Lena Erdil

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Lena Erdil
Full name Lena Aylin Erdil
nation GermanyGermany Germany Turkey
TurkeyTurkey 
birthday February 28, 1989
place of birth Çeşme
size 164 cm
Career
Sail number GER-33
formerly: TUR-33
discipline Wave , freestyle , slalom
society North German Regatta Association
National squad since 2020
status active
Placements in the Windsurf World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup 2006
 World Cup victories 2
 Wave World Cup 12. ( 2017 )
 Freestyle World Cup 6. ( 2018 )
 Slalom World Cup 2. ( 2014 , 2016 , 2018)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 slalom 1 6th 8th
 Indoor 1 0 0
last change: March 7, 2020

Lena Erdil (born February 28, 1989 in Çeşme ) is a German - Turkish windsurfer . She is three-time slalom vice world champion and won the IFCA world championship title in 2015 and 2016

biography

Erdil is the daughter of a Turk and a German and grew up in Göppingen , her mother's hometown , since she was two years old . When they were ten, they moved on to Brussels together . She also got into windsurfing through her parents, who have been running a surfing station in Bodrum since 2006 .

At the age of 18 she started for the first time at a World Cup event, which took place in Alaçatı not far from her hometown. She was able to place in the top 10 of the slalom classification in her first season. After five years among the top ten, she was able to classify herself on the podium for the first time in the 2012 season at the event in Reggio Calabria as well as in the overall standings. In the following years she established herself among the best slalom riders in the world. She narrowly missed the title in 2014 , 2016 , 2018 and was runner-up in each case. In recent years she has also increasingly started to ride in waves and freestyle, and in 2016 and 2018 she also started in the discipline in the World Cup for the first time. Her greatest goal is still to achieve the world title.

From the 2020 season Erdil will start for Germany. At the beginning of the year she became a member of the Olympic team of the North German Regatta Association with the aim of participating in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris .

Erdil studied Politics and Philosophy at the University of Sussex and speaks five languages ​​(German, English, Turkish, Spanish, French). She also runs her own windsurfing center in Bodrum.

successes

World Cup ratings

season Wave Freestyle slalom
space Points space Points space Points
2006 - - - - 10. 1902
2007 - - - - 19th 1869
2008 - - - - 7th 5542
2009 - - - - 6th 5441
2010 - - - - 9. 5541
2011 - - - - 6th 5871
2012 - - - - 3. 5937
2013 - - - - 7th 3804
2014 - - - - 2. 6135
2015 - - - - 3. 6036
2016 16. 1655 - - 2. 4134
2017 12. 1840 - - 4th 2990
2018 17th 7,234 6th 9,500 2. 30,200
2019 - - - - 4th 29,900

World Cup victories

Erdil has achieved 17 podium places so far, eight of them third places, six second and two wins:

date place country discipline
09/05/2014 - 09/07/2014 Warsaw Poland Indoor
May 19, 2016 - May 24, 2016 Ulsan South Korea slalom

More Achievements

  • 5 × Turkish junior champion (2003-2008)
  • 8 × Turkish champion (2009-2017)
  • IFCA Slalom World Champion: 2015, 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d DailyDose: Lena Erdil, interview , accessed on January 10, 2019
  2. ↑ a b c d website of Lena Erdil: Achievements and biography (English), accessed on January 10, 2019
  3. ↑ a b surf magazine / Manuel Vogel: Who is Lena Erdil, published on July 25, 2012 , accessed on January 10, 2019
  4. ↑ a b Point-7: Lena Erdil bio (English), accessed on January 10, 2019
  5. ↑ Windsurfers: Lena Erdil wants to go to the Olympics for Germany, published on March 1, 2020 , accessed on March 7, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Erdil, Lena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish-German windsurfer
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Çeşme , Turkey