Rainer Henkel
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Nationality | German | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1964-02-27) 27 February 1964 (age 60) Opladen, Nordrhein-Westfalen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 85 kg (187 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | SV Rhenania Köln 1919 eV | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rainer Henkel (born 27 February 1964 in Opladen) is a former freestyle swimmer from Germany, who won the bronze medal in the 4×200 m freestyle relay for West Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.[1]
At the World Championships Henkel won four medals: two golds in the 400 m freestyle and 1500 m freestyle in 1986, silver in the 4×200 m freestyle, and bronze in the 4×200 m freestyle. Furthermore, he won five medals at the European Championships: two golds in the 1500 m freestyle and 4×200 m freestyle in 1987, two silver medals in the 1500 m freestyle in 1985 and the 400 m freestyle in 1987, and one bronze in the 400 m freestyle in 1985.
From 1989 to 2001 he was married to the former German high jumper Heike Henkel.
References
- ^ Rainer Henkel at Sports Reference at Sports Reference
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- 1973: Rick DeMont (USA)
- 1975: Tim Shaw (USA)
- 1978: Vladimir Salnikov (URS)
- 1982: Vladimir Salnikov (URS)
- 1986: Rainer Henkel (FRG)
- 1991: Jörg Hoffmann (GER)
- 1994: Kieren Perkins (AUS)
- 1998: Ian Thorpe (AUS)
- 2001: Ian Thorpe (AUS)
- 2003: Ian Thorpe (AUS)
- 2005: Grant Hackett (AUS)
- 2007: Park Tae-hwan (KOR)
- 2009: Paul Biedermann (GER)
- 2011: Park Tae-hwan (KOR)
- 2013: Sun Yang (CHN)
- 2015: Sun Yang (CHN)
- 2017: Sun Yang (CHN)
- 2019: Sun Yang (CHN)
- 2022: Elijah Winnington (AUS)
- 2023: Samuel Short (AUS)
- 2024: Kim Woo-min (KOR)
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