Vipa Bernhardt

VIPA Bernhardt ( born September 20, 1982 in Riyadh ) is a German swimming athlete.

VIPA Bernhardt starts for the SG Frankfurt and belongs to the B-team of DSV. The breast specialist is trained in Germany by Jörg Bügner previously by Stefan Döbler, and in the U.S. by Gregg Troy. Bernhardt made ​​her international début at the European Short Course Championships in 2000, where she finished seventh over 100 m and 200 m breaststroke. At the 2003 World Championships she reached the B final, which they won, and thus was at the end of ninth over 100 m breaststroke. In 2004 she qualified for the Olympic Games of Athens, where it was 13 over 100 m breaststroke. Her most last major event was the 2005 Universiade for Bernhardt. , Where the swimmer was fifth over 100m breaststroke, 200m individual medley and seventh through eighth over 50m breaststroke. At the national level Bernhardt won in the Short Course DM 2000, the title in the 100 and 200m breaststroke. About 200m breaststroke she repeated winning the title the following year. In the German Swimming Championships in 2005, she won the title over 100m breaststroke, a year later than 200 m breaststroke.

A wider public VIPA Bernhardt was known in advance of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing when she wanted to erstreiten their seats in court. Bernhardt was only third in the German Championship over 200m breaststroke. To have in front of her in second place to start qualifying landed Anne Poleska, the Bernhardt later accused, contrary to the rules of the DSV to race the Coral Springs Swim Club, their university team in the U.S., participated. Subsequently, the district court in Kassel ruled in summary proceedings by Provisional available to nominate Bernhardt for the games. After Poleska but declared on oath never to have competed against the rules of the DSV, Bernhardt moved to reject her objection.

Bernhardt studied neurobiology and music.