Silke Lippok

Silke Lippok
Silke Lippok at the reception of the London team for the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region in 2012
Personal information
Surname:	Silke Lippok
Nation:	Germany
Swimming style (s) :	Freestyle
Society:	Hamburg swimming club from 1879
Birthday:	January 31, 1994
Place of birth:	Pforzheim
Size:	1.71 m
Weight:	68 kg
Medal table

Silke Lippok (born January 31, 1994 in Pforzheim ) is a German former swimming athlete .

Career

Beginnings

Silke Lippok came to swimming at the age of five through her older brother Nils, who had participated in regional competitions in 2002 and 2003. At the beginning of her active sports career, she became a member of the Pforzheim Swimming and Sports Association (SSG Pforzheim). Her favorite swimming styles initially included the crawl and butterfly , later she concentrated on the freestyle discipline and the 200-meter distance , especially in competitions . In addition, she has meanwhile been successful as a track and field athlete and in September 2006 at the three valleys meeting at the Buckenberg sports facility over 800 meters in 2: 27.38 minutes, she set a new Baden district best in her age group.

Lippok switched to the first team of SSG Pforzheim when he was twelve and was looked after by Rudi Schulz for about six years. At the end of January 2012, the former base trainer received the award as Trainer of the Year for his life's work from the Baden-Württemberg State Sports Association. Schulz resigned at the end of the 2013 season.

Success as a junior

Lippok won her first national title on April 21, 2008 over 50 m butterfly at the German Championships in Berlin. In the absence of competitors like Daniela Samulski and Annika Mehlhorn , she hit the non-Olympic track in the final in 27.08 seconds just ahead of Iris Rosenberger .

In July 2008 she won two silver medals in the 100 m freestyle at the Junior World Championships in Monterrey, Mexico and in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay together with Franziska Jansen , Lisa Vitting and Sina Sutter . As a 14-year-old she was at the lower age limit of all participating athletes.

On June 26th, 2009 she won the German Championships over 200 m freestyle in 1: 59.65 minutes ahead of Daniela Schreiber for the first time on her special track. At the 2009 European Junior Championships in Prague , she won four gold and two silver medals and set new personal bests in the 50 and 100 m freestyle. In the following year she improved at the continental junior championships in Helsinki and became the most successful female participant with five titles. The tier relay, which was initially in second place, benefited from a disqualification of the Spanish team.

With another victory in the 200 m freestyle at the German Championships on July 2, 2010, she qualified for the first time for the European Women's Championships in Budapest. Originally, she was supposed to take part in the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore, which took place with a delay in the second half of August. In the Hungarian capital, she first won gold in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay before she finished second behind Federica Pellegrini in the 200 m freestyle in a personal best of 1: 56.98 minutes . In addition, after the Russian team was disqualified, she was third in the 4 × 100 m individual medley relay.

At the European Short Course Championships in Eindhoven in 2010 she reached the 200 m freestyle with a German record in 1: 53.96 minutes behind Femke Heemskerk . On July 24, 2011, she came third at the 2011 World Swimming Championships in Shanghai in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay together with Britta Steffen , Lisa Vitting and Daniela Schreiber. Five months later she won the gold medal and her first international individual title at the 2011 European Short Course Championships in Szczecin in the absence of the previous year's winner.

Lippok won her fourth national title in a row in the 200 m freestyle on May 11, 2012 at the German Championships . At the subsequent European Championships in Debrecen, she repeated the freestyle successes of 2010. On May 21, 2012, she won the gold in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay and five days later the 200 m freestyle in 1: 58.19 minutes Silver medal behind Federica Pellegrini. She was qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, although she only undercut the standard time in the run-up to the German championships and in the relay run-up to the European championships. In the Aquatics Center she reached the semi-finals on her special course and missed the final as 13th overall. of the intermediate run. In the 4 × 100 m freestyle and 4 × 200 m freestyle relay, she and her teammates failed in the preliminary run.

Sports realignment

At the end of October 2012, Lippok announced her move to the Olympic base of the German Swimming Association (DSV) in Hamburg. Despite the local change, she initially remained a member of the SSG Pforzheim. After the stagnation of the results since her success as a junior, Lippok hoped for a performance boost from the professionalization of the sporting environment. Her new trainer Petra Wolfram looks after the two top athletes Steffen and Markus Deibler . Compared to other top athletes, the training conditions in Pforzheim were considered difficult. The pools available for water training in the public swimming pools are only 25 meters long. In addition, the technique training was made difficult by high waves. For courses with the national team in preparation for major sporting events, she had previously temporarily moved to Karlsruhe or the Heidelberg Olympic base .

