Ina Hüging

Ina Hüging
Personal information
Full name Ina Hüging
National team  Germany
Born (1980-01-07) 7 January 1980
Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt,
East Germany
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 59 kg (130 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke
Club SG Schwimmen Münster
Coach Henning Lambertz

Ina Hüging (born January 7, 1980) is a German former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[1] She became a top 16 finalist in the 200 m breaststroke at the World and European Championships (1997 and 1998), and later represented Germany, as a 20-year-old, at the 2000 Summer Olympics. During her sporting career, Hüging trained for Münster Swim Sport Club (German: Sport Gemeinschaft Schwimmen Münster), under longtime coach and mentor Henning Lambertz.[2]

Hüging made her own swimming history at the 1997 European Aquatics Championships in Seville, Spain, finishing eleventh in the consolation final of the 200 m breaststroke at 2:32.38.[3] The following year, at the 1998 FINA World Championships in Perth, Australia, Hüging lowered her personal best to 2:30.55 in the 200 m breaststroke, worthily enough for a twelfth-place effort.[4]

At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Hüging competed only in the women's 200 m breaststroke.[5] She finished behind her teammate Anne Poleska from the German Olympic Trials in Berlin, with a FINA A-standard of 2:28.31.[6] She challenged seven other swimmers in heat three, including Poleska, U.S. duo Kristy Kowal and Amanda Beard, and South Africa's top favorite Sarah Poewe. Hüging faded down the final stretch to pick up a fifth seed in a time of 2:30.00, but missed the semifinals by exactly four-tenths of a second (0.40), finishing only in seventeenth overall from the prelims.[7][8][9]

References

  1. ↑ "Ina Hüging". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 19 June 2013.
  2. ↑ "Deutsche Kurzbahn-Meisterschaften Freiburg: Nur kleine DSV-Mannschaft zur EM nach Valencia" [German Short Course Championships Freiburg: only small DSV team for the European Championship in Valencia] (in German). SSV Freiburg. 2000. Retrieved 19 June 2013.
  3. ↑ "1997 LEN European Aquatics Championships (Seville, Spain): Women's 200m Breaststroke". Swim Rankings. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  4. ↑ "1998 FINA World Championships (Perth, Australia): Women's 200m Breaststroke Final B" (PDF). USA Swimming. p. 29. Retrieved 19 June 2013.
  5. ↑ "Deutsche Schwimmer starten ins Trainingslager" [German swimmers started on a training camp] (in German). Hamburger Morgenpost. 22 August 2000. Retrieved 19 June 2013.
  6. ↑ "Swimming – Women's 200m Breaststroke Startlist (Heat 3)" (PDF). Sydney 2000. Omega Timing. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  7. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 200m Breaststroke Heat 3" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 264. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  8. ↑ "Results from the Summer Olympics – Swimming (Women's 200m Breaststroke)". Canoe.ca. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  9. ↑ "Staffel sicher weiter – Völker im Halbfinale" [Relay secure further – people in the semifinals] (in German). Hamburger Morgenpost. 20 September 2000. Retrieved 19 June 2013.
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