Janika Derks

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Janika Derks Vaulting
nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 5th July 1990
Career
discipline Vaulting
society Team Neuss
Lunge guide Jessica Lichtenberg
Trainer Jessica Lichtenberg
Medal table
World championships 2 × gold 3 × silver 1 × bronze
European championships 3 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships
gold Aachen, 2006 Crew
with cepin
silver Le Mans , 2012 Team
with Arkansas
gold Caen, 2014 Team
with Delia FRH
gold Le Mans , 2016 Double (with Johannes Kay )
with Holt's Romeo
silver Tryon, 2018 Single
with Carusso Hit
bronze Tryon, 2018 Double (with Johannes Kay )
with Dark Beluga
European championships
gold Le Mans , 2011 Team
with Arkansas
gold Ebreichsdorf , 2013 Team
with Arkansas
gold Aachen, 2015 Team
with Delia FRH
last change: March 20, 2019

Janika Derks (born July 5, 1990 ) is a German vaulting artist . With the team of Team Neuss , she was European and world champion several times.

Athletic performance

As a member of Team Neuss, she is one of the most successful German vaulters. In national and international competitions she won numerous medals both in the team and in the singles and also in the pas de deux called doubles, together with her team colleague Johannes Kay .

At the age of 16 she became world champion at the 2006 World Equestrian Games in Aachen : She won gold in the team competition as part of Team Neuss. At the World Vaulting Championships in 2012, she won team silver, two years later at the World Equestrian Games in Caen in 2014 , the team won gold again. Together with the Neuss team, she was European team champion in 2011, 2013 and 2015.

In the following years Derks mostly competed in singles and doubles for the Neuss team. At the 2016 World Championships she took fourth place in the individual, and together with Johannes Kay she won the silver medal in the Pas de Deux. In 2017 she won the individual ranking at the prestigious CHIO Aachen . At the World Championships in Tryon , she won the individual silver medal and, together with Johannes Kay, the bronze medal in the pas de deux. In the same year she became German doubles champion together with Johannes Kay .

On November 3, 2017, she was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf for her sporting successes.

Private life

Janika Derks is a trained physiotherapist and lives with her family in Cologne. She is a member of the RSV Neuss-Grimmelhausen.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overall result team. Results website of the World Equestrian Games 2006, 2006 .;
  2. ^ Daniel Kaiser: Vaulting EM: Shivering game ends in great jubilation. District Equestrian Association Neuss, August 22, 2011 .;
  3. ↑ Results EM Vaulting 2015, team in the FEI tournament calendar
  4. ↑ Uta Helkenberg: World Championship Le Mans: three times silver and bronze for German vaulters. In: pferd-aktuell.de . September 21, 2016 .;
  5. ↑ Vaulting women singles. Results page of the CHIO Aachen, July 15, 2017 .;
  6. ↑ Volker Koch: Janika Derks continues the great Nixhof tradition. In: RP Online. 23rd September 2018 .;
  7. ↑ Results DM 2018, double vaulting. (PDF) dm-voltigieren2018.de, July 29, 2018 .;
  8. ↑ Silver bay leaf for Neuss vaulters. In: Neuss-Grevenbroicher newspaper. 7th November 2017 .;
  9. ↑ Vaulting Janika Derks in portrait. pferd-aktuell.de , September 11, 2018 .;
personal data
SURNAME Derks, Janika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German vaulting woman
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1990