Rainer Henkel

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Medal record
Men’s swimming
Competitor for West Germany
Olympic Games
Bronze	1988 Seoul	4×200 m freestyle
World Championships (LC)
Gold	1986 Madrid	400 m freestyle
Gold	1986 Madrid	1500 m freestyle
Silver	1986 Madrid	4×200 m freestyle
Bronze	1982 Guayaquil	4×200 m freestyle
European Championships (LC)
Gold	1987 Strasbourg	1500 m freestyle
Gold	1987 Strasbourg	4×200 m freestyle
Silver	1985 Sofia	1500 m freestyle
Silver	1987 Strasbourg	400 m freestyle
Bronze	1985 Sofia	400 m freestyle

Rainer Henkel (born 27 February 1964 in Opladen) is a former freestyle swimmer from Germany, who won the bronze medal in the 4×200 m freestyle relay for West Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.^[1]

At the World Championships Henkel won four medals: two golds in the 400 m freestyle and 1500 m freestyle in 1986, silver in the 4×200 m freestyle, and bronze in the 4×200 m freestyle. Furthermore he won five medals at the European Championships: two golds in the 1500 m freestyle and 4×200 m freestyle in 1987, two silver medals in the 1500 m freestyle in 1985 and the 400 m freestyle in 1987, and one bronze in the 400 m freestyle in 1985.

From 1989 to 2001 he was married to the former German high jumper Heike Henkel.

References

^ http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/he/rainer-henkel-1.html at Sports Reference

v · d · e World Long Course Champions in Men's 400 m Freestyle

1973: Rick DeMont (USA) 1975: Timothy Shaw (USA) 1978: Vladimir Salnikov (RUS) 1982: Vladimir Salnikov (RUS) 1986: Rainer Henkel (FRG) 1991: Jörg Hoffmann (GER) 1994: Kieren Perkins (AUS) 1998: Ian Thorpe (AUS) 2001: Ian Thorpe (AUS) 2003: Ian Thorpe (AUS) 2005: Grant Hackett (AUS) 2007: Park Tae-Hwan (KOR) 2009: Paul Biedermann (GER) 2011: Park Tae-Hwan (KOR)

World Long Course Champions in Men's 1500 m Freestyle

1973: Stephen Holland (AUS) · 1975: Timothy Shaw (USA) · 1978: Vladimir Salnikov (RUS) · 1982: Vladimir Salnikov (RUS) · 1986: Rainer Henkel (FRG) · 1991: Jörg Hoffmann (GER) · 1994: Kieren Perkins (AUS) · 1998: Grant Hackett (AUS) · 2001: Grant Hackett (AUS) · 2003: Grant Hackett (AUS) · 2005: Grant Hackett (AUS) · 2007: Mateusz Sawrymowicz (POL) · 2009: Oussama Mellouli (TUN) · 2011: Sun Yang (CHN)

European Champions in Men's 1500 m Freestyle

1926: Arne Borg (SWE)
1927: Arne Borg (SWE)
1931: Olivér Halassy (HUN)
1934: Jean Taris (FRA)
1938: Björn Borg (SWE)
1947: György Mitró (HUN)
1950: Hans-Günther Lehmann (FRG)
1954: György Csordás (HUN)
1958: Ian Black (GBR)
1962: József Katona (HUN)
1966: Semyon Belits-Geiman (URS)
1970: Hans-Joachim Fassnacht (FRG)
1974: Frank Pfütze (GDR)
1977: Vladimir Salnikov (URS)
1981: Vladimir Salnikov (URS)
1983: Vladimir Salnikov (URS)
1985: Uwe Daßler (GDR)
1987: Rainer Henkel (FRG)
1989: Jörg Hoffmann (GDR)
1991: Jörg Hoffmann (GER)
1993: Jörg Hoffmann (GER)
1995: Jörg Hoffmann (GER)
1997: Emiliano Brembilla (ITA)
1999: Igor Snitko (UKR)
2000: Igor Chervynskyi (UKR)
2002: Yury Prilukov (RUS)
2004: Yury Prilukov (RUS)
2006: Yury Prilukov (RUS)
2008: Yury Prilukov (RUS)
2010: Sébastien Rouault (FRA)

European Champions in Men's 4×200 m Freestyle Relay

1926: Germany (Heitmann, Rademacher, Berger, Heinrich)
1927: Germany (Heitmann, Rademacher, Berger, Heinrich)
1931: Hungary (Wanié, Szabados, Székely, Bárány)
1934: Hungary (Gróf, Marothy, Csik, Lengyel)
1938: Germany (Birr, Heimlich, Freese, Plath)
1947: Sweden (Olsson, Lundén, Östrand, Johansson)
1950: Sweden (Sjunnerholm, Östrand, Johansson, Larsson)
1954: Hungary (Till, Dömötör, Kádas, Nyéki)
1958: Soviet Union (Nikolayev, Struchanov, Luchkovski, Nikitin)
1962: Sweden (Rosendahl, Lindberg, Svensson, Bengtsson)
1966: Soviet Union (Ilyichev, Belits-Geiman, Pletnev, Novikov)
1970: West Germany (Lampe, Von Schilling, Meeuw, Fassnacht)
1974: West Germany (Steinbach, Lampe, Meeuw, Nocke)
1977: Soviet Union (Raskatov, Rusin, Kopliakov, Krylov)
1981: Soviet Union (Shemetov, Salnikov, Chaev, Kopliakov)
1983: West Germany (Fahrner, Schowtka, Schmidt, Groß)
1985: West Germany (Schowtka, Groß, Schadt, Fahrner)
1987: West Germany (Sitt, Henkel, Fahrner, Groß)
1989: Italy (Trevisan, Gleria, Lamberti, Battistelli)
1991: Soviet Union (Lepikov, Pyshnenko, Tayanovich, Sadovyi)
1993: Russia (Lepikov, Pyshnenko, Mukin, Sadovyi)
1995: Germany (Keller, Lampe, Spanneberg, Zesner)
1997: Great Britain (Palmer, Clayton, Meadows, Salter)
1999: Germany (Keller, Pohl, Conrad, Kiedel)
2000: Italy (Rosolino, Pelliciari, Cercato, Brembilla)
2002: Italy (Pelliciari, Brