Meike Friday

Meike Friday
Personal information
Surname:	Meike Friday
Nation:	Germany
Swimming style (s) :	Freestyle
Society:	SG Frankfurt
Birthday:	7th February 1979
Place of birth:	Frankfurt am Main
Size:	1.85 m
Weight:	74 kg
Medal table

Meike Freitag (born February 7, 1979 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German swimmer . She celebrated her greatest successes to date in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay of the German national team, with which she won two silver medals at the 2001 and 2007 World Championships. With the single layer relay of SG Frankfurt she won several German championship titles.

"Swim fast and don't think."

- Meike Friday

Career

She has been swimming in the First Frankfurt Swimming Club since the autumn of 1994, and her first sporting successes came in 1994. Before that she started for Tg 1862 Rüsselsheim, of which she is still a member. She is currently starting for SG Frankfurt under her coach Jörg Bügner. Since 1995 she has been promoted in the B-team of the German Swimming Association . Her favorite disciplines are the 100 m and 200 m freestyle. She trains up to eight hours a day in the performance group of the Hessian Swimming Association. She has been named Sportswoman of the Year in her hometown Rüsselsheim am Main several times .

Sporting successes

Olympic games

At the 1996 Olympic Games (July 19 to August 4, 1996) in Atlanta , she swam in the run-up to the two German freestyle relays. The 4 × 200 m relay won (in the line-up Franziska van Almsick , Kerstin Kielgaß , Anke Scholz and Dagmar Hase ) the silver medal in the final, the 4 × 100 m relay (in the line-up Sandra Völker , Simone Osygus , Antje Buschschulte and Franziska van Almsick) bronze.

At the Olympic Games 2000 (September 15 to October 1, 2000) in Sydney she was only in the run-up to the 4 × 200 m relay, the final relay (with Franziska van Almsick, Antje Buschschulte, Sara Harstick and Kerstin Kielgaß) reached the bronze medal.

However , she missed qualification for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens at the German Championships in 2004 due to an injury. Shortly before the start of the games, she swam the second fastest time in the 200 m freestyle at the Olympic test in Hanover , which would have secured her a relay place in the qualification a few weeks earlier.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, she was successful with the 4 × 100 m relay. The season was fifth with Britta Steffen , Meike Freitag, Daniela Götz and Antje Buschschulte .

World championships

At the 2001 World Swimming Championships (July 16-29, 2001) in Fukuoka , she achieved the silver medal in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay in 8: 01.35 minutes (with Silvia Szalai , Sarah Harstick and Hannah Stockbauer ). Initially, the season had swum the fourth best time in the final. Due to the disqualification of the American relay because of an early start and the victorious Australian team because they jumped into the pool before the attack of the last season, the German relay was awarded first bronze and then silver. She also swam in the run-up to the 4 × 100 freestyle relay, the final relay (made up of Petra Dallmann , Antje Buschschulte, Katrin Meissner and Sandra Völker) later won gold.

At the 2005 Swimming World Championships (July 16–31, 2005) in Montréal , she only swam in the preliminary stages of the German freestyle relay. The 4 × 100 m relay won the silver medal in the final (Petra Dallmann, Antje Buschschulte for Meike Freitag, Annika Liebs and Daniela Götz ). The 4 × 200 m relay (with Annika Liebs, Petra Dallmann and Sophie-Luise Dietrich ) was disqualified in the run-up to a faulty change. In the 200 m freestyle, she finished 19th in an individual race with 2: 01.19 minutes.

At the Swimming World Championships 2007 (March 17 to April 1, 2007) in Melbourne , she achieved her second silver medal in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay in 7: 53.82 minutes (this time with Britta Steffen , Petra Dallmann and Annika Lurz) despite a tear in the meniscus that she contracted while playing volleyball. The winner was the United States relay, which set a new world record of 7: 50.09 minutes and improved the previous record of the German national relay by a good seven tenths of a second. Meike Freitag came into the final relay for Daniela Samulski , who was three seconds ahead of her best time of the year. Conversely, she swam with the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay only in the preliminary run and was then replaced by Daniela Samulski in the final relay, which was fourth. In the 200 m freestyle she failed in the semifinals with 1: 59.60 minutes and reached 14th place.

