Léa Sprunger

Léa Sprunger
Léa Sprunger at the Athletissima 2012
nation	Switzerland
birthday	5th March 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	Nyon ,  Switzerland
size	183 cm
Weight	69 kg
Career
discipline	Hurdles , sprint
society	COVA Nyon
Trainer	Laurent Meuwly
status	active
Medal table
European championships 1 × 0 × 1 × European Indoor Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 European Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
European championships bronze Amsterdam 2016 400 m hurdles gold Berlin 2018 400 m hurdles  European Indoor Championships gold Glasgow 2019 400 m  Junior European Championships bronze Novi Sad 2009 Heptathlon
last change: April 1, 2020

Léa Sprunger (born March 5, 1990 in Nyon ) is a Swiss sprinter and hurdler and holder of the Swiss record over 400 meters and 400 meters hurdles . In 2018 she won the 400 meter hurdles at the European Championships in Berlin .

Athletic career

As a junior, she took part in international competitions as a heptathlete. At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, she was eliminated with the Swiss team in the run-up to the 4 x 100 meter relay . In 2012 she reached the semi-finals at the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki over 200 meters and came in sixth place with the Swiss 4 x 100 meter relay. At the Olympic Games in London, she was eliminated over 200 meters and in the 4 x 100 meter relay in the first round.

In 2013 she was eliminated at the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg over 400 meters and at the World Championships in Moscow with the Swiss 4 x 100 meter relay in the preliminary run. In the Francophonie games she won over 200 meters and silver in the 4 x 100 meter relay.

In 2014, at the World Relays in Nassau, the Swiss 4 x 200 meter relay with Mujinga Kambundji , Sprunger, Joëlle Golay and Fanette Humair came in fifth and set a national record with 1: 31.75 minutes. In the 4 x 100 meter relay, Sprunger and the Swiss quartet were eliminated in advance. At the European Championships in Zurich , she reached the semi-finals over 200 meters and did not reach the goal with the Swiss team in the final of the 4 x 100 meter relay.

In 2015 she failed at the European Indoor Championships in Prague over 400 meters in the run and took eighth place at the World Relays in Nassau with the Swiss 4 x 100 meter relay. At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, she reached the semi-finals over 400 meter hurdles and was eliminated in the run-up to the 4 x 100 meter relay . At the 2016 European Championships in Amsterdam , she won the bronze medal in the 400-meter hurdles. At the Swiss Championships in Geneva on July 17, 2016, she set a new Swiss record over 200 meters with 22.38 seconds.

In 2017, Sprunger set several world bests over 400 meters during the indoor season and was therefore the favorite for the European Indoor Athletics Championships . There she got confidently into the final, but could not keep her fast starting pace there and finished fifth. She was also fifth in the same year at the World Championships in London over 400 meter hurdles with a time of 54.59 s.

On August 10, 2018, she won the gold medal over 400 meter hurdles in 54.33 s at the European Championships in Berlin . On October 4, 2019, at the World Athletics Championships in Doha , she improved Anita Protti's 28-year-old Swiss record in the same discipline to 54.06 s and finished fourth.

Her older sister Ellen Sprunger (* 1986) is successful as a heptathlete and sprinter.

Honors

• 2017: "Athlete of the Year" in Switzerland

Best times

(As of March 2, 2019)

Hall

• 60 m : 7.32 s, St. Gallen , February 16, 2019
• 200 m: 22.88 s, Magglingen , February 18, 2018 (Swiss record)
• 400 m: 51.28 s, Toruń , February 15, 2018 (Swiss record)

open air

• 100 m : 11.34 s (+2.0 m / s) , Bulle , July 12, 2014
• 200 m : 22.38 s (+0.4 m / s) , Geneva , July 17, 2016 (Swiss record until August 24, 2019)
• 300 m: 35.70 s, Langenthal , May 25, 2017
• 400 m : 50.52 s, La Chaux-de-Fonds , July 1, 2018 (Swiss record)
• 400 m hurdles : 54.06 s, Doha , October 4, 2019 (Swiss record)
• 4 × 400 m : 3: 29.46 min, Bern , June 16, 2018

Web links

• Léa Sprunger in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Léa Sprunger in the database of European Athletics (English)
• Harald Koken: Léa Sprunger: Thumbs up to Berlin , long hurdles ace from Switzerland, on Leichtathletik.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Lea Sprunger misses the bronze medal in Doha despite the Swiss record (October 4, 2019)
3. ↑ Sprunger and Hussein honored. In: srf.ch. November 18, 2017. Retrieved November 19, 2017 .