Career

2011

At the 2011 European Championships, Seitz finished second in the all-around behind Anna Dementyeva with a score of 56.700.^[1] She finished 5th in the vault final with a score of 14.187.^[2] She finished 5th in the uneven bars final with a score of 14.175.^[3]

At the 2011 Switzerland-Germany-Romania Friendly, Seitz contributed scores on vault, bars, and beam towards Germany's second-place finish.^[4]

At the 2011 World Championships, Seitz contributed scores on all four apparatus towards Germany's sixth-place finish in the team final.^[5] In the individual all-around she finished eleventh with a score of 55.823.^[6]

2012

2012 Olympics

Germany finished ninth in the team qualification round, so they did not qualify into the final. They were only 0.365 behind Canada.^[7] However, Seitz qualified twelfth into the all-around final,^[11] and eighth into the uneven bars final.^[8] In the individual all-around final, Seitz finished 10th with a score of 57.365.^[9] In the uneven bars final, Seitz finished in sixth with a score of 15.266.^[10]

In December 2012 she competed at the 2012 World Cup event in Stuttgart and placed second with a total score of 55.566.^[11] A week later she competed in Glasgow and again took silver, this time with a score of 54.799.^[12]

2013–2014

After the Olympic season, she competed at the 2013 American Cup and the 2013 World Championships, even though she was not fully prepared due to her studies. She continued competing through the 2014 season. Her World Championship chances were questioned due to injuries, but she made the team. However, she competed only on bars where she had a fall. She later competed at the 2014 Arthur Gander Memorial, finally putting together solid routines and snatched the bronze, behind the silver medalist Larisa Iordache and the gold medalist Daria Spiridonova. She won another bronze along with Fabian Hambuchen at the Swiss Cup behind the Russian and Ukrainian teams.

2015

Seitz was selected to compete at the 2015 European Games with Sophie Scheder and Leah Griesser. The team won a silver medal behind Russia.^[13] Seitz showed her best result in All-Around Final with a score of 55.765 at 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships which led her to be ranked as 10th. As a team, they placed 12th.

2016

Elisabeth Seitz competed at the 2016 Test Event, helping her team to finish 2nd behind host team Brazil, qualifying a full team to the Olympic Games. Individually, she won the test event titles on bars ahead of her teammate Sophie Scheder. Afterward, Elisabeth Seitz was selected as one of the representatives of the German national team in 2016 Summer Olympics together with Kim Bui, Tabea Alt, Pauline Schaefer and Sophie Scheder. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, the German team pulled off a surprise top 8 finish to secure a spot in the team final, after Italy suffered three falls on beam and Canada counted falls on bars and beam. Individually, Seitz qualified to both the uneven bars and individual all around finals. In the team final, Seitz competed on bars, beam and floor to help her team to a 6th-place finish. In the all around final, she finished in 17th place. In the uneven bars final, she finished 4th after performing a clean routine, narrowly missing the podium by .033 behind her team colleague Sophie Scheder, American Madison Kocian and Russian Aliya Mustafina.

2017

Seitz was selected to represent Germany at the 2017 European Championships in Cluj-Napoca. She qualified to the uneven bars in joint first with Nina Derwael. However, she missed a connection in the final and was only able to manage a bronze medal finish, tied with Elissa Downie.

She performed at the 2017 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships as a member of German national team and became 5th on the uneven bars^[14]{{Better source|reason=per WP:CIRCULAR|date=March 2018}} and 9th in the overall ranking.^[15]{{Better source|reason=per WP:CIRCULAR|date=March 2018}}

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