European championships

At the European Youth Championships in 1994 in Pardubice , she won the gold medal with the 4 × 200 m relay, the silver medal with the 4 × 100 m individual relay and the bronze medal in the 100 m freestyle. At the European Championships in Vienna in 1995 , she swam ahead of the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay, which was later victorious. At the European Championships in Berlin in 2002 , she was also only in the run-up to the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay, but she did not make it into the 4 × 200 m relay after an elimination race with Hannah Stockbauer. At the European Short Course Championships in Helsinki in 2006 , she was third behind the teams of Sweden and the Netherlands in the 4 × 50 m relay with 1: 38.50 minutes and a new German record . Furthermore she was in Helsinki over 200 m freestyle sixth and over 100 m freestyle eighth.

German championships

At the German swimming championships in 2000, 2001 and 2006 she was able to achieve first place with the 4 × 100 m individual relay and in 2006 also first place with the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay of SG Frankfurt. Your placements at German championships were in detail:

• German Championships 1996 : 3rd place with the 4 × 100 m layer relay (Szalai, Petchanatz, Voitowitsch) in 4: 22.21 minutes
• German Championships 2000 : 1st place with the 4 × 100 m layer relay (Liebs, Bernhardt, Voitowitsch) in 4: 17.61 minutes
• German Championships 2001 : 1st place with the 4 × 100 m layer relay (Notbohm, Bernhardt, Szalai) in 4: 16.27 minutes
• German Championships 2002 : 2nd place in the 200 m freestyle in 2: 00.44 minutes
• German Championships 2004 : 2nd place with the 4 × 100 m layer relay (Heftrich, Bernhardt, Razeto) in 4: 16.15 minutes
• German Championships 2005 : 2nd place with the 4 × 100 m layered relay (Heftrich, Bernhardt, Razeto) in 4: 15.67 minutes and 3rd place in the 200 m freestyle in 2: 01.21 minutes
• German Championships 2006 : 1st place with the 4 × 100 m layer relay (Heftrich, Bernhardt, Uhle) in 4: 12.84 minutes and 1st place with the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay (Bernhardt, Auer, Uhle) in 8:20 , 76 minutes
• German Winter Championships 2006 : 2nd place over 200 m freestyle in 1: 58.92 minutes and 3rd place over 400 m freestyle in 4: 19.04 minutes.

At the German Championships in 2007 , she was not at the start because of a knee operation on her meniscus. The operation was successful.

At the German Short Course Championships in 2003, she took first place with the 4 × 50 m layer relay and third place with the 4 × 50 m freestyle relay. At the German Short Course Championships in 2004 she was victorious in the 200 m freestyle in 1: 57.69 minutes. So far this has been her only single title at German and international championships. At the German Swimming Team Championships in 2006 she reached 7th place in the first Bundesliga with the SG Frankfurt team.

Private

From 1999 to 2002 she studied sports science and from 2003 to 2006 sports economics at the University of Mainz , completing both courses with a diploma. She is currently a member of the Hessian Ministry of the Interior and Sport . Her father is the swimmer and president of the Hessian Swimming Association, Dr. Werner Friday . She lives in Rüsselsheim am Main.

Web links

• Current swimming performance of Meike Freitag
• Meike Freitag in the database of Swimrankings.net (English)
• Meike Freitag in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Record gone - but happy about silver , Hamburger Abendblatt from March 30, 2007
2. ↑ ^{a b The} initial spark in front of the television ( memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. , Sport in Hessen, issue 25/2002 
3. ↑ Squad lists of the German Swimming Association ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2007 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. , Year 2006-2007 
4. ↑ Award for two water rats and two teams , Rüsselsheimer Echo from December 5, 2005
5. ↑ News from the NRW Swimming Association ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2007 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. dated July 24, 2004 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Rowing is a cult ( memento of the original from September 29, 2007 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. , Newsletter 2007/02 of the Sporthilfe Hessen Foundation 
7. ↑ Meike Freitag operated successfully ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. , Press release at the German Swimming Championships 2007 on April 13, 2007 
8. ↑ Double commitment for Melbourne ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 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. , Frankfurter Rundschau from February 6, 2007