Sanne Wevers
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Wevers at the 2015 European Championships
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| Country represented |  Netherlands |
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| Born | September 17, 1991 Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands |
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| Height | 1.56 m (5 ft 1 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||
| Years on national team | 2007 - present | |||||||||||||||
| Club | Bosan Ton Almelo | |||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Vincent Wevers | |||||||||||||||
| Eponymous skills | Beam: double turn with leg held horizontal | |||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Sanne Wevers (born September 17, 1991 in Leeuwarden) is a Dutch artistic gymnast. At the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, she won the silver medal on balance beam. She is also the 2015 European bronze medalist on uneven bars.[2]
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Personal life
Sanne is six minutes older than her fraternal twin, Lieke.[3] They are both members of the Dutch national team, and they are both coached by their father, Vincent.[4]
Training and family
In 1992 Wevers together with her family moved to Oldenzaal. Her parents were gymnastics coaches. She was not forced to do gymnastics and also tried other things. When she was twelve years old, she and her sister Lieke started training with their father at the local club in Dronrijp. To reach a higher level in gymnastics the family moved to Twente, where they started training at Quick in Oldenzaal and later at Topturnen Oost-Nederland (TON; Top gymnastics Eastern-Netherlands). Her parents were fully involved and made it a high level sports facility called BosanTON. From 2005, however, her mother took a full-time job. In 2013 her father had an argument with the management and got fired by the club he built up. Sanne and her sister could still train together at the club. They got permission that their father could train them on a private basis in Arnhem. But later their father was no longer allowed to be in the hall, and Sanne and Lieke could only train there once per day. They were forced to train in a small training hall next door. Finally Sanne, Lieke and their father moved to Heerenveen to have a proper training location, and their mother stayed in Oldenzaal.
Career
2007-2008
Wevers made her international debut at the Ghent World Cup in 2007, where she placed seventh on uneven bars.[5] That year, she also placed eighth on balance beam at the Glasgow Grand Prix.[6] She competed on bars, beam, and floor at the 2007 European Championships, but she did not qualify for any of the event finals.[7]
Wevers began the Olympic season at the 2008 European Championships. She contributed a 14.975 on beam towards her team's eighth place finish in the team finals.[8] She finished eighth on beam at the Cottbus Turner der Meister,[9] but won silver on balance beam at the Maribor World Cup afterwards.[10] At the World Cup in Tianjin, she finished seventh on balance beam.[11] At the Dutch national championships, Wevers finished second in the all-around,[12] fifth on bars, and second on beam and floor.[13] The Netherlands could only send one athlete to the 2008 Summer Olympics, and Suzanne Harmes was chosen instead of Wevers.[14] At the Glasgow Grand Prix, she had a very successful competition, placing seventh on floor, and winning gold on both bars and beam.[15] She finished off 2008 by placing sixth on bars and fourth on beam at the Stuttgart DTB Cup.[16]
2009-2012
Wevers placed fourth on beam at the 2009 Moscow World Stars, but she sustained an elbow injury and did not compete for the rest of the year.[4] In 2010, Wevers competed at the 2010 European Championships, and contributed a 13.025 on beam towards her team's seventh place finish.[17] She was selected to compete at the 2010 World Championships.[18] The Netherlands finished ninth in qualification - one spot away from the team final.[19] Wevers had the double turn with leg held horizontal on beam named after her at this competition. She had to have shoulder surgery soon after the World Championships, and later sustained a foot injury which kept her out of contention for the 2012 Summer Olympics.[4] Wevers returned to competition at the Ostrava World Cup in 2012, where she won silver on beam.[20]
2013-present
In 2013, Wevers won gold on beam at the Osijek World Cup.[21] Wevers was named to the Dutch team for her first World Championships since 2010. At the World Championships, Wevers fell on balance beam in qualifications and did not advance to the final.[22]
In June 2014, she competed at the Dutch Nationals, winning gold on beam, silver on bars, and placing ninth in the all-around.[23] Wevers competed at the 2014 European Championships where the Dutch team finished ninth.[24] She was named to the Dutch team for the 2014 World Championships, and helped them finish tenth in qualifications, qualifying a full team to the 2015 World Championships.[25]
In 2015, she competed at the Ljubljana World Cup in April, where a fall on balance beam landed her in fourth place.[26] At the European Championships, she qualified well to the uneven bars and balance beam finals. She won a bronze on bars, but fell on one of her spins on beam, and finished her routine well over her allotted 90 seconds. She finished eighth.[27]
At the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Wevers helped the Netherlands finish 8th in the team competition. Individually, she won the silver medal on balance beam.
Eponymous skills
| Apparatus | Name | Description | Difficulty | Notes |
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| Balance Beam | Wevers | Double turn with leg at horizontal | E | Often called a double L turn; Added to the Code of Points after the 2010 World Championships |
Competitive history
| Year | Event | Team | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX |
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| 2007 | Ghent World Cup | 7th | |||||
| Glasgow Grand Prix | 8th | ||||||
| 2008 | European Championships | 8th | |||||
| Cottbus World Cup | 8th | ||||||
| Maribor World Cup | 2nd | ||||||
| Tianjin World Cup | 7th | ||||||
| Glasgow World Cup | 1st | 1st | 7th | ||||
| Stuttgart World Cup | 6th | 4th | |||||
| 2009 | Moscow World Cup | 4th | 1st | ||||
| 2010 | European Championships | 7th | |||||
| World Championships | 9th | ||||||
| 2012 | Ostrava World Cup | 2nd | |||||
| 2013 | Turnen Dames Interland | 4th | 3rd | ||||
| Osijek World Cup | 1st | ||||||
| 2014 | National Championships | 9th | 2nd | 1st | |||
| World Championships | 10th | ||||||
| 2015 | Ljubljana World Cup | 4th | |||||
| European Championships | 3rd | 8th | |||||
| National Championships | 1st | 1st | |||||
| World Championships | 8th | 2nd |
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