Leonie Antonia Beck
Leonie Beck 
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| Surname: | Leonie Antonia Beck | |||||||||||||||
| Nation: | Germany | |||||||||||||||
| Swimming style (s) : | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||
| Society: | SV Würzburg 05 | |||||||||||||||
| Birthday: | May 27, 1997 | |||||||||||||||
| Place of birth: | augsburg | |||||||||||||||
| Size: | 184 cm | |||||||||||||||
| Weight: | 65 kg | |||||||||||||||
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Leonie Antonia Beck (born May 27, 1997 in Augsburg) is a German swimmer from the Würzburg 05 eV swimming club and has already participated in several international championships, including the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. She won two silver medals at the 2018 European Championships in Glasgow and bronze at the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju.
Career
Beck won her first German championship in the open class as a fifteen year old at the German Swimming Championships in 2012 over 1500 m in 16: 41.69 minutes. and beat last year's champion, Isabelle Härle . In 2013 she repeated this success in 16: 11.88. At the German Short Course Championships in 2012 she won both the 400 and 800 m (4: 11.29 and 8: 26.17 respectively) and in 2013 rose to a triple success over 400, 800 and 1500 m (4: 04.84, 8th place) : 17.50, 15: 56.32). On the 2015 long track , she won over 800 m in 8: 27.37, beating last year's winner Sarah Köhler . This time, as well as her third place over 1500 m behind Härle and Köhler, also meant meeting the standards for the 2015 World Swimming Championships in Kazan .
At the 2019 World Swimming Championships , she won the bronze medal over 5 km in open water swimming and qualified over 10 km for the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020 .
Greatest successes
- 2x silver at the EYOF 2011 Trabzon over 400 m medley and 800 m freestyle
- German short course runner-up 2011 1500 m freestyle
- Junior European Championship 2012 Antwerp Gold over 1500 m freestyle; 5th place 800 m freestyle
- German short course champion 2012 over 400 m and 800 m freestyle
- Sportswoman of the year 2013 from the city of Würzburg
- German champion 2013 1500 m freestyle; 2xBronze DM 2013 200 m and 800 m freestyle
- 12th place World Cup 2013 Barcelona over 1500 m freestyle
- Junior European Championship 2013 Poznan Gold over 400 m and 800 m freestyle; Silver with the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay
- 3-time German short champion 2013 over 400 m, 800 m and 1500 m freestyle
- 5th place at the European Short Course Championships Herning 2013 over 800 m freestyle
- German runner-up in the 800 m freestyle in 2014; 3rd place DM over 1500 m freestyle
- 12th place European Championships Berlin 2014 over 1500 m freestyle; 15th place EM over 800 m freestyle
- 2-time German short course runner-up in 2014 over 400 m and 800 m freestyle
- 20th and 21st place at the Short Course World Championships Doha 2014 over 800 m and 400 m freestyle
- Sportswoman of the year 2015 from the city of Würzburg
- German champion 2015 over 800 m freestyle; 3rd place DM over 1500 m freestyle
- 2x 9th place at the World Championships Kazan 2015 over 800 m and 1500 m freestyle
- European youth champion Tenero 2015 3 km team event open water
- German short course runner-up in 2015 in the 1500 m freestyle
- German runner-up in the 800 m freestyle in 2016; 3rd place DM over 400 m freestyle
- German short course champion 2016 over 400 m medley; German short course runner-up in the 400 m freestyle
- 25th place at the Olympic Games 2016 Rio 800 m freestyle
- European Youth Champion Piombino 2016 4x1.25 km team event open water
- Sportswoman of the year 2017 from the city of Würzburg
- Overall European Cup winner 2017 Freiwasser
- German Vice-Champion 2017 over 5 km freestyle open water
- 8th place World Championships 2017 Budapest 4x1.25 km team event; 24th place over 5 km freestyle open water
- German champion 2018 over 5 km freestyle and 4x1.25 km team event open water
- 2-time German short course champion 2018 over 400 m and 1500 m freestyle
- Twice European Vice-Champion 2018 Glasgow over 5 km freestyle and 4x1.25 km team event open water
- 4th place overall World Cup 2018 open water
- German champion 2019 over 5 km freestyle and 3x1.25 km team event open water
- 3rd place at the World Championships 2019 Gwangju over 5 km freestyle and 9th place over 10 km freestyle open water
- Qualification over 10 km freestyle for the Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo
- Overall World Cup winner in open water swimming 2020 (only competition in February 2020 in Doha over 10km - others canceled without replacement due to the corona pandemic )
Web links
- Leonie Antonia Beck on mirkoseifert.de
- Posts about Beck on swim.de
- News about Beck on swimsportnews.de
swell
- Main-Post: "Leonie Beck fishes EM silver from the lake" (August 8, 2018)
- Kiliani regulars' table at TV Mainfranken on July 7, 2016
- Spiegel: "Swimming World Cup: Leonie Beck takes bronze over 5 kilometers"
- Main-Post: "Leonie Beck qualified for Tokyo 2020" (July 14, 2019)
- MDR: "World Cup Open Water Bronze for Leonie Beck"
- Sport1: "DSV duo buys Olympic ticket"
- ZDF: Leonie Beck: "A perfect World Cup"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Swimming DM 2015: Overview of the norm crackers. In: swimsportnews.de. SwimSportNews, accessed July 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Due to further cancellations: Beck wins the overall World Cup in open water swimming. In: focus.de. Focus, July 20, 2020, accessed on July 22, 2020 .
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| SURNAME | Beck, Leonie Antonia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German swimmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1997 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | augsburg |