Lisa Katharina Hill
German artistic gymnast
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Lisa Katharina Hill (born 16 July 1992) is a German artistic gymnast. She competed at four World Championships (2010, 2011, 2014, 2015) and was Germany's alternate for the 2012 Summer Olympics. She won a bronze medal on the uneven bars at the 2013 Summer Universiade in addition to winning bronze with the team.
| Lisa Katharina Hill | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | July 16, 1992 | ||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||
Country represented |  Germany | ||||||||||||||
| Club | MTV Stuttgart | ||||||||||||||
Head coach | Ulla Koch | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Gymnastics career
Hill competed at the 2006 Junior European Championships alongside Marie-Sophie Hindermann, Anja Brinker, Joeline Möbius, and Dorothee Henzler, and they won the bronze medal in the team competition behind Russia and Romania.[1]
Hill was a member of the German team that finished eleventh at the 2010 World Championships,[2] and she helped the team finish sixth at the 2011 World Championships.[3] After the 2011 World Championships, she won a silver medal on the floor exercise and a bronze medal on the balance beam at the Toyota Cup in Japan.[4]
Hill won a bronze medal on the uneven bars at the 2012 Doha World Cup behind Beth Tweddle and Jiang Yuyuan.[5] She then placed sixth in the European Championships uneven bars final.[6] She was the alternate for the German team that finished ninth at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[7]
Hill qualified for the all-around final at the 2013 European Championships and finished 14th.[8] She then won a silver medal on the uneven bars at the Anadia World Challenge Cup behind Russia's Anastasia Grishina.[9] At the 2013 Summer Universiade, she won a bronze medal with her team and on the uneven bars.[10][11] She could not compete at the 2013 World Championships due to a foot injury while training a Yurchenko double twist vault.[12]
Hill competed at the 2014 Gym Festival Trnava in Slovakia and won the silver medal in the all-around behind Anna Pavlova. Additionally, she won the gold medal on the uneven bars by nearly a full point and placed fifth on the balance beam and floor exercise.[13] At the 2014 World Championships, she helped the German team finish ninth.[14] She was the only member of the German team to qualify for the all-around final,[15] where she finished 22nd.[16] She also finished seventh in the uneven bars final after brushing her feet on the ground during a Pak salto.[17][18] After the World Championships, she competed at the 2014 Stuttgart World Cup and placed eighth in the all-around.[19]
Hill missed the beginning of the 2015 season, including the European Championships, due to a meniscus injury.[20] She competed at the 2015 World Championships with the German team that finished 12th in the qualification round.[21] She won a gold medal on the uneven bars at the 2018 Salamunov Memorial in Maribor, Slovenia.[22] She competed on the uneven bars and the balance beam at the 2019 Doha World Cup but did not advance beyond the qualification round.[23]
As of 2023, Hill continues to compete in the domestic Bundesliga league, but she has not appeared in international competition since 2019.[24]
