Noe Samuel Seifert OLY (born October 29, 1998)[1] is a Swiss artistic gymnast. He is the 2024 European bronze medalist on parallel bars. He represented Switzerland at the 2024 Olympic Games.
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Full name | Noe Samuel Seifert | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country represented | Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Zofingen, Switzerland | 29 October 1998||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hometown | Sevelen, Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Level | Senior International Elite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years on national team | 2016–present | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Satus ORO | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Head coach(es) | Claudio Capelli, Sébastien Darrigade | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Early life
editSeifert was born in Zofingen on October 29, 1998 and grew up in Sevelen.[2] He began gymnastics when he was five years old.[1]
Gymnastics career
editSeifert won a bronze medal with the Swiss team at the 2016 Junior European Championships.[3] He finished 12th in the all-around at the 2017 Voronin Cup.[4]
2018–19
editSeifert competed with the Swiss team that won the silver medal behind Spain at the 2018 Austrian Team Open.[5] Then at the European Championships, the Swiss team qualified for the team final, finishing fifth.[6] He finished fourth in the all-around at the Swiss Championships.[7]
Seifert won a silver medal with the Swiss team at the 2019 Magglingen Friendly.[8] He then finished eighth in the all-around at the Swiss Championships.[9] He won a gold medal with the Aargau team at the 2019 Swiss Team Championships.[10]
2020–21
editSeifert competed on the pommel horse and parallel bars at the 2021 European Championships but did not advance to any finals.[11][12] At the 2021 Swiss Championships, he won the gold medal on parallel bars, the silver medal on pommel horse, and the bronze medal on still rings.[2] He was not selected to compete on Switzerland's Olympic team.[13] He finished sixth on the parallel bars at the 2021 Koper World Challenge Cup.[14] He then finished sixth on the pommel horse at the Mersin World Challenge Cup.[15] He competed on the pommel horse and the parallel bars at the World Championships but did not advance to the finals.[16] He then comepetd at the Swiss Cup, a mixed pairs competition, alongside Lena Bickel, and they finished fourth.[17]
2022
editSeifert won a silver medal on the parallel bars at the Osijek World Challenge Cup behind Turkey's Ferhat Arıcan.[18] He then won the all-around title at the Swiss Championships and the event titles on the rings and parallel bars.[2] He helped the Swiss team win the gold medal at the Magglingen Friendly.[19] He then competed at the European Championships, helping the Swiss team finish fourth.[20] Individually, Seifert finished fifth in the all-around competition,[21] and he also finished fifth in the horizontal bar final.[22] He also finished fifth in the all-around at the Joaquim Blume Memorial.[23] Due to several mistakes at the World Championships, the Swiss team only finished 20th, and Seifert missed out on the all-around final.[24] He competed at the Swiss Cup with Lena Bickel for the second consecutive year, and they placed ninth.[25]
2023
editSeifert competed at the DTB Pokal Team Challenge where the Swiss team finished fifth.[26] He then competed at the European Championships where the Swiss team finished fourth.[27] He repeated his fifth-place all-around finish from the previous European Championships, this time less than half of a point away from the bronze medal.[28] He also finished eighth in the floor exercise final and seventh in the parallel bars final.[29][30] Then at the Lenzburg Friendly, he helped the Swiss team finish second to Spain, and he won the all-around silver medal behind Néstor Abad.[31] He successfully defended his Swiss national all-around title.[32] He also won the all-around gold medal at the Magglingen Friendly and helped the Swiss team win.[33]
Seifert was selected to compete at the 2023 World Championships. There, the Swiss team finished seventh during the qualification round and earned a team berth for the 2024 Olympic Games.[34] Then in the team final, the Swiss team placed fifth which was the country's best finished at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships since winning bronze in 1954.[35] Individually, he qualified for the all-around final where he finished eighth– the best World all-around result for a Swiss male gymnat since 1950.[36] The Swiss team was presented with the Infinity Award by Fujitsu for their historic achievements.[37] He withdrew from the Swiss Cup and the Arthur Gander Memorial due to ongoing back issues.[38]
2024
editIn early April, Seifert competed at the Osijek World Challenge Cup where he won bronze on the parallel bars behind Lukas Dauser and Illia Kovtun.[39] Later that month, he competed the 2024 European Championships and won bronze on parallel bars behind Kovtun and Marios Georgiou.[40] He also finished fourth on the horizontal bar and eighth with the Swiss team.[41][42] In June, he won his third consecutive Swiss all-around title.[43] Seifert was named to the team to compete at the 2024 Olympic Games alongside Luca Giubellini, Matteo Giubellini, Florian Langenegger, and Taha Serhani.[44] During the qualification round, the Swiss team qualified for the team final,[45] and Seifert finished 21st in the all-around.[46] However, Seifert did not qualify for the all-around final because of the two-per-country rule.[47][48] The Swiss team finished seventh in the team final.[49]
