Thomas Lurz

Thomas Lurz
Personal information
Full name Thomas Lurz
Nationality Germany
Born (1979-11-28) 28 November 1979
Würzburg, Germany
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 76 kg (168 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Open water, freestyle
Club SV Würzburg 05

Thomas Lurz (born 28 November 1979) is a German swimmer who specializes in long-distance freestyle swimming, especially open water swimming. Lurz lives in Gerbrunn and swims for the SV Würzburg 05 sports club.

He competed for Germany at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the 1500 m freestyle, where he missed the final, but returned to the 2008 Summer Olympics, where he won a bronze medal in the 10 km open water race.[1] At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he finished one place higher, claiming the silver medal.[2] He was the world champion in the 10 km open-water swimming event in 2004. In 2005, he won gold in the 5 km event but was beaten into the silver medal position by the United States' Chip Peterson in the 10 km event. He was jointly awarded the inaugural Open Water Swimmer of the Year by Swimming World Magazine with Peterson.

Achievements

See also

References

  1. ↑ Olympic results
  2. ↑ "London 2012 - Swimming - Men's 10 km Marathon". www.olympic.org. IOC. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  3. ↑ Europei di nuoto: argento a Clerinella gara dei 10 km
Awards
Preceded by
None
Netherlands Maarten van der Weijden
Italy Valerio Cleri		 World Open Water Swimmer of the Year
2005 (with United States Chip Peterson), 2006
2009
2011 (with Greece Spyridon Gianniotis) 		Succeeded by
Russia Vladimir Dyatchin
Italy Valerio Cleri
Tunisia Oussama Mellouli
Preceded by
Italy Valerio Cleri
Tunisia Oussama Mellouli		 FINA Open Water Swimmer of the Year
2011
2013 		Succeeded by
Tunisia Oussama Mellouli
Brazil Allan do Carmo
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