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Britta Steffen

Britta Steffen
Britta Steffen medal.jpg
Steffen with 100 m freestyle gold medal at 2009 world championships
Personal information
National team  Germany
Born (1983-11-16) 16 November 1983 (age 33)
Schwedt, then East Germany
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 60 kg (130 lb)
Website Britta-Steffen.com
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Club SG Neukölln

Britta Steffen (born 16 November 1983) is a German competitive swimmer who specializes in freestyle sprint events.

In 1999, Steffen won six titles at the European Junior Championships, and won a medal as a member of Germany's relay team in the 4 × 200 metre freestyle at the 2000 Summer Olympics. In 2004, she asked to swim the 4×100 m relay. But after the Olympics, she took one year off swimming and concentrated on her studies, which were not finished.

At the 2006 European Championships in Budapest, Steffen clocked 53.30 in the women's 100 m freestyle event, breaking the world record and upstaging the previous record of 53.42 set by Libby Lenton of Australia. Even though Lenton swam a time of 52.99 on 4 April 2007 during the mixed 400 metre freestyle relay, this time was not recognized by the FINA as world record, because the race is not considered to be a FINA event.

At the same championships, Steffen was part of two world record-breaking relay teams. First, the German 4×100 m women's relay team of Dallmann, Goetz, Steffen and Liebs took the Australian 4×100 m freestyle relay (Mills, Lenton, Thomas and Henry) world record of 3:35.94, clocking a time of 3:35.22. The German women's relay team of Dallman, Samulski, Steffen and Liebs, then swam a time of 7:50.82 to take the previous US 4×200 m freestyle relay (Coughlin, Piper, Vollmer and Sandeno) world record that stood at 7:53.42.


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