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Elisa Hämmerle (born 10 December 1995) is an Austrian
artistic gymnast Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different types of apparatus. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which assigns the '' Code of Points'' used ...
. She represented Austria at the 2020 Summer Olympics and finished sixty-sixth in the all-around during the qualification round. She also represented Austria at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics and finished twelfth in the all-around final. She has won four medals on the FIG World Cup circuit, one silver and three bronze. At the 2020 European Championships, she became the first Austrian gymnast to qualify for an event final at the
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when she finished eighth on the
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Career

Hämmerle began gymnastics when she was four years old. She was selected to represent Austria at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics which were held in
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. She qualified for the all-around final where she placed twelfth with a total
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of 51.850.


2011

Hämmerle became age-eligible for senior competition in 2011 and made her senior debut at the Maribor World Challenge Cup, placing fifth on
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and sixth on balance beam. She was selected to compete at the
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in
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with teammates
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and
Lisa Ecker Lisa Ecker (born 19 September 1992) is an Austrian female artistic gymnast who competed at the senior international elite level. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, placing 43rd; it was only the second time that Austria was represe ...
and finished ninety-sixth in the all-around during the qualification round with a total score of 48.798. Then at the Ostrava World Cup, she placed fourth on floor exercise and eighth on
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.


2012

Hämmerle was a member of the gold medal-winning team at the Austrian Team Open, and she won the individual all-around gold with a score of 53.324. Then at the Osijek World Challenge Cup, she placed sixth on the uneven bars and seventh on the floor exercise. She was then selected to compete at the
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in
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where the Austrian team finished twentieth in the qualification round.


2013

Hämmerle qualified for the all-around finals at the
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in
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and finished twenty-third with a total score of 49.932. The next week she competed at the Ljubljana World Challenge Cup and finished sixth on
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and eighth on the uneven bars. In August, she finished nineteenth in the all-around at the Dutch Invitational. Then at the Osijek World Challenge Cup, she finished eighth on the floor exercise. She then competed at the
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in
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and finished fortieth in the all-around during the qualification round with a total score of 50.773. Her final competition of the year was the Sokol Grand Prix where she competed on a mixed team with Michael Fussenegger that finished fourth.


2014

Hämmerle tied with Polish gymnast
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for the all-around silver medal at the International Women competition in
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, and Austria won the team bronze medal. Then at the
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, she led the Austrian team to a fourteenth place finish. She won her first two
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at the Anadia World Challenge Cup with a silver medal on vault behind
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and a bronze medal on the uneven bars behind
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and
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. At a friendly meet against France and the Netherlands, the Austrian team finished third, and Hämmerle placed seventh in the all-around. Then at the
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, she helped the Austrian team place twenty-second, the country's best result at the
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since 1983. After the World Championships, she won the all-around silver medal at the Austrian Championships behind
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. In the event finals, she won gold on vault and balance beam and silver on floor exercise, and she placed fourth on uneven bars.


2015

Hämmerle began her 2015 season at the Austrian Team Open, finishing seventh with her team and thirteenth in the all-around. At the Anadia World Challenge Cup, she placed fifth on both the uneven bars and the balance beam. She then helped Austria win a friendly meet against Poland and Hungary. Then at the Austrian Championships, she won the all-around silver medal behind
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. In the event finals, she won silver on vault and floor exercise and bronze on uneven bars. At the 2015 World Championships, the Austrian team placed twenty-third and Hämmerle scored a personal-best 53.431 in the all-around.


2016

Hämmerle won a bronze medal on the balance beam at the Baku World Challenge Cup behind
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and
Emma Larsson Emma Maud Valborg Larsson (born 15 November 1998) is a Swedish former artistic gymnast. Larsson participated at the 2014 and 2015 World Championships and eventually qualified for 2016 Summer Olympics, where she placed 35th all-around in the quali ...
. Then at the Austrian Team Open, she placed fifth with her team and in the all-around. She then helped her team place sixth at the DTB Team Challenge in
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. She finished fifteenth in the all-around at the Belgium Friendly with a total score of 52.200. She was scheduled to compete at the Olympic Test Event with a chance to qualify an individual spot for the 2016 Olympics, but she tore her Achilles tendon during podium training and withdrew.


2017

Hämmerle returned to training in February 2017. She returned to competition in September at the Paris World Challenge Cup, only competing on the uneven bars and balance beam and not making either final. Then in November, she won the gold medal on the uneven bars at the Austrian Championships.


2018

Hämmerle began her 2018 season at the Austrian Team Open helping the Austrian team place fourth. Then at the Austrian Championships in
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, she won gold medals on both the uneven bars and balance beam. She then competed at the Budapest Friendly where the Austrian team finished fourth. She was selected to compete at the
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in
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helping the Austrian team place twenty-third. At the Szombathely World Challenge Cup, she won the bronze medal on the balance beam behind Zsófia Kovács and
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and also placed fourth on the uneven bars. At the
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in
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, she helped the Austrian team finish twenty-seventh.


2019

In March, Hämmerle helped the Austrian team place fourth at the Austrian Team Open. She relocated from Austria to the
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in April 2019 in order to train at SV PAX Haarlemermeer with coaches Patrick Kiens and Daymon Montaigne-Jones who also coach
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and Mandy Mohamed. Then in August, she returned to competing on all four events for the first time since 2016 at the Heerenveen Friendly and placed twelfth. At the
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in
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, she finished fifty-fifth in the all-around and qualified for an individual spot for the 2020 Olympic Games.


2020-2021

In November 2020 at the Austrian Championships, Hämmerle won the all-around and uneven bars silver medal and the floor exercise gold medal, and she placed fifth on the balance beam. She qualified for the balance beam final at the 2020 European Championships in eighth place with a score of 12.066, becoming the first Austrian gymnast to qualify for an apparatus final at the
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. She was also the second reserve for both the uneven bars and floor exercise finals. In the balance beam event final, she fell twice and finished in eighth place. Prior to the Olympic Games, Hämmerle competed at the 2021 FIT Challenge in
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and finished twenty-ninth in the all-around. She represented Austria at the 2020 Summer Olympics in
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, and placed sixty-sixth in the all-around during the qualification round with a total score of 48.933.


Personal life

Hämmerle has been a member of the
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since 2017 as a sports soldier. In 2022, she began studying in the Master of Advanced Studies in Sport Administration and Technology program at the
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in
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and received an athlete scholarship.


Competitive history


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hammerle, Elisa 1995 births Living people Austrian female artistic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts for Austria People from Lustenau Sportspeople from Vorarlberg 21st-century Austrian sportswomen