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| Born | (2006-08-25) 25 August 2006 (age 18) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Heptathlon, Pentathlon | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Lucia Acklin (born 25 August 2006) is a Swiss multi-event athlete. She was silver medalist at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in the heptathlon.
Career
She won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Slovakia.
Competing at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru in August 2024, she won a silver medal in the heptathlon in August 2024. In November 2024, she was named Swiss young athlete of the year.
Personal life
She is from Fricktal in the canton of Aargau. Her father Guido Acklin was a silver medalist at the 1994 Winter Olympics in the two-man bobsleigh.
References
- "Lucia Acklin". World Athletics. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
- "HOME FAVOURITE JAMRICHOVA SHINES BRIGHT ON DAY FIVE AT EYOF BANSKÁ BYSTRICA 2022". eurolympic.org. 30 July 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
- "Koscak is crowned world U20 heptathlon champion in Lima". European Athletics. 29 August 2024. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
- "Koscak and Acklin set for heptathlon title battle, with one event to go in Lima". World Athletics. 28 August 2024. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
- "Angelica Moser, Simon Ehammer, Lucia Acklin and U20 Women's Relay Win 2024 Athlete Election". Swiss-Athletics. 16 November 2024. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
- "Swiss athletics hopeful Lucia Acklin says: "I want to be among the world's best in the long term"". pomona.ch. 22 November 2024. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
- "The disciplines change, I like that". nfz.ch. 8 December 2022. Retrieved 24 November 2024.