Nicol Ruprecht
Nicol Ruprecht | |
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Personal information | |
Nationality: | Austria |
discipline | Rhythmic sports gymnastics |
Society: | VRG Wörgl |
Trainer: | Lucia Egermann (since 2009) |
Birthday: | 2nd October 1992 (age 27) |
Place of birth: | Innsbruck , Austria |
Size: | 172 cm |
Weight: | 59 kg |
Nicol Ruprecht (born October 2, 1992 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian rhythmic gymnast . She is 41 times Austrian national champion . In 2016 she took part in the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro for Austria .
Life
Nicol Ruprecht first took ballet lessons as a child , while practicing in the garden, the neighbor, a gymnastics teacher, noticed her and Nicol Ruprecht got into rhythmic gymnastics. She has been a competitive athlete since 2005. In 2008 she took part with the group for the first time at the European Championships , where she finished 8th in 2009, 6th in 2011 and 15th in 2018. At the European Championships in 2013 , she achieved 7th place in the team all-round match with Caroline Weber and Natascha Wegscheider.
In 2009 she moved with her parents and her two younger of the four siblings to Vienna , where she has been trained by Luchia Egermann ever since. In 2011 she became Austrian national champion for the first time , subsequently she was six- time national champion in 2013, 2014 , 2016 and 2018 and five-time national champion in 2015 and 2017. The World Games 2013 she finished ninth at the 2015 European Games in sixth place and at the World Games 2017 11th Place. In 2009–2011, 2013–2015, 2017 and 2018, she also took part in the World Championships , and in 2015, 2017 and 2018 she was a World Cup all-around finalist. In September 2018 she took 20th place in the all- around finals at the World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Sofia .
From 2015, the training took place on the premises of the former Rosenhügel film studios , and later she moved to Südstadt with the training . In 2016 she took part for Austria in the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , where she finished 20th.
Nicol Ruprecht is a sports soldier with the Austrian Army Sports Association . As part of the European Gymnastics Championships 2019 in Baku, she was awarded the Shooting Star Award of the Union Européenne de Gymnastique (UEG).
She originally wanted to end her career at the end of 2020, but extended it for one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the postponement of the Summer Olympics to 2021.
Awards
- 2016: Vienna Sports Stars - Sportswoman of the Year
- 2016, 2017 and 2018: Gymnast of the Year of the Austrian Association for Gymnastics (ÖFT)
- 2019: Shooting Star Award of the Union Européenne de Gymnastique
Successes (selection)
- 2008–2012: 16 × second, 8 × third in the state championship
- 2009: European Cup winner in Ghent
- 2010: Kalamata Cup 2010 - 21st place
- 2011: Austrian state champion
- 2011: European Championships - 6th place
- 2012: 2 × Grand Prix bronze (Brno)
- 2013: 6 times Austrian national champion
- 2013: World Games - 9th place
- 2013: European Championships - team all-around competition with Caroline Weber and Natascha Wegscheider - 7th place
- 2014: Austrian State Championships - 6 times national champion
- 2014: Grand Prix bronze (Innsbruck)
- 2014: European Championships - 17th place
- 2015: Austrian State Championships - 5 times national champion
- 2015: European Games / Rhythmic Gymnastics - 6th place (clubs), 11th (ribbon, hoop, all-around), 12th (ball)
- 2015: World Championships in Rhythmic Gymnastics 2015 - World Cup all-around finalist
- 2016: 6 times Austrian national champion
- 2016: Summer Olympic Games - 20th place
- 2017: 5 times Austrian national champion
- 2017: World Games - 11th place
- 2017: World Cup fourth
- 2017: World Championships in Rhythmic Gymnastics 2017 - World Championship all-around finalist
- 2018: European Championships - 15th place
- 2018: World Championships in Rhythmic Gymnastics 2018 - World Cup all-around finalist - 20th place
- 2018: 6 times Austrian national champion
- 2019: 6 times Austrian national champion
- 2019: European Games / Rhythmic Gymnastics - 11th place (individual all-around)
Web links
- Nicol Ruprecht in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Nicol Ruprecht in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English)
- Nicol Ruprecht on the website of the Austrian Association for Gymnastics (ÖFT)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Rhythmic gymnast: Nicol Ruprecht . Retrieved July 21, 2018.
- ↑ orf.at: Ruprecht gets all four device finals at ÖM . Article dated April 28, 2019, accessed April 29, 2019.
- ↑ a b c Nicol Ruprecht in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- ↑ a b c diepresse.com: Graceful and elegant to the goal . Article dated April 17, 2016, accessed July 21, 2018.
- ↑ a b Tiroler Tageszeitung: Ruprecht: “Unbelievable! I don't know how that went ” . Article dated June 5, 2018, accessed March 12, 2020.
- ↑ a b Nicol Ruprecht took 20th place in the World Cup all-around final . Article dated September 14, 2018, accessed March 20, 2020.
- ↑ derStandard.at: Nicol Ruprecht: From the rose hill to Rio . Article dated August 2, 2016, accessed June 21, 2018.
- ↑ orf.at: Top 15 at EM the goal . Article dated June 1, 2018, accessed June 21, 2018.
- ↑ Sports magazine: Olympic gymnast Nicol Ruprecht in Rio: The great glitter . Retrieved July 21, 2018.
- ↑ a b ÖOC: tears at the "Shooting Star" . Article dated May 20, 2019, accessed May 20, 2019.
- ↑ Tiroler Tageszeitung: Ruprecht was awarded “Shooting Star” despite disappointment at EM . Article dated May 20, 2019, accessed May 20, 2019.
- ↑ Stefan Sigwarth: After the Olympic postponement: Nicol Ruprecht is attached for a year. In: Kurier.at . March 26, 2020, accessed March 27, 2020 .
- ^ Kurier: Honor: Pöltl and Ruprecht Vienna's "Sportsman of the Year" . Article dated September 29, 2016, accessed July 21, 2018.
- ^ Wiener Sportstars 2016 - the winners have been chosen . OTS notification dated September 29, 2016, accessed July 21, 2018.
- ↑ orf.at: Ruprecht and Wizani Sportsman of the Year . Article from January 1, 2019, accessed on January 1, 2019.
- ^ Gymnastics: All national championship titles to Nicol Ruprecht . Article dated October 21, 2018, accessed October 21, 2018.
- ↑ Rhythmic gymnastics: Ruprecht won all four apparatus finals at ÖM . Article dated April 28, 2019, accessed April 29, 2019.
- ^ European Games: Rhythmic Gymnast Ruprecht All-Around Eleventh. Retrieved June 23, 2019 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ruprecht, Nicol |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian rhythmic gymnast |
DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd October 1992 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | innsbruck |