Lukas Dauser
Personal information
Full nameLukas Dauser
Country represented Germany
Born (1993-06-15) 15 June 1993 (age 30)
Ebersberg, Bavaria, Germany
Height1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Weight64 kg (141 lb)[1]
DisciplineMen's artistic gymnastics
LevelSenior international elite
Years on national team2014–present (GER)
ClubTSV Unterhaching
Head coach(es)Sebastian Faust
Medal record
Men's artistic gymnastics
Representing  Germany
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo Parallel Bars
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Antwerp Parallel Bars
Silver medal – second place 2022 Liverpool Parallel Bars
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2017 Cluj-Napoca Parallel Bars
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Basel Parallel Bars

Lukas Dauser (born 15 June 1993) is a German male artistic gymnast and a two-time Olympian, having competed at the 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games. He is the 2023 World Champion and the 2020 Olympic 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 Berlin, although he represented two gymnastics clubs – TSV Unterhaching and KTV Straubenhardt from Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.

Lukas Dauser at pommel horse, 2017

His major international debut came at the 2014 World Championships in Nanjing, 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 Anadia, Portugal. Due to its complexity, the International Gymnastics Federation officially named an element on the parallel bars after him, involving a giant swing backward with Makuts to upper arm hang.[2]

In 2016, Dauser became the national champion on parallel bars, scoring even more points than Marcel Nguyen, 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 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.[3] There, Dauser, along with the German quintet of Andreas Bretschneider, Fabian Hambüchen, Marcel Nguyen, and Andreas Toba, scored a total of 261.275 points to take the seventh position in the team all-around final.[1][4]

Dauser won a silver medal in the men's parallel bars event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[5]

Dauser competed at the 2022 European Championships in Munich, where he finished ninth in the all-around. Additionally, he qualified to the parallel bars final, and helped Germany qualify to the team final.[6]

Competitive history

Year Event Team AA FX PH SR VT PB HB
2014 Cottbus Challenge Cup 10
Anadia Challenge Cup 6
National Championships 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
World Championships 8
2015 Cottbus Challenge Cup 14
European Championships 13
São Paulo Challenge Cup 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2016 Cottbus World Cup 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Olympic Test Event 1st place, gold medalist(s) 4
São Paulo Challenge Cup 5 6 8 6
National Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Olympic Games 7
Cottbus World Cup 4
2017 American Cup 9
Stuttgart World Cup 6
London World Cup 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
European Championships 7 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
National Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2018
World Championships R2
Cottbus World Cup 8
2019
European Championships R2
World Championships 12 8
Cottbus World Cup 4
2021
European Championships 17 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
National Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Olympic Games 8 18 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2022
European Championships 7 9 8
National Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s)
World Championships R1 11 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2023
World Championships 6 16 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Swiss Cup 7

References

  1. ^ a b c "Lukas Dauser". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
  2. ^ "Der "Dauser" von der FIG anerkannt" [The "Dauser" is now recognized by FIG] (in German). Berliner Turn- und Freizeitsport-Bund. 3 February 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
  3. ^ "Turnen bei Olympia 2016: Das müssen Sie wissen" [Gymnastics at the 2016 Olympics: Key Points You Need to Know] (in German). Tz. 8 March 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
  4. ^ "Gymnastics: Men's Team All-Around Final Results". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
  5. ^ "Olympics-Gymnastics-China's Zou wins parallel bars gold".
  6. ^ "2022 European Championships results". European Gymnastics. Retrieved 18 August 2022.

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