Peter Bermel (born 25 June 1967) is a retired German swimmer who won a bronze medal at the

1985 European Aquatics Championships The 1985 European Aquatics Championships were held in "Cherveno zname" swim complex in Sofia, Bulgaria from 4 August until 11 August 1985. Besides swimming there were titles contested in diving, synchronized swimming and water polo. The first ever ...

. He also competed at the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

and finished fifth and eights in the 200 m and 400 m medley events, respectively. Bermel started swimming in a club at age 4-5 and by 13 was a member of the national junior team. In 1983 he won the European Youth Championships in medley and backstroke events. In 1991, after qualifying for the World Cup in Australia he retired from competitive swimming. By 2000, he returned to the pool to compete in the masters category. This was a difficult task as he started smoking and gained weight up to 112 kg, but he quickly shed 20 kg by training. He is a married to Monika and has a son, and a daughter. They live in

Elmshorn Elmshorn (; nds, Elmshoorn) is a town in the district of Pinneberg in Schleswig-Holstein in Germany. It is 30 km north of Hamburg on the small river Krückau, a tributary of the Elbe, and with about 50,000 inhabitants is the sixth-largest to ...

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1967 births German male swimmers Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers for West Germany Living people European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Male medley swimmers Sportspeople from Hamburg 20th-century German people 21st-century German people {{Germany-swimming-bio-stub