BECK Leonie

Germany
Marathon Swimming
27 May 1997
24
Female
1.84/6'0''
AUGSBURG
 
Germany
WURZBURG
 
Germany

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
OWS Marathon Swimming Women's 10km 5

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Odaiba Marine Park
Women's 10km
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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MARATHON SWIMMING

World Championships
YearLocation5km10km5km - TR X
2019Gwangju, KOR39-
2017Budapest, HUN24-8

European Championships
YearLocation5km10km5km - TR X
2020Budakalasz, HUN5DNS2
2018Glasgow, GBR292

World Series overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017
Year10km
20211 x 4th
20201 x 1st
20191 x 3rd, 1 x 5th
20182 x 2nd, 1 x 4th, 1 x 6th
20171 x 4th, 1 x 8th, 1 x 29th

World Series - Ten best performances since 2017
RankYearEventLocation
1202010kmDoha, QAT
2201810kmQiandaohu, CHN
2201810kmDoha, QAT
3201910kmBalatonfured, HUN
4202110kmDoha, QAT
4201810kmBeau Vallon, SEY
4201710kmHong Kong, CHN
5201910kmDoha, QAT
6201810kmSetubal, POR
8201710kmQiandaohu, CHN


Legend
X - Mixed, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified, TR - Team Relay, TTT - Team Time Trial

SWIMMING

Olympic Games
YearLocation800Free
2016Rio de Janeiro, BRAH (8:47.47)

World Championships
YearLocation800Free1500Free
2015Kazan, RUSH (8:28.39)H (16:13.73)
2013Barcelona, ESP-H (16:17.12)


Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final
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Travelling, computers, driving. (Facebook page, 17 Jul 2019; dhg-sportklasse.de, 01 Sep 2018)
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Athlete
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Media and Communications - University of Wurzburg, Germany
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English, German
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SV Wurzburg [Germany]
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Nikolai Evseev [club], RUS
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She competed in pool swimming at the world championships in 2013 and 2015, and the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (SportsDeskOnline, 31 Jul 2019; welt.de, 17 Jul 2019)
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She began taking swimming seriously at age 11 when she moved to Wurzburg, Germany. (wn.de, 25 Jul 2013)
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As a medical doctor, her father saw first-hand what could happen if children did not know how to swim, so he enrolled his children for swimming classes at an early age. Her grandparents also had a swimming pool, giving her father another reason to encourage his children to take up swimming. (augsburger-allgemeine.de, 09 Aug 2016)
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To improve on her performance from the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro at the 2020 Games in Tokyo. (mainpost.de, 26 Jul 2020)
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German open water swimmer Thomas Lurz. (schwimm-dm.de, 01 Jun 2016)
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In 2015 she was named an Athlete of the City of Wurzburg, Germany. (Facebook page, 02 Feb 2020)

General Interest

General
SWITCH TO OPEN WATER
She competed in the 800m freestyle at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and failed to progress from her heat, which contributed to her decision to switch to open water swimming. "I always qualified for the highest competitions, for the world championships, European championships and the Olympics, but it never went well. After Rio, I asked myself how it should go on, whether I should stop. I didn't want to train so hard, just to be eighth or ninth. My abilities in the pool were exhausted at some point. It never went as well as I hoped. That's why I switched to open water in 2016, which initially didn't go that well. But it got better and better and I persevered and absolutely wanted to do it. At first I didn't know how to behave at the start, on the buoys or in general. Those who say that only those who fail in the pool move to open water are wrong. This is a completely different sport." (rio.sportschau.de, 11 Aug 2018; Mainpost.de, 16 Apr 2019; tvmainfranken.de, 09 Jan 2020)

Legend
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