Tim Wallburger

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Personal information
Surname: Tim Wallburger
Nation: GermanyGermany Germany
Birthday: August 18, 1989
Place of birth: Dresden

Tim Wallburger (born August 18, 1989 in Dresden ) is a former German swimmer . Until 2004 he started for the Dresdner SC 1898. Then he moved to Berlin for SG Neukölln in the training group of Norbert Warnatzsch , in which Britta Steffen and Benjamin Starke also trained. Tim Wallburger has been trained by Lasse Frank since October 2012.

Athletic career

Tim Wallburger started swimming in 1997 and took part in South German championships for the first time in 2000. He won the bronze medal in the 1500 meter freestyle when he started for the first time at the 2003 German Championships. In the years that followed, he regularly achieved podium finishes on the long freestyle and butterfly courses as well as both individual courses at the South German and German year-old championships. In 2007 the breakthrough into the national top of the open class was achieved with a third place in the 400 meter medley at the German championships. Wallburger made his first international appearance in 2009 with his participation in the World Cup in Berlin and the European Youth Championships in Antwerp. Wallburger won his first international medal with the 4 × 200 meter freestyle relay at the 2010 European Swimming Championships in Budapest. At the side of Paul Biedermann , Clemens Rapp and Robin Backhaus, he became vice-European champion behind the victorious Russians. In the individual over 200 meters freestyle he just missed the final by a tenth of a second in ninth place. He won his first international individual medal at the European Short Course Championships 2010 in Eindhoven (silver over 200 meters butterfly). In 2011 he secured his first German championship title on the long 50-meter lane over 200 meters butterfly and qualified as German runner-up for the 4 x 200 meter freestyle relay at the 2011 World Swimming Championships in Shanghai, where he and Paul Biedermann , Benjamin Starke and Christoph Fildebrandt finished fourth behind the USA, France and China. Before that, Tim Wallburger missed the semi-finals by a hundredth of a second in his individual World Cup start in the 200 meter freestyle. At the European championships in Debrecen in 2012 , Tim Wallburger was European champion alongside Paul Biedermann, Dimitri Colupaev and Clemens Rapp with the 4 x 200 meter freestyle relay. He missed an EM individual medal in the 200 m freestyle by three hundredths of a second. In the end, 29 hundredths were missing from the bronze medal at his first Olympic Games. In London, the 4 x 200 meter freestyle relay started in the successful EM line-up. Tim Wallburger has been the B national team of the German Swimming Association (DSV) since 2009 .

In January 2015 he announced his retirement from competitive sports.

successes

Olympic Games 2012

  • 4th place in the 4 × 200 m freestyle

European Championships 2012

  • 4th place in the 4 × 200 m freestyle

German Championships 2013

  • Silver in the 400 m freestyle
  • Bronze in the 200 m freestyle

German Championships 2011

  • Gold over 200 m butterfly
  • Silver over 400 m layers
  • Silver over 200 m layers
  • Bronze over 100 m butterfly

German Short Course Championships 2011

  • Silver over 4 × 200 m freestyle
  • 9th place in the 200 m freestyle

European Championships 2010

  • Silver over 200 m butterfly

European Short Course Championships 2010

  • Silver in the 200 m freestyle
  • Bronze over 200 m layers

German championships 2010

  • Gold over 200 m butterfly
  • Bronze over 200 m layers

German Short Course Championships 2010

  • Silver over 200 m butterfly
  • Silver over 200 m layers

German Championships 2009

  • Silver over 200 m butterfly

German Short Course Championships 2007

  • Bronze over 400 m layers

German Championships 2007

  • 5th place over 200 m butterfly

Junior European Championships 2007

  • Gold over 400 m freestyle, 400 m medley and 200 m butterfly

German class championships 2007

  • Medals in 1500 m freestyle, 400 m medley, 400 m freestyle, 200 m butterfly, 200 m medley and 200 m freestyle

German year championships 2003 to 2006

  • Silver and bronze medals in team championships

DMS-J (2000, 2001) and DMS (2006, 2007, 2008)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tim Wallburger announces his final resignation. In: swimsportnews.de. Retrieved October 27, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Wallburger, Tim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German swimmer
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden