Nina Dittrich (born 20 November 1990 in

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) is an Austrian swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events. She is a multiple-time Austrian champion, a five-time national record holder, and also, a current member of Simmering Swimming Club (german: Schwimmverein Schwechat Simmering, link=no) in

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. 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

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in Moscow.

Swimming career

At age sixteen, Dittrich made her international debut at the

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, 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. In the same year, she won another bronze medal in the same discipline at the FINA Youth World Championships in

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, Brazil, with a time of 2:13.92, four tenths of a second (0.40) behind runner-up

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of Great Britain. Dittrich qualified for the women's 200 m butterfly at the

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in Beijing, by clearing a FINA B-cut of 2:10.86 from the International Vienna Championships in

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. She challenged six other swimmers on the second heat, including South Africa's

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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. At the 2010 European Swimming Championships in

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, Hungary, Dittrich achieved a sixth-place finish in the women's 1500 m freestyle, posting a national record-breaking time of 16:23.63. Four years after competing in her first Olympics, Dittrich qualified for her second Austrian team, as a 22-year-old, at the

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in London, by attaining a B-standard entry time of 8:39.67 in the women's 800 m freestyle. She challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including fellow two-time Olympians

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of Malaysia and

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, with a time of 8:45.41. Dittrich, however, failed to advance into the final, as she placed twenty-eighth in the overall rankings. Shortly after the Olympics, Dittrich announced her retirement from swimming career.

References

External links

NBC Olympics Profile
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