Lucia Acklin
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| Born | 25 August 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.[1]
Career
[edit]She won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2022 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia.[2] In 2023, she competed in the heptathlon at the 2023 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Maribor, Slovenia, winning the silver medal in the heptathlon.[3]
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.[4][5] In November 2024, she was named Swiss young athlete of the year.[6]
Personal life
[edit]She is from Herznach in the region of Fricktal, in the canton of Aargau. Her father Guido Acklin was a silver medalist at the 1994 Winter Olympics in the two-man bobsleigh. Her mother Doris competed in athletics in multi-event competition. Her older brother, Curdin, plays volleyball and also competed in athletics, joining LV Fricktal in 2015.[7][8]
References
[edit]- ^ "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.
- ^ "Or et argent pour clore un FOJE très réussi pour la Suisse". Swiss-athletics (in German). 29 July 2023. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
- ^ "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.
