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| Full name | Lucia Ursina Acklin | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 August 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Heptathlon, Pentathlon | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Lucia Ursina 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]
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]
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]
