Sebastian Wiese

Sebastian Wiese (born January 12, 1972 in Dresden ) is a German swimmer and Olympic participant. The 1.88 m tall and 78 kg heavy athlete started for the ASK Vorwärts Potsdam , the OSC Potsdam and the Wasserfreunde Spandau 04 , for which he currently works as a swimming attendant.

National successes

400 m freestyle
- Vice-champion of the GDR 1990 (at the last GDR swimming championships)
- German champion 1992
Long haul
- German champion 1997 over 5 km
- Vice champion in 1998 over 25 km
- Vice champion 2001 over 5 km

European championships
- 1991 in Athens he won the 1500 m freestyle in 15: 14.30 min. Bronze behind his compatriot Jörg Hoffmann (gold in 15: 02.57 min.) And the Briton Ian Wilson (silver in 15: 03.72 min.) .
- Things went even better for him in 1993 in Sheffield . The old and new European champion Jörg Hoffmann (gold in 15: 13.31 min.) Did not come close to the times of Athens, but Wieses time of 15: 14.76 min. Was enough to win the silver medal ahead of the Slovenian Igor Majcen (Bronze in 15: 15.05 min.).
- He won another silver medal in Istanbul in 1999 with the long-distance team (team: Peggy Büchse , Britta Kamrau , Angela Maurer , Andreas Maurer , André Wilde and Sebastian Wiese) behind the victorious team from Russia . In the individual classification he was twelfth over 5 km.

Wiese participated in the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992 and in Atlanta
in 1996 over 400 m freestyle.
- In 1992 he reached the finals and came in 6th place in 3: 49.06 minutes, ahead of Stefan Pfeiffer , the second German finalist (gold was won by Russian Jewgeni Sadowy in the world record time of 3: 45.00 minutes).
- In 1996 he only qualified for the B final, where he finished 2nd in 3: 52.37 minutes (10th place overall). In the A-final this time would have meant 8th place.

Sebastian Wiese in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )