| Elena Lilik | |
| Nationality: | German |
| Birth Date: | 14 September 1998[1] |
| Birth Place: | Weimar, Thuringia, Germany |
| Height: | 1.65 m |
| Weight: | 53 kg |
| Country: | Germany |
| Sport: | Canoe slalom |
| Event: | C1, K1, Kayak cross |
| Coach: | Sören Kaufmann[2] |
| Club: | Kanu Schwaben Augsburg[3] |
| Show-Medals: | no |
Elena Lilik (née Apel, born 14 September 1998) is a German slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2014.[4] She is from Weimar, Germany but resides in Augsburg, home of the Augsburg Eiskanal.[2]
She won six medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with two golds (C1: 2021, K1 team: 2022), three silvers (K1: 2021, Kayak cross: 2021, C1 team: 2022) and one bronze (K1: 2022).
Lilik has won seven medals (1–2–4) at the European Championships including two silver medals in the C1 team and K1 team events at the 2019 European Championships in Pau, France, two bronze medals in the C1 event in 2018 and 2021 and a gold and two bronze medals at the 2023 European Games in Kraków.
She also achieved success in her junior career, winning a silver medal in the K1 event 2015 Junior World Championships in Foz do Iguaçu.
Her sister Emily Apel is also a slalom canoeist[5] and her father Thomas Apel is a coach of the German national team.[6]
| Total | |||||
| C1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | |
| K1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
| Kayak cross | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Total | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 |
| Season | Date | Venue | Position | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 19 June 2021 | 3rd | K1 | ||
| 12 September 2021 | 3rd | C1 | |||
| 2022 | 11 June 2022 | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | K1 | |
| 12 June 2022 | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | C1 | ||
| 26 June 2022 | 3rd | C1 | |||
| 4 September 2022 | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | Kayak cross | ||
| 2023 | 2 June 2023 | bgcolor=gold | 1st | K1 | |
| 3 June 2023 | 3rd | C1 | |||
| 16 June 2023 | bgcolor=gold | 1st | C1 | ||
| 17 June 2023 | 3rd | K1 | |||
| 3 September 2023 | bgcolor=gold | 1st | Kayak cross |
| Year | Class | WC1 | WC2 | WC3 | WC4 | WC5 | Points | Position | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | C1 | Lee Valley | Tacen | Prague | La Seu | Augsburg 12 | 42 | 27th | ||
| 2017 | C1 | Prague 18 | Augsburg 42 | Markkleeberg | Ivrea | La Seu | 27 | 45th | ||
| 2018 | C1 | Liptovský Mikuláš 48 | style=vertical-align:top rowspan=3 | Kraków | Augsburg 5 | style=vertical-align:top rowspan=3 | Tacen | La Seu 54 | 48 | 35th |
| K1 | 39 | 2 | 88th | |||||||
| C2Mx | 4 | 45 | 16th | |||||||
| 2019 | C1 | Lee Valley 21 | Bratislava 29 | style=vertical-align:top rowspan=2 | Tacen | Markkleeberg 28 | style=vertical-align:top rowspan=2 | Prague | 38 | 44th |
| K1 | 12 | 41 | 14 | 62 | 31st | |||||
| 2021 | C1 | Prague 9 | Markkleeberg 10 | La Seu 24 | Pau 3 | 187 | 3rd | |||
| K1 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 190 | 4th |