Lilly Stoephasius

Lilly Stoephasius (born 5 June 2007) is a German skateboarder. She is a three-time German Champion in women's park skateboarding and represented Germany in the inaugural women's park event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Lilly Stoephasius
Personal information
Born (2007-06-05) 5 June 2007
Berlin, Germany
OccupationProfessional skateboarder
Sport
CountryGermany
SportSkateboarding
Rank19th[1]
Event(s)Park
Club1. Berliner Skateboardverein
Coached byOliver Stoephasius

Skateboarding career

As soon as she could stand, Stoephasius' father put her on a skateboard. She was gifted a skateboard of her own at age three and began training once a week at age five. By 2018, her training regimen had increased to three or four times a week.[2] Stoephasius skates for the 1. Berliner Skateboardverein ('First Berliner Skateboard Club') and her father, Oliver, is her coach.[3] Her younger sister, Thora, is also an active skateboarder.[2]

At the 2018 German Skateboarding Championship in Düsseldorf, Stoephasius became the German Champion in the women's park discipline at the age of eleven,[4] a feat she repeated the following year.[5] She competed extensively in 2019, most notably in July at the World Skate Vert Skateboarding World Championship in São Paulo, where she placed third,[6] and in August at the Vans Park Series Europa Regionals in Chelles, France, where she won silver.[7] Other competitions in 2019 included the World Skate Park Skateboarding World Championships in September, where she placed fifteenth,[8] and the World Skate Oi STU Open in November, where she placed seventeenth.[9]

As far back as November 2018, Stoephasius had set a goal to qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where skateboarding would be included in the Olympic program for the first time.[10] In 2021, she became German Champion in women's park for the third time.[11] At the Dew Tour Women's Park Open in Des Moines, Iowa in May 2021, she qualified as the youngest German athlete to ever debut at the Olympic Games.[12] Among the top thirty ranked women's park skaters in September 2019 were nine skaters who would have been under-14 at the originally scheduled date of the 2020 Summer Olympics.[10]

Miscellaneous

Stoephasius attends the Evangelische Schule Charlottenburg in Berlin.[13] In 2019, Christoph Biemann filmed a segment for the bi-annual television quiz-show Frag doch mal die Maus ('Ask the Mouse') with Stoephasius' class after she submitted the question “If all of the students came to school by skateboard or bicycle or other CO2-free method, how much CO2 could the sixth class save?" to the program.[14]

References
  1. "Olympic World Skateboarding Rankings (Park, Female)". World Skate. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  2. Siegmund, Arne; Haubner, Lia (16 September 2018). "Wir waren mit Deutschlands bester Skaterin unterwegs. Sie ist 11 Jahre alt". watson.de (in German). Retrieved 13 November 2019.
  3. "Lilly ist Deutsche Meisterin!". 1. Berliner Skateboardverein e.V. (in German). 20 September 2018. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
  4. "Meisterschaften in Düsseldorf: Eine Elfjährige ist jetzt die beste Skateboarderin Deutschlands". Rheinische Post (in German). 17 September 2018. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
  5. "Zwölfjährige Lilly Stoephasius bleibt Skateboard-Meisterin". Berliner Morgenpost. 1 September 2019. Archived from the original on 13 November 2019. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  6. Meronek, Rob (6 July 2019). "Contest Results: World Skate Vert World Championship Womens". The Boardr. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
  7. Meronek, Rob (8 August 2019). "Vans Park Series Europa Regionals Womens Finals". The Boardr. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
  8. "São Paulo Park World Championship – Women's Complete Results". World Skate. 14 September 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  9. "Oi STU Open – Women Park Complete Results". World Skate. 17 November 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  10. Späth, Raphael (21 September 2019). "Wenn Kinder Olympiasieger werden". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 13 November 2019.
  11. "Berlinerin Lilly Stoephasius erneut deutsche Skateboard-Meisterin". Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (in German). 2 May 2021. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  12. "Lilly Stoephasius: 13-jährige Berlinerin skatet bei Olympia". Berliner Zeitung. 25 May 2021. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
  13. Markus Lotter (17 November 2018). "Rolling Star: Lilly Stoephasius ist Deutschlands beste Skateboarderin". Archiv.berliner-zeitung.de. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
  14. "Skaten mit der Maus". Evangelische Schulstiftung in der EKBO (in German). 25 February 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
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