Nađa Higl
Nađa Higl ![]() |
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![]() Nađa Higl at the European Swimming Championships 2010 in Budapest |
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Surname: | Nađa Higl | ||||||||||||
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Swimming style (s) : | chest | ||||||||||||
Society: | PK Tamiš Pančevo | ||||||||||||
Birthday: | 2nd January 1987 | ||||||||||||
Place of birth: | Pančevo | ||||||||||||
Size: | 1.73 m | ||||||||||||
Weight: | 69 kg | ||||||||||||
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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) | |||
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200 m chest | 02: 21.62 min | July 31, 2009 | Rome |
(As of January 23, 2012) |
Results
year | competition | place | discipline | position | time |
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2003 | European Junior Swimming Championships |
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100 m breaststroke | 24 | 1: 15.95 |
200 m breaststroke | 16 | 2: 38.59 | |||
2006 | European Swimming Championships 2006 |
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100 m breaststroke | 44 | 1: 16.99 |
200 m breaststroke | 25th | 2: 40.73 | |||
2007 | European Short Course Championships 2007 |
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100 m breaststroke | 23 | 1: 11.10 |
200 m breaststroke | 23 | 2: 31.14 | |||
2008 | Short Course World Championships 2008 |
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100 m breaststroke | 20th | 1: 10.41 |
200 m breaststroke | 15th | 2: 28.47 | |||
2008 | 2008 Summer Olympics |
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100 m breaststroke | 43 | 1: 13.19 |
200 m breaststroke | 33 | 2: 32.78 | |||
2009 | Mediterranean Games 2009 |
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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 |
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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 |
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100 m breaststroke | 16 | 1: 08.13 |
200 m breaststroke | 1 | 2: 21.62 | |||
2009 | European Short Course Championships 2009 |
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100 m breaststroke | 11 | 1: 06.41 |
200 m breaststroke | 2 | 2: 17.52 | |||
2010 | European Swimming Championships 2010 |
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100 m breaststroke | 22nd | 1: 10.97 |
200 m breaststroke | 8th | 2: 29.60 | |||
2011 | Swimming World Championships 2011 |
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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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SURNAME | Higl, Nađa |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Higl, Nadja; Хигл, Нађа (Serbian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Serbian swimmer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd January 1987 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Pančevo , Yugoslavia (today: Serbia ) |