Silke Lippok
Silke Lippok upon receipt of the teams of the London Metropolitan Region Rhine -Neckar 2012
Silke Lippok (born 31 January 1994 in Pforzheim ) is a German swimming athlete.
Career
Silke Lippok came at the age of five years by her older brother Nils for swimming, who had participated in regional competitions in 2002 and 2003. With the beginning of their active sports career, she became a member of the swimming sports community Pforzheim ( Pforzheim SSG ). Among her favorite swimming styles were initially crawl and butterfly, later they focused mainly in competitions at the Freestyle discipline and the 200 -meter distance. Besides, she was temporarily successful as a track and field athlete and presented in September 2006 at the Three Valleys meeting on the sports complex Buckenberg over 800 meters in 2:27,38 minutes a new Baden Kreisbestleistung their age class.
Lippok changed with the age of twelve in the first team of SSG Pforzheim and was supervised over a period of about six years of Rudi Schulz. End of January 2012 the former base coach from the National Sports Federation Baden- Württemberg received the award as Coach of the Year for his lifetime achievements.
Successes as a junior
Your first national title won Lippok on 21 April 2008 on the 50m butterfly at the German Championships in Berlin. In the absence of competitors such as Daniela Samulski and Annika Mehlhorn they struck in the final on the non-Olympic distance in 27.08 seconds just before Iris Rosenberger.
In July 2008, she won the Junior World Championships in Monterrey, Mexico, two silver medals in 100m freestyle and the 4x100 m freestyle relay along with Franziska Jansen, Lisa Vitting and Sina Sutter. As a 14 - year-old she was at the lower age limit of all participating athletes.
On 26 June 2009 she won the German Championships in the 200m freestyle in 1:59,65 minutes ago Daniela Schreiber for the first time a title on their special way. In the Junior European Championships 2009 in Prague, she won four gold and two silver medals and set about 50 and 100 m freestyle new personal best times. The following year, she threw herself at the Continental Junior Championships in Helsinki and was charged with five titles the most successful female participant. The first lies in second place medley relay benefited from a disqualification of the Spanish team.
With another victory over 200m freestyle at the German Championships on July 2, 2010, she qualified for the first time for the European Championships of women in Budapest. Initially, they should participate in the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore, which took place a time delay in the second half of August. In the Hungarian capital, she won first with the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay gold before she took the 200m freestyle in a personal best of 1:56,98 minutes rank second behind Federica Pellegrini. She was also in the 4x100 m medley relay after disqualification of the Russian team third parties.
The Short Course European Championships 2010 in Eindhoven, it reached about 200 m freestyle with a German record in 1:53,96 minutes behind Femke Heemskerk second place. On July 24, 2011, they came at the World Swimming Championships 2011 in Shanghai in the 4x100 m freestyle relay along with Britta Steffen, Lisa Vitting and Daniela Schreiber to third. Five months later, she won the Short Course European Championships 2011 in Szczecin in the absence of last year's winner the gold medal and her first international single item.
Your fourth national title in a row over 200 m freestyle gained Lippok on May 11, 2012 at the German Championships. In the subsequent European Championships in Debrecen she repeated the Freestyle successes of 2010. On 21 May 2012, she took the 4x100 m freestyle relay gold and five days later the 200m freestyle in 1:58,19 minutes the silver medal behind Federica Pellegrini. For the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, she was qualified, even though they had undercut the standard time only in advance of the German Championships as well as in the relay forwards the European Championships. The Aquatics Centre she reached the semi-finals on their special route and missed the finals as an overall 13th the intermediate run. In the 4x100m freestyle and 4x200m freestyle relay they failed with their teammates each in the flow.
Sporting realignment
End of October 2012 was Lippok their change to the Olympic training center of the German Swimming Federation ( DSV) in Hamburg known. Despite the local change they initially remained a member of SSG Pforzheim. Following the stagnation of results since their successes as a junior to Lippok hoped for by the professionalisation of sport background a performance boost. Your new trainer, Petra tungsten manages inter alia on the two top athletes Steffen and Markus Deibler. Compared to other top athletes the training conditions in Pforzheim were considered difficult. The available for water training pool for public swimming pools are only 25 feet long. In addition, the technique training was hampered by high waves. For training with the national team in preparation for major sporting events she avoided earlier times from Karlsruhe or the Olympic Training Center in Heidelberg.
Shortly after her move to Lippok suffered a serious knee injury with rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament in the country training. In November 2009, she threw back a broken metatarsal. After several weeks of break she took in mid-December 2012, the training again. In the spring of 2013, she moved from her longtime home club SSG Pforzheim to Hamburg Swim Club in 1879. According to three national championship titles in the Hanseatic city they were in mid April 2013 announced their starting waiver for the German Championships and World Championships. It justified the cancellation with the lack of resilience of her knee and the renewed risk of injury in order to participate at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Records
Already at the beginning of her career completed Lippok numerous peak performance. In the teenage age of 14 she held 138 Baden and 26 German age class records and exceeded in the course of her career including several records of Franziska van Almsick from the 1990s.
Chronology (excerpt):
- March 8, 2008. At the District Championships, she improved over the 100 m butterfly in 1:00,96 minutes the Baden record and at the same time the German age-group record of Franziska van Almsick in 1992 the own age group record in the 100m individual medley, it increased to 1: 04.78 minutes.
- April 21, 2008: In the final of the German Championships, she swam the 50m butterfly in 27.08 seconds new age group record, after she had already achieved in the run 27.60 seconds, a new personal best.
- November 15th 2008: At the World Cup Final in Berlin, she equaled the 200m freestyle in 1:57,53 minutes the age group record of Franziska van Almsick.
- July 9, 2009: In the Junior European Championships in Prague, it has provided 100 m freestyle in 55.02 seconds a new European junior record and improved the old record by 25 hundredths of a van Almsicks.
- July 1, 2010: In advance of the German Championship over 100m freestyle with 54.74 seconds she outdid another age group record set in 1994.
- June 2, 2011: At the German Championships she beat over 200 m freestyle in 1:57,42 minutes after and solved after 16 years again from van Almsick.
In addition Lippok holds two current German records:
Personal
Silke Lippok is the daughter of Christine and Andrew Lippok, a Pforzheimer taxi entrepreneurs. You five year older brother Nils (* 1989) was also temporarily in swimming actively.
She attended the Theodor -Heuss -Gymnasium in Pforzheim and put in the spring of 2012, the Abitur. As an aspiring talent, she was commissioned in early 2010 by a local bank under contract. Even with their equipment, they launched a long-term cooperation in the field of sponsorship.
Your best discipline is connected in Germany with renowned predecessors such as Franziska van Almsick and Annika Lurz. The media in particular attracted comparisons with van Almsick, which had similar success at a young age and won several world and European championship titles between 1993 and 2002.
Awards
At receptions in the town hall of their home town of Pforzheim Lippok was honored each in July 2008 and 2009 by Mayor Christel Augenstein or their successors in office Gert Hager for their sporting achievements. From 2007 to 2011 she was consistently on the athletes as the front, which is hosted by the Pforzheimer Zeitung and the People's Bank Pforzheim every year together. In 2012 she was expelled from the athlete Anna -Lena Black in second place.
On 15 October 2010, she won 94 of a possible 100 points, the choice for Junior Sportswoman of the Year 2010. She received the award for her five gold and two silver medals at the European Junior Championships in Helsinki. Laudator Franziska van Almsick designated Lippok as " currently the biggest talent in the German team ." In 2009, she won a place in the top ten and was admitted to the junior elite support of the German Sports Aid Foundation as well as the perspective of Team 2012 German Swimming Association.
End of January 2011, she was chosen by the swimming branch of the DSV to Germany's Swimmer of the Year 2010. The following year she was behind Britta Steffen in second place.