Noe Seifert

Swiss artistic gymnast
Noe Seifert
Personal information
Full nameNoe Samuel Seifert
Country represented Switzerland
Born (1998-10-29) 29 October 1998 (age 25)
Zofingen, Switzerland
HometownSevelen, Switzerland
DisciplineMen's artistic gymnastics
LevelSenior International Elite
Years on national team2016–present
ClubSatus ORO
Head coach(es)Claudio Capelli, Sébastien Darrigade
Medal record
Men's artistic gymnastics
Representing  Switzerland
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Rimini Parallel bars
FIG World Cup
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
World Challenge Cup 0 1 1

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.

Early life

Seifert 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

Seifert 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

Seifert 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

Seifert 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

Seifert 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

Seifert 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

In 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

Seifert at the 2022 European Championships
Year Event Team AA FX PH SR VT PB HB
Junior
2016
Junior European Championships 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Senior
2017 Voronin Cup 12
2018 Austrian Team Open 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
European Championships 5
Swiss Championships 4 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2019 Magglingen Friendly 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 13
Swiss Championships 8
Swiss Team Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2021
European Championships 13 85
Swiss Championships 6 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Koper World Challenge Cup 6
Mersin World Challenge Cup 6
World Championships 35 21
Swiss Cup 4
2022 Osijek World Challenge Cup 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 6
Swiss Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Magglingen Friendly 1st place, gold medalist(s) 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 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Swiss Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 5 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Magglingen Friendly 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
World Championships 5 8
2024 Osijek World Challenge Cup 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
European Championships 8 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 4
1st Swiss Olympic Trials 1st place, gold medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2nd Swiss Olympic Trials 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Swiss Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) 6
Olympic Games 7

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