Jan-Philip Glania

Jan- Philip Glania ( born November 8, 1988 in Fulda ) is a German swimmers. He is German champion in 2012 at 100m and 200m backstroke and qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games in London with a German record. For the year 2012/2013 he was appointed to the A-team of the German Swimming Federation.

Personal career

Glania attended from 1996 to 1999 the primary school John Hack School and then to 2008, Rabanus Maurus School, which he left with the Abitur. From 2008 to 2009 he worked in the sports promotion company of the Bundeswehr. Since 2009 Glania studied dentistry at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.

Sporting career

Glania is a member of the German B- squad and the Olympic team perspective of the Hessian Sports Federation since 2009. In January 2012 he was appointed to the Olympic squad by the German Swimming Association. In October 2012, the appointment was followed in the A-team of the DSV.

Sporting successes

• Multiple Hessian and South German Champion
• 11th place at the European Junior Championships in 2006 in Mallorca
• 1st, 2nd and 3rd place at the German Championships in 2011 and several 2nd and 3rd places in previous years
• 1, 2 times 2nd and 3rd German at the European Short Course Championships in 2011
• Military World Champion 2009 and the military world record holder at the CISM Games in Montreal
• 4 finals at the Universiade (Student Olympiad ), Shenzhen (China) in August 2011
• 2 times 4th place at European Championships in Szczecin ( Poland ) 2011
• Numerous finals at the World Cup 2011 in Berlin, Singapore, Beijing and Tokyo with the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th places
• German team champion with the SG Frankfurt 2012
• German Masters 2012: 200m Backstroke and 100m Backstroke
• Qualified for the 2012 Olympics in London with German record
• Appointment to the A-team of the German Swimming Federation 2012/2013

Awards

• Sportsman of the Year at the FZ - athletes as 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011
• Sportsman of the year 2009, the city of Fulda