Anke Piper

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Anke Piper Diving
Personal information
Nationality: GermanyGermany Germany
Discipline (s) : Tower / synchronized jumping
Society: Berlin TSC
Birthday: March 12, 1972
Size: 165 cm
Medals

Anke Piper (born March 12, 1972 ) is a former German diver . She jumped in the 10 m high diving and with Ute Wetzig in the 10 m synchronized diving. Her home club is the Berlin TSC , she was trained by Lutz Buschkow, among others. Between 1997 and 2002 Piper was three times European champion.

She started her career at the age of 15. After the sporting success initially failed to materialize, among other things she missed the qualification for the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992 , and she repeatedly had to struggle with health problems, she ended her career in 1993, but came back two years later. In the newly introduced synchronized jumping, she formed a duo with Ute Wetzig and finally celebrated her first major successes with her. The duo won gold at the European Championships in Seville in 1997 and in Helsinki in 2000, and silver in Istanbul in 1999 . At the 1998 World Cup in Perth they also reached fifth place. Her greatest success in singles came at the 2002 home European championships in Berlin . She won surprisingly from the tower. Their high level of overall difficulty was decisive for this success. Among other things, she showed a double backflip with one and a half screws from the handstand, a jump that until then was considered a pure male jump. After Piper missed the Olympic Games in 2004, this time due to injury, at the fourth attempt , she ended her career.

Piper stayed true to diving, however. Today the trained legal assistant is active as an official FINA judge. At the Summer Universiade 2011, she acted as a supervisor for the German diving team.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Golden Girl Anke Piper: with a man's jump to the title. Retrieved November 5, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Olympia was the goal. Retrieved November 5, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Anke Piper in the FINA committee for diving. Retrieved November 5, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Summer Universiade 2011: Diving. Retrieved November 5, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Piper, Anke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diver
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1972