Gina Lückenkemper (born 21 November 1996) is a German

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athlete who competes in the sprints. She won gold medals in the

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and for the 4 × 100 m relay at the 2022 European Athletics Championships. As a 18-year-old Lückenkemper took gold in the

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at the 2015 European Junior Championships. She has competed at the

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in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2022 and at the 2016 Rio and

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. She won several German national titles. At the 2017 World Championships in London, Lückenkemper broke for the first time the 11-second barrier in the heats of the 100 m event with her time of 10.95 seconds, becoming the first German female sprinter to achieve the feat since

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in 1991. All five women placed ahead of Lückenkemper on the German all-time list ran their best times in the 1980s in

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jerseys. For her 2022 season, she was voted German Sportswoman of the Year.

Achievements

International competitions

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: h = heat (Q, q), sf = semi-final

Circuit wins, and National championships

* Diamond League **

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Zürich Weltklasse , neighboring_municipalities = Adliswil, Dübendorf, Fällanden, Kilchberg, Maur, Oberengstringen, Opfikon, Regensdorf, Rümlang, Schlieren, Stallikon, Uitikon, Urdorf, Wallisellen, Zollikon , twintowns = Kunming, San Francisco Zürich () ...

(4 x 100 m relay) *

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titles **

: 2017, 2018, 2022 **

: 2016 *

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titles **

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: 2017 ** 4 x 200 m relay: 2017

Personal bests

indoor – 7.11 ( Dortmund 2018) *

– 10.95 (+1.3 m/s,

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2017) *

– 22.67 (0.0 m/s, Regensburg 2016) ** 200 metres indoor – 23.69 ( Halle 2014)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Luckenkemper, Gina 1996 births Living people German female sprinters World Athletics Championships athletes for Germany Sportspeople from Hamm Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Germany Olympic female sprinters 20th-century German women 21st-century German women European Athletics Championships winners