Sarah Koehler

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Personal information
Surname: Sarah Koehler
Nation: GermanyGermany Germany
Swimming style (s) : Freestyle
Society: SG Frankfurt
Birthday: 20th June 1994 (age 26)
Place of birth: Hanau
Medal table
Medals

Sarah Kohler (* 20th June 1994 in Hanau ) is a German swimmer on long-haul routes. In 2017 she became European champion over 800 meters on the short course and in 2019 vice world champion over 1500 meters on the long course.

career

Sarah Köhler starts for SG Frankfurt . She trained under Michael Spikermann at the Rhein-Neckar Olympic Training Center in Heidelberg . In spring 2014 she successfully passed her Abitur at the Willy Hellpach School in Heidelberg, an elite school for sports , and is now studying law at the University of Heidelberg . Since September 2018 she has been training under Bernd Berkhahn at the federal base in Magdeburg .

Köhler was German champion in the 800 and 1500 meters freestyle in 2014 . She celebrated her greatest international successes to date in 2017 by winning the European Short Course Championships in Copenhagen over 800 m freestyle and the Vice European Championship over 400 m freestyle, and in 2013 with two 3rd places over 800 m freestyle at the FINA World Cup in Moscow and Dubai. At the 2013 World Championships in Barcelona she finished 23rd with 4: 16.13 min in the prelim over 400 m freestyle, 15th over 800 m with 8: 34.72 min, and 15th over 1500 m with 16: 24.42 min Preliminary run 14th. At the short course world championships in 2014 she reached fifth place in the 800 m freestyle. In 2016 she took part in the Olympic Games in Rio and was the only German woman to make it to a final, where she finished 8th in the 800 m freestyle.

At the European Championships in 2018 , Köhler won silver in the 1500 m freestyle and with the 4 × 1.25 km open water relay, as well as bronze with the German 4 × 200 m freestyle relay. At the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju , she won gold with the open water relay and silver in the 1500 m freestyle in a German record time of 15: 48.83 minutes. She took fourth place over 800 m, with a time of 8: 16.43 minutes, beating Anke Möhring's 32-year-old German record by more than three seconds. In August 2019 she won the 400, 800 and 1500 meter freestyle titles at the German Championships . On November 16, 2019, Köhler set a new world record over 1500 m freestyle at the German Short Course Championships in 15: 18.01 minutes, which the Spaniard Mireia Belmonte had held for almost five years .

successes

(all routes in freestyle)

  • European Short Course Championships 2012: 4th place 800 m
  • European Short Course Championships 2013: 6th place 800 m, 10th place 400 m
  • European Championships 2014: 7th place 800 m, 9th place 400 m
  • Short Course World Championships 2014: 5th place 800 m, 11th place 400 m
  • Olympic Games 2016: 8th place 800 m
  • European Short Course Championships 2017: 1st place 800 m, 2nd place 400 m
  • European Championships 2018: 2nd place 1500 m, 2nd place 4 × 1.25 km open water, 3rd place 4 × 200 m, 4th place 800 m
  • Short Course World Championships 2018: 5th place 800 m, 7th place 400 m
  • World Championships 2019: 1st place 4 × 1.25 km open water, 2nd place 1500 m, 4th place 800 m
  • German championships:
    • 2012: 400 m, 800 m
    • 2013: 400 m
    • 2014: 800 m, 1500 m
    • 2015: 400 m
    • 2016: 400 m, 800 m
    • 2017: 400 m, 800 m
    • 2018: 1500 m
    • 2019: 400 m, 800 m, 1500 m

Best times

As of 2019

  • Long track:
    • 1500 meters freestyle: 15: 48.83 minutes (German record)
    • 800 meters freestyle: 8: 16.43 minutes (German record)
    • 400 meters freestyle: 4: 03.96 minutes (German record)
  • Short course:
    • 1500 meters freestyle: 15: 18.01 minutes (world record)
    • 800 meters freestyle: 8: 10.54 minutes (German record)
    • 400 meters freestyle: 3: 59.12 minutes (German record)

Awards

Private

Sarah Köhler is in a relationship with the swimmer Florian Wellbrock .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sarah Köhler is university athlete of the year . December 5, 2017, accessed August 4, 2018.
  2. ↑ Sarah Köhler changes training location. In: swim.de , September 18, 2018.
  3. ↑ Sebastian Schwenke: Overview: All World Cup medals of the DSV swimmers. Retrieved June 18, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Wellbrock makes the swimming triple perfect. In: butenunbinnen.de. August 4, 2019, accessed August 13, 2019 .
  5. ^ Report Hessenschau: Köhler swims a world record over 1,500 meters. Hessischer Rundfunk, November 11, 2019, accessed on November 17, 2019 .
  6. ↑ swimrankings.net Koehler, Sarah
  7. ↑ Frankfurter Neue Presse: Like a dream: Sarah Köhler from Frankfurt wins EM gold in Copenhagen. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse. December 15, 2017. Retrieved December 18, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Sebastian Schwenke: Record and silver! Sarah Köhler cracks the four-minute mark. In: swimsportnews. December 17, 2017. Retrieved December 18, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Koehler, Sarah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German swimmer
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau