Helge Meeuw


Helge Folkert Meeuw is an Olympic and national record holding swimmer from Germany. He swam for Germany at the:
  • Olympics: [Germany at the Germany at the 2004 Summer Olympics|2004 Summer Olympics|2004], [Germany at the Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics|2008 Summer Olympics|2008], [Germany at the Germany at the 2012 Summer Olympics|2012 Summer Olympics|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 backstroke German national records in swimming.
WWW helge-meeuw.de

Personal bests

Long course
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. His wife, Antje Buschschulte, also competed for Germany and won Olympic medals.