Julie Erichsen
Julie Erichsen | |||||||||||
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Full name | Julie Dicko Erichsen | ||||||||||
Country represented | Norway | ||||||||||
Born | Bergen, Vestland, Norway | 15 August 2001||||||||||
Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||
Club | Laksevåg Turn og IL | ||||||||||
Head coach(es) | Anatol Ashurkov, Birgit Vallestrand, Laurens van der Hout | ||||||||||
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Julie Dicko Erichsen[1] (born 15 August 2001) is a Norwegian artistic gymnast. She competed at the 2020 Olympic Games and the 2019 World Championships.[2] She was the first Norwegian female gymnast to qualify for the Olympic Games since 1992.[3][1]
Personal life[]
Julie Erichsen was born on 15 August 2001, in Bergen. She was born to a Malian father and Norwegian mother.[4] Her mother, Kari Erichsen, was also a gymnast and a Norwegian national champion.[1][5] She began gymnastics when she was nine years old.[5] She trains in Bergen for around 25 hours each week.[6]
Career[]
Erichsen competed at the junior level of the 2016 European Championships with , , , and , and the team finished 16th.[7] She made her senior international debut at the 2017 Northern European Championships alongside , , , and Martine Skregelid where they won the team gold medal.[8]
She competed at the 2018 European Championships with Sara Davidsen, Edel Fosse, Thea Nygaard, and Julie Soederstroem, and they finished 21st in the team qualification round.[9] At the Norwegian Championships, Erichsen finished 4th in the all-around and won the gold medal on vault and the silver medal on uneven bars.[10] She competed at the FIG World Cup in Paris, but she did not qualify for any event finals.[11] She competed at the 2018 World Championships with Davidsen, Fosse, Nygaard, and Soederstroem, and they finished 34th in the team qualification round which meant they did not qualify as a team for the 2019 World Championships.[12] Her final competition of the 2018 season was the 2018 Voronin Cup in Moscow where she won the bronze medal on vault behind Yeo Seo-jeong and Elina Vihrova.[13]
Her first international event of the 2019 season was the FIG World Cup in Osijek where she finished 8th in the vault final.[5] At the Norwegian Championships, she defended her vault title, and she finished 4th on the balance beam and 5th in the floor exercise.[14] She competed at the World Cup in Paris where she finished 5th in the vault event final.[3] At the 2019 World Championships she finished 83rd in the all-around with a score of 48.599.[2] She qualified for an individual spot at the 2020 Olympic Games, becoming the first Norwegian female gymnast to do so since Anita Tomulevski in 1992.[3][15]
References[]
- ^ a b c Thalberg, Silje (13 October 2019). "Julie skal være med i OL i turn – 28 år siden sist en kvinne kvalifiserte seg". NRK (in Norwegian). Retrieved 18 April 2021.
- ^ a b "49th FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Stuttgart (GER), 4 October - 13 October 2019 Women's All-Around Qualification" (PDF). Gymnastics Results. FIG. 4 October 2019. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
- ^ a b c Crumlish, John (18 December 2019). "Norway's Erichsen Eyes New Skills For Tokyo 2020". International Gymnast Magazine. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
- ^ "Ingen har klart det på 28 år. Nå har Julie fra Bergen tatt steget". www.bt.no.
- ^ a b c "ERICHSEN Julie". Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
- ^ Nygaard, Sanne (23 April 2020). "Utsatt OL-debut". Bymag (in Norwegian). Retrieved 18 April 2021.
- ^ "31st European Championships in Women's Artistic Gymnastics Seniors and Juniors Junior Team Final" (PDF). Gymnastics Results. UEG. 1 June 2016. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
- ^ Hopkins, Lauren (21 October 2017). "2017 Northern European Championships Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
- ^ "ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS WOMEN'S QUAL. FOR TEAM FINAL & IND. RESULTS" (PDF). Gymnastics Results. Glasgow 2018. 2 August 2018. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
- ^ Hopkins, Lauren (22 September 2018). "2018 Norwegian Championships Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
- ^ "FIG World Challenge Cup Paris (FRA) 2018 Sep 29-30". Gymnastics Results. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
- ^ "48th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Doha (QAT), 25 October - 3 November 2018 Women's Team Qualification" (PDF). Gymnastics Results. FIG. 27 October 2018. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
- ^ Hopkins, Lauren (15 December 2018). "2018 Voronin Cup Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
- ^ Hopkins, Lauren (1 July 2019). "2019 Norwegian Championships Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
- ^ Hopkins, Lauren (7 October 2019). "Who Qualified to Tokyo?". The Gymternet. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
External links[]
- 2001 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Bergen
- Norwegian female artistic gymnasts
- Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gymnasts of Norway
- Norwegian people of Malian descent