Cathleen Rund

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Personal information
Surname: Cathleen Rund
Nation: GermanyGermany Germany
Society: SG Neukölln Berlin
Birthday: 3rd November 1977
Place of birth: East Berlin

Cathleen Rund (born Cathleen Stolze in East Berlin on November 3, 1977 ) is a German swimmer ; In 1996 she was Olympic third and in 1997 European champion over 200 m back .

Life

She is the daughter of swimmer Evelyn Stolze and water polo player Peter Rund . In 1998 she graduated from the Werner Seelenbinder School in Berlin. From 1999 to 2005, Rund studied sports at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

From 2004 to 2006 she was a trainer at SG Frankfurt and from 2005 to 2006 trainer A license of the DSV . From 2006 to 2011 he studied at the Hessian University for Police and Administration and worked as a member of the sports promotion group of the Hessian Police . Around has been working for the State of Hesse since 2011 .

Cathleen Rund married the former swimmer and current head coach of SC Wiesbaden Oliver Großmann in 2009 and carried his last name until 2017. She is now divorced from him.

Athletic career

Growing up in the east of Berlin, she was delegated to the “Werner Seelenbinder” children's and youth sports school in the GDR's sports promotion system. There she was trained by Norbert Warnatzsch from 1988 to 1990 together with 18 other girls, including Franziska van Almsick , and introduced to high-performance sport. In addition to Spartakiade victories and winning the GDR championships of the years, she drew attention to herself at the youth friendship competitions in Sofia in 1990 with a complete set of medals.

At the time of political change, the coach Warnatzsch left the Dynamo sports association and went to Indonesia. Dieter Lindemann took over the training group . This led her to successes at the European Youth Championships (1991 3 × silver, 1992 2 × gold, 2 × silver, 1 × bronze), 1 × gold at the German Championships in Potsdam in 1993 with a world best time and up to qualifying for the European Championship in 1993 in Sheffield (4th place), the World Cup on the short course in Palma de Mallorca (3rd place) and the World Cup on the long course in Rome in 1994 (21st place). She missed qualifying for the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. In 1992 and 1993 she was able to achieve second place in the overall ranking in the back disciplines of the World Cup. During her time at Lindemann, she swam several age-class records over the back and layer stretches on the short and long track, some of which still exist.

In 1994, after a bad performance at the World Cup in Rome, she separated from her coach Lindemann and moved to her father Peter Rund in Biberach an der Riss . There she could find her way back to her old strength. At the 1995 European Championships in Vienna, she won her first international title on the long track. In the German 4 × 100 m individual medley relay together with Franziska van Almsick, Jana Dörries and Julia Voitowitsch , she won the gold medal ahead of the Hungarians. Before that she won the bronze medal in the 400 m medley and 200 m back and the silver medal in the 100 m back. 1996 was her most successful year. At the Summer Olympics in Atlanta she was able to fight for the bronze medal over the 200 m back, behind Krisztina Egerszegi from Hungary and the American Whitney Hedgepeth , which she almost caught on the home straight. Ultimately, 6/100 seconds were missing to win the silver medal. The duo of father and daughter stayed together until Cathleen's career ended. To win the bronze medal in 1996 there was also a European title over 200 m backseat in 1997 in Seville , a fourth place over 200 m backseat at the 1998 World Cup in Perth and a runner-up European title over 200 m backseat in 1999 in Istanbul .

At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 , she could no longer build on previous placements. She finished the competitions with an 11th place after the semifinals. 2001 to 2003 she suffered from glandular fever from Pfeiffer . Nevertheless, she was able to take part in the Universiade in Beijing and came fifth in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay. In 2002 and 2003 she was unable to qualify for major international events such as the World Cup and European Championship. In 2006, Rund started a comeback and immediately became German champion over the 10 km distance at the German Winter Championships in Hanover. Here she tried a "comeback" as an open water swimmer in order to qualify over 10 km for the 2008 World Cup in Seville.

In 2007 she won the overall European Cup. In 2008 she was second in the overall European Cup and was able to qualify for the European Championship in Dubrovnik over all three possible routes. There she was 8th over 5 km, 11th over 25 km and 23rd over 10 km. At the German Championships in 2008 on the Chiemsee, she was able to leave world champion Britta Kamerau behind. At the German championships in 2009 on Lake Constance she was overtaken by her pursuers on the home straight and finished the 5 and 10 km in 7th place in 2010 and in 2011 she swam the 25 km and was able to assert herself as the winner in 2010 and third in 2011.

In the same year she ended her active career in order to devote herself entirely to her job and the swimming school she ran with her husband.

In 2015 she took part in the Open Water Austriacup for the first time and in 2016 repeatedly as a "hobby swimmer". Here she visited the stations in Vienna, Mörbisch and at Fuschelsee in the Salzburg region. In addition, she regularly takes part in the Unterbacher Lake Swimming in Unterbach near Düsseldorf. In 2019 she started at DMS for SG Neukölln.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Cathleen Rund in the Munzinger archive , accessed on February 15, 2012 ( beginning of the article freely available)
  2. ↑ welt.de: Cathleen Rund self-confident: “I am strong enough for gold”. Retrieved on February 15, 2012
  3. ↑ berliner-zeitung.de: At the end a title for Cathleen Rund. Accessed on February 15, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Round, Cathleen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Proud, Cathleen (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German swimmer
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd November 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin