Barbara Gasser

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Barbara Gasser Apparatus gymnastics
Barbara Gasser State Championship 2010 in Lustenau Uneven Bars.jpg

Barbara Gasser at the 2010 State Championships in Lustenau

Personal information
Nationality: AustriaAustria Austria
discipline Apparatus gymnastics
Special device / s: Barres asymétriques.svg Uneven bars
Society: Gymnastics Federation Lustenau, Bluewater Gymnastics
Trainer: Dave and Liz Brubaker
Birthday: August 30, 1989
Place of birth: Bregenz
Size: 165 cm
Weight: 57 kg

Barbara Gasser (born August 30, 1989 in Bregenz ), grew up in Lustenau , is an Austrian gymnast . In 2012, she became the first Austrian to qualify for the Olympic Games since 1964 .

Entry into gymnastics

Barbara Gasser as a junior champion at the age of 13 at the bar.

Barbara Gasser started training in the Lustenau gymnastics club at the age of seven . She qualified for the regional squad of the Vorarlberg gymnastics association and trained in the gymnastics center of the state sports center in Dornbirn . She learned from Christine Frauenknecht, who was named Austrian young trainer of the year in 2010 by the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft des Spitzensports” (ABS). Barbara Gasser won various youth competitions and in 2001 became Vorarlberg champion of the youth level. In 2002 she qualified for the Austrian junior team at the European Championships in Patras . In 2003 she became Austrian youth champion in the all-around competition. At the State Championships in 2003, she won her first title in the general class on the vault. In the same year she moved to Canada with her family.

Career in Canada

Barbara Gasser (third from left) as team state champion with the 2011 VTS selection

Since the grandfather had lived in Canada for a long time, the family always had a connection to this country. While the family was gaining a foothold in Canada, Barbara Gasser intensified her training and completed two training units each day in the “Bluewater Gymnastics” club with the trainer couple Dave and Liz Brubaker. In 2007 she graduated from high school . However, she kept her Austrian citizenship and traveled to competitions in her old homeland. She gained her first experience at major international events as a participant in the European Youth Olympic Festival in 2004. In 2008 she won the most important national championship title in the all- around competition for the first time , but subsequently suffered several injuries. The reconstruction was too quick, and there were further injuries to the knee and ligaments. At the Austrian State Championships in 2010 she made a comeback , becoming national champion in all-around competitions, jumping and uneven bars .

Olympic and Austrian records

At the 2011 World Championships in Tokyo , she won a starting place for the Olympic test event as the best Austrian, where she qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games in January 2012 . The Olympic qualification is considered a historic success for Austrian gymnastics, as Barbara Gasser was the first Austrian since Henriette Parzer (Behrendt) to be nominated for the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 . Barbara Gasser's most powerful device is the uneven bars . Here she won the World Cup silver in Osijek in 2010 ; In 2012 she finished seventh in the overall World Cup and in 2011 eleventh on the uneven bars. Barbara Gasser is next to Caroline Weber the second VTS Olympic participant at the 2012 Olympics . In the four-way battle of the Olympic competition, she had to accept a fall from a bar and reached 46th place.

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personal data
SURNAME Gasser, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian gymnast
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Bregenz