Uschi Friday

Uschi Friday
Personal information
Nationality:	Germany Netherlands
Discipline (s) :	Artistic / synchronized jumping
Society:	WSC City Region Aachen eV
Birthday:	August 19, 1989
Place of birth:	Maastricht

Uschi Freitag (born August 19, 1989 in Maastricht ) is a German-Dutch tower and water diver at the water diving club CitiesRegion Aachen eV (WSC AC). She is currently starting for a Dutch club. She is a student and now lives in the city of Maastricht in the Netherlands .

Uschi Freitag was one of the youngsters at SV Neptun Aachen until September 2010. Since October 2010 she has been a member of the WSC City Region Aachen. Until 2012 she was a member of the DSV national team's senior squad . She is currently starting for the Dutch national team.

In 2005 she won the state championship title in North Rhine-Westphalia from the one and three-meter board in the A-youth. She also became national champion in three-meter synchronized jumping. In 2006 she became German A-Youth Champion on the one-meter board. At the European Youth Championships in Trieste in 2007, she won bronze from the one-meter and three-meter board in addition to a fifth place in synchronized jumping

At the open German championships in Berlin in 2007 , she and her partner took third place in the three-meter synchronized jumping. In 2008 she was German runner-up in Rostock from the one-meter board and the three-meter synchronized jumping. At the German summer championships in Berlin in 2008, Uschi Freitag was German champion on the one-meter board.

At the FINA Grand Prix in Shenzhen in 2008, she was able to achieve her first 20 World Cup points with 15th place on the three-meter board.

At the German summer championships in art and high diving in May 2009 in Aachen, Uschi Freitag took first place with 325.50 points from the 3-meter board ahead of Katja Dieckow from Halle. Through this success she qualified for the world championships in art and high diving in July 2009 in Rome.

Friday achieved her greatest sporting success to date at the 2011 European Championships in Turin , when she won the bronze medal in the 3 m synchronized jumping alongside Katja Dieckow . In the same year, the duo was fifth at the World Championships in Shanghai . In the individual from the 3-meter board, Freitag reached eleventh place. In 2013 she received the silver honorary cup of the city of Aachen for her sporting achievements (the highest award of the city of Aachen for athletes).

At the 2015 World Championships in Kazan (Russia), Uschi Freitag achieved 305.10 points from the three-meter final. In doing so, it surpassed the norm of the NOC * NSF and was nominated for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro .

successes

• From 2003 to 2007 multiple youth champion in the disciplines of 1 meter board, 3 meter board and 3 meter synchronous
• 2006 European Youth Championship Mallorca 5th place synchronized 3m
• 2006 Youth World Championship Kuala Lumpur 9th place Synchron 3m
• 2007 European Youth Championships Trieste 3rd place artificial jumping 3m and 1m, 5th place synchronous 3m
• 2008 FINA GP Shenzhen 9th place synchronous 3m
• 2009 FINA Grand Prix Rostock 9th place
• 2009 FINA Grand Prix Moscow 16th place
• 2009 German champion 3-meter board, 3rd place 1-meter board, 2nd place 1-meter board, 2nd place 3-meter board
• 2010 German champion 1-meter board, 2nd place 3-meter board
• 2010 FINA Grand Prix Rostock 7th place 3-meter board
• 2010 FINA Grand Prix Moscow 8th place 3-meter board
• 2011 German champion 1-meter board and 3-meter board, 2nd place in synchronized jumping 3-meter board
• 2011 3rd place synchronized jumping 3-meter board European Championships Turin with Katja Dieckow
• 2011 4th place in the FINA Grand Prix Montreal 3-meter board
• 2011 4th place at FINA Grand Prix Montreal synchronized jumping 3-meter board with Katja Dieckow
• 2011 5th place synchronized jumping 3-meter board world championship Shanghai with Katja Dieckow
• 2012 1st place synchronized jumping 3-meter board German championships in hall with Katja Dieckow
• 2012 2nd place 1-meter board German Championships in Halle
• 2012 3rd place 3-meter board German Championships in Halle
• 2012 6th place synchronized jumping 3-meter board world series in Dubai, Beijing, Moscow with Katja Dieckow
• 2012 3rd place synchronized jumping 3-meter board world series in Tijuana (Mexico) with Katja Dieckow
• 2012 2nd place 3-meter board European championship in Eindhoven
• 2012 3rd place synchronized jumping 3-meter board European championships in Eindhoven with Katja Dieckow
• 2016 2nd place 3-meter board European championship in London

Web links

• Profile of Uschi Freitag. In: 59th International Springer Day Rostock. 2012, accessed April 14, 2014 . 
• Uschi Freitag at the German Championships 2008
• Uschi Freitag at the Diving Grand Prix Madrid 2008
• Homepage of the WSC-Aachen