Competitive history
editYear | Event | Team | AA | FX | PH | SR | VT | PB | HB |
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Junior | |||||||||
2016 | |||||||||
Junior European Championships | |||||||||
Senior | |||||||||
2017 | Voronin Cup | 12 | |||||||
2018 | Austrian Team Open | ||||||||
European Championships | 5 | ||||||||
Swiss Championships | 4 | ||||||||
2019 | Magglingen Friendly | 13 | |||||||
Swiss Championships | 8 | ||||||||
Swiss Team Championships | |||||||||
2021 | |||||||||
European Championships | 13 | 85 | |||||||
Swiss Championships | 6 | ||||||||
Koper World Challenge Cup | 6 | ||||||||
Mersin World Challenge Cup | 6 | ||||||||
World Championships | 35 | 21 | |||||||
Swiss Cup | 4 | ||||||||
2022 | Osijek World Challenge Cup | 6 | |||||||
Swiss Championships | |||||||||
Magglingen Friendly | 7 | ||||||||
European Championships | 4 | 5 | 5 | ||||||
Joaquim Blume Memorial | 5 | ||||||||
World Championships | 20 | ||||||||
Swiss Cup | 9 | ||||||||
2023 | DTB Pokal Team Challenge | 5 | |||||||
European Championships | 4 | 5 | 8 | 7 | |||||
Lenzburg Friendly | |||||||||
Swiss Championships | 5 | ||||||||
Magglingen Friendly | |||||||||
World Championships | 5 | 8 | |||||||
2024 | Osijek World Challenge Cup | ||||||||
European Championships | 8 | 4 | |||||||
1st Swiss Olympic Trials | |||||||||
2nd Swiss Olympic Trials | |||||||||
Swiss Championships | 6 | ||||||||
Olympic Games | 7 |
References
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- ^ a b c Crumlish, John (April 25, 2023). "Swiss star Noe Seifert: 'My biggest contributions are consistency, humor and versatility'". International Gymnast Magazine. Retrieved August 30, 2024.
- ^ "Bronze für Schweizer Junioren zum EM-Auftakt" [Bronze for Swiss juniors at the start of the European Championships]. SWI swissinfo (in German). May 25, 2016. Retrieved August 31, 2024.
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- ^ Hopkins, Lauren (April 30, 2018). "2018 Austrian Team Open Men's Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved August 31, 2024.
- ^ "Championnats d'Europe à Glasgow: les gymnastes suisses flirtent avec le podium" [European Championships in Glasgow: Swiss gymnasts flirt with the podium]. Le Nouvelliste (in French). August 11, 2018. Retrieved August 31, 2024.
- ^ Hopkins, Lauren (September 24, 2018). "2018 Swiss Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved August 31, 2024.
- ^ Hopkins, Lauren (August 26, 2019). "2019 Magglingen Men's Friendly Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved August 31, 2024.
- ^ Hopkins, Lauren (September 13, 2019). "2019 Swiss Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved August 31, 2024.
- ^ Hopkins, Lauren (October 31, 2019). "2019 Swiss Team Championships Men's Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved August 31, 2024.
- ^ "9th European Men's and Women's Artistic Gymnastics Individual Championships Men Artistic Gymnastics Qualification Pommel Horse" (PDF). European Gymnastics. April 22, 2021. Retrieved August 31, 2024.
- ^ "9th European Men's and Women's Artistic Gymnastics Individual Championships Men Artistic Gymnastics Qualification Parallel Bars" (PDF). European Gymnastics. April 22, 2021. Retrieved August 31, 2024.
- ^ Hopkins, Lauren (June 24, 2021). "Switzerland Selects Team of Repeat Olympians for Tokyo". The Gymternet. Retrieved August 31, 2024.
- ^ "Results for FIG World Challenge Cup Koper (SLO)". International Gymnastics Federation. Retrieved August 31, 2024.
- ^ "Results for FIG World Challenge Cup Mersin (TUR)". International Gymnastics Federation. Retrieved August 31, 2024.
- ^ "50th FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Kitakyushu (JPN), 18 October – 24 October 2021 Men's Events Qualification" (PDF). USA Gymnastics. International Gymnastics Federation. October 23, 2021. pp. 4, 13. Retrieved August 31, 2024.
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- ^ "Européens de Munich: le gymnaste Noe Seifert 5e du concours général, la Suisse en finale" [Munich Europeans: Gymnast Noe Seifert 5th in the all-around, Switzerland in the final]. La Côte (in French). August 18, 2022. Retrieved August 31, 2024.
- ^ "Andrin Frey 4e au saut et Noe Seifert 5e à la barre fixe" [Andrin Frey 4th on vault and Noe Seifert 5th on high bar]. Radio Télévision Suisse (in French). August 21, 2022. Retrieved August 31, 2024.
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- ^ "Seifert e Langenegger in finale ad Antalya" [Seifert and Langenegger in the final in Antalya]. Radiotelevisione svizzera (in Italian). April 11, 2023. Retrieved July 15, 2024.
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- ^ Hopkins, Lauren (August 6, 2023). "2023 Lenzburg Men's Friendly Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved September 1, 2024.
- ^ "Erstmals Lena Bickel und erneut Noe Seifert" [First Lena Bickel and again Noe Seifert]. Swiss Gymnastics Federation (in German). September 2, 2023. Retrieved September 1, 2024.
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- ^ "Noe Seifert holt EM-Bronze am Barren" [Noe Seifert wins European Championship bronze on parallel bars]. Blick (in German). April 27, 2024. Retrieved September 1, 2024.
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