Tim Wallburger

Tim Wall Burger ( born August 18, 1989 in Dresden ) is a German swimmer. By 2004, he started for the Dresdner SC 1898. Afterwards he moved to Berlin to SG Neukölln in the training group by Norbert Warnatzsch in which Britta Steffen and Benjamin Strong trained. Since October 2012 Tim Wall Burger is trained by Lasse Frank.

Sports career

Tim Wall Burger began in 1997 with the sport swimming and took in 2000 for the first time in South German championships. Already in his first start at the German vintage Championships 2003, he won the 1500-meter freestyle bronze medal. In subsequent years, he received regular podium finishes over the long freestyle and butterfly as well as both capable of stretching at Süddeutsche and German vintage championships. Then in 2007 made ​​the breakthrough into the national forefront of the open class with a third place over 400 meters individual medley at the German Championships. International Wall Burger joined in 2009 by participating in the World Cup in Berlin and at the European Youth Championships in Antwerp first appearance. His first international medal winning Wall Burger with the 4 x 200 meter freestyle relay at the European Swimming Championships 2010 in Budapest. On the side of Paul Biedermann, Clemens Rapp and Robin Backhaus he was European Vice-Champion behind the victorious Russians. In the individual 200m freestyle he narrowly missed the finals in ninth to tenth of a second. His first international individual medal he won at the European Short Course Championships 2010 in Eindhoven ( silver over 200 meters butterfly ). In 2011 he secured his first national title on the long 50 - meter track about 200 meters butterfly and qualified as a German runner-up for the 4 x 200 meter freestyle relay at the World Swimming Championships 2011 in Shanghai, where he and together with Paul Biedermann, Benjamin Starke Christoph Fildebrandt behind the U.S., France and China World Cup was fourth. Previously missed Tim Wall Burger in his World Cup single start about 200 meters freestyle to a hundredth of a second the semi-finals. At the European Championships in 2012 Debrecen was Tim Wall Burger on the side of Paul Biedermann, Dimitri Colupaev and Clemens Rapp with the 4x200m freestyle relay champions. An EM- individual medal in the 200m freestyle he missed by three hundredths of a second. 29 hundredths were missing at the end of the bronze medal in his first Olympic Games. In London, the 4x200m freestyle relay competed in the successful EM- occupation. Tim Wall Burger since 2009, B- squad of the Federal German Swimming Federation ( DSV).

Achievements

Olympic Games 2012

  • 4th place 4 x 200 m Freestyle

European Championships 2012

  • 4th place 4 x 200 m Freestyle

German Championships 2013

  • Silver in the 400m freestyle
  • Bronze 200m freestyle

German Championships 2011

  • Gold over 200m butterfly
  • Silver 400 m Individual Medley
  • Silver 200 m Individual Medley
  • Bronze over 100m Butterfly

German Short Course Championships in 2011

  • Silver 4 × 200 m freestyle
  • 9th place about 200m freestyle

2010 European Championships

  • Silver 200m butterfly

European Short Course Championships 2010

  • Silver 200m freestyle
  • Bronze 200m Individual Medley

German Championships 2010

  • Gold over 200m butterfly
  • Bronze 200m Individual Medley

German Short Course Championships 2010

  • Silver 200m butterfly
  • Silver 200 m Individual Medley

German Championships 2009

  • Silver 200m butterfly

German Short Course Championships in 2007

  • Bronze 400 m Individual Medley

German Championships 2007

  • 5th Place about 200 m butterfly

Junior European Championships 2007

  • Gold 400 m freestyle, 400 m medley and 200m butterfly

German Vintage Championships 2007

  • Medals over 1500 m freestyle, 400 m medley, 400m freestyle, 200m butterfly, 200m medley and 200m freestyle

German Vintage Championships 2003-2006

  • Silver and bronze medals in team championships

DMS J (2000, 2001) and DMS ( 2006, 2007, 2008)

Awards

  • 2006: " Berliner Pilsner junior Prize 2006" by the Olympic Training Center OSP Berlin
  • 2004: ' Swimmer of the Year 2004 " by the Saxon Swimming Association
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