nyon
- World Championships in Athletics athletes for Switzerland
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Swiss athletics biography stubs