Elisabeth Seitz

Elisabeth Seitz (born 4 November 1993) is a German artistic gymnast.

She is the 2022 European champion and the 2018 World bronze medalist on the uneven bars.

She is one of the only female gymnasts in history to compete the Def (full-twisting Gienger) release, and her eponymous skill, a full-twisting Maloney.

Seitz competed at the 2010 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, alongside Oksana Chusovitina, Lisa Katharina Hill, Joeline Mobius, Pia Tolle, and Giulia Hindermann.

In the individual all-around final, Seitz finished 10th with a score of 57.365.

In the uneven bars final, Seitz finished in sixth with a score of 15.266.

Seitz has also had success in the individual all-around event, where she is the 2011 European silver medalist and an eight-time German national champion (2010–13, 2015, 2017–18, 2021).

The team placed 11th in the qualifications, meaning they didn't advance to the team final.

At the 2011 European Championships, Seitz finished second in the all-around behind Anna Dementyeva with a score of 56.700.

At the 2011 Switzerland-Germany-Romania Friendly, Seitz contributed scores on vault, bars, and beam towards Germany's second-place finish.

At the 2011 World Championships, Seitz contributed scores on all four apparatus towards Germany's sixth-place finish in the team final.

In the individual all-around she finished eleventh with a score of 55.823.

Germany finished ninth in the team qualification round, so they did not qualify into the final.

They were only 0.365 behind Canada.

However, Seitz qualified twelfth into the all-around final, and eighth into the uneven bars final.

She is a three-time Olympian, representing Germany at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where she led her team to a sixth-place finish and placed fourth in the uneven bars final, and the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

In 2022, she was part of the first German team to ever win a European team medal.

She finished 12th in the all-around, with a score of 56.157 and came in 8th place in the uneven bars final, after falling on her full-twisting Gienger, called a Def, and her toe-on to piked tkatchev, called a Church, and score a 10.466.

In December 2012 she competed at the 2012 World Cup event in Stuttgart and placed second with a total score of 55.566.

A week later she competed in Glasgow and again took silver, this time with a score of 54.799.

After the Olympic season, she competed at the 2013 American Cup and the 2013 World Championships, even though she was not fully prepared due to her studies.

She finished 5th in the vault final with a score of 14.187.

She finished 5th in the uneven bars final with a score of 14.175.

She continued competing through the 2014 season.

Her World Championship chances were questioned due to injuries, but she made the team.

However, she competed only on bars where she had a fall.

She later competed at the 2014 Arthur Gander Memorial, finally putting together solid routines and snatched the bronze, behind the silver medalist Larisa Iordache and the gold medalist Daria Spiridonova.

She won another bronze along with Fabian Hambüchen at the Swiss Cup behind the Russian and Ukrainian teams.

Seitz, however, qualified to the individual all-around final in 15th place, and to the uneven bars final in 6th place.

Seitz competed at the 2015 São Paulo World Cup in May where she won bronze on uneven bars behind Shang Chunsong of China and compatriot Sophie Scheder and silver on floor exercise behind Flávia Saraiva of Brazil.

Later that month she competed at the Flanders International Team Challenge in Ghent where she helped Germany win gold in the team final and individually she placed thirteenth in the all-around.

In June Seitz was selected to compete at the 2015 European Games with Sophie Scheder and Leah Griesser.

The team won a silver medal behind Russia.

In September Seitz competed at the German National Championships where she won gold in the all-around, finishing ahead of Pauline Schäfer and Sophie Scheder.

Additionally she won gold on uneven bars, silver on balance beam behind Schäfer, and placed fourth on floor exercise.

In October she placed first in the all-around at the German World Trials.

In October Seitz competed at the World Championships alongside Griesser, Lisa Katharina Hill, Schäfer, Scheder, and Pauline Tratz.

During qualifications Seitz helped Germany place twelfth and they did not qualify to the team final.

Individually Seitz finished twenty-sixth in the all-around qualifications and advanced to the final.

There she scored 55.765 which resulted in a tenth-place finish.