Dorothea Brandt

{{Infobox swimmer

| name = Dorothea Brandt

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| national_team = {{GER}}

| strokes = Freestyle, breaststroke

| club = SG Essen

| coach = Nicole Endruschat

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1984|3|5|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Bremervörde, Lower Saxony,
West Germany

| height = 1.78 m

| weight = 70 kg

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Dorothea Brandt (born 5 March 1984) is a German swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle and breaststroke events.{{cite Sports-Reference|title=Dorothea Brandt|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/br/dorothea-brandt-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417222953/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/br/dorothea-brandt-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 April 2020|accessdate=19 March 2013}} She is a multiple-time German champion, a fourteen-time medalist at the European Short Course Swimming Championships, and a semi-finalist in the 50 m freestyle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Brandt currently holds the short-course German record time of 23.74 seconds in the same discipline.

Swimming career

Brandt is a member of the swimming club SG Essen, in Essen Germany.{{cite news|last1=Kamphaus|first1=Daniel|title=Essener Schwimmerin wird Olympia-Ausrüstung gestohlen|url=https://www.derwesten.de/staedte/essen/essener-schwimmerin-wird-olympia-ausruestung-gestohlen-id12005214.html|access-date=14 July 2016|publisher=WAZ|date=13 July 2016|archive-date=24 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170124233105/http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/essen/essener-schwimmerin-wird-olympia-ausruestung-gestohlen-id12005214.html|url-status=dead}} She first appeared on the international scene, when she helped out the German team (led by Antje Buschschulte to take the bronze medal in the medley relay at the 2002 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Riesa.{{cite news|title=Risztov Sets European Record in the 800, Rupprath Wins Two at Euro Champs|url=http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/4620.asp|publisher=Swimming World Magazine|date=12 December 2002|access-date=19 March 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130411214526/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/4620.asp|archive-date=11 April 2013}}

Two years later, Brandt qualified for the women's 50 m freestyle, along with Olympic veteran Sandra Völker, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by attaining an A-standard entry time of 25.40 seconds from the German Olympic trials.{{cite news|title=Few Surprises on Day One of German Trials|url=http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/7348.asp|publisher=Swimming World Magazine|date=5 June 2004|access-date=19 March 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130411213335/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/7348.asp|archive-date=11 April 2013}} Brandt, however, failed to advance into the final, as she recorded the slowest phase time of 25.83 seconds in the semi-finals.{{cite web|title=Women's 50m Freestyle Semifinal 2|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/swimming/results/3535060.stm|work=Athens 2004|publisher=BBC Sport|date=20 August 2004|access-date=31 January 2013}}

Between 2004 and 2008, Brandt had won a total of seven medals (four silver and three bronze), as a member of the German team, in the women's freestyle and medley relays at the European Short Course Swimming Championships. At the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade, Serbia, Brandt claimed her first ever silver medal in the 50 m freestyle, by seven-hundredths of a second (0.07) ahead of U.S. swimmer Michelle King, with a time of 25.03 seconds.{{cite news|title=World University Games, Swimming: Ryosuke Irie Clocks Another 52 in 100 Back Leadoff on Final Day |url=http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/21664.asp |publisher=Swimming World Magazine |date=11 July 2009 |access-date=19 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130222073654/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/21664.asp |archive-date=22 February 2013 }} On the same year, Brandt earned her second individual career medal, a bronze, in the same event at the European Short Course Swimming Championships in Istanbul, Turkey, with a time of 23.74 seconds. Moreover, she lowered Britta Steffen's short-course German record of 23.80, set in 2007, by a six-hundredth margin (0.06).{{cite news|title=European Short Course Championships: Daniel Gyurta, Federica Pellegrini, Arkady Vyatchanin, Stanislav Donets Set World Records |url=http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/22963.asp |publisher=Swimming World Magazine |date=13 December 2009 |access-date=19 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130505064211/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/22963.asp |archive-date= 5 May 2013 }}

At the 2010 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands, Brandt claimed her first title in the 50 m breaststroke by five hundredths of a second (0.05) behind second-place finisher Moniek Nijhuis of the Netherlands, with a time of 30.40 seconds.{{cite news|title=European Short Course Championships: Evelyn Verraszto Posts Fastest 200 SCM IM in Textile|url=http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/25800.asp|publisher=Swimming World Magazine|date=25 November 2010|access-date=19 March 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216214210/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/25800.asp|archive-date=16 February 2013}} The following year, she captured a silver medal by eleven-hundredths of a second (0.11) behind Russia's Valentina Artemyeva in the same event at the European Short Course Swimming Championships, lowering her time to 30.17 seconds.{{cite news|title=European Short Course Championships: Mireia Belmonte Garcia Clocks Strong Double |url=http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/World/29005.asp |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216205914/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/World/29005.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 February 2013 |publisher=Swimming World Magazine |date=8 December 2011 |access-date=19 March 2013 }} Brandt also won a gold, as a member of the German swimming team, in the women's 4×50 m freestyle relay, clocking at 1:37.29.{{cite news|title=European Short Course Championships: Jeanette Ottesen Has Impressive Day|url=http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/World/29015.asp|publisher=Swimming World Magazine|date=9 December 2011|access-date=19 March 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130411221255/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/World/29015.asp|archive-date=11 April 2013}}

References

External links

{{Webarchive |url=https://archive.today/20130211005546/http://schwimmen.dsv.de/Modules/Results/Individual1.aspx?SwimmerID=21843 |date=February 11, 2013 |title=Dorothea Brandt at the German Swimming Federation (Deutscher Schwimm-Verband)}} {{in lang|de}}
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Category:1984 births

Category:Living people

Category:People from Bremervörde

Category:Olympic swimmers for Germany

Category:Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Category:Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Category:German female freestyle swimmers

Category:German female breaststroke swimmers

Category:Summer World University Games medalists in swimming

Category:Swimmers from Lower Saxony

Category:FISU World University Games silver medalists for Germany

Category:Medalists at the 2009 Summer Universiade

Category:21st-century German sportswomen