Full name Thomas Rupprath Olympic Games 0 Role Olympic swimmer Weight 78 kg | Nationality Germany Club SG Bayer Wuppertal Name Thomas Rupprath Height 1.77 m Spouse Urte Rupprath | |
Strokes Backstroke and butterfly Olympic medals Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay Similar People Helge Meeuw, Steffen Driesen, Jens Kruppa, Lars Conrad, Antje Buschschulte | ||
Protestaktion von thomas rupprath und helge meeuw bei kurzbahn em
Thomas Rupprath (born 16 March 1977 in Neuss) is an Olympic swimmer from Germany, who is nicknamed "The New Albatross".
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Biography
He held the world record for the 50 m backstroke (short course) with a time of 23.27 seconds set on 31 November 2002. This was broken by Robert Hurley of Australia on 26 October 2008. He also held the 50 m backstroke (long course) record between 7 July 2003 to 2 April 2008 with a time of 24.80 s.
With a time of 54.16 over 100 m backstroke (second behind Helge Meeuw) Thomas Rupprath managed to qualify for the Olympic Games in Beijing. He also won the 100 m butterfly at the German trials.
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