Ralph Färber

Ralph Färber
Personal information
Surname:	Ralph Färber
Nation:	German Democratic Republic of Germany
Swimming style (s) :	Chest, freestyle
Birthday:	August 30, 1971
Place of birth:	Leipzig
Type of medals Number of gold × Number of silver × Number of bronze ×

Ralph Färber (born August 30, 1971 in Leipzig ) is a former German swimmer. He was a member of the GDR national team and after the reunification part of the all-German national team. Before moving to the first Offenbach swimming club in 1991 , he started for the SC DHFK Leipzig .

Life

Ralph Färber attended the children's and youth sports school in Leipzig . After moving from Leipzig to Offenbach, he passed the Abitur at the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium in Offenbach. After his subsequent training as a merchant of property and housing industry, he holds a degree in Sports Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. He wrote his master's thesis in 2001 on the subject of "strength training in swimming".

Today he works as a sports scientist at the Hesse Olympic Training Center in Frankfurt am Main. and has been the athletic trainer of the German Table Tennis Association since 2008 and looks after the German men's table tennis team. He has remained loyal to swimming as a personal trainer and looks after a.o. a. the professional triathlete Natascha Schmitt . In this context, he also presented tips for athletic training for swimmers in several videos and led various seminars at the sports school of the State Sports Association of Hesse in Frankfurt .

In addition, he regularly supports the Hessian Swimming Association with his regional trainer Benjamin Friedrich in cadre measures.

He lives and lives with his family in Wiesbaden .

Athletic career

In addition to titles at junior European championships, GDR championships and German championships, he was placed at European and world championships. He achieved victories and top placements in World Cups and other international competitions.

At the last GDR championships in Dresden in 1990, he was the last GDR champion over the 100 m chest . In the same year he became the first German champion over 100 m breaststroke at the first all-German championships in Munich.

successes

1987

GDR championships

• 3rd place 100 m chest

Junior European Championships

• 1st place 4 × 100 m freestyle relay
• 1st place 4 × 200 m freestyle relay
• 3rd place 100 m chest
• 3rd place 4 × 100 m layer relay

1988

GDR championships

• 3rd place 100 m chest
• 3rd place 200 m chest

European Cup

• 9th place 200 m chest

1989

GDR championships

• 1st place 100 m breaststroke with best time of the year and GDR record

European Cup

• 3rd place 100 m chest

1990

GDR championships

• 1st place 100 m chest (last GDR champion over 100 m chest)

Good Will Games

• 6th place 100 m chest

German championships

• 1st place 100 m breaststroke (1st all-German champion)

1991

German championships

• 1st place 100 m chest
• 1st place 200 m breaststroke with German record
• 3rd place 4 × 100 m layer relay with EOSC team

1992

World cup series

3rd place in the overall World Cup ranking

German championships

• 1st place 200 m chest
• 3rd place 100 m chest

1994

German championships

• 3rd place 100 m chest

Good Will Games

• 2nd place 4 × 100 m layer relay

1995

German short course championships

• 3rd place 200 m chest

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/423389.vom-wendewind-verweht.html?sstr=Ralph%7CF%C3%A4rber%7CSchwimmen
2. ↑ UB FFM: Suchportal Frankfurt: Title: Strength training in swimming: ... Accessed on November 5, 2019 . 
3. ↑ https://www.osph.de/zentrale/mitarbeiter/athletik-und-rehatraining
4. ↑ https://www.tischtennis.de/trainer-betreuer/ Spieler/ralph- faerber.html
5. ↑ https://www.wr.de/sport/tischtennis-rosskopf- sucht-mehr-ex-profis-im-trainerberuf- id216352895.html
6. ↑ https://www.tischtennis.de/news/dttb-teams-legen-in-formia-und-hinterzarten-die-konditionelle-basis.html
7. ↑ My team - Natascha Schmitt. Retrieved March 16, 2020 . 
8. ↑ schwimmseminar.de: Pull rope training and strengthening for swimming. Accessed November 5, 2019 (German). 
9. ↑ Swimming seminars in Germany. Retrieved March 16, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Report of the state diversity test - Hessian Swimming Association. Accessed on March 16, 2020 (German). 
11. ↑ http://www.taz.de/!1802392/
12. ↑ https://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/321411.dirk-richter-verschenkt-silbermedaille.html
13. ↑ http://www.fina.org/competition-detailed-results/150763
14. ↑ http://www.fina.org/competition-detailed-results/150780
15. ↑ http://www.fina.org/competition-detailed-results/150773
16. ↑ https://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/284185.ostdeutsche-asse-schwimmen-vorn.html
17. ↑ https://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/674491.gold-genugtuung-fuer-den-coach.html
18. ↑ http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/s/schwimmen/hst/137.html