Thomas Aretz
Thomas Aretz (born September 5, 1948 in Obernburg am Main ) is a German swimmer who started around 1970 for Wasserfreunde Wuppertal and Harvard University . He is 1.99 m tall and weighed 91 kg when he was active.
At the German Swimming Championships in 1970 he won the title in the 100 m breaststroke and over 200 m medley .
In addition, he took part in the Olympic Games twice. In 1968 in Mexico City he started over 100 and 200 m breaststroke, but could not qualify for the finals both times. Four years later in Munich he made another attempt in the 200 m individual medley, where he narrowly missed the final as tenth of the preliminary decision.
After the Olympic Games in Munich, he continued his studies in the USA and graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1977 with the degree of Medical Doctor . Since 1999 he has worked at Harvard Medical International as Director and is responsible for training programs and all international alliances.
In 1996 the Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) began to transfer the model of the reform course of the Harvard Medical School to its own medical training. In 1996 the "Munich-Harvard Alliance for Medical Education" was founded for this purpose. For this he was awarded honorary citizenship of the Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich in 2005 .
Web links
- German swimming championships
- Thomas Aretz in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ New honorary citizen of LMU , on uni-muenchen.de, accessed on June 29, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aretz, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German swimmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 5, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Obernburg am Main |