Alexandra Wenk
Alexandra Wenk 
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| Surname: | Alexandra Wenk | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Swimming style (s) : | Butterfly , layers | ||||||||||||||||||
| Society: | SG Stadtwerke Munich | ||||||||||||||||||
| Birthday: | February 7, 1995 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Munich | ||||||||||||||||||
| Size: | 1.79 m | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight: | 61 kg | ||||||||||||||||||
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Alexandra Wenk (born February 7, 1995 in Munich- Alt-Perlach) is a German swimmer . She is the reigning German champion over 50 meters and 100 meters butterfly and with the team of SG Stadtwerke München German team champion over 4 × 100 meter freestyle. In addition, she is the German record holder for the 100 meter butterfly with a time of 57.77 seconds.
Life
Alexandra Wenk came to swim through her mother Gabriele Wenk-Baka . When she was 13 she won her first championship.
Wenk celebrated her greatest international success to date at the European Championships in Debrecen in 2012 when she won the European title in the 4 × 100 meter medley. This also qualified her for the Summer Olympics in London .
At the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, she swam in the semi-finals of the 100 m butterfly German record with 57.77 seconds. This was the first time she entered a World Cup final. She won the bronze medal with the German 4 × 100 m individual relay relay. At the 2015 European Short Course Championships in Netanya , she won the bronze medal over the 100 m butterfly in a new German record time of 56.43 s. At the German Championships in 2016 , she improved the almost 35-year-old German record of Ute Geweniger over 200 m medley in 2: 11.41 minutes , as well as her own from the previous year over 100 m butterfly in 57.70 s.
In 2009 and 2011 Alexandra Wenk was named young swimmer of the year. Wenk is currently starting for SG Neukölln Berlin.
Awards & Achievements
- successes
- Gold at the European Championships 2012 in the 4 × 100 m medley relay
- Bronze at the European Short Course Championships 2015 over 100 meters butterfly
- Bronze at the 2015 World Championships in the 4 × 100 m medley mixed relay
- German champion 2012 over 50 and 100 meters butterfly
- German champion 2013 over 100 meters butterfly
- German champion 2015 over 50 and 100 meters butterfly
- German champion 2015 over 4 × 100 meters freestyle
- German champion 2016 over 100 meters butterfly and 200 meters medley
- Gold at the European Youth Championships 2011 over 100 meters butterfly
- Bronze at the 2011 Junior World Championships over 100 meters butterfly
- 2 × Gold European Youth Championships 2010 over 4 × 100 meter freestyle and 4 × 100 meter medley relay
- 4 × Gold European Youth Olympic Festival 2009
- Awards
- 2011: Elite student of sports Munich 2010
- 2012: Elite student of sports Munich 2011
- 2016: Bavarian Sports Prize 2016
Web links
- Alexandra Wenk in the database of Swimrankings.net (English)
- Alexandra Wenk in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- 4x100 m relay wins gold on FAZ
- DSV chick - Olympian on call
- Alexandra Wenk at the Bavarian Swimming Association
- Results at the DSV ( Memento from March 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.swm.de/privatkunden/info/m-direkt/interview-wenk.html ( Memento from May 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ 127th German Championships: Results of Bavarian Participants Bavarian Swimming Association, online, PDF, accessed on December 24, 2017
- ↑ German Masters History . Retrieved December 24, 2017.
- ↑ Swimming EM: Mensings Goldstück . In: FAZ , May 24, 2012. ISSN 0174-4909 . Retrieved June 2, 2012.
- ↑ Sabrina Knoll: DSV chick - Alexandra Wenk: Olympian on call . swim.de. May 25, 2012. Retrieved June 2, 2012.
- ↑ Alexandra Wenk - Young Swimmer of the Year 2011 Bavarian Swimming Association, accessed on December 6, 2015.
- ↑ Alexandra Wenk defends "Title" . dosb.de. February 13, 2012. Archived from the original on May 29, 2012. 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. Retrieved June 2, 2012.
- ↑ Bavarian Sports Prize 2016. In: www.stmi.bayern.de. Retrieved July 17, 2016 .
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| SURNAME | Wenk, Alexandra |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wenk, Alex |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German swimmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 7, 1995 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |