Aliena Schmidtke

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Aliena Start 50S WM 2017.jpg

Start 50 m butterfly semifinals WM Budapest 2017

Personal information
Surname: Aliena Schmidtke
Nation: GermanyGermany Germany
Swimming style (s) : Butterfly , freestyle
Society: SC Magdeburg
Birthday: 20th November 1992 (age 27)
Place of birth: Bad Oldesloe
Size: 1.76 m
Weight: 68 kg

Aliena Schmidtke (born November 20, 1992 in Bad Oldesloe ) is a German swimming athlete .

Athletic career

Aliena Schmidtke at the German Championships 2017

In June 1996 Schmidtke acquired the seahorse badge . She made her first competition experience in swimming at MTV Segeberg, a sports club in her home town of Bad Segeberg . In addition to swimming, Schmidtke worked in the Fechtgemeinschaft Segeberg e. V. fought. At the state championships for schoolchildren in 2003, she became champion in epee and foil fencing.

At the end of 2003 Schmidtke finally decided to go swimming. After two years of club membership in SC Delphin Lübeck, she moved to Magdeburg in summer 2005 , where she attended the Magdeburg Sports High School - one of the 40 elite sports schools in Germany. Since then she has been swimming for SC Magdeburg .

After graduating from high school in 2011, she went to New Mexico State University (NMSU) in Las Cruces , New Mexico , USA as an “Athletic Student” , where she trained with the head coach of the university team, Rick Pratt. To date, Schmidtke holds six school records at this university. She is also the second NMSU swimmer to qualify for the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division 1 Championships (NCAA).

In 2012 Schmidtke moved to Ohio State University in Columbus , Ohio , USA, and trained there until December 2018. Under her new head coach Bill Dorenkott and his associate head coach Jordan Wolfrum, she qualified twice for the NCAA Division 1 (National Collegiate Athletic Association) and swam the Big Ten Conferences for their university . During this time, their coach Schmidtke switched from their previous main position freestyle to butterfly .

In qualifying for the 2016 Olympic Games as part of the German Championships from May 5 to 8, 2016 in Berlin , she missed participation in the 100 m butterfly final by two tenths of a second. Schmidtke has been part of the German national swimming team since 2017.

In January 2019 Schmidtke moved to Gainesville , Florida , USA for four months and trained with Gregg Troy in a professional team with Ryan Lochte and Caeleb Dressel , among others . On May 1, 2019, she returned to Germany to prepare for participation in the 2020 Olympic Games in her home club SC Magdeburg with the club's head coach, Bernd Berkhahn.

Private

Schmidtke has two brothers. She grew up in Bad Segeberg and went to school there until she was 12.

After graduating from high school in Magdeburg in 2011, she studied molecular genetics and biology in the USA , graduating in 2016 with a Bachelor of Science . From 2016 to 2018 Schmidtke worked at the Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, as a research assistant with Amy Lovett-Racke in multiple sclerosis research.

Since March 2018, Schmidtke has been studying the "MBA Master of Business Administration" master's degree at the IUBH International University in distance learning.

successes

World Championships 2017 in Budapest :

World Championships Short Course 2018 in Hangzhou :

European Championships Short Course 2017 in Copenhagen :

  • 4th place 50 m butterfly
  • 8th place 100 m butterfly
  • 4th place 4 × 50 m mixed layers (with Christian Diener , Fabian Schwingenschlögel, Jessica Steiger)
  • 5th place 4 × 50 m freestyle mixed (with Damian Wierling , Marius Kusch , Jessica Steiger)

European Championships 2018 in Glasgow :

  • 4th place 50 m butterfly
  • 8th place 100 m butterfly
  • 7th place 4 × 100 m medley of women (with Laura Riedemann, Jessica Steiger, Annika Bruhn)

European Short Course Championships 2019 in Glasgow :

  • 8th place 50 m butterfly
  • 13th place 100 m butterfly
  • 8th place 4 × 50 m mixed layers (with Ole Braunschweig, Christian vom Lehn , Jessica Felsner)
  • 9th place 4 × 50 m layers (with Jenny Mensing , Anna Elendt , Jessica Felsner)

Summer Universiade 2017 in Taipei :

  • 1st place 50 m butterfly
  • 8th place 100 m butterfly
  • 7th place 4 × 100 m layers (with Lisa Graf , Jessica Steiger, Sarah Köhler )

German Championships 2016 in Berlin :

  • 2nd place 50 m butterfly
  • 2nd place 100 m butterfly

German Championships 2017 in Berlin :

  • 1st place 50 m butterfly
  • 1st place 100 m butterfly

German Championships 2018 in Berlin :

  • 1st place 50 m butterfly
  • 2nd place 100 m butterfly

German Championships 2019 in Berlin :

  • 1st place 50 m butterfly
  • 2nd place 100 m butterfly

German Short Course Championships 2019 in Berlin :

  • 1st place 50 m butterfly
  • 2nd place 100 m butterfly

Awards

  • Honorable Mention All-American 2014
  • CSCAA Scholar All-American 2013/14
  • Ohio State Scholar Athlete Reward 2013, 2014 and 2015
  • Academic All Big Ten Team 2014 and 2015
  • New Mexico State's Swimmer of the Year 2011-12
  • New Mexico State's Newcomer of the Year 2011-12
  • WAC Freshman of the Year 2011-12

Records

German Records (4)
50 m butterfly 0: 25.68 min 28th July 2017 World Cup Budapest
50 m butterfly (short course) 0: 25.49 min December 14, 2017 EM Copenhagen
4 × 50 m mixed layers (short course) (with Diener , Schwingenschlögl, Steiger ) 1: 37.83 min December 14, 2017 EM Copenhagen
4 × 100 m layers (short course) (with Riedemann , Steiger , Bruhn) 3: 54.15 min December 16, 2018 World Cup Hangzhou

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olympic squad in 2018 - Aliena Schmidtke (PDF) dsv.de
  2. ↑ Aliena Schmidtke - 2011-12 Swimming & Diving - New Mexico State University. Retrieved February 10, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Aliena Schmidtke competes at German National Championships. May 10, 2016. Retrieved February 14, 2019 (American English).
  4. ↑ With crowdfunding to the Olympics. In: swim.de. February 27, 2019, accessed March 3, 2019 .
  5. ^ Daniel Huebner: Dublin instead of Gwangju. In: Volksstimme Magdeburg. April 26, 2019, accessed May 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmidtke, Aliena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German swimming athlete
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Oldesloe