Franziska van Almsick

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Franziska van Almsick (2019)

Personal information
Surname: Franziska van Almsick
Nickname (s): Franzi
Nation: GermanyGermany Germany
Swimming style (s) : Freestyle
Society: SG Neukölln Berlin
Birthday: 5th April 1978 (age 42)
Place of birth: Berlin
Size: 1.81 m
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 4 × silver 6 × bronze
Swimming World Cup 2 × gold 2 × silver 2 × bronze
Swimming championships 18 × gold 3 × silver 0 × bronze
Short course EM 4 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Franziska van Almsick and Jörg Hoffmann 1989

Franziska van Almsick (born April 5, 1978 in East Berlin ) is a former German swimmer and multiple world and European champion. Since April 1, 2010, she has been Deputy Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Sporthilfe .

Career as an athlete

Franziska van Almsick, also known as "Franzi" by fans and the media, was born in East Berlin and began swimming when she was five. At the age of seven she was accepted into the East Berlin swimming training center, today's school and competitive sports center Berlin , where she was the youngest. Soon afterwards she went to a children's and youth sports school (KJS). The facility was named after Werner Seelenbinder . At the age of eleven, she won nine gold medals at the Children's and Youth Partakiad. After youth competitions in the GDR , she also won at junior European and world championships. Since 1996 van Almsick trained at SG Neukölln Berlin with head coach Norbert Warnatzsch , before that at SC Berlin with Dieter Lindemann .

In 1992 she achieved her first World Cup victory over 100 m freestyle and she swam a short course world record over 50 m freestyle . At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona she won the silver medal in the 200 m freestyle, silver with the 4 × 100 m individual medley relay and bronze in the 100 m freestyle and the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay. After Barcelona she became the first all-German sports star after German reunification , her level of awareness was comparable to that of a pop star.

In the 1993 season, in which she was the overall World Cup winner, she set three world records. At the European Championships in Sheffield , she won six gold medals. She was named World Sportswoman of the Year for her achievements.

Her appearance at the 1994 World Swimming Championships in Rome was dramatic . In her favorite discipline of 200 m freestyle, she was initially ninth in the semifinals and failed to qualify for the final. Her teammate Dagmar Hase , who had qualified, then did not take part in the final and her place became free for van Almsick. The final turned into a triumph for the Berliner: she became world champion, and at the same time she set a new world record.

At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , she started the 200 m freestyle as a big favorite, but then “only” won the silver medal. This was the beginning of a hunt for an Olympic victory, which she would not succeed until the end of her career in 2004. The 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney , from which she returned to Germany without taking part in an individual final, turned out to be a sporting disappointment for her ; with the relay she won a bronze medal. In earlier years she was praised by the German mass media in the sky, now they attacked her. The Berlin tabloid newspaper BZ called her Franzi van Speck . The end of her career seemed close to her.

At the European Swimming Championships in 2002 in her hometown of Berlin, van Almsick won five gold medals, including the title over 200 m freestyle, where she improved her own world record from 1994 and became the favorite for the 2004 Olympic Games. For this comeback, she was voted Sportswoman of the Year again in 2002, honored with several awards for Comeback of the Year and again celebrated by the press. Her world record at that time lasted until the 2007 World Swimming Championships , when the Italian Federica Pellegrini undercut it by 17 hundredths of a second.

At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, she won two bronze medals with the 4 × 200-meter freestyle relay (with a new European record) and the 4 × 100-meter individual relay, and she also achieved fifth place in the 200 m freestyle. After that, she ended her career as an active athlete.

Franziska van Almsick won 18 gold medals and two titles at world championships at European level.

After the sports career

The FINA World Championships 2005 in Montreal , at the 2006 European Aquatics Championships in Budapest, at the FINA World Championships 2007 in Melbourne, the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and the 2012 Olympic Games in London van Almsick worked as a co-commentator for the ARD . At the 2016 Olympic Games she was seen as an “expert in swimming and sporting events”. In 2006, she commented briefly on RTL , the Formula 1 .

From December 1, 2008, van Almsick was the deputy of the newly appointed CEO of Deutsche Sporthilfe, Werner E. Klatten , in charge of the sport sector. With the installation of a full-time Sporthilfe executive board, she switched to the supervisory board on April 1, 2010. She has also been an ambassador for the Sky Foundation for several years .

She has acted as a voice actress in several films, such as Cars and Finding Dorie .

Private

During her sports career, van Almsick took part in photo shoots several times. Among other things, she posed twice for the men's magazine Maxim in swimwear and underwear.

From the mid-1990s to March 2000, she was in a relationship with the swimmer Steffen Zesner . When the magazine reported the new quickly and up-to-date in 1996 about an imminent “dream wedding”, an appropriately clear counter- statement was fought for before the Federal Constitutional Court .

From 2000 to 2004 she was in a relationship with the handball player Stefan Kretzschmar . She met her current partner, the entrepreneur Jürgen B. Harder, in 2005. The couple lives in Heidelberg and has two sons (* January 7, 2007, * May 20, 2013).

