Helge Meeuw Explained

Helge Meeuw
Fullname:	Helge Folkert Meeuw
Strokes:	Butterfly, Backstroke
Birth Date:	29 August 1984
Birth Place:	Wiesbaden, Hesse, West Germany
Height:	1.77 m
Weight:	74 kg

Helge Folkert Meeuw (born 29 August 1984 from Wiesbaden, West Germany) is an Olympic and national record holding swimmer from Germany. He swam for Germany at the:

• Olympics: 2004, 2008, 2012
• World Championships: 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011
• European Championships: 2006, 2012
• World University Games: 2007, 2009
• Short Course Worlds: 2006
• Short Course Europeans: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

At the 2008 German Swimming Championships in Berlin, he swam in 53.10 sec a new European Record at 100m backstroke. He also holds 200 m (short course and long course) backstroke German national records in swimming.

Personal bests

Long course

• 100 m backstroke 52.27 NR
• 200 m backstroke 1:53.34 NR

Short course

• 200 m backstroke 1'51.51 NR

Family

Both his parents, Folkert Meeuw and Jutta Weber, competed for West Germany in swimming, and both won medals at Olympic Games and World and European championships.^[1] His wife, Antje Buschschulte, also competed for Germany and won Olympic medals.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Helge Meeuw . https://web.archive.org/web/20121215061130/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/me/helge-meeuw-1.html . 2012-12-15 . dead.
2. Web site: Antje Buschschulte . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com . 2015-08-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150907222027/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bu/antje-buschschulte-1.html . 2015-09-07 .