Lucia Acklin

Lucia Ursina Acklin is a Swiss multi-event athlete. She was silver medalist at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in the heptathlon.

Career

She won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2022 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. In 2023, she competed in the heptathlon at the 2023 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Maribor, Slovenia, winning the silver medal in the heptathlon.
Competing at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru in August 2024, she won a silver medal in the heptathlon in August 2024. In November 2024, she was named Swiss young athlete of the year.
Competing in senior events, she placed nineteenth overall in the season-long World Athletics Combined Events Tour for 2025.

Personal life

She is from Herznach in the region of Fricktal, in the canton of Aargau. Her father Guido Acklin was a silver medalist at the 1994 Winter Olympics in the two-man bobsleigh. Her mother Doris competed in athletics in multi-event competition. Her older brother, Curdin, plays volleyball and also competed in athletics, joining LV Fricktal in 2015.