Caroline Pilhatsch

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Personal information
Surname: Caroline Pilhatsch
Nation: AustriaAustria Austria
Society: AT Graz
Birthday: 1st March 1999 (age 21)
Place of birth: Graz , Austria
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Medals

Caroline Pilhatsch (born March 1, 1999 in Graz ) is an Austrian swimmer . At the European Games 2015 she won the gold medal over 50 m back and the silver medal over 50 m butterfly . At the 2018 Short Course World Championships in Hangzhou , she won the silver medal over 50 meters back.

Life

Caroline Pilhatsch was born as the daughter of swimmer and two-time Olympic participant Alexander Pilhatsch , her mother Birgit Haase-Pilhatsch is multiple national champion in rhythmic gymnastics. Her grandfather Arnulf Pilhatsch (1925-2000) took part in the 1948 Olympic Games in high jump. Her five siblings are also active in sports: the two brothers are also swimmers and their three older sisters are active in rhythmic gymnastics. In Graz she attended the Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium Lichtenfels, where she graduated in 2017 .

Caroline Pilhatsch first began with rhythmic gymnastics, at the age of eleven she switched to swimming. Since 2012 she has been trained by Dirk Lange at the Styrian state performance center . At the 2015 European Games in Baku , she won the silver medal in the 50 m butterfly and the gold medal in the 50 m back , behind the Russian Polina Jegorowa . At the short course world championships in Hangzhou in 2018 , the then 19-year-old won the first Austrian swimming world championship medal since Markus Rogan in 2010 behind the US American Olivia Smoliga . She was the first to achieve an Austrian medal at the swimming world championships in 2019 in Gwangju, South Korea Swimmer since Mirna Jukic in 2009 in Rome a World Cup final and finished seventh over 50 m back.

She was invited by the Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA) as the first Austrian to take part in the Champions Swim Series , where she took third place over 50 m back in January 2020 in Shenzhen .

In parallel to competitive sport, Caroline Pilhatsch is training to be a police officer . After the Graz oyster was blocked due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, she started training in the southern part of the city .

Awards

  • 2019: Styrian sportswoman of the year

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kleine Zeitung: Styria's best swimmer trembles for her trainer . Article dated September 12, 2018, accessed September 15, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b c d When still waters hit high waves: swimmer and Olympic hope Caroline Pilhatsch . July 2016 article, accessed December 15, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b Kurier: Pilhatsch wins first Austrian swimming world championship medal in 8 years . Article dated December 15, 2018, accessed December 15, 2018.
  4. ↑ Alexander Pilhatsch in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
  5. ↑ Arnulf Pilhatsch in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
  6. ↑ a b derStandard.at: An apple called Caroline . Article dated April 13, 2016, accessed December 15, 2018.
  7. ↑ BG / BRG Lichtenfels Graz - Caroline - our GOLDfish . Retrieved December 15, 2018.
  8. ↑ Balancing act between high school diploma and swimming world championships . Article dated April 19, 2017, accessed December 15, 2018.
  9. ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Pilhatsch, Styria’s great swimming hope . Article dated April 10, 2015, accessed December 15, 2018.
  10. ↑ orf.at: gold double strike by swimmers . Article dated June 25, 2015, accessed December 15, 2018.
  11. ↑ derStandard.at: Caroline Pilhatsch: First gold, then silver in Baku . Article dated June 27, 2015, accessed December 15, 2018.
  12. ↑ Swimming World Championship: Pilhatsch sells dearly in the final. July 25, 2019, accessed July 25, 2019 .
  13. ^ As the first Austrian: Pilhatsch nominated by FINA for "Champions Race". In: Small newspaper . January 6, 2020, accessed January 15, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Third place and $ 9,000 for Pilhatsch. In: schwimmverband.at. January 14, 2020, accessed January 15, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Pilhatsch third in Champions Swim Series. In: ORF.at . January 14, 2020, accessed January 15, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Appeared in the success: "Women in demand" with Caroline Pilhatsch . Article dated December 27, 2018, accessed December 27, 2018.
  17. ↑ Swimming: Pilhatsch started training in Südstadt because of the Graz closure. In: Small newspaper . May 4, 2020, accessed May 7, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Pilhatsch relocates training in Südstadt. In: ORF.at . May 4, 2020, accessed May 7, 2020 .
  19. ↑ orf.at: Pilhatsch and Rehrl Sportsman of the Year . Article dated May 23, 2019, accessed May 24, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Pilhatsch, Caroline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian swimmer
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1999
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz