{{Short description|German kitesurfer}} {{Infobox person | name = Leonie Meyer | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1993|2|3}}<ref>https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/leonie-meyer_1891985</ref> | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | other_names = | known_for = | education = Kiel University | employer = | occupation = medical student and kitefoiler | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Leonie Meyer''' (born February 3, 1993) is a German sailor, medical student and prospective Olympic kitesurfer.
==Life== Meyer had been interested in sailing as a child. She was raised by sporting parents in Osnabrück<ref name=kiel/> and her initial success was with a [[49er (dinghy)|49er]] .<ref>{{Cite web |title=Leonie Meyer |url=https://flysurfer.com/project/leonie-meyer/ |access-date=2024-07-17 |website=FLYSURFER |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2014 she and [[Elena Stoffers]] won a bronze medal in Helsinki at the {{ill|European 49er Championship|es}}. They had both been kitesurfing together in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-03-31 |title=Injury Report - Germany's Meyer/Stoffers forced to Withdraw from Injury - International 49er Class Association |url=https://49er.org/injury-report-germany-s-meyer-stoffers-forced-to-withdraw-from-injury/ |access-date=2024-07-17 |language=en-US}}</ref>
Meyer moved to Kiel in 2012 as part of her unsuccessful plan to compete at the 2016 Olympics. In Kiel she started to study at Kiel University to become a doctor and she changed her main sailing interest to kitesurfing.<ref name=kiel>{{Cite web |date=2024-07-17 |title=Surfing on a wave of success |url=https://www.uni-kiel.de/en/unizeit/uz/news/leonie-meyer |access-date=2024-07-17 |website=Uni Kiel |language=en-US}}</ref>
In 2020 she and [[Florian Gruber]] formed a Mixed Relay Formula Kite team who won silver at the Formula Kite Championships in Traunsee in Austria.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}} She had a child in 2021 and she is supported by the Deutsche Sporthilfe foundation and Deutsche Bank.<ref name=kiel/> She receives funding targeted at German athletes, like her and [[Paul Kohlhoff]], who are parents by the German Sailing Association.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gasser |first=Tatjana Pokorny, Max |title=Parental support: German Sailing Association remains the only pioneer in elite sport |url=https://www.yacht.de/en/olympic-games/parental-support-german-sailing-association-remains-the-only-pioneer-in-elite-sport/ |access-date=2024-07-17 |website=YACHT - Everything about sailing |language=en}}</ref>
In the European Formula Kite Championships in 2023 she was a semi-finalist and she was ranked ninth.<ref>{{Cite web |title=2023 Europeans |url=https://www.formulakite.org/2023europeans |access-date=2024-07-17 |website=Welcome to the IKA Formula Kite Class |language=en-gb}}</ref>
Meyer was third in the [[53rd Trofeo Princesa Sofia]] which is part of the 2024 [[Sailing World Cup]], receiving the bronze medal in Women's [[Formula Kite]]. She was beaten by the American [[Daniela Moroz]], who took silver, and the Australian [[Breiana Whitehead]], who won the event.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nalwala |first=Ali Asgar |date=6 April 2024 |title=Trofeo Princesa Sofía 2024 sailing: Australia's Breiana Whitehead wins gold medal; Zoe Thomson bags silver |url=https://olympics.com/en/news/trofeo-princesa-sofia-2024-sailing-australia-results-medal-winners |website=Olympics}}</ref>
In April she was competing in [[Hyères]] in France at "Olympic Week", the last-chance event where kitesurfers were competing for the last five places for the [[2024 Summer Olympics|2024 Paris Olympics]]. Meyer was there, but she was one of the [[Sailing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification|sailors who had already been given a place]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Giovannini |first=Mauro |title=Catalina Turienzo completa el rompecabezas rumbo a los Juegos Olímpicos |url=https://www.lanueva.com/nota/2024-4-20-20-52-0-catalina-turienzo-completa-el-rompecabezas-rumbo-a-los-juegos-olimpicos |access-date=2024-07-17 |website=La Nueva |language=es}}</ref>
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