Sandra Völker
Sandra Völker ( born April 1, 1974 in Lübeck, Schleswig -Holstein) is a former German swimmer. Your special disciplines were the short freestyle and back extension.
Life
She grew up in Bad Schwartau on where they, inter alia, coached swimming at VfL Bad Schwartau, before she moved to Hamburg from the mid- 1990s. In 1992, the former national team coach Dirk Henry Richard Lange was her partner and trainer. After ten years working with Dirk Lange in Hamburg, she moved to Leipzig coach Jirka Letzin. Six months later she finished surprisingly, this cooperation and formed since February 2004 a training group with Stev Theloke and Katrin Meissner, which was led by Beate Ludewig. On 25 October 2006 she got with Sascha sizing a daughter, March 20, 2008, she ended her career as an active swimmer. In 2013 she applied for personal bankruptcy. 2014 she worked as a clerk at an online store for vegan products and forest herbs.
Since she was diagnosed with asthma peoples, she founded the " Sandra Völker Foundation " which strives for a holistic treatment of asthma and allergy sick children.
Achievements
Total:
- 45 titles at German Championships (short and long course )
- Over 60 medals at European Championships (short and long course ), World Championships (short and long course ) and Olympic Games
- Two-time overall World Cup champion
- Multiple world and European records
- Swimmer of the Year in 1997, 1998 and 1999
Particular success (selection):
Olympics
Silver medal in the 100 m freestyle, bronze in the 50m freestyle, bronze in the 4x100 -meter freestyle relay
World cup
World champion in the 50 m freestyle, vice world champion in the 100 m freestyle
Vice world champion in the 50 m freestyle, bronze in the 100m backstroke
World Champion in the 50m backstroke, vice world champion in the 100 m freestyle
- 2000 ( Short Course )
Vice world champion in the 50 m freestyle
- 2001 ( long course )
World Champion in the 4x100 m freestyle, bronze in the 50m freestyle, bronze in the 100m freestyle
Owner of the following records
Sandra Völker was formerly the world record holder over 50 meters backstroke and German record holder over 50 meters freestyle, but their records were broken by Janine Pietsch and Britta Steffen.