Schaefer strikes gold

(by  TeamBath/Matchtight)

Sportfoto by Lacy Perenyi

University of Bath swimmer Janne Schaefer is celebrating striking gold

at the European Championships in Eindhoven. 

The 26-year-old Management student won the 50m breaststroke title –

and she did it in style, setting a new championship record of 31.08 seconds in the final.

Janne, who swims for her native Germany, won gold by a third of a second

from Russian swimmer Yuliya Efimova, who took silver in 31.41 seconds.

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Janne in world record breaking quartet

(by  TeamBath/Matchtight)

University of Bath student Janne Schaefer won her second gold medal
of the European Short Course Championships –
helping Germany to a world record in the process.

The 26-year-old swimmer followed up her gold medal in the 50m breaststroke
at the championships in Debrecen, Hungary, with gold in the 4×50m medley relay.

Schaefer, who is studying for an MSc in Management at the University of Bath,
swam the breaststroke leg for the quartet that took almost a second off the old world record.

They came home in 1:46.67 to smash the two-year-old record set by the Dutch team of 1:47.44.

It rounded off a memorable championships for Schaefer,
who had earlier finished joint first in the 50m breaststroke final
to complete a hat-trick of successive titles in that discipline
in at the European Short Course Championships.