Annika Liebs (6 September 1979), previously Annika Lurz, is an Olympic and former

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-holding swimmer from Germany. She swam for her homeland at the

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. In 2005, she was a member of the German team that won the silver medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay at the World Championships in Montreal; and captured three medals (2 silver, 1 bronze) at the

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, Turkey. At the 2006 European Championships in Budapest, she clocked the then fastest-ever split in the 4×200 m freestyle relay (1.55.64), helping the Germany team to break the

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in the event with their 7.50.82. Other members of the relay were:

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, and

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. Also in the pool during the 4×200 m freestyle relay was France's

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, who swam the then-second fastest split ever (1.56.23). Also at the 2006 European Championships, Annika also swam on Germany's 4×100 m freestyle relay that also set a new

(3:35.22). At the 2007 World Championships, she swam the then second-faster-ever time in the women's 200 m freestyle (1:55.68), in finishing second behind Laure Manaudou's world record winning performance; setting the German record in the process. Also at the 2007 Worlds, she was part of Germany's silver medalist 4×200 m freestyle relay. One month after the 2006 European Championships finished, Annika married her coach Stefan Lurz. The couple divorced in 2013.

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* * 1979 births Living people Sportspeople from Karlsruhe German female swimmers German female backstroke swimmers World record setters in swimming Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers for Germany German female freestyle swimmers World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Universiade medalists in swimming Universiade silver medalists for Germany Universiade bronze medalists for Germany Medalists at the 2007 Summer Universiade {{Germany-swimming-bio-stub

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