MECHNIG Lara

Liechtenstein

Artistic Swimming

Date of Birth: 25 Feb 2000

Age: 21

Gender: Female

Olympic Scholarship

Height (m/ft): 1.68/5'6''

Place of residence : SCHAAN

Residence Country:

Liechtenstein

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Artistic Swimming	Duet LIE Liechtenstein	17

Schedule

Change

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Duet Free Routine Preliminary	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Duet Technical Routine	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

World Championships

Year	Location	Solo TR	Solo FR	Duet TR	Duet FR
2019	Gwangju, KOR	11th (81.781)	PR (82.400)	PR (78.180)	PR (78.900)
2017	Budapest, HUN	11th (81.852)	PR (82.866)	PR (74.922)	PR (76.500)

European Championships

Year	Location	Solo TR	Solo FR	Duet TR	Duet FR
2020	Budapest, HUN	5th (83.447)	8th (84.733)	11th (82.270)	9th (84.333)
2018	Glasgow, GBR	10th (81.158)	10th (83.800)	14th (75.599)	PR (78.233)

World Junior Championships

Year	Location	Solo TR	Solo FR
2018	Budapest, HUN	12th (81.468)	11th (82.000)

Legend
TR - Technical Routine, FR - Free Routine, PR - Preliminary Round, X - Mixed

Hobbies:

Snowboarding, listening to music. (lieswimming.li, 14 Jul 2017)

Occupation:

Athlete

Languages spoken:

English, German

Club name:

SC Flos Buch [Switzerland]

Coach:

Olga Pylypchuk [personal]; Francesca Zampieri [personal]

National team:

2016 (insidesynchro.org, 31 Dec 2020)

Reason:

"My sister saw [artistic swimming] in some kind of Christmas show. I started when I was six and it just progressed from there. I was really lucky to be talented and to have some success. That made me want to keep going." (insidesynchro.org, 12 Mar 2021)

Ambition:

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo and to study health sciences and technology. (Instagram team profile, 13 Jun 2021; insidesynchro.org, 12 Mar 2021)

Training:

She trains for six to seven hours a day. She trains three days a week in Sursee, Switzerland and the rest of the time in Liechtenstein. (insidesynchro.org, 12 Mar 2021)

Award:

She and artistic swimming partner Marluce Schierscher have been named Team of the Year in Liechtenstein four times from 2016 to 2019 at the 'Night of Sports' awards ceremony. (tagblatt.ch, 26 Jun 2020)

General Interest

General
ATHLETE REPRESENTATIVE
In 2020 she became a member of the Athletes' Commission of the Liechtenstein Olympic Committee [LOC]. (eurolympic.org, 17 Jul 2020)

Milestones

She and artistic swimming partner Marluce Schierscher became the first artistic swimmers from Liechtenstein to qualify for the Olympic Games. They secured qualification for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo at a qualifying event in June 2021 in Barcelona, Spain. (insidethegames.biz, 13 Jun 2021)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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