Jaana Ehmcke

Jaana Ehmcke ( born May 18, 1987 in Bremen ) is a German swimmer. She was several times German champion. She trained at the Olympic Training Center Potsdam and started for Potsdamer SV. Her coach was the former swimming champion and world record holder Jörg Hoffmann.

Life

The long-haul specialist was initially a member of the SG Hanseatic Bremen, later at the Bremen Sports Club. Since January 2005, she trained in the Potsdam airship port. After they first came not with the capable of stretching, she moved in 2006 to the long freestyle distances. Since 2006 she is promoted in association squad of the German Swimming Federation, through their league titles ( 2007 2008), they ascended to the B-team. Since 1 July 2007, she is a member of the sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr. There she completed her basic training from October to November 2008, and has been training for the next Olympic center in Potsdam.

Jaana Ehmcke has been honored with the award of the Bremen Youth Sports Youth 2006 for outstanding performance on a regional, national and international level.

They trained for ten to eleven units a week and swims while around 90 kilometers. Your first ultimate sporting goal was to participate in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. With the German championship in 2008 for 800m freestyle, and the significant achievement of the nomination criteria of the DSV, it has achieved this goal only once.

In 2007 she graduated from the High School at the Sports School- Friedrich -Ludwig -Jahn in Potsdam.

Sporting successes

National success

Jaana was about 800 m freestyle and 400 m freestyle champion German again, but missed the required standard for the World Cup qualifiers, also of the 121st German Swimming Championships.

In the 120th German Swimming Championships in Berlin, it reached 8:26,70 minutes the gold medal in the 800 m freestyle. At the same time she is laying the Olympic qualification for Beijing ( Olympic standard 8:31,53 ).

In the 119th German Swimming Championships in Berlin, it reached 8:45,54 minutes the gold medal in the 800 m freestyle. About the 400 -m freestyle distance she reached the silver medal with a personal best time of 4:16,10 minutes behind Janina -Kristin Götz ( SC DHfK Leipzig). Another silver medal she won behind Britta Kamrau -core stone (SC Empor Rostock ) over 1500 m freestyle with 16:50,37 minutes.

At the German Winter Championships 2006 in Hanover, she reached over 800 m freestyle with 8:57.99 minutes and the 1500m freestyle with 16:57,99 minutes two gold medals.

In the 118th German Swimming Championships in Berlin she won a silver medal in the 800 m freestyle in 8:48,14 minutes behind Nicole Hetzer ( Wacker Burghausen) and a bronze medal in the 400m freestyle in 4:16,96 minutes.

Furthermore, it reached more vintage titles over 400 m, 800 m and 1500 m freestyle at German Championships.

International success

At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, it reached more than 800 m freestyle and 400 m freestyle respectively only the 25th place.

At the European Short Course Championships in Helsinki in 2006, it reached more than 800 m freestyle at the 25-m track with 8:32,85 minutes 11th place and improved her personal best by 11 seconds.