Franziska van Almsick published her autobiography in 2004 under the title Aufgetaucht . As a children's book author, she appeared in 2009 with Paul Plantschnase am Meer , in 2010 with Paul Plantschnase in the swimming course and in 2017 with Paul Plantschnase learns to swim .

Awards

Franziska van Almsick as the winner of the Radio Regenbogen Award 2019

Records

In her active career, she posed a. a. the short course world records over 50 , 100 and 200 meters freestyle and over 200 meters freestyle on the long track . In addition, she was a swimmer in German world record teams in the 4 × 50 and 4 × 100 meters freestyle .

literature

Web links

Commons : Franziska van Almsick  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. a b Press release from the Deutsche Sporthilfe Foundation from Deutsche Sporthilfe: Klatten Chairman of the Supervisory Board and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Ilgner's new Chairman of the Management Board ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 9, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sporthilfe.de
  2. a b The Supervisory Board of the German Sports Aid Foundation , accessed on June 9, 2013
  3. Article in the Berliner Zeitung of September 21, 2000: Just for love - The special liaison between the Berlin tabloid "BZ" and Franziska van Almsick , accessed on June 11, 2013
  4. a b News from n-tv of November 22, 2002: Bambi 2002: The Prize Winners , accessed on June 9, 2013
  5. a b Review of 2002 on goldenehenne.de: Applause for role models and patriots ( Memento of August 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 11, 2013
  6. Article by n-tv of August 28, 2002: Van Almsick receives award - From “lead duck” to “gold hen” , accessed on June 11, 2013
  7. News of the ARD from March 27, 2007: Four world records in Melbourne ( Memento from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  8. News from Europolitan of March 27, 2007: Federica Pellegrini breaks van Almsick's world record ( Memento of the original from October 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 9, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.europolitan.de
  9. Franziska van Almsick: Does she present the “Sportschau”? In: Hamburger Abendblatt . October 11, 2011, accessed June 11, 2013 .
  10. Article from motorsport-total.com of February 26, 2006: Van Almsick starts with 'RTL' in Formula 1 , accessed on June 11, 3013
  11. ^ Klatten new head of Sporthilfe. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . October 23, 2008. Retrieved October 25, 2008 .
  12. Press release of the Deutsche Sporthilfe Foundation of October 23, 2008 Supervisory Board appoints Werner E. Klatten as the new Chairman of the Board of the Deutsche Sport Foundation ( Memento of the original from November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 9, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sporthilfe.de
  13. Prominent supporters of the Sky Foundation, accessed on April 12, 2017.
  14. ^ Zesner in the wake of girlfriend Franzi Die Welt from August 26, 1995, accessed on December 20, 2015
  15. Just being myself Der Spiegel, April 21, 1997, accessed December 20, 2015
  16. Franziska van Almsick and Stefan Kretzschmar im stern: Finally walking on the street without being stupidly stared at Stern from August 26, 1995, accessed on December 20, 2015
  17. ^ Resolution of the First Senate, 1 BvR 1861/93. Federal Constitutional Court , January 14, 1998, accessed June 9, 2015 .
  18. Franziska van Almsick - Don Hugo is to cuddle. In: FAZ . January 9, 2007, accessed January 9, 2007 .
  19. Franziska van Almsick is now a mother of two. In: Stern . May 21, 2013, accessed May 21, 2013 .
  20. Eternal ranking list of the swimmer of the year (PDF; 12 kB) of the DSV , accessed on June 9, 2013
  21. ^ List of the DSH Junior Sportsmen of the Year , accessed on June 9, 2013
  22. Franziska van Almsick on bambi.de, accessed on April 12, 2017.
  23. Franziska van Almsick in the Biographical Databases of the Federal Foundation for the Processing of the SED Dictatorship , accessed on June 11, 2013
  24. Speech by the Federal President: Greetings from Federal President Horst Köhler on the award of the Silver Laurel Leaf to medalists at the 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Berlin , accessed on June 10, 2013
  25. ^ AIPS news from January 3, 2013: Djokovic and Ennis top AIPS Europe Athletes of the Year 2012 poll , accessed on June 10, 2013
  26. List of “Swimmers of the Year” from SwimmingWorld magazine , accessed on June 9, 2013
  27. Eternal list of female athletes of the year ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the ISK , accessed June 9, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sportler-des-jahres.de
  28. Article from presseportal.de of December 11, 2002: MAXIM selects Germany's "Woman of the Year 2002" for the first time: Actress Bettina Zimmermann - Other prizes go to Franziska van Almsick and Sarah Connor , accessed on June 9, 2013
  29. Article from berlin.de of October 1, 2003: Order of the Land: Wowereit honored 13 citizens - Part I  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 10, 2013@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.berlin.de  
  30. Franziska van Almsick in the International Swimming Hall of Fame (English), accessed on May 10, 2014
  31. dapd: 7th Hamburger Sportgala - These are Hamburg's athletes of the year - van Almsick honored. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . February 22, 2012, accessed June 29, 2013 .
  32. Prize winners and laudators 2019. regenbogen.de, April 12, 2019, accessed on April 13, 2019 .