Hannah Stockbauer

Hannah Stockbauer
Personal information
Surname:	Hannah Stockbauer
Nation:	Germany
Swimming style (s) :	Freestyle
Birthday:	January 7, 1982
Place of birth:	Nuremberg
Size:	1.74 m
Weight:	63 kg
Medal table

Hannah Stockbauer ; Bourgeois: Hannah Stockbauer-Kreuzmann (born January 7, 1982 in Nuremberg ) is a former German swimmer . She is multiple world and European champion.

Career

Hannah Stockbauer started swimming as a competitive sport from the age of four. After Franziska van Almsick, she was considered to be the greatest hope of German swimming . Her specialty disciplines were the medium and long freestyle courses (400 m, 800 m, 1500 m). She swam for SSG 81 Erlangen . During her active time, the city of Erlangen named the swimming pool after her, in which she trained daily.

From 2002 to 2004 she studied geography at the University of Erlangen and was also a working student at the Siemens group at the time . After the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , where she won a bronze medal and was awarded the silver laurel leaf on March 16, 2005, she began training as an industrial clerk there . She now works for Siemens AG in Duisburg .

On October 9, 2005, Stockbauer announced her retirement from swimming.

She then trained the offspring of the Duisburg swimming team until 2008.

Private life

Stockbauer lives in Duisburg and has been in a relationship with Tobias Kreuzmann , a member of the German national water polo team , whom she married in July 2017, since the 2001 World Swimming Championships . They have two daughters (* 2011, * 2014).

successes

Stockbauer can look back on many sporting successes. She was a multiple German champion, five-time world and three-time European champion . At the 2001 World Swimming Championships , she achieved several European records, including over 800 m and 1500 m freestyle. At the 2003 World Swimming Championships , Stockbauer was the most successful athlete with three gold medals.

In 2001 and 2003 she was named German Sportswoman of the Year and in 2003 World Swimmer of the Year.

At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , she was eliminated from the 400 m and 800 m freestyle in the heats. She only won the bronze medal with the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay.

Successes at the Olympic Games

2004

• 1 × bronze: 4 × 200 m freestyle

Successes at world championships

2001

• 2 × gold: 800 m freestyle; 1500 m freestyle
• 1 × silver: 4 × 200 m freestyle
• 1 × bronze: 400 m freestyle

2003

• 3 × gold: 400 m freestyle; 800 m freestyle; 1500 m freestyle

Success at European Championships

1999

• 2 × gold: 800 m freestyle; 4 × 200 m freestyle

2002

• 1 × gold: 4 × 200 m freestyle
• 1 × bronze: 800 m freestyle

Records

German Records (1)
1500 m freestyle	16:00, 18 min	July 27, 2003	Barcelona
(As of August 1, 2008)

Awards

• European swimmer of the year 2003
• Sportswoman of the year 2003

Web links

• Results at the DSV
• Hannah Stockbauer in the database of Swimrankings.net (English)
• Hannah Stockbauer in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release of the Office of the Federal President of March 16, 2005 .... Awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the medal winners of the 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games ...