Antje Buschschulte

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Personal information
Surname: Antje Buschschulte
Nation: GermanyGermany Germany
Swimming style (s) : Back, butterfly
Society: SC Magdeburg
Birthday: December 27, 1978
Place of birth: West Berlin
Size: 1.86 m
Weight: 73 kg
Medal table

Antje Buschschulte (born December 27, 1978 in West Berlin ) is a former German swimmer .

Athletic career

At the age of seven, Buschschulte began swimming in Berlin, where she was spotted by the TSV Zehlendorf 88 club . After the family moved to Lübeck-Travemünde, her first international competition was the European Youth Championship in Istanbul in 1993, where she was 14 years old when she won over 100 m back and with the 4 × 100 m layered relay. In 1995 she moved to Hamburg for professional training. After bronze in the 4 × 100 m freestyle at the 1996 Olympic Games, her Hamburg trainer ended his activity and at the age of 17 Buschschulte switched from SG Hamburg to SC Magdeburg , where she went to the sports high school and came to her long-time trainer Bernd Henneberg. Her specialty disciplines were the short back and freestyle courses. In 2006 she won the European championship on the 100 m short course during a trip to the dolphin discipline. In total, she won over 54 medals at international championships and took part in four Olympic Games (1996, 2000, 2004, 2008). In 2003 she became world champion over 100 m back. She is the only German swimmer who took part in every international competition highlight of the year from 1995 to 2008 for 14 years in a row (European Championship, World Cup, Olympic Games). On November 28, 2008, she announced her retirement from active sports.

job

After graduating from high school, she studied sports and English, later biology. After retiring from active sport, she started at the Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg to do a doctorate in neurobiology . She is still connected to swimming and was Vice President of the State Swimming Association of Saxony-Anhalt from May 2009 to September 2011. From November 2011 to May 2015 Antje Buschschulte worked as the office manager of Rainer Robra , the head of the Saxony-Anhalt State Chancellery. On May 26, 2015, Antje Buschschulte successfully defended her dissertation entitled Reward- and attention-related determinants of color selection in human visual cortex . After parental leave, she works as a consultant in the State Chancellery of Saxony-Anhalt.

Private

She was in a relationship with Ingo Schultz until 2002 . They parted ways five hours after his victory at the European Championship. Since November 11, 2011 she has been married to the German swimmer Helge Meeuw , with whom she has three daughters and lives in Magdeburg .

International successes (50 m run)

  • Olympic Games 1996: bronze medal 4 × 100 m freestyle
  • Olympic 2000: bronze medal 4 × 200 m freestyle
  • Olympic 2004: bronze medal 200 m back, 4 × 200 m freestyle, 4 × 100 m medley
  • World Championships 2001: Gold 4 × 100 m freestyle, silver 50 m back, bronze 100 m back
  • World Championships 2003: gold 100 m back, silver 4 × 100 m freestyle
  • World Championships 2005: silver 100 m back, silver 4 × 100 m freestyle, bronze 50 m back, bronze 4 × 100 m medley
  • European Championships 1995–2006: 5 gold, 3 silver, 4 bronze

Records

German Records (4)
4 × 100 m layers (with Poewe , van Almsick and Götz ) 4: 00.72 min August 21, 2004 Athens
50 m butterfly (short course) 25.73 s August 12, 2006 Hamburg
100 m butterfly (short course) 56.94 s December 10, 2006 Helsinki
200 m back (short course) 2: 04.23 min December 14, 2003 Dublin
(As of July 31, 2009)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Ingo Schultz separates from his girlfriend Antje Buschschulte . ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) netzeitung.de
  2. Buschschulte & Meeuw: They got married. In: Bunte.de. November 12, 2011, accessed October 23, 2016 .
  3. "The GDR was not only successful because of doping". In: www.tagesspiegel.de. November 7, 2019, accessed November 30, 2019 .