Franziska van
Almsick (born April 5, 1978 in East Berlin, Germany) is
a German swimmer. She won her first Olympic Medals in
1992 at the Barcelona Olympic Games aged fourteen.
Over her career, Van Almsick earned ten career Olympic
medals, none of them gold. She ended her career at the
Athens Olympic Games in 2004.
Franziska van Almsick's swimming potential was
discovered when she was five years old. However, it was
not until she was fourteen years old, that van Almsick
earned four medals at the 1992 Olympics, gaining silvers
in the 200m freestyle, which she lost by only 15
centimetres, and in the medley relay, and bronze medals
in the 100m freestyle and in the 4x100m freestyle relay.
She also competed in the 100m butterfly and the 50m
freestyle.
At the 1994 world championships, van Almsick broke the
8-year-old world record in the 200 free with a time of
1:56.78 that would last until she herself bettered it in
2002. In the 1996 Olympic final, van Almsick finished
second to Claudia Poll of Costa Rica. Four days later,
van Almsick swam the leadoff leg for Germany in the
4x200m relay.
In Atlanta, she picked up another silver medal in that
relay, as well as a bronze in the 4x100m relay, and she
finished fifth in the 100m freestyle and sixth in the
medley relay. At the 2000 Sydney Games, van Almsick swan
the third leg in the 4x100m relay as Germany missed the
medal podium by only 1/100 of a second.
After contesting the 200 free and the 200m butterfly,
she swam the leadoff leg in the 4x200m relay, earning
yet another bronze medal. Finally, she swam the
butterfly leg in the medley relay, as Germany placed
fourth, only 17 hundredths of a second short of the
bronze medal position.
Van Almsick's, career medal total stands at four silver
and four bronze. At the Athens Olympic Games in 2004,
she added two medals to her tally: a bronze in the
4x200m freestyle relay and another bronze in the 4x100m
medley relay. She also finished 4th in the 4x100m
freestyle and 5th in the 200m freestyle.
In 1993, she was named by Swimming World magazine as the
Female World Swimmer of the Year. Her son Don Hugo was
born on January 7, 2007.
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