Lukas Dauser (born 15 June 1993) is a German male

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and a two-time Olympian, having competed at the

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and

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. He is the

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and 2022 World silver medalist on the parallel bars.

Career

Dauser became a member of the first German gymnastics league at the age of 19. He formerly trained in

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, although he represented two gymnastics clubs – TSV Unterhaching and KTV Straubenhardt from

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. His major international debut came at the 2014 World Championships in

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, PRC. There, he placed eighth as a member of the German squad in the team all-around tournament. On that same year, Dauser performed a new element on the parallel bars during the Challenge Cup in

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. Due to its complexity, the

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officially named an element on the parallel bars after him, involving a giant swing backward with Makuts to upper arm hang. In 2016, Dauser became the national champion on parallel bars, scoring even more points than

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, the country's previous leader on parallel bars. At the pre-Olympic qualification, the German team ranked first, with Dauser capping off the meet in fourth position on the parallel bars. On 10 July, Andreas Hirsch, head coach of the German national team, proposed that Dauser would be included in the national team to the

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in Rio de Janeiro. There, Dauser, along with the German quintet of

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, and

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, scored a total of 261.275 points to take the seventh position in the team all-around final. Dauser won a silver medal in the men's parallel bars event at the

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. Dauser competed at the

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, where he finished ninth in the all-around. Additionally, he qualified to the parallel bars final, and helped Germany qualify to the team final.

Competitive history

References

External links

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at German Gymnastics Federation * * * 1993 births Living people German male artistic gymnasts Sportspeople from Upper Bavaria Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts of Germany Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in gymnastics Olympic silver medalists for Germany Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships 20th-century German people 21st-century German people People from Ebersberg (district) {{Germany-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub