Helge Meeuw
Appearance
Helge Folkert Meeuw (born 29 August 1984 from Wiesbaden, West Germany) is an Olympic and national record holding swimmer from Germany. He swam for Germany at the:
- Olympics: 2004, 2008, 2012
- World Championships: 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011
- European Championships: 2006, 2012
- World University Games: 2007, 2009
- Short Course Worlds: 2006
- Short Course Europeans: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
At the 2008 German Swimming Championships in Berlin, he swam in 53.10 sec a new European Record at 100m backstroke. He also holds 200 m (short course and long course) backstroke German national records in swimming.
Personal bests
[edit]- 100 m backstroke 52.27 NR
- 200 m backstroke 1:53.34 NR
- 200 m backstroke 1'51.51 NR
Family
[edit]Both his parents, Folkert Meeuw and Jutta Weber, competed for West Germany in swimming, and both won medals at Olympic Games and World and European championships.[1] His wife, Antje Buschschulte, also competed for Germany and won Olympic medals.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Helge Meeuw". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2012-12-15.
- ^ "Antje Buschschulte". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 2015-09-07. Retrieved 2015-08-28.
External links
[edit]- Official website
(in German)
- Helge Meeuw at Olympics.com
- Helge Meeuw at the Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund (in German)
Categories:
- 1984 births
- Living people
- German male backstroke swimmers
- German male butterfly swimmers
- Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers for Germany
- Olympic silver medalists for Germany
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Wiesbaden
- Olympic silver medalists in swimming
- Summer World University Games medalists in swimming
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for Germany
- FISU World University Games silver medalists for Germany
- Medalists at the 2007 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 2009 Summer Universiade
- 20th-century German sportspeople
- 21st-century German people
- German swimming Olympic medalist stubs