Nina Dittrich

Nina Dittrich

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Personal information
Nationality	Austria
Born	(1990-11-20) 20 November 1990 Vienna, Austria
Height
Weight	58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle, butterfly
Club	SVS Simmering
Coach	Kurt Dittrich
Medal record Women's swimming Representing Austria World Junior Championships 2006 Rio de Janeiro 200 m butterfly European Junior Championships 2006 Palma 200 m medley 2006 Palma 200 m butterfly

Nina Dittrich (born November 20, 1990 in Vienna) is an Austrian swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events. 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. 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.

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. 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.

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. 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.

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.

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. 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. Shortly after the Olympics, Dittrich announced her retirement from swimming career.

External links

• NBC Olympics Profile