Nina Dittrich
{{Short description|Austrian swimmer (born 1990)}}
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| name = Nina Dittrich
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| nationality = {{AUT}}
| strokes = Freestyle, butterfly
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1990|11|20|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Vienna, Austria
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| height = {{height|m=1.74|abbr=on}}
| weight = {{convert|58|kg|lb|0|abbr=on}}
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{{MedalSport | Women's swimming}}
{{MedalCountry|{{AUT}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|World Junior Championships}}
{{MedalBronze| 2006 Rio de Janeiro | 200 m butterfly }}
{{MedalCompetition|European Junior Championships}}
{{MedalSilver| 2006 Palma | 200 m medley }}
{{MedalBronze| 2006 Palma | 200 m butterfly }}
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Nina Dittrich (born 20 November 1990 in Vienna) is an Austrian swimmer who specializes in freestyle and butterfly events.{{cite web|title=Nina Dittrich|url=http://www.london2012.com/athlete/dittrich-nina-1125913/|work=London 2012|accessdate=22 January 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517104125/http://www.london2012.com/athlete/dittrich-nina-1125913/|archivedate=17 May 2013}}{{cite sports-reference|title = Nina Dittrich|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/di/nina-dittrich-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418053240/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/di/nina-dittrich-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 18 April 2020|access-date = 22 January 2013}} She is a multiple-time Austrian champion, a five-time national record holder, and also a current member of Simmering Swimming Club ({{langx|de|Schwimmverein Schwechat Simmering|link=no}}) 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.{{cite news|title=Nina Dittrich gab 22-jährig ihren Rücktritt bekannt|trans-title=22-year old Nina Dittrich announced her resignation|language=German|url=http://www.kleinezeitung.at/sport/mehrsport/schwimmen/3176881/nina-dittrich-gab-22-jaehrig-ihren-ruecktritt-bekannt.story|work=Kleine Zeitung|date=28 November 2012|accessdate=22 January 2013}}
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.{{cite news|last=Rusticus|first=Oene|title=Strong Start to European Junior Champs|url=http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/11549.asp|work=Swimming World|date=7 July 2006|accessdate=22 January 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070301075403/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/11549.asp|archivedate=1 March 2007}}{{cite news|last=Rusticus|first=Oene|title=European Junior Championships Close with a Flourish|url=http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/11559.asp|work=Swimming World|date=10 July 2006|accessdate=22 January 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130401194137/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/11559.asp|archivedate=1 April 2013}} 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.{{cite news|title=Kalisz Wins 200 Fly at World Youth Championships|url=http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/11901.asp|work=Swimming World|date=23 August 2006|accessdate=22 January 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130624053422/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/11901.asp|archivedate=24 June 2013}}
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.{{cite web|title=Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 200m Butterfly|url=http://magazines.swimmingworld.com:9997/SPIPDF/080508olyscutsheet.pdf|format=PDF|page=76|work=Swimming World|accessdate=10 April 2013}} She challenged six other swimmers on the second heat, including South Africa's Katheryn Meaklim and Singapore's Tao Li. She came in second place, 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.{{cite web|title=Women's 200m Butterfly Heat 2|url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/swimming/resultsandschedules/rsc=SWW022900/index.html|work=Beijing 2008|publisher=NBC Olympics|accessdate=22 January 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120821003356/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/swimming/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DSWW022900/index.html|archivedate=21 August 2012}}
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.{{cite news|title=European Long Course Championships: Fred Bousquet, Paul Biedermann, Lotte Friis, Federica Pellegrini Shine|url=http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/24826.asp|work=Swimming World|date=14 August 2010|accessdate=22 January 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130216205654/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/24826.asp|archivedate=16 February 2013}}
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.{{cite news|title=Qualifying Athletes – Women's 800 m freestyle|url=http://www.fina.org/H2O/docs/events/london2012/sw/qual_lists/women_800free.pdf|publisher=FINA|accessdate=22 January 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121116081650/http://www.fina.org/H2O/docs/events/london2012/sw/qual_lists/women_800free.pdf|archivedate=16 November 2012}} 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 in fifth place, 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.{{cite web|title=Women's 800m Freestyle Heat 2|url=http://www.london2012.com/swimming/event/women-800m-freestyle/phase=sww018900/index.html|publisher=London 2012|accessdate=22 January 2013|archive-date=5 December 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121205050329/http://www.london2012.com/swimming/event/women-800m-freestyle/phase=sww018900/index.html|url-status=dead}} Shortly after the Olympics, Dittrich announced her retirement from swimming career.{{cite news|title=Nina Dittrich: Karriereende mit 22|trans-title=Nina Dittrich: End of career at 22|language=German|url=http://derstandard.at/1353207571575/Nina-Dittrich-Karriereende-mit-22|work=Der Standard|location=Austria|date=28 November 2012|accessdate=22 January 2013}}
References
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External links
- [https://archive.today/20130411105317/http://www.2012.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=dittrich-nina-1125913/index.html NBC Olympics Profile]
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Category:Austrian female medley swimmers
Category:Austrian female freestyle swimmers
Category:Austrian female butterfly swimmers
Category:Olympic swimmers for Austria
Category:Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics