Stefan Herbst
Stefan Herbst ( born May 17, 1978 in Leipzig ) is a German swimmer. He was with German freestyle relays European champion and World Championship bronze medalist twice.
Career
Autumn is the brother who also was born in Leipzig successful swimmer Sabine Klenz (* June 27, 1974 ). He is a member of the swimming club SSV in Leutzsch and is coached by his mother Eva autumn.
Sporting successes
Olympic games
At the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, he was with the German 4 × 100 m freestyle relay ( with Torsten Mountain Range, Christian Tröger and Stephan Kunzelmann ) in 3:17,77 minutes fourth. With the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay ( with Stefan Pohl, Christian Keller and Christian Tröger ), he was sixth in 7:20,19 minutes.
In the following 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, he was with the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay ( with Jens Schreiber, Lars Conrad and Torsten mountain range ) eighth. About 200 m freestyle, he missed the final.
World Championships
He made his first international assignment. During the 1998 World Championships in Perth, where he was in the 4x100 freestyle relay and fourth in the 4th place of the 4x200 freestyle relay, he came in the run-up to use
At the 2001 World Championships in Fukuoka, he won the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay ( with Torsten mountain range, Lars and Sven Conrad Lodziewski ) in 3:17,52 minutes the bronze medal. The German squadron had the Australian and Dutch squadron with the star swimmers Ian Thorpe and Pieter van den Hoogenband let go first and hit just under 3 seconds behind the runner-up.
Two years later, at the 2003 World Championships in Barcelona, he reached with the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay (along with John Oesterling, Lars Conrad and Christian Keller ) in 7.14,02 minutes behind Australia and the United States also the bronze medal. With the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay ( with Jens Thiele, Torsten mountain range and Lars Conrad) Although he was only fifth, the squadron swam but in 03:15,98 minutes new German record.
At the 2005 World Championships in Montreal, he was with the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay and sixth with the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay seventh. The 4 × 100 m medley relay, in which he mitschwamm in the flow, after all, was fourth. During his single start over 200m freestyle he just missed the final and managed in 1:48,72 minutes Rank 11
The 2007 World Championships in Melbourne took place generally disappointing for him. He left about 200 m freestyle with 1:50,25 minutes during preprocessing and the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay ( with Paul Biedermann, Benjamin Starke and Lars Conrad) he just missed the final and finished ninth.
European Championships
His first international success, he was able to celebrate at the 2000 European Championships in Helsinki. There, he won the German 4 × 100 m freestyle relay ( with Lars Conrad, Christian Tröger and Stephan Kunzelmann ) just beaten by the Russian squadron the silver medal. With the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay ( with Michael Kiedel, Christian Keller and Stefan Pohl ) he reached in 7:18,96 minutes also silver, this time the German squadron of Italy 2.5 seconds ahead was beaten clearly. In the individual he was about 200 m freestyle in 1:50,35 minutes fifth.
His most successful international competition should be the European Championships in Berlin in 2002. There he became European Champion with the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay ( with Lars Conrad, Torsten mountain range and Stephan Kunzelmann ) seconds in 3:17,67 minutes and only eight hundredths ahead of the Swedish season. With the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay ( with Moritz rooms, Stefan Pohl and Lars Conrad) he won in 7:17,59 minutes behind Italy the silver medal with the 4 × 100 m medley relay ( with Stev Theloke, Jens Kruppa and Thomas Rupp Rath ) in 3:37,05 minutes behind Russia and France the bronze medal. In the singles final on 200m freestyle, he was eighth in 1:49,63 minutes.
At the European Championships 2004 in Madrid were not German squadrons at the start, because the DSV sent only a minimal team to Spain because of the preparation for the Olympic Games in 2004.
At the European Championships in Budapest in 2006, he was only seventh disappointingly with the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay only fifth and the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay.
German Championships
The launching of the SSV Leutzsch Stefan Herbst was between 2000 and 2003 four years after the other German champion over 200m freestyle. He increased his power of 1:49,75 minutes over 1:49,65 minutes until 1:49,27 minutes. In 2003, he also became German champion in the 100 m freestyle in a time of 49.64 seconds. With the 4 × 100 m medley relay SSV Leutzsch he was also three times German Champion ( 1999-2001). At the German Championships 2004, he came over 200m freestyle behind Jens Schreiber to second place. At the German Championships 2006, he was about 100 m freestyle by third parties and Marco di Carli had to defer.