Janina-Kristin Götz

Janina -Kristin Götz ( born January 10, 1981 in Bayreuth ) is a German swimmer. It was in 1997 with the German 4 × 200 m freestyle relay European champion and 2006 German champion in the 400 m freestyle. She is currently studying sport at the University of Leipzig and starts for the SC DHfK Leipzig. Your coach is the former World Cup winner and Olympic competitors Jirka Letzin.

Career

Competitive sports, it operates since 1991, first floated the crap Elba Cherin at SV Bayreuth under coach Olaf frets. After a sporting deep, she moved to Leipzig in March 1999 for SSV Leipzig -Leutzsch, where she was coached by Eva autumn. Since 2003, she trained at SC DHfK Leipzig with Jirka Letzin. After several years break, she is promoted again in the B-team of the German Swimming Federation since 2006. Your preferred disciplines are the mean freestyle distances ( 200 m, 400 m, 800 m).

Sporting successes

International success

In the European Swimming Championships 1997 ( 19 to 24 August 1997) in Seville, it reached with the German 4 × 200 m freestyle relay (together with Dagmar Hase, Antje Schulte Busch and Kerstin Kiel Gass ) in 8:03:59 minutes the gold medal.

With the World Swimming Championships 1998 ( 8 to 17 January 1998) in Perth, she was then in the lead member of the German 4 × 200 m freestyle relay (together with Silvia Szalai, Antje Buschschulte and Franziska van Almsick ), with 8:08:38 minutes, the second best time reached. However, the jump in the final season, in 8:01:46 minutes then won the gold medal in the composition Franziska van Almsick, Dagmar Hase, Silvia Szalai and Kerstin Kiel Gass, they missed by about one second.

At the 2004 Summer Olympics ( 13 to 29 August 2004) in Athens, she reached with the German 4 × x200 m freestyle relay (together with Petra Dallmann, Hannah stockbauer and Sara Harstick ) in 8:03,22 minutes the fourth fastest time to market. In the final, the German team brought in the cast Franziska van Almsick, Petra Dallmann, Antje Schulte Busch and Hannah stockbauer behind the teams from the U.S. and China the bronze medal.

At the European Short Course Championships in 2005 in Trieste they erlang a 9th place in the 400m freestyle in 4:08,06 minutes. The following year she came at the European Short Course Championships in Helsinki in 13th place on 200 m freestyle in 1:58,99 minutes, which they narrowly missed her personal best, and ranked 20th in the 400m freestyle in 4:12,15 minutes.

In the years 1995-1997 she was four times European junior champion in the 200 m, 400 m freestyle and 4 × 200 m with the freestyle relay. Overall, they brought in these three years at European Youth Championships 10 medals, specifically:

• European Junior Championships 1995: 1st place in the 400m freestyle, 3rd place on 200 m and 800 m freestyle
• European Junior Championships 1996: 1st place about 200 m and 400 m freestyle, 2nd place on 100 m freestyle
• European Junior Championships 1997: 1st place 4 × 200 m freestyle, 2nd place 200 m freestyle, 3rd place in the 400m and 800m freestyle

Furthermore, she was European Junior Champion in Modern Pentathlon.

German Championships

In German Swimming Championships, she could bring freestyle in 2006 and 2007, the gold medal in the 400 m. Your rankings with German Championships were:

• German Championships 2004: 2nd place in the 400m freestyle in 4:12,55 minutes
• German Championships 2005: 2nd place in the 400m freestyle in 4:14,10 minutes
• German Championships 2006: 1st place in the 400m freestyle in 4:14,40 minutes
• German Winter Championships 2006: 2nd place in the 400m freestyle in 4:15,62 minutes
• German Championships 2007: 1st place in the 400m freestyle in 4:15,39 minutes

German Short Course Championships

In German Short Course Championships 1996, she was able to win a gold medal in the 800 m freestyle. Your rankings with German Short Course Championships were:

• German Short Course Championships 1994: 3rd place on 200 m freestyle
• German Short Course Championships 1995: 3rd place on 800 m freestyle
• German Short Course Championships 1996: 1st place 800m freestyle and 2nd place in the 400m freestyle
• German Short Course Championships 1999: 2nd place 1500 m freestyle in 17:09,85 minutes
• German Short Course Championships 2004: 2nd place in the 400m freestyle in 4:09,00 minutes and 2nd place on 200 m freestyle in 1:58,48 minutes
• German Short Course Championships 2005: 2nd place in the 400m freestyle in 4:07,99 minutes and 3rd place on 200 m freestyle in 1:58,57 minutes

Awards

She was honored as Sportsman of the Year Bayreuth 1995. In the election for Junior Sportswoman of the Year 1996, the German Sports Aid Foundation, they came in at number 5

Private

She is not related to the swimmer Daniela Goetz.