Lisa Top
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| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Lisa Evelien Top | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 13 August 1996 Gouda, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Gymnastics career | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Heerenveen | ||||||||||||||
| Head coach | Gerben Wiersma | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Lisa Evelien Top (born 13 August 1996)[1] is a Dutch artistic gymnast. A Senior National Team member since 2012, she participated in both the 2014 and 2015 World Championships as well as the 2015 European Games.
Top was born on 13 August 1996 in Gouda, to Josephine Top. Top first got into gymnastics at the age of four; her friend took her to a gymnastics class and the trainers insisted that Lisa and her parents enroll her in full-time gymnastics courses. Consequently, she began training at the DOS Heerhugowaard gymnastics club.
In 2009, at the age of 12, she left her family in Heerhugowaard to train at the prestigious Turncentrum Sportstad Heerenveen in Heerenveen.[2] Physically, it would have been impossible for Top to commute an hour and a half each day to train at the club, so she stayed with a host family.