Gina Lückenkemper

Gina Lückenkemper

Lückenkemper at the German
Athletics Championships 2018

nation

Germany

birthday

21st November 1996 (age 23)

place of birth

Hamm , Germany

size

170 cm

Weight

57 kg

job

Student ( Business Psychology )

Career

discipline

sprint

Best performance

60 meters (hall): 7.11 s
100 meters: 10.95 s
200 meters: 22.67 s

society

LAZ Soest (2009–2015)
LG Olympia Dortmund (2016–2017)
Bayer 04 Leverkusen (2018)
SCC Berlin (since 2019)

Trainer

Lance Brauman, formerly: Ulrich Kunst,
first trainer: Harald Bottin

Medal table

European championships	0 ×	1 ×	3 ×
World Relays	0 ×	1 ×	0 ×
U20 world championships	0 ×	0 ×	1 ×
U20 European Championships	1 ×	0 ×	0 ×
German championships	3 ×	2 ×	0 ×
German indoor championships	2 ×	0 ×	0 ×

European championships
bronze	Amsterdam 2016	200 m
bronze	Amsterdam 2016	4 × 100 m
silver	Berlin 2018	100 m
bronze	Berlin 2018	4 × 100 m
Junior World Championships
bronze	Eugene 2014	4 × 100 m
IAAF World Relays
silver	Nassau 2017	4 × 200 m
Junior European Championships
gold	Eskilstuna 2015	200 m
German championships
gold	Kassel 2016	200 m
gold	Erfurt 2017	100 m
silver	Erfurt 2017	4 × 100 m
gold	Nuremberg 2018	100 m
silver	Nuremberg 2018	4 × 100 m
silver	Berlin 2019	100 m
German indoor championships
gold	Leipzig 2017	60 m
gold	Leipzig 2017	4 × 200 m

last change: August 3, 2019

Gina Lückenkemper (born November 21, 1996 in Hamm , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German athlete . She specializes in the sprint , both individually and in the relay .

Life

Lückenkemper grew up in Soest . In 2016 she graduated from Conrad-von-Soest-Gymnasium . Lückenkemper is studying business psychology at the Ruhr University in Bochum .

As a member of the young elite team of the Sportstiftung NRW , she has been sponsored since 2014.

Athletic career

Lückenkemper gained his first experience at TUS Ampen on the medium- haul routes . At the age of twelve, she was second in the women's class on the 5-kilometer route of the New Year's Eve run in Soest . In 2009 she moved to LAZ Soest and to trainer Harald Bottin. After initially showing good performance in the high jump , the breakthrough came in 2011 with the change from the 75-meter route to the 100 meters .

In 2012 Lückenkemper started internationally for the first time. At the U20 World Championships in Barcelona she was the youngest participant at the age of 15 and made it to the semifinals. In 2013 she reached fifth place at the U18 World Championships in Donetsk on the 200 meters. At the Junior World Championships in 2014 , she came eighth and won the bronze medal in the German 4 x 100 meter relay with Lisa Marie Kwayie , Lisa Mayer and Chantal Butzek .

In 2015 Lückenkemper changed coach and from then on was trained by Uli Kunst. In the same year she became European champion on the 200-meter course at the Junior European Championships in Eskilstuna . In the women’s category, Lückenkemper set the standard over 100 meters for the World Championships in Beijing . With 11.34 seconds she just missed the semifinals. With the German 4 x 100 meter relay , she made it to third place with Rebekka Haase , Alexandra Burghardt and Verena Sailer .

Lückenkemper achieved the Olympic standard over 100 meters at the sprinter and runner meeting in Herzogenaurach in mid-May 2016, and over 200 meters in Regensburg at the beginning of June . In Kassel , Lückenkemper became German champion over 200 meters and thus secured participation in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro because of the norm . In Amsterdam she won the bronze medal at the European Championships over 200 meters, as well as with the sprint relay. At the Olympic Games she took fourth place with the German 4 x 100 meter relay. In the 200-meter run she reached the semi-finals.

