Franziska Hentke (born 4 June 1989) is a German former

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Career

In July 2015, Hentke broke the German record in the 200-meter butterfly (long course) with a time of 2:05.26. At the

2015 World Aquatics Championships The 16th FINA World Aquatics Championships, FINA World Championships (russian: Чемпионат мира по водным видам спорта 2015), also Aquatics 2015, were held in Kazan, Russia from 24 July to 9 August 2015. Russia host ...

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, Russia, she finished tied 4th in this event. At the 2015 European Short Course Championships she won her first international title, in the 200 m butterfly. In the final she broke her own national record with a time of 2:03.01, making her the sixth fastest performer all-time in this event. She also competed in the 400 m individual medley, and finished 7th. Hentke won her first international long-course title, in the 200 meter butterfly, at the

2016 European Aquatics Championships The 2016 European Aquatics Championships took place from 9 to 22 May 2016 in London, United Kingdom, in the London Aquatics Centre. It was the thirty second edition of the event, and the second held in the same year as a Summer Olympics. Hosts Gr ...

in London. She beat Hungarian

Liliána Szilágyi Liliána Szilágyi (born 19 November 1996) is a Hungarian swimmer, who specialized in the butterfly events. Career She collected two medals (gold and silver) in the 100 and 200 m butterfly at the 2012 European Junior Swimming Championships in ...

by 0.01 s. At the

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, Hentke finished 11th in the semifinals of the 200 m butterfly and did not qualify for the final. She finished 13th in the 200 m butterfly at the

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and retired from swimming afterwards.

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* * * * * 1989 births Living people People from Bitterfeld-Wolfen People from Bezirk Halle German female swimmers Sportspeople from Saxony-Anhalt German female butterfly swimmers Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers of Germany World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming 20th-century German women Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-century German women {{Germany-swimming-bio-stub