Janine Pietsch
Janine Pietsch (born 30 June 1982 in Berlin ) is a German swimmer. My home club is the SC Delphin Ingolstadt and it currently coaches the youth team of SG Stadtwerke München.
Career
Your first achievements came in 1997/98 at the Junior European Championships in the freestyle discipline. In the following years she also won at the German Short Course Championships a few titles on the distances 50 m and 100 m. Through two World Cup success in 2001, it became clear that the backstroke is on the short stretching her special discipline. However, in the German Short Course Championship 2003 they won first place in the butterfly style and 100m individual medley.
A year later, she qualified with two German championship titles over 50 m and 100 m backstroke for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
In the public eye, they came in May 2005 when she unexpectedly set a new world record in the 50m backstroke at the 117th German Swimming Championships in Berlin. With her personal best of 28.19 seconds she was considered a promising candidate for a medal at the 2005 World Championships in Montreal, where she, however, finished only sixth place in this discipline. Your world record was until almost two years later broken by the U.S. swimmer Leila Vaziri at the World Swimming Championships in 2007 in Melbourne.
The international breakthrough came at the Short Course World Championships in Shanghai in 2006, where she won the 100m backstroke world title in a new German record time of 58.02 seconds. Just three days later, she underscored in the context of the same contest its claim to leadership in the back style on the 50 - m range with a new European record ( 27.00 seconds ) and her second world title. In the European Swimming Championships in Budapest in 2006, she swam to their first European Championship title in the 50m backstroke. She also won the bronze medal over 100 m backstroke.
In November 2008, she was known to be suffering from breast cancer. This could Janine Pietsch fight successfully.
For their open dealing with the disease Janine Pietsch Award 2009 with the now - only - right - Price in Bavaria, in addition, she was honored in 2010 for their medical involvement with the Health Media Award.