WEVERS Lieke

Netherlands
Artistic Gymnastics
17 Sep 1991
29
Female
1.67/5'5''
LEEUWARDEN
 
Netherlands
NETHERLANDS

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
GAR Artistic Gymnastics Women's All-Around 24
Women's Vault  
Women's Uneven Bars  
Women's Balance Beam  
Women's Floor Exercise  
Women's Team
NED
Netherlands
  

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Ariake Gymnastics Centre - Women
Women's All-Around Final
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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Olympic Games
YearLocationBBFXUBAATeam
2016Rio de Janeiro, BRA162727207

World Championships
YearLocationBBFXUBAATeam
2019Stuttgart, GER1582632458
2017Montreal, QC, CAN55----
2015Glasgow, GBR10812138
2014Nanning, CHN7727544410
2011Tokyo, JPN1027212018213

European Championships
YearLocationBBFXUBAA
2021Basel, SUI719228


Legend
BB - Balance Beam, FX - Floor Excercise, UB - Uneven Bars, VT - Vault, AA - Individual All-Around, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified
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Going to the sauna. (dutchgymnastics.nl, 25 Jul 2018)
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Athlete
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Psychology - Open University, Heerlen, NED
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Dutch, English
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Vincent Wevers [father], NED
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Her twin sister Sanne is also an artistic gymnast and won gold on balance beam at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Her father Vincent is her coach. (nos.nl, 15 Aug 2016 25 Oct 2015; tym.nl, 23 Oct 2015; sannelieke.nl, 19 Oct 2015)
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In 2013 she had surgery on both wrists. She returned to competition in 2014. (intlgymnast.com, 12 May 2014; trouw.nl, 03 May 2014)

She overstretched her knee just days before the 2009 European Championships in Milan, Italy, and tore part of her anterior cruciate ligament. She underwent surgery and was out of competition for two years. She made her comeback in June 2011 at the Dutch national championships. (intlgymnast.com, 12 May 2014; volkskrant.nl, 20 Jun 2011; nu.nl, 31 Mar 2009)
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She took up the sport at age six. (sannelieke.nl, 19 Oct 2015; vrouw.nl, 16 Aug 2016)
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Her parents are gymnastics coaches. "We went to the gym with them and that's how it all started." (nos.nl, 25 Oct 2015; sannelieke.nl, 19 Oct 2015)
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To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (theforce.kngu.nl, 12 Oct 2018)
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US gymnast Nastia Liukin. (dutchgymnastics.nl, 25 Jul 2018)
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In 2017 she and her sister Sanne Wevers received the Ten Hag performance prize, which was awarded by the Ten Hag Group. The prize is awarded yearly to people that deliver a special contribution to the development of East Netherlands, where the Wevers sisters come from. (tubantia.nl, 15 Jun 2017)

General Interest

General
TAKING A BREAK
In February 2017 she decided to travel for a while and went to countries like Australia, New Zealand, Chinese Taipei and Japan. She was still training during her travels, as she gave some workshops and clinics and trained in the places that she visited. In June 2017 she returned to training with the national team but in the next year she reported that she was not ready to return to top flight competition. "My body was empty. I could no longer press a button to really be able to do what I wanted again. That was very frustrating and unreal. Of course I still had a goal, but I was not able to do the work that was needed to achieve that. I could hardly accept it. I just lost control of my body." In September 2018 she went to Tenerife, Spain, to try and get competition-fit and begin training for her goal to reach the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. She returned to international competition in 2019. "I had to rediscover myself, but also my goals. See what I still wanted. The joy and passion are back. I can look towards the future again with excitement." (gymnovosti.com, 17 Apr 2019; theforce.kngu.nl, 12 Oct 2018; Dutch Gymnastics KNGU YouTube Channel, 04 Jun 2017; rtvoost.nl, 03 Jun 2019)

TWINS
She was born six minutes after her twin sister Sanne. (sannelieke.nl, 19 Oct 2015)

Legend
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Gold Medal Event
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Silver Medal Event
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Bronze Medal Event
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