In 2017, Lückenkemper became German indoor champion over 60 meters in Leipzig with a personal best of 7.14 seconds and qualified for the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade . She also won another championship title in a personal best of 1: 35.41 min with the 4 x 200 meter relay. In April, Lückenkemper and Lara Matheis , Tatjana Pinto and Rebekka Haase won the silver medal in the 4 x 200 meter relay in a time of 1: 30.68 min at the IAAF World Relays 2017 in the Bahamas . The team narrowly prevailed against the team from the USA. The sprinter, who was actually established, then decided not to start in the later victorious 4 x 100 meter relay for the German women due to a cold. In Lille , northern France , Lückenkemper became the European team champion , took second place in the 100-meter run and won the 4-by-100-meter relay . In Erfurt she won the German championship title in the 100 meter run in 11.10 seconds . Despite a stumble in the start phase, she won the preliminary run with a personal best of 11.01 seconds. At the World Championships in London , she ran the fastest time of all heats with a new personal best of 10.95 s, making her the seventh German sprinter to stay under eleven seconds after six GDR sprinters. As the last German so far, Katrin Krabbe ran under eleven seconds with 10.99 s (intermediate run: 10.91 s) at her World Cup title in Tokyo in 1991. In the subsequent semifinals, Lückenkemper was sixth. With the 4 x 100 meter relay, Lückenkemper came fourth at the World Championships in London together with Tatjana Pinto, Lisa Mayer and Rebekka Haase.

In 2018, Lückenkemper celebrated her greatest success to date at the European Championships in Berlin with the silver medal in the 100 meter final. She just had to admit defeat to Dina Asher-Smith of Great Britain. Before that, she had run a European U23 record in the semifinals with 10.98 seconds, which she set in the final run and thus remained under eleven seconds for the third time. In the sprint relay she achieved bronze with Tatjana Pinto, Lisa Marie Kwayie and Rebekka Haase.

In 2019 Lückenkemper retired at the World Championships in Doha in the 100-meter run in the semi-finals. With the 4 x 100 meter relay she reached the final run. There she took 5th place together with Jessica-Bianca Wessolly , Yasmin Kwadwo and Lisa-Marie Kwayie .

Club affiliations and trainers

Lückenkemper was initially at TUS Ampen and switched to LAZ Soest in 2009 . From January 1, 2016, she competed for the LG Olympia Dortmund . In 2018 Lückenkemper started for TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen , in 2019 she switched to SCC Berlin due to a supplier change in Leverkusen . At the end of 2019, Lückenkemper announced the end of her collaboration with her long-time trainer Uli Kunst and will henceforth train with the training group of US coach Lance Brauman in Clermont, Florida .

Awards

At the first sports gala in the Soest district in 2014, she was voted Sportswoman of the Year. In 2016 she was again elected Sportswoman of the Year in the Soest district.
In the polls for the NRW athletes of the year 2015 and 2017, she won the Felix Award for the best young female athlete .

Top performances

(As of February 3, 2018)

Hall

60 m: 7.11 s January 21, 2018 in Dortmund
200 m: 23.69 s March 1, 2014 in Halle (Saale)
4 × 200 m: 1: 35.41 min February 19, 2017 in Leipzig

open air

100 m: 10.95 s (+1.3 m / s) August 5, 2017 in London
200 m: 22.67 s (0.0 m / s) June 5, 2016 in Regensburg

Records

German U18 indoor record on March 2, 2013 in Ancona in Italy in the indoor international competition 200 m / 23.89 s
European U23 record on August 7, 2018 in Berlin at the European Championships 100 m / 10.98 s

successes

national

2011: 4th place German U18 championships (200 m)
2011: 7th place German U18 championships (100 m)
2012: 4th place German U20 indoor championships (200 m)
2012: German U18 champion (200 m)
2012: 3rd place German U18 championships (100 m)
2013: German U20 indoor champion (200 m)
2013: German U18 champion (200 m)
2013: German U18 runner-up (100 m)
2014: German U20 indoor champion (200 m)
2014: German U23 champion (200 m)
2016: German Champion (200 m)
2017: German indoor champion (60 m and 4 × 200 m)
2017: German Champion (100 m)
2017: German runner-up (4 × 100 m)
2018: German Champion (100 m)
2018: German runner-up (4 × 100 m)

international

2012: Victory at the U20 indoor national competition Ger / Fra / Ita over 200 meters in Val de Reuil
2012: Semi-finals U20 World Championships (200 m)
2013: Victory at the U20 indoor country competition Ger / Fra / Ita over 200 meters in Ancona
2013: 5th place U18 World Championships (200 m)
2014: Victory at the U20 indoor country competition Ger / Fra / Ita over 200 meters in Halle (Saale)
2014: 8th place U20 World Championships (200 m)
2014: 3rd place U20 World Championships (4 × 100 m)
2015: U20 European Champion (200 m)
2015: 5th place World Championships (4 × 100 m)
2016: 3rd place European Championships (200 m)
2016: 4th place Olympic Summer Games (4 × 100 m)
2017: European team champion
2017: 1st place European team championship (4 × 100 m)
2017: 2nd place European team championship (100 m)
2017: 4th place World Championships (4 × 100 m)
2018: Vice European Champion (100 m)
2018: 3rd place European Championships (4 × 100 m)