Britta Steffen

In 1999 Steffen won six titles at the European junior championships, and won a medal as a member of Germany’s freestyle relay team at the Summer Olympics 2000. In 2004, she asked to swim the 4×100 m relay. But after the Olympics, she took one year off swimming and concentrated on her studies, which were not finished. At the Championships in Budapest on 2 August 2006, Steffen clocked 53.30 in the women’s 100 m freestyle event, breaking the world record and upstaging the previous record of 53...Read Full Story

50-41 | 40-31 | 30 - 21 | 20 - 11 | 10 - 1 30. Britta Steffen – Germany Extremely successful and yet still humble, the swimmer Britta Steffen is happy to be going to her third Olympics. Check out more pictures and videos about Britta here . 29. Ana Ivanovic – Serbia Ana Ivonovic is the number one woman going into Beijing’s women’s tennis singles. Can she get the gold? You can find more sexy pictures and video featuring Ana here . 28. Christine Arron – France...Read Full Story

Britta Steffen stands on the podium with her medal. (Photo credit: Al Bello/Getty Images) Britta Steffen of Germany won the Women's 50m Freestyle gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games on Sunday. Steffen clocked in an Olympic record of 24.06 seconds to beat the previous mark of 24.13 set up by Inge de Bruijn of the Netherlands on September 22, 2000. American Dara Torres got the silver in 24.07 and Australian Cate Campbell finished third in 24.17. (L-R) Dara Torres, Britta Steffen and Cate...Read Full Story

Britta Steffen biographyBritta Steffen was born on November 16, 1983 in Schwedt, Germany so her age is 24. Apart from the individual events, Britta is also a part of the German 4×100m relay team which won a medal at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. Her measurements are 30-28-32.In August 2006, she became the world record holder for the women’s 100m freestyle during the World Championships in BudapestRead Full Story

Britta Steffen, a German swimmer who specializes in freestyle, who is a former holder of the world record in women’s 100-meter freestyle, has defeated 41-year-old Dara Torres, an American swimmer, who has competed in five Olympics: 1984, 1988, 1992, 2000, and 2008. In her career, Torres has won twelve Olympic medals (four-gold, four-silver, and four-bronze), five of which she won in the Sydney Olympics in 2000. She was the oldest member of the U.S. Olympic Swim Team. Steffen defeated Torres...Read Full Story

Britta Steffen biographyBritta Steffen was born on November 16, 1983 in Schwedt, Germany so her age is 24. Apart from the individual events, Britta is also a part of the German 4×100m relay team which won a medal at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. Her measurements are 30-28-32.In August 2006, she became the world record holder for the women’s 100m freestyle during the World Championships in BudapestRead Full Story

Six world records in the evening session at the world championships in the Foro Italico here took the total for the meet to 35. At the last world championships in Melbourne in 2007, 15 world records were broken in total and with two days of competition remaining, this number has already been more than doubled. In the evening session Friday the first four swims saw Britta Steffen breaking the women's 100m freestyle record, American Aaron Peirsol winning gold in the men's 200m backstroke in...Read Full Story

India news PMinister 4 hours ago ( http://www.expressindia.com ) View profile Category : Politics Britta Steffen won Germany's first swimming gold of the Beijing Olympics when she swum down world record holder Libby Trickett to win the women's 100 metres freestyle on Friday with a time of 53.12 seconds. Tell a...Read Full Story

Britta Steffen stands on the podium with her medal. (Photo credit: Al Bello/Getty Images) Britta Steffen of Germany won the Women's 50m Freestyle gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games on Sunday. Steffen clocked in an Olympic record of 24.06 seconds to beat the previous mark of 24.13 set up by Inge de Bruijn of the Netherlands on September 22, 2000. American Dara Torres got the silver in 24.07 and Australian Cate Campbell finished third in 24.17. (L-R) Dara Torres, Britta Steffen and Cate...Read Full Story

BERLIN (AFP) -- Double Olympic champion Britta Steffen on Thursday set a new world record for the women's 100 metres freestyle in a time of 52.85sec at the German national championships. The previous record of 52.88 was held by Australian Libby Trickett. Steffen won 100m Olympic gold in Beijing last year, beating Tricket at the death. She then performed in similar fashion to beat Dara Torres by just 0.01 to win gold in the 50m. Copyright © 2009 AFP All Rights ReservedRead Full Story