Sarah Poewe

Sarah Poewe
Personal information
Surname:	Sarah Poewe
Nation:	South Africa ( until 2001 ) Germany
Swimming style (s) :	chest
Society:	SG Bayer Wuppertal / Uerdingen / Dormagen
Birthday:	March 3, 1983
Place of birth:	Cape Town
Size:	1.75 m
Weight:	71 kg
Medal table

Sarah Poewe (born March 3, 1983 in Cape Town ) is a former German - South African swimmer .

Sports career

Sarah Poewe began her international sports career at the age of 14. At the Olympic Summer Games in Sydney in 2000, she finished fourth in the 100-meter chest finals. She swam for South Africa until the 2001 World Championships , and from the 2002 European Championships she competed for Germany. Her specialty disciplines include 50, 100 and 200 meter breasts . Poewe started for SG Bayer Wuppertal / Uerdingen / Dormagen .

In 2004 she won bronze at the Olympic Games in Athens (4 × 100 m individual medley). For this she received the silver bay leaf on March 16, 2005 . In the following years, she continued to be among the world's best and qualified for several world championships and also for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and 2012 in London .

At the German Swimming Championships 2011 in Berlin, she won her 16th title at national championships. She swam the 100 meter chest in 1: 08.69 min and thus missed the norm (1: 07.56 min) for the 2011 World Swimming Championships in Shanghai, but was still nominated. There she finished 12th in the semi-finals over 100 meters in 1: 08.38 min.

In 2012 she ended her career.

Private

Sarah Poewe grew up in South Africa and trained there in Cape Town's swimming club Vineyard. She studied at the University of Georgia in Athens (USA) from 2002 , where she graduated in communication studies . She lives in Wuppertal and has a daughter. In 2015 she was elected to the Executive Committee of the North Rhine-Westphalia Swimming Association as Vice President of Competitive Sports . She has been a junior coach at her former club SV Bayer Wuppertal since 2018 .

Sarah Poewe's mother is Jewish and her father is a German Protestant. Her mother's parents come from Lithuania and fled to South Africa before the Holocaust.

Poewe is the first Jewish woman to win an Olympic medal for Germany after 1936. In 2015 she was the godmother of the swimming competitions of the 14th European Maccabi Games .

More Achievements

• Short Course World Championships 1999 in Hong Kong (6th place 100 m chest, 8th place 200 m chest)
• Short Course World Championships 2000 in Athens (1st place 50 m chest, 1st place 100 m chest)
• Olympic Summer Games 2000 in Sydney (4th place 100 m chest, 6th place 200 m chest)
• World Swimming Championships 2001 in Fukuoka (7th place 50 m chest, 4th place 100 m chest)
• Short Course World Championships 2002 in Moscow (2nd place 100 m chest)
• German Swimming Championships 2002 in Warendorf (1st place 100 m chest)
• European Short Course Championships 2002 in Riesa (1st place 100 m chest, 2nd place 50 m chest, 200 m chest and 4 × 50 m layer relay)
• Swimming World Championships 2003 in Barcelona (7th place 50 m chest, 4th place 100 m chest, 6th place 200 m chest)
• German Short Course Championships 2003 in Gelsenkirchen (1st place 50 m and 100 m chest)
• European Short Course Championships 2003 in Dublin (1st place 50 m chest and 100 m chest)
• German Swimming Championships 2004 (1st place 100 m chest, 3rd place 200 m chest)
• Olympic Summer Games 2004 in Athens (5th place 100 m chest and 3rd place 4 × 100 m individual relay)
• European Short Course Championships 2004 in Vienna (1st place 50 m and 100 m chest, 3rd place 200 m chest)
• Swimming World Championships 2005 in Montreal (7th place 100 m chest and 3rd place 4 × 100 m individual relay)
• European Swimming Championships 2006 in Budapest (2nd place 4 × 100 m individual relay)
• European Short Course Championships 2007 in Debrecen (3rd place 50 m chest)
• Swimming World Championships 2009 in Rome (3rd place 4 × 100 m individual relay with European record)
• European Swimming Championships 2012 in Debrecen (1st place 100 m chest, 1st place 4 × 100 m individual relay, 3rd place 200 m chest)
• Olympic Summer Games 2012 in London (12th place 100 m chest, 9th place 4 × 100 m individual relay)

Records

German Records (2)
100 m chest	1: 07.10 min	April 19, 2008	Berlin
4 × 100 m layers (with Samulski , Mehlhorn and Steffen )	4: 00.72 min	August 1, 2009	Rome
(As of May 13, 2015)

proof

1. ↑ Press release of the Office of the Federal President of March 16, 2005 .... Awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the medal winners of the 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games ...
2. ↑ Swimming: Goldiges Wuppertal-final in Berlin , WZ Newsline from June 5th 2011, accessed 8 June 2011
3. ↑ DSV receives reinforcement at DM in Warendorf: South Africa's world champion Sarah Poewe starts for Wuppertal ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Second home, first choice . Article on www.wz-newsline.de from July 27, 2012
5. ↑ SV NRW 2015: Swimming Association NRW e. V. Accessed May 7, 2019 . 
6. ^ Wuppertaler Rundschau: Swimming: Poewe is a trainer at SV Bayer. Retrieved May 7, 2019 . 
7. ↑ http://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/article205523655/Aufgewachsen- between- zwei- Religionen.html
8. ↑ http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/sport/sonstige-sportarten/Makkabi-Spiele-Patin-Poewe-schrieb-Sportgeschichte-id34975682.html
9. ↑ "But I'm nothing special" , juedische-allgemeine.de.
10. ↑ http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/sport/sonstige-sportarten/Makkabi-Spiele-Patin-Poewe-schrieb-Sportgeschichte-id34975682.html

Web links

• Sarah Poewe in the database of Swimrankings.net (English)
• Sarah Poewe in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )