Hans Fassnacht
Hans Fassnacht
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| Born |
November 28, 1950 (1950-11-28) (age 65)
Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
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| Height |
1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) |
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| Weight |
70 kg (150 lb) |
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| Sport |
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| Sport |
Swimming |
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| Club |
VWM, Mannheim |
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Hans-Joachim Fassnacht (born November 28, 1950) is a retired German swimmer. He competed at the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics in various freestyle and butterfly events and won a silver medal in the 4 × 200 m freestyle in 1972. In 1972 he also won a 1500 m freestyle semifinal, setting an Olympic record, but withdrew from the final.[1]
During his career Fassnacht set 41 German, 21 European and 2 world records, as well as five world best times. In 1969, while attending Long Beach State University, he broke the world record in the 400 m freestyle, and next year he broke another one, in the 200 m butterfly. He was selected as German Sportspersonality of the Year three times in a row: in 1969, 1970 and 1971, beating Franz Beckenbauer. In 1992 he was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.[2]
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- 1926: Germany (Heitmann, Rademacher, Berges, Heinrich)
- 1927: Germany (Heitmann, Rademacher, Berges, Heinrich)
- 1931: Hungary (Wanié, Szabados, Székely, Bárány)
- 1934: Hungary (Gróf, Maróthy, Csik, Lengyel)
- 1938: Germany (Birr, Heimlich, Freese, Plath)
- 1947: Sweden (Olsson, Lundén, Östrand, Johansson)
- 1950: Sweden (Sjunnerholm, Östrand, Johansson, Larsson)
- 1954: Hungary (Till, Dömötör, Kádas, Nyéki)
- 1958: Soviet Union (Nikolayev, Struzhanov, Luzhkovsky, Nikitin)
- 1962: Sweden (Rosendahl, Lindberg, Svensson, Bengtsson)
- 1966: Soviet Union (Ilyichov, Belits-Geiman, Pletnev, Novikov)
- 1970: West Germany (Lampe, Von Schilling, Meeuw, Fassnacht)
- 1974: West Germany (Steinbach, Lampe, Meeuw, Nocke)
- 1977: Soviet Union (Raskatov, Rusin, Koplyakov, Krylov)
- 1981: Soviet Union (Shemetov, Salnikov, Chayev, Koplyakov)
- 1983: West Germany (Fahrner, Schowtka, Schmidt, Gross)
- 1985: West Germany (Schowtka, Gross, Schadt, Fahrner)
- 1987: West Germany (Sitt, Henkel, Fahrner, Gross)
- 1989: Italy (Trevisan, Gleria, Lamberti, Battistelli)
- 1991: Soviet Union (Lepikov, Pyshnenko, Tayanovich, Sadovyi)
- 1993: Russia (Lepikov, Pyshnenko, Mukin, Sadovyi)
- 1995: Germany (Keller, Lampe, Spanneberg, Zesner)
- 1997: Great Britain (Palmer, Clayton, Meadows, Salter)
- 1999: Germany (Keller, Pohl, Conrad, Kiedel)
- 2000: Italy (Rosolino, Pelliciari, Cercato, Brembilla)
- 2002: Italy (Pelliciari, Brembilla, Cappellazzo, Rosolino)
- 2004: Italy (Brembilla, Pelliciari, Rosolino, Magnini)
- 2006: Italy (Rosolino, Berbotto, Cassio, Magnini)
- 2008: Italy (Brembilla, Rosolino, Cassio, Magnini)
- 2010: Russia (Lobintsev, Izotov, Perunin, Sukhorukov)
- 2012: Germany (Biedermann, Colupaev, Rapp, Wallburger)
- 2014: Germany (Backhaus, Lebherz, Rapp, Biedermann)
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