Joanne Eccles

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Joanne Eccles at a press conference as part of the International Whitsun Tournament Wiesbaden 2013
Joanne Eccles at a press conference as part of the International Whitsun Tournament Wiesbaden 2013

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
World championships
gold 2010 Individual vaulting women
gold 2012 Individual vaulting women
gold 2014 Individual vaulting women
bronze 2014 Pas de deux
European championships
gold 2009 Individual vaulting women
gold 2011 Individual vaulting women
bronze 2013 Individual vaulting women
silver 2013 Pas de deux

Joanne Eccles (born February 16, 1989 in Scotland ) is a British world and European champion in vaulting . At the beginning of 2015, she announced that she would end her career as a lone vaulting artist.

Life

Joanne Eccles has practiced vaulting since she was eight. At the age of 9 she was accepted into the Scottish vaulting team and took part in an international competition, the CVI in Saumur (France), for the first time in 1999 . Since 2003, Eccles has started internationally as a single vault. With the European Champion title in Malmö in 2009 , Eccles became the first British woman to win a medal at a vaulting championship. Her greatest successes are the world championship titles in 2010 ( Lexington, Kentucky ) and 2012 ( Le Mans ). She is still considered the most internationally successful female vaulting artist in Great Britain.

Her club is the Wee County Vaulters Club in Scotland , which was founded in 2001 by her father John Eccles. He is also the lunge guide of her horses WH Bentley and Baroque . Together with her sister Hannah, who is also an internationally successful single vaulter, she starts as a doubles. All disciplines taken together, Eccles is 19 times British national champion. Apart from vaulting, she studies dentistry .

successes

Joanne Eccles together with her sister Hannah at the Whitsun tournament Wiesbaden 2013

Joanne Eccles has achieved the following victories and placements, unless otherwise stated in the individual ranking:

World championships

  • 2014 : gold
  • 2012: gold
  • 2010 : gold
  • 2008: 5th place
  • 2006 : 10th place
  • 2004: 19th place

European championships

  • 2013: Bronze (individual), silver (Pas de Deux, together with Hannah Eccles )
  • 2011: gold
  • 2009: gold
  • 2007: 4th place
  • 2005: 13th place

World Cup Finals

  • 2012, Bordeaux: 1st place

CVI wins

  • 2006: Portogruaro (individual & team), Houten
  • 2007: Saumur
  • 2008: Ermelo
  • 2009: Saumur, Ermelo, Aachen
  • 2010: Saumur, Ermelo, Aachen, Wiesbaden , Paris
  • 2011: Aachen
  • 2012: Aachen (individual evaluation & pas de deux with Hannah Eccles), Wiesbaden (individual evaluation)
  • 2013: Aachen (individual evaluation), Wiesbaden (Pas de Deux with Hannah Eccles)

British Champion (Individual)

  • 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009

British State Champion (Pas de Deux)

  • 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009

British National Champion (team)

  • 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

Web links

Commons : Joanne Eccles  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ British star vaulter Joanne Eccles stops , St. Georg, February 25, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Eccles, Joanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British vaulting woman
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Scotland