Shortly after their move, Lippok sustained a serious knee injury with a tear in the anterior cruciate ligament while training on the land. A metatarsal fracture threw her back in November 2009. After a break of several weeks, she resumed training in mid-December 2012. In spring 2013 she moved from her long-term home club SSG Pforzheim to the Hamburg swimming club from 1879 . After three national championship titles in the Hanseatic city, she announced in mid-April 2013 that she was not starting the German championships and world championships . She justified the cancellation with the lack of resilience of her knee and the renewed risk of injury with regard to participation in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. After several infectious diseases in the following months, the German short course championships also took place without them at the end of the year. At the beginning of May 2014, Lippok took part in a major competition for the first time since the Summer Olympics. At the German Championships , she finished fifth in the 200 m freestyle in 2: 01.18 minutes, about two seconds behind the winner Annika Bruhn . At the 2014 Short Course World Championships in Doha , she finished tenth as the final swimmer with the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay in the preliminary run.

Almost two weeks after the German Championships , she announced her retirement from active competitive sport on April 23, 2015. She justified the end of the career with the numerous injuries and illnesses of the past years as well as with the focus on the psychology studies in Hamburg.

Records

Already at the beginning of her career, Lippok achieved numerous top performances. At the age of 14 she held 138 Baden and 26 German age group records and in the further course of her career surpassed several records from Franziska van Almsick from the 1990s.

Chronology (excerpt):

• March 8, 2008: At the district championships she improved the Baden record over 100 m butterfly in 1: 00.96 minutes and at the same time the German age class record of Franziska van Almsick from 1992. She increased her own age class record over 100 m medley to 1: 04.78 minutes.
• April 21, 2008: In the final of the German Championships, she swam the 50 m butterfly in 27.08 seconds, a new age class record after setting a new best time of 27.60 seconds in the run-up.
• November 15, 2008: At the World Cup final in Berlin, she equalized Franziska van Almsick's age class record in the 200 m freestyle in 1: 57.53 minutes.
• July 9, 2009: At the European Junior Championships in Prague, she set a new European junior record in the 100 m freestyle in 55.02 seconds and improved van Almsick's old record by 25 hundredths.
• July 1, 2010: In the run-up to the German championships over 100 m freestyle, she beat another age class record from 1994 with 54.74 seconds.
• June 2, 2011: At the German Championships, she hit the 200 m freestyle after 1: 57.42 minutes and replaced van Almsick again after 16 years.

In addition, Lippok holds two current German records:

discipline	Time (min)	date	Event / place
German Records (2)
4 × 50 m freestyle ( DSV national relay with Brandt , Vitting and Schreiber )	1: 41.52	February 5, 2011	International competition Essen
200 m freestyle (short course)	1: 53.96	November 28, 2010	EM Eindhoven
As of February 5, 2011

Personal

Silke Lippok is the daughter of Christine and Andreas Lippok, a taxi entrepreneur from Pforzheim. Her brother Nils (* 1989), who was five years her senior, was also temporarily active in swimming.

She attended the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium in Pforzheim and graduated from high school in spring 2012. In October 2013 she started studying psychology at the University of Hamburg .

A sponsorship partnership with a manufacturer of swimwear and accessories has existed since the end of 2013 .

In Germany, her favorite discipline is linked to well-known predecessors such as Franziska van Almsick and Annika Lurz . In particular, the media drew comparisons with Van Almsick, who was similarly successful at a young age and won several world and European championship titles between 1993 and 2002.

Awards

At receptions in the town hall of her hometown Pforzheim, Lippok was honored for her sporting achievements in July 2008 and 2009 by Lord Mayor Christel Augenstein and her successor in office Gert Hager . From 2007 to 2011 it was consistently ahead in the athletes' poll, which is organized annually by the Pforzheimer Zeitung and Volksbank Pforzheim . In 2012 she was relegated to second place by the athlete Anna-Lena Schwarz .

On October 15, 2010 she won the election for Junior Sportswoman of the Year 2010 with 94 out of 100 possible points . She received the award for her five gold and two silver medals at the European Junior Championships in Helsinki. Laudator Franziska van Almsick described Lippok as "currently the greatest talent in the German team". Already in 2009 she was among the top ten and was accepted into the young talent elite sponsorship of the German Sports Aid and the perspective team 2012 of the German Swimming Association.

At the end of January 2011 she was named Germany's Swimmer of the Year 2010 by the swimming division of the DSV. The following year she was in second place behind Britta Steffen.

Web links

• Silke Lippok in the Swimrankings.net database (English)
• Silke Lippok in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German champion: Silke Lippok swims away from everyone at the age of 14. In: Pforzheimer Zeitung , May 6, 2008
2. ^ Nils Lippok at the German Swimming Association. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 1, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
3. ^ Dreitäler-Meeting LC 80 Pforzheim. (PDF: 7.3 kB) (No longer available online.) Leichtathletikclub 80 Pforzheim, September 24, 2006, archived from the original on February 21, 2007 ; Retrieved January 1, 2012 . 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.  
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Robert Dunker: Silke Lippok is the new Franziska van Almsick. In: Die Welt , August 16, 2010
5. ^ Lippok trainer Rudi Schulz trainer of the year.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Pforzheimer Zeitung , January 25, 2012  
6. ↑ ^{a b} "This is madness". In: Pforzheimer Zeitung , April 21, 2008
7. ↑ Silke Lippok takes second world championship silver. In: Pforzheimer Zeitung , July 13, 2008
8. ↑ Swimmer Silke Lippok, dog-tired and overjoyed. In: Pforzheimer Zeitung , July 13, 2009
9. ^ Gold child Silke Lippok: Won five titles at the Junior Swimming Championships.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Pforzheimer Zeitung , July 19, 2010  
10. ↑ Silke Lippok is also nominated. In: Pforzheimer Zeitung , June 25, 2012
11. ↑ Silke Lippok is training in Hamburg from now on. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , October 24, 2012
12. ↑ Frank Bachner: Until the bus comes. In: Der Tagesspiegel , June 4, 2011
13. ↑ Andreas Morbach: The ease of swimming. In: Der Tagesspiegel , August 15, 2010
14. ↑ Dominique Jahn: Silke Lippok with cruciate ligament tear: six months break.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Pforzheimer Zeitung , October 30, 2012  
15. ↑ Steffen-Michael Eigner: "I would do everything again" In: Mühlacker Tagblatt , December 22, 2012
16. ↑ Lippok also decided not to start the World Cup. In: Rheinische Post , April 17, 2013
17. ↑ Sabrina Knoll: Silke Lippok: Slow approach to the top level. ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Pforzheimer Zeitung , May 6, 2014 
18. ↑ Martin Mildenberger: Over and over after many setbacks: Silke Lippok ends a great career. ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2015 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. In: Pforzheimer Zeitung , April 24, 2015 
19. ↑ Silke Lippok in impressive form. In: Pforzheimer Zeitung , June 16, 2008
20. ↑ Silke Lippok improves Franziska von Almsick's German age class record. Baden Swimming Association, March 8, 2008, accessed on January 2, 2012 . 
21. ↑ Bernd Steinle: "Testing what is still slumbering in me". In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 28, 2008
22. ↑ Gold rain at the Junior European Championships. swimsportnews.de, July 9, 2009, accessed January 2, 2012 . 
23. ↑ Silke Lippok brings DM titles in front of the parents. In: Pforzheimer Zeitung , July 2, 2010
24. ^ Sports information service: Swimming DM: Steffen loses duel against Lippok. In: Focus , June 2, 2011
25. ^ Olympic debut for Silke Lippok from Pforzheim In: Schwäbisches Tagblatt , June 9, 2012
26. ↑ Dominique Jahn: Silke Lippok wins two championships.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Pforzheimer Zeitung , April 8, 2014  
27. ↑ Sponsoring - Aquafeel. Fashy, accessed February 13, 2015 . 
28. ↑ Town hall dreams of the Olympics - Mayor receives Silke Lippok. In: Pforzheimer Zeitung , July 24, 2008
29. ↑ Schnell Silke, proud city. In: Pforzheimer Zeitung , July 31, 2009
30. ↑ 2011 athletes' choice: Coup, comeback and serial winner. In: Pforzheimer Zeitung , October 19, 2011
31. ↑ Selected athlete of the year in the Volksbankhaus.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Pforzheimer Zeitung , October 23, 2012  
32. ↑ Silke Lippok is Junior Sportswoman of the Year 2010. (No longer available online.) Stiftung Deutsche Sporthilfe, October 15, 2010, archived from the original on December 14, 2015 ; Retrieved January 1, 2012 . 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.  
33. ↑ Sports information service: Steffen Deibler and Lippok swimmer of the year. In: Focus , January 27, 2011