Franziska van Almsick
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Franziska van Almsick was born on April 5, 1978 in East Berlin, Germany. She is a German swimmer. She won her first Olympic medals in 1992 at the Barcelona Olympic Games aged fourteen. Her career begun at the SC Dynamo Berlin. 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.
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.
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.
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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
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