Daniela Samulski

Daniela Samulski
Daniela Samulski at the German Championships 2009
Personal information
Surname:	Daniela Schwienke, b. Samulski
Nickname (s):	"Mulle"
Nation:	Germany
Swimming style (s) :	Butterfly , freestyle , back
Society:	SG Essen
Birthday:	May 31, 1984
Place of birth:	Berlin
Date of death:	May 22, 2018
Size:	1.72 m
Weight:	62 kg
Medal table

Daniela Samulski , married Daniela Schwienke (born May 31, 1984 in Berlin ; † May 22, 2018 ) was a German swimmer .

Career

As a 16-year-old Samulski took part in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney . After leaving school at age 19 at the sports school of the Berlin Werner Seelenbinder School , from which the later school and Sports Center Berlin emerged, she went to the army and focused as a sports soldier of sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr in Warendorf on swimming. She started in the disciplines of butterfly , freestyle and back , especially over the shorter distances. She was European relay champion in 2006, multiple German champion in individual and relay competitions and European record holder over 50 m back.

Samulski began her career at SV Preußen Berlin . From 2001 to 2008 she started for the SG Bayer Wuppertal / Uerdingen / Dormagen , where she most recently trained with Henning Lambertz (together with Sarah Poewe and Steffen Driesen ). In September 2008 she followed Lambertz to SG Essen . 2009 was the most successful of her career with three World Cup medals.

At the beginning of 2011, Samulski announced her retirement from competitive sports, withdrew from the public and concentrated on studying social work at the University of Duisburg-Essen . It was also first announced in 2011 that Samulski suffered from abdominal cancer .

In May 2018 Daniela Samulski died at the age of 33 from complications from her cancer . She left her husband and a child.

Records

German Records (6)
4 × 100 m layers (with Ruhnau , Sina Sutter and Vitting )	04: 06.14 min	4th July 2010	Berlin
4 × 200 m freestyle (with Dallmann , Steffen and Liebs )	07: 50.82 min	August 3, 2006	Budapest
50 m back	00: 27.23 min	July 30, 2009	Rome
50 m butterfly	00: 26.33 min	July 31, 2009	Rome
50 m back (short course)	00: 26.89 min	November 29, 2008	eat
100 m back	00: 59.77 min	July 27, 2009	Rome

More Achievements

• World record over 50 m back (long track) on July 29, 2009 at the World Championships in Rome (time: 00: 27.39), only 3 minutes later by the Russian Anastassija Sujewa in the semifinals by a hundredth of a second
• Participation in the Olympic Summer Games 2000 in Sydney over 100 m butterfly and 4 × 100 m freestyle
• Participation in the Olympic Summer Games 2008 in Beijing over 100 m butterfly and 4 × 200 m freestyle

German championships

German champion
2000 Berlin	50 m butterfly	0: 27.27	SV Prussia Berlin
	100 m butterfly	0: 59.87
2001 Braunschweig	50 m butterfly	0: 27.51	SG Bayer Wuppertal / Uerdingen / Dormagen
2002 Warendorf	50 m butterfly	0: 27.25	SG Bayer Wuppertal / Uerdingen / Dormagen
2007 Berlin	50 m butterfly	0: 26.78	SG Bayer Wuppertal / Uerdingen / Dormagen
	100 m butterfly	0: 59.79
	100 m back	1: 01.93
2008 Berlin	100 m butterfly	0: 58.63	SG Bayer Wuppertal / Uerdingen / Dormagen
2009 Berlin	50 m butterfly	0: 26.65	SG Essen
	50 m back	0: 27.61
	100 m back	1: 00.46
	4 × 200 m freestyle	8: 12.15
	4 × 100 m layers	4: 09.74
2010 Berlin	50 m back	0: 28.16	SG Essen
	100 m freestyle	0: 54.55
	4 × 100 m layers	4: 06.14

Web links

Commons : Daniela Samulski  - collection of images

• Daniela Samulski in the Swimrankings.net database (English)
• Daniela Samulski in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jens Bierschwale: Swimmer Daniela Samulski († 33): "She was a strong woman, a role model". In: welt.de . May 25, 2018, accessed October 7, 2018 . 
2. ↑ http://www.wz.de/lokales/wuppertal/sport/schwimmen-von-lösungen-nach-kuellenhahn-1.476535
3. ↑ Rolf Hantel: Samulski says hello. In: DerWesten . January 3, 2011, accessed January 13, 2011 . 
4. ↑ https://www.derwesten.de/sport/das-grosse-geld-iziert-nicht-im-wasser-id3931565.html
5. ↑ https://www.osp-berlin.de/in-memoriam-daniela-samulski
6. ↑ Sebastian Schwenke: Germany's swimming sport mourns Daniela Samulski. In: swimsportnews. May 25, 2018. Retrieved May 25, 2018 .