Katrin Jäke

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Katrin Jäke (* 1973 ) is a German swimmer .

National successes

Already in 1988 she was at the top of the podium when she won the GDR championship with the 4 × 100 m individual relay of the SC DHfK Leipzig . Two runner-up championships over 100 and 200 m dolphin followed in 1990. This was the prelude to an impressive series of victories as a swimmer for the DSV .

  • 050 m dolphin: Champion 1990 and 1999, 3rd place in 1991; Short course: 1999 3rd place
  • 100 m dolphin: Champion 1990 and 1999, runner-up 1991 and 1997, 3rd place in 1998; Short course: 1999 runner-up
  • 200 m dolphin: Champion 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999, Vice Champion 2001, 3rd place 1991; Short course: 3rd place in 1994, runner-up in 1996, champion in 1999
  • 200 m individual medley: 1998 and 1999 3rd place; Short course: 1996 3rd place
  • 400 m individual medley: 1999 runner-up, 2000 3rd place; Short course: 1996 3rd place

At the German Championships in 2000, she did not make it into the top three over 100 or over 200 m dolphins. So she missed the qualification for the Olympic Games in Sydney after failing in 1992 and 1996.

International success

Katrin Jäke started at the European Championships in 1993 in Sheffield , 1995 in Vienna , 1997 in Seville and 1999 in Istanbul , at the World Championships in Rome in 1994 and in Perth in 1998 and at the 2000 World Short Course Championships in Athens . With her favorite discipline, the 200 m dolphin, she always reached the finals and twice even made it into the medal ranks:

  • 1993: She didn't come close to the Hungarian Krisztina Egerszegi , who was European champion in 2: 10.71 minutes, but her time of 2: 13.07 minutes was enough for the silver medal ahead of Barbara Franco from Spain (bronze in 2 : 13.39 min.).
  • 2000: Katrin Jäke was significantly better than Sheffield. She swam 2: 08.10 minutes and won silver for the second time in an individual competition. Gold and bronze went to Mette Jacobsen of Denmark (2:. 08.10 min) and the Polish Otylia Jędrzejczak (2: 09.61 min.). In addition, she won another silver medal with the 4 × 100 m layered relay (team: Sandra Völker , Janne Schäfer , Katrin Jäke and Katrin Meißner ), which was clearly behind the victorious Swedes in 4: 01.47 minutes (gold in 3: 59.53 min.), But the USA was just as clear in third place (4: 02.51 min.). This medal was a consolation for the bad luck two years earlier in Perth , where Katrin Jäke was only fourth in her first international relay deployment.

Katrin Jäke remained connected to swimming even after the end of her active career. In 2004 she was appointed regional trainer in Leipzig. In January 2005, Jäke moved from Leipzig to the Olympic base in Hamburg.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt - Hamburg: Two new ones for Hamburg's swimmers . ( Abendblatt.de [accessed on July 13, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Jake, Katrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German swimmer
DATE OF BIRTH 1973