Sarina Hülsenbeck

Sarina Hülsenbeck , married Fischer (born July 5, 1962 in Rostock ) is a former German swimmer .

Sarina Hülsenbeck started for the ASK Vorwärts Potsdam , where she was trained by Dierk Besen. The freestyle specialist won the 100 meter races at the Spartakiads in 1975 and 1977. In 1979 and 1980 she was fourth on the track in the GDR championship. In 1980 she was able to qualify for the GDR's 4 × 100 meter freestyle relay at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow . With the relay, Hülsenbeck became Olympic champion. With Barbara Krause , Caren Metschuck and Ines Diers she set a new world record in 3: 42.71 minutes. For this success she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.

After her active career, Hülsenbeck studied at the Potsdam University of Education . She is married to the four-time world champion in canoe racing, Frank Fischer , the brother of Birgit Fischer , with whom she has a daughter and a son, both of whom are or were canoeists . Her daughter Fanny is the more successful of the siblings with gold medals at the Olympic Games and other international championships. The teacher still sometimes starts in the dragon boat of the canoe club Potsdam . There she is involved in the Preussen-Kanu association, a department in the OSC Potsdam Luftschiffhafen ( Preussen-Kanu ).

literature

• Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 , p. 177.

Web links

• Sarina Hülsenbeck in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , August 22, 1980, p. 3
2. ↑ Preussen-Kanu ( Memento of the original from September 7, 2012 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.