Nađa Higl

Nađa Higl
Nađa Higl at the European Swimming Championships 2010 in Budapest
Personal information
Surname:	Nađa Higl
Nation:	Serbia
Swimming style (s) :	chest
Society:	PK Tamiš Pančevo
Birthday:	2nd January 1987
Place of birth:	Pančevo
Size:	1.73 m
Weight:	69 kg
Medal table

Nađa Higl ( Serbian - Cyrillic Нађа Хигл , also written Nadja Higl ; born January 2, 1987 in Pančevo ) is a swimmer from Serbia .

Life

Nadja's father Dragan Higl (hill) is of German descent and moved from Travnik to Pančevo. There he met his future wife Snežana from Zrenjanin . As a lifeguard, Nadja's father had free access to the swimming pools in the area and taught his two children to swim at an early age. Despite this, Nadja was more interested in ballet at first, but then decided to take up swimming. She won her first medal at the age of ten. Then she set records that are still valid in Serbia today. Her brother Sebastijan, who had been a Serbian swimming champion himself, became the new coach.

Career

The chest swimmer Higl took at the European Short Course Swimming Championships in 2007 in the Hungarian Debrecen for the first time in an international competition. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , she swam over 100 meters as well as over 200 meters chest, but did not get beyond the lead in both distances.

She achieved her greatest sporting success to date at the 2009 Swimming World Championships . Surprisingly, she won the 200 m breaststroke final with a new European record and thus secured the gold medal. She was also at the start over 100 meters, but had to be content with 16th place. At the Summer Universiade 2009 in Belgrade she won the silver medal in 100 and 200 m breasts. At the Short Course Swimming World Cup in Durban in 2009 , she took first place in the 200-meter breaststroke with a time of 2: 20.41 minutes.

Records

European record (long track)
200 m chest	02: 21.62 min	July 31, 2009	Rome
(As of January 23, 2012)

Results

year	competition	place	discipline	position	time
2003	European Junior Swimming Championships	United Kingdom Glasgow	100 m breaststroke	24	1: 15.95
			200 m breaststroke	16	2: 38.59
2006	European Swimming Championships 2006	Hungary Budapest	100 m breaststroke	44	1: 16.99
			200 m breaststroke	25th	2: 40.73
2007	European Short Course Championships 2007	Hungary Debrecen	100 m breaststroke	23	1: 11.10
			200 m breaststroke	23	2: 31.14
2008	Short Course World Championships 2008	United Kingdom Manchester	100 m breaststroke	20th	1: 10.41
			200 m breaststroke	15th	2: 28.47
2008	2008 Summer Olympics	People's Republic of China Beijing	100 m breaststroke	43	1: 13.19
			200 m breaststroke	33	2: 32.78
2009	Mediterranean Games 2009	Italy Pescara	100 m breaststroke	10	1: 11.50
			200 m breaststroke	4th	2: 29.79
			4 × 100 meter layers	5	1: 07.75 (4: 14.14)
2009	Summer Universiade 2009	Serbia Belgrade	100 m breaststroke	2	1: 07.80
			200 m breaststroke	2	2: 24.20
			4 × 100 meter layers	15th	1: 13.70 (4: 29.49)
2009	Swimming World Championships 2009	Italy Rome	100 m breaststroke	16	1: 08.13
			200 m breaststroke	1	2: 21.62
2009	European Short Course Championships 2009	Turkey Istanbul	100 m breaststroke	11	1: 06.41
			200 m breaststroke	2	2: 17.52
2010	European Swimming Championships 2010	Hungary Budapest	100 m breaststroke	22nd	1: 10.97
			200 m breaststroke	8th	2: 29.60
2011	Swimming World Championships 2011	People's Republic of China Shanghai	200 m breaststroke	6th	2: 25.93

Web links

• Record on the LEN website
• "A bojala sam se vode ..." ("But I was afraid of the water ...") . Portrait of Nađa Higl at www.novosti.rs, July 12, 2009 (Serbian)
• Nađa Higl in the Swimrankings.net database (English)

Individual evidence

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