Helge Meeuw

Helge Meeuw

Personal information
Full name	Helge Folkert Meeuw
Nationality	Germany
Born	29 August 1984 (1984-08-29) (age 27) Wiesbaden, Germany
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	74 kg
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Stroke(s)	Butterfly, backstroke
Medal record Men's swimming Competitor for  Germany Olympic Games Silver 2004 Athens 4×100 m medley World Championships (LC) Silver 2009 Rome 100 m backstroke Silver 2009 Rome 4×100 m medley Bronze 2003 Barcelona 4×200 m freestyle Bronze 2011 Shanghai 4×100 m medley World Championships (SC) Bronze 2006 Shanghai[1] 50 m backstroke Bronze 2006 Shanghai 100 m backstroke European Championships (LC) Gold 2006 Budapest 50 m backstroke European Championships (SC) Gold 2006 Helsinki 50 m backstroke Gold 2006 Helsinki 4×50 m medley Silver 2005 Trieste 200 m butterfly Silver 2006 Helsinki 100 m backstroke Silver 2006 Helsinki 200 m backstroke Silver 2007 Debrecen 50 m backstroke Bronze 2004 Vienna 50 m backstroke Bronze 2007 Debrecen 100 m backstroke Bronze 2008 Rijeka 100 m backstroke Summer Universiade Gold 2007 Bangkok 50 m backstroke Gold 2007 Bangkok 100 m backstroke Silver 2009 Belgrade 100 m backstroke

Helge Meeuw (born 29 August 1984) is a German swimmer from Wiesbaden. At the 2008 German Swimming Championships in Berlin, he swam in 53.10 sec a new European record at 100 m backstroke. He also holds 200 m (short course and long course) backstroke German national records in swimming.

Contents 1 Personal bests 1.1 Long course 1.2 Short course 2 References 3 External links

Personal bests

Long course

• 100 m backstroke 52.27 NR
• 200 m backstroke 1:53.34 NR

Short course

• 200 m backstroke 1'51.51 NR

References

External links

• [1] Meeuw, Helge - Swim Rankings by GeoLogix AG, Switzerland.
• (German) Site of Helge Meeuw.

European Champions in Men's 50 m Backstroke 1999: Stev Theloke (GER) 2000: Stev Theloke (GER) 2002: Thomas Rupprath (GER) 2004: Stev Theloke (GER) 2006: Helge Meeuw (GER) 2008: Aristeidis Grigoriadis (GRE) 2010: Camille Lacourt (FRA)

European Short Course Champions in Men's 50 m Backstroke 1991 – 1992: Jani Sievinen (FIN) 1993: Patrick Hermanspann (GER) 1994: Jirka Letzin (GER) 1996: Mariusz Siembida (POL) 1998: Thomas Rupprath (GER) 1999: Miro Zeravica (CRO) 2000: Ante Masković (CRO) 2001: Stev Theloke (GER) 2002 – 2005: Thomas Rupprath (GER) 2006: Helge Meeuw (GER) 2007: Thomas Rupprath (GER) 2008 – 2010: Stanislav Donets (RUS) 2011: Aschwin Wildeboer (ESP)

European Short Course Champions in Men's 4×50 m Medley Relay 1996: Germany (Theloke, Kruppa, Hieronimus, Conrad) 1998: Germany (Rupprath, Warnecke, Kunzelmann, Lüderitz) and Sweden (Carlsson, Isaksson, Åkesson, Frölander) 1999: Sweden (Carlsson, Isaksson, Frölander, Nystrand) 2000: Germany (Halgasch, Warnecke, Rupprath, Winkler) 2001: Germany (Theloke, Warnecke, Rupprath, Dehmlow) 2002: Germany (Theloke, Kruppa, Rupprath, Dehmlow) 2003: Germany (Rupprath, Warnecke, Friedrich, Dehmlow) 2004: Germany (Rupprath, Warnecke, Friedrich, Dehmlow) 2005: Germany (Rupprath, Warnecke, Dietrich, S. Deibler) 2006: Germany (Meeuw, Neumann, Rupprath, Schreiber) 2007: Germany (Rupprath, M. Deibler, Dietrich, S. Deibler) 2008: Italy (Di Tora, Terrin, Belotti, Magnini) 2009: Russia (Donets, Geybel, Korotyshkin, Fesikov) 2010: Germany (Herbst, Feldwehr, S. Deibler, M. Deibler) 2011: Italy (Di Tora, Scozzoli, Facchinelli, Orsi)

Summer Universiade Champions in Men's 50 m Backstroke 2001: Peter Marshall (USA) and Mariusz Siembida (POL)  2003: James Westcott (USA)  2005: Liam Tancock (GBR)  2007: Helge Meeuw (GER)  2009: Junya Koga (JPN) 2011: Ryosuke Irie (JPN)

Summer Universiade Champions in Men's 100 m Backstroke 1959: Gilberto Elsa (ITA) 1961: Shunsuke Fukushima (JPN) 1967: Charles Hickcox (USA) 1970: Mitch Ivey (USA) 1973: David Johnson (USA) 1977: Romulo Arantes (BRA) 1979: Mark Kerry (AUS) 1981: Sergey Zabolotnov (URS) 1983: Mike West (CAN) 1985: Igor Polyansky (URS) 1987: Daichi Suzuki (JPN) 1991: Deke Botsford (CAN) 1993: Rodolfo Falcón (CUB) 1995: Kurt Jachimowski (USA) 1997: Neisser Bent (CUB) 1999: Simon Thirsk (RSA) 2001: Peter Marshall (USA) 2003: Ouyang Kunpeng (CHN) 2005: Masafumi Yamaguchi (JPN) 2007: Helge Meeuw (GER) 2009: Ryosuke Irie (JPN) 2011: Gareth Kean (NZL)

Persondata
Name	Meeuw, Helge
Alternative names
Short description	Swimmer
Date of birth	29 August 1984
Place of birth	Wiesbaden, Germany
Date of death
Place of death