Julia Lier
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Julia Lier (left) and Mareike Adams at the 2015 World Cup |
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nation | Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | November 11, 1991 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Ludwigsfelde , Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 182 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 75 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
job | Sports soldier | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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society | HRV Böllberg / Nelson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National squad | since 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
End of career | 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Last change: January 9, 2020 |
Julia Lier (born November 11, 1991 in Ludwigsfelde ) is a former German rower .
Career
Lier began rowing in the Merseburg rowing company in 2002 . Lier achieved her first international success at the Junior World Championships in 2008 in Ottensheim , where she won gold in the quadruple sculls. At the Junior World Championships in 2009 she also won gold, but this time in a double scull . In the following years she won three U23 World Championship titles , including one in one 2012th
Since 2011 Lier has also been used in the open age group at the Rowing World Cup ; She completed her first international championship participation at the European championships in 2012 in single. In the following season she formed a double scull with Mareike Adams and reached the finals of the world championships . In 2014 she took second place in the double foursome at the European Championships and together with Carina Bär , Lisa Schmidla and Annekatrin Thiele became world champion in the double foursome at the World Championships in Amsterdam. In 2015 Julia Lier competed again with Mareike Adams in a double scull, the two won the bronze medal behind the boats from New Zealand and Greece at the 2015 World Championships . At the European Rowing Championships in 2016 , Adams and Lier received the silver medal behind the boat from Belarus. Before the Summer Olympics, Julia Lier returned to double fours. At the 2016 Olympic Games , Thiele, Bär, Lier and Schmidla won the gold medal ahead of the Dutch women. For her sporting successes, Lier was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by Federal President Gauck on November 1, 2016 .
In 2017 Julia Lier did not start internationally, in 2018 she finished ninth in the double foursome at the European Championships with a kind of B team . In 2019, the German double scull competed at the European Championships in Lucerne with Michaela Staelberg , Julia Lier, Franziska Kampmann and Frieda Hämmerling , this team won the title before the Dutch women .
Lier meanwhile started for the Hallesche rowing association Böllberg / Nelson . She is 1.82 m tall and has a competition weight of around 75 kg.
On January 9, 2020, six and a half months before the Summer Olympics , 28-year-old Julia Lier announced her retirement from active rowing. The reason is the after-effects of a stress fracture on the sixth rib, which did not allow high training loads. Lier blames the German Rowing Association.
Private
Julia Lier is a sports soldier and is currently training to be a physiotherapist . Before the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , Lier had himself portrayed in the German edition of Playboy with a photo series together with swimmer Isabelle Härle , cyclist Nadja Pries , table tennis player Petrissa Solja and pole vaulter Katharina Bauer , who was not starting in Rio for injury reasons .
Web links
- Julia Lier at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
- Julia Lier in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Awarding of the silver bay leaf. In: www.bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President , November 1, 2016, accessed December 30, 2016 .
- ↑ Olympic rowing champion Lier declares resignation. In: focus.de . SID , January 9, 2020, accessed January 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Olympic rowing champion Lier ends her career after a rib fracture. In: spiegel.de . January 9, 2020, accessed January 9, 2020 .
- ↑ These German Olympic stars undress for "Playboy". August 10, 2016, accessed August 13, 2016 .
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SURNAME | Lier, Julia |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rower |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1991 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ludwigsfelde |