Hans Fassnacht Explained

Birth Place:Baden-Württemberg, West Germany
Height:1.75m (05.74feet)
Weight:700NaN0
Sport:Swimming
Coach:Don Gambril
(Long Beach State)
Club:VWM, Mannheim
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Hans-Joachim Fassnacht (pronounced as /de/; born 28 November 1950) is a retired German swimmer. He competed at the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics in various freestyle and butterfly events and won a silver medal in the 4 × 200 m freestyle in 1972. In 1972 he also won a 1500 m freestyle semifinal, setting an Olympic record, but withdrew from the final.[1]

During his career, Fassnacht set 41 German, 21 European and 2 world records, as well as five world best times. In 1969, while attending Long Beach State University under Coach Don Gambril, he broke the world record in the 400 m freestyle, and next year he broke another one, in the 200 m butterfly. He was selected as West German Sportspersonality of the Year three consecutive times: in 1969, 1970 and 1971, beating Franz Beckenbauer. In 1992 he was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.[2]

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  1. Web site: Hans Faßnacht . Sports-Reference . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417183143/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fa/hans-fassnacht-1.html . dead . 2020-04-17 .
  2. Web site: Hans Fassnacht . ISHOF.org . . 2015-07-10 . 2015-07-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150712021420/http://www.ishof.org/hans-fassnacht--%28ger%29.html . dead .