Yannick Lebherz

Yannick Lebherz ( born January 13, 1989 in Darmstadt ) is a German swimmer. Since the beginning of his career, he is in the club DSW 1912 Darmstadt, was started in March 2012, however, for Potsdamer SV. He currently lives in Berlin, where he studied at the Free University of Berlin. His father Thomas Lebherz was also a successful swimmer.

Sports career

Yannick Lebherz began in 1999 with the competitive sports and won the first year title in Hesse. In 2000 he took part in the South German Championships in Wetzlar, where he won the Young Investigator Award. He won 2002 years at the national level the Newcomer Award at the German vintage Championships in Bremen. Since 2005 Lebherz is in the C- national squad of the German Swimming Federation ( DSV), since 2007 in the top team of the DSV.

Achievements

National

Yannick Lebherz has since 2001 established a total of 28 German age class records until 31 December 2007 and won more than 20 vintage German Championships. In 2006 he had his first success in the open class. The World Championship in the summer, he won a seventh and an eighth place over 200 meters backstroke and 400 meters individual medley. At the Winter Championships in November 2006, he won a silver medal in the 200 meters backstroke. In 2007, two more medals were added in the open class, respectively Bronze 200 meters backstroke and 400 meters individual medley at the German Short Course Championships in Essen. His first big success was the title of German champion over 400 meters individual medley, which he could obtain in the 120th German Swimming Championships in Berlin in 2008 in 4:21,11 min. At the German Short Course Championships 2008 in Essen, he turned over this distance in the final on a German record in 4:09,05 min. ( He was so but not German masters, as Łukasz wójt won the race in 4:06,56 min., But the Pole does not have a German passport, so his times were not counted as national records, although he is allowed to start at championships. ) 2009 presented Yannick Lebherz in Austin (USA) on a German record 200m individual medley in 2:00,09 min. In the same year he became German champion on both capable of stretching. He improved the German record over 400 meters to 4:14,63 min.

In 2010 he won at the German championships on short and long course each over 200 meters backstroke and 400 meters individual medley. A new German record over 400 meters individual medley ( 4:08,52 min) he swam at the German Short Course Championships in Wuppertal. In 2011 he defended his Berlin in both long course title, taking over 400 meters individual medley in 4:14,02 minutes even set a German record and the standard for the world championships in Shanghai reached to the hundredth of a second.

Internationally

His first international appearance was in 2005 when Yannick Lebherz European Youth Olympic Festival ( EYOF ). Here he won gold in the 4 × 100 meter freestyle relay and silver respectively in the 4 × 100 meter medley relay and 200m backstroke. After the first part in the European Youth Championships in 2006 in Mallorca, where Lebherz reached a fourth place 200m backstroke, he had at the European Youth Championships 2007 in Antwerp his best ever international appearance. He won a bronze in the 400 meters individual medley and a silver medal in the 4 × 200 meter freestyle relay. He also starred in the lead in the victorious in the final 4 × 100 meter freestyle relay and won a fourth place in the final of the 200m backstroke. In 2006 he took part in the European Short Course Championships in Helsinki in 2006.

In the swimming world championships in Rome in 2009, for which he was nominated despite a lack of qualifications in the German Swimming Championships, Lebherz swam in individual, capable of stretching the two long and 200 meters backstroke. He moved into no single final, but improved in the run 200m individual medley with the German record 1:58,94 min. This Lebherz undercutting the first German on this route the two-minute limit. With the 4 × 200 meter freestyle relay he finished fifth.

2010 was the most successful year of Yannick Lebherz. At the European Championships in Budapest, he reached two finals, in which jumped out the ranks seven ( 200m backstroke ) and five (400 meters individual medley ). As long course specialist, he showed at the European Short Course Championships in Eindhoven, after he was nominated only one additional criterion, even on the 25 - meter track amazing benefits. One gold and one silver medal tepid preparing the balance sheet after the European Championships. He won 200 meters backstroke in 1:51,74 min, about 400 meters individual medley, he won in 4:05,08 min in a new German record with his second silver medal.

In 2012, he was as in the previous years, again German champion min over his parade route 400 meters individual medley at the time of 4:14,90 and thus beat the required Olympic standard. On his second line, the 200 - meter backstroke, he also undercut the norm in a time of 1:56,84 min and was runner-up. At the Olympic Summer Games in London, he retired as eleventh in the addition of the heats of over 400 meters individual medley before the final round. In the same year he won the 4 × 200 meter freestyle relay at the Short Course World Championships in German record time the bronze medal.

Awards

• 2004 Sportsman of the Year in Darmstadt
• 2007: Newcomer of the Year in Hessen
• 2011: Athlete of the Year in Hessen