Stephan Kunzelmann

Stephan Kunzelmann (born November 22, 1978 in Hanover ) is a German swimmer and Olympic participant. The 1.95 m tall and 96 kg heavy athlete started for the SGS Hannover .

German championships

• 50 m freestyle: 3rd place in 1997 , runner-up in 1998 , 3rd place in 2000 and 2001 , MASTER in 2002
• 50 m freestyle short course: 1999 MEISTER, 1997 , 1998 , 2000 and 2002 each runner-up
• 100 m freestyle: 2000 3rd place, 2002 MASTER
• 100 m freestyle short course: 1999 MEISTER, 2000 runner-up

In 2004 Kunzelmann set two German records in the 100 m freestyle: with 49.07 seconds and 47.82 seconds on the short course.

Olympic games

• 2000 in Sydney :
  • 50 m freestyle: Eliminated in 23.08 seconds in the preliminary run. To get into the top 16, he would have had to swim under 22.80 seconds.
  • 4 × 100 m freestyle relay (cast: Torsten Spanneberg , Christian Tröger , Stephan Kunzelmann, Stefan Herbst and Lars Conrad ): 4th place in 3: 17.77 minutes. The gap to the third-placed Brazilians was 0.37 seconds.
• 2004 in Athens :
  • 100 m freestyle: Eliminated in 50.98 seconds in the preliminary run. To qualify for the semi-finals, a time of at least 49.71 seconds would have been required.
  • 4 × 100 m freestyle relay (cast: Lars Conrad, Stefan Herbst, Jens Schreiber , Torsten Spanneberg and Stephan Kunzelmann): 8th place in 3: 17.18 minutes. The gold medal went to South Africa in the new world record time of 3: 13.17 minutes .

European championships

• European Short Course Championships 1998 in Sheffield :
  • GOLD with the 4 × 50 m layer relay (cast: Thomas Rupprath , Mark Warnecke , Alexander Lüderitz and Stephan Kunzelmann) in 1: 35.51 minutes at the same time as Sweden and before Great Britain (bronze in 1: 36.11 minutes)
  • BRONZE with the 4 × 50 m freestyle relay (cast: Stephan Kunzelmann, Lars Conrad, Alexander Lüderitz and Carsten Dehmlow ) in 1: 28.01 min. Behind the Netherlands (gold in 1: 26.99 min.) And Great Britain (silver in 1: 27.74 min.)
• European Short Course Championships 1999 in Lisbon :
  • SILVER with the 4 × 50 m freestyle relay (cast: Mitja Zastrow , Alexander Lüderitz, Stephan Kunzelmann and Kai Hanschmann ) in 1: 27.76 minutes behind Sweden (gold in 1: 27.12 minutes) and ahead of the Netherlands (bronze in 1: 27.95 min.)
• European Short Course Championships 2000 in Valencia :
  • SILVER with the 4 × 50 m freestyle relay (cast: Thomas Winkler , Stephan Kunzelmann, Stefan Herbst and Sven Guske ) in 1: 27.81 minutes behind Sweden (gold in 1: 27.52 minutes) and ahead of Great Britain (bronze in 1: 28.18 min.)
• European Championships 2000 in Helsinki :
  • SILVER with the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay (cast: Stefan Herbst, Lars Conrad, Christian Tröger and Stephan Kunzelmann) in 3: 19.16 minutes behind Russia (gold in 3: 18.75 minutes) and in front of France (bronze in 3: 20.37 min.)
• European Championships 2002 in Berlin :
  • GOLD with the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay (cast: Lars Conrad, Stefan Herbst, Torsten Spanneberg and Stephan Kunzelmann) in 3: 17.67 minutes ahead of Sweden (silver in 3: 17.75 minutes) and Italy (bronze in 3 : 18.20 min.)

Web links

• German swimming championships
• Stephan Kunzelmann in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Records