Lukas Dauser

Lukas Dauser
Dauser at the 2022 European Championships
Personal information
Full name	Lukas Dauser
Country represented	Germany
Born	(1993-06-15) 15 June 1993 (age 31) Ebersberg, Bavaria, Germany
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Weight	64 kg (141 lb)[1]
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Level	Senior international elite
Years on national team	2014–present (GER)
Club	TSV Unterhaching
Head coach(es)	Sebastian Faust
Medal record Men's artistic gymnastics Representing  Germany Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Parallel Bars World Championships 2023 Antwerp Parallel Bars 2022 Liverpool Parallel Bars European Championships 2017 Cluj-Napoca Parallel Bars 2021 Basel Parallel Bars

Lukas Dauser (born 15 June 1993) is a German male artistic gymnast and a two-time Olympian, having competed at the 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games. He is the 2023 World Champion and the 2020 Olympic and 2022 World silver medalist on the parallel bars.

Career

Dauser became a member of the first German gymnastics league at the age of 19. He formerly trained in Berlin, although he represented two gymnastics clubs – TSV Unterhaching and KTV Straubenhardt from Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.

2014–2016

Dauser's major international debut came at the 2014 World Championships in Nanjing, PRC. There, he placed eighth as a member of the German squad in the team all-around tournament. On that same year, Dauser performed a new element on the parallel bars during the Challenge Cup in Anadia, Portugal. Due to its complexity, the International Gymnastics Federation officially named an element on the parallel bars after him, involving a giant swing backward with Makuts to upper arm hang.^[2]

In 2016, Dauser became the national champion on parallel bars, scoring even more points than Marcel Nguyen, the country's previous leader on parallel bars. At the pre-Olympic qualification, the German team ranked first, with Dauser capping off the meet in fourth position on the parallel bars. On 10 July, Andreas Hirsch, head coach of the German national team, proposed that Dauser would be included in the national team to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.^[3] There, Dauser, along with the German quintet of Andreas Bretschneider, Fabian Hambüchen, Marcel Nguyen, and Andreas Toba, scored a total of 261.275 points to take the seventh position in the team all-around final.^[1][4]

2017–2019

Dauser competed at various All-Around World Cups in 2017, eventually winning bronze in London behind Oleg Verniaiev and Donnell Whittenburg. At the 2017 European Championships Dauser won silver on parallel bars behind Verniaiev. During the German national championships in June Dauser tore his ACL and was unable to compete for the remainder of the year.^[5]

Pommel horse

Parallel bars

Floor exercise

Podium

Dauser at the 2017 International German Gymnastics Festival

Dauser returned to competition at the 2018 World Championships where he finished 24th in the all-around and eighth on parallel bars. He next competed at the Cottbus World Cup where he finished eighth on parallel bars.

In April of 2019 Dauser competed at the European Championships; he was the second reserve for the parallel bars final. At the 2019 World Championships Dauser once again finished eighth on parallel bars.^[6]

2020–21

Most competitions in 2020 were either canceled or postponed, including the 2020 Summer Olympics. At the 2021 European Championships Dauser won bronze on the parallel bars behind Ferhat Arıcan and David Belyavskiy.^[7]

Dauser was selected to compete at the 2020 Olympic Games alongside Nils Dunkel, Philipp Herder, and Andreas Toba.^[8] Together they finished eighth as a team. Individually Dauser qualified to the all-around and parallel bars finals. During the all-around final he finished eighth. Dauser won a silver medal on parallel bars behind Zou Jingyuan of China.^[9]

2022

Dauser competed at the 2022 European Championships in Munich, where he finished ninth in the all-around. Additionally, he qualified to the parallel bars final, and helped Germany qualify to the team final.^[10] During the team final Germany finished seventh. Dauser finished eighth on the parallel bars after falling off the apparatus during event finals.

At the 2022 World Championships Dauser finished eleventh in the all-around. During the parallel bars final he won silver behind Zou Jingyuan.^[11][12]

2023

In September Dauser competed at the Paris World Challenge Cup; he won gold on parallel bars and place fourth on horizontal bar and seventh on pommel horse.^[13]

The following month Dauser competed at the 2023 World Championships alongside Pascal Brendel, Nils Dunkel, Nick Klessing, and Lucas Kochan; together they finished sixth as a team. Individually Dauser finished sixteenth in the all-around and won gold on parallel bars. In doing so he became the first person from a unified Germany to become World Champion on the apparatus; previously Sylvio Kroll had won while representing East Germany.^[14][15]

2024

In early April Dauser competed at the Osijek World Challenge Cup where he placed first on the parallel bars.^[16] Dauser competed at the German national championships where he placed first ahead of Andreas Toba and Timo Eder.^[17] Two weeks later, while competing at the final German Olympic trial, Dauser injured his right upper arm while competing on the still rings.^[18] Despite being diagnosed with a muscle injury, he was still named to the team to compete at the 2024 Olympic Games alongside Toba, Eder, Nils Dunkel, and Pascal Brendel.^[19]

Competitive history

Year	Event	Team	AA	FX	PH	SR	VT	PB	HB
2014	Cottbus Challenge Cup							10
	Anadia Challenge Cup							6
	National Championships
	World Championships	8
2015	Cottbus Challenge Cup							14
	European Championships							13
	São Paulo Challenge Cup
2016	Cottbus World Cup
	Olympic Test Event							4
	São Paulo Challenge Cup			5	6			8	6
	National Championships
	Olympic Games	7
	Cottbus World Cup							4
2017	American Cup		9
	Stuttgart World Cup		6
	London World Cup
	European Championships		7
	National Championships
2018
	World Championships	R2	24					8
	Cottbus World Cup							8
2019
	European Championships							R2
	World Championships	12						8
	Cottbus World Cup							4
2021
	European Championships		17
	National Championships
	Olympic Games	8	18
2022
	European Championships	7	9					8
	National Championships
	World Championships	R1	11
2023
	World Championships	6	16
	Swiss Cup	7
2024	Osijek Challenge Cup

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