Nina Dittrich

Nina Dittrich
Personal information
Nationality  Austria
Born 20 November 1990
Vienna, Austria
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Weight 58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle, butterfly
Club SVS Simmering[1]
Coach Kurt Dittrich[1]

Nina Dittrich (born November 20, 1990 in Vienna) is an Austrian swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events.[1][2] She is a multiple-time Austrian champion, a five-time national record holder, and also, a current member of Simmering Swimming Club (German: Schwimmverein Schwechat Simmering) in Schwechat.[1] Dittrich is also the daughter of Ulrike Bauer, an Austrian record holder in both 100 and 200 m breaststroke, and Kurt Dittrich, a sprint butterfly swimmer who competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.[3]

Swimming career

At age sixteen, Dittrich made her international debut at the 2006 European Junior Swimming Championships in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, where she captured two medals, silver and bronze, in the women's butterfly and individual medley (both 200 m), posting her time of 2:12.84 and 2:17.86, respectively.[4][5] In the same year, she won another bronze medal in the same discipline at the FINA Youth World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with a time of 2:13.92, four tenths of a second (0.40) behind runner-up Jemma Lowe of Great Britain.[6]

Dittrich qualified for the women's 200 m butterfly at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing a FINA B-cut of 2:10.86 from the International Vienna Championships in Vienna.[7] She challenged six other swimmers on the second heat, including South Africa's Kathryn Meaklim and Singapore's Tao Li. She came only in second place by 0.44 of a second behind Meaklim, with an Austrian record-breaking time of 2:09.85. Dittrich, however, narrowly missed out of the semifinals by less than a second, as she placed seventeenth out of 36 swimmers in the preliminary heats.[8]

At the 2010 European Swimming Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Dittrich achieved a sixth-place finish in the women's 1500 m freestyle, posting a national record-breaking time of 16:23.63.[9]

Four years after competing in her first Olympics, Dittrich qualified for her second Austrian team, as a 22-year-old, at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by attaining a B-standard entry time of 8:39.67 in the women's 800 m freestyle.[10] She challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including fellow two-time Olympians Khoo Cai Lin of Malaysia and Lynette Lim of Singapore. She came only in fifth place by less than 0.03 of a second behind Mexico's Patricia Castañeda Miyamoto, with a time of 8:45.41. Dittrich, however, failed to advance into the final, as she placed twenty-eighth in the overall rankings.[11] Shortly after the Olympics, Dittrich announced her retirement from swimming career.[3][12]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Nina Dittrich". London 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  2. ↑ "Nina Dittrich". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Nina Dittrich gab 22-jährig ihren Rücktritt bekannt" [22-year old Nina Dittrich announced her resignation] (in German). Kleine Zeitung. 28 November 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  4. ↑ Rusticus, Oene (7 July 2006). "Strong Start to European Junior Champs". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  5. ↑ Rusticus, Oene (10 July 2006). "European Junior Championships Close with a Flourish". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  6. ↑ "Kalisz Wins 200 Fly at World Youth Championships". Swimming World Magazine. 23 August 2006. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  7. ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 200m Butterfly" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 76. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  8. ↑ "Women's 200m Butterfly Heat 2". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  9. ↑ "European Long Course Championships: Fred Bousquet, Paul Biedermann, Lotte Friis, Federica Pellegrini Shine". Swimming World Magazine. 14 August 2010. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  10. ↑ "Qualifying Athletes – Women's 800 m freestyle" (PDF). FINA. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  11. ↑ "Women's 800m Freestyle Heat 2". London 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  12. ↑ "Nina Dittrich: Karriereende mit 22" [Nina Dittrich: End of career at 22] (in German). Der Standard (Austria). 28 November 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2013.

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