Esther Bruckner
DOB : September 1st 1994
Height : 1.68m
Weight : 62 kg
Club: ASVF Villefontaine
Member of the French lead team since 2009
Trophy cupboard :
- World youth Vice-champion 2010-2011
- French youth Champion 2011
- 11th at the Chamonix stage of the 2011 World cup
Your training haunts : Voiron TSF
Your strengths : capacity to push my limits
Your weaknesses : easily tired, hesistant
Your favourite phrase :" We're not born champions, but we can become one "
Your soft spot : Anything sweet
Esther Bruckner, blonde with piercing sky-blue eyes, impressed everybody in 2010, when she picked up the silver medal at the World youth championships in Edinburgh. It's one of Esther's strengths, being ready and completely determined when required. She repeated the performance the following year, winning another medal.
Esther started climbing at around 8 years old, with her family, on various rockfaces… Given her enthusiasm, her parents signed her up at the ASVF Villefontaine club. « I immediately like the sport, as it's something we could enjoy as a family, indoors and outdoors ». She has been a boarder at the Voiron national centre of excellence for a number of years now, a great advantage in that she can train daily on the speed wall while pursuing her studies (Health and Social Sciences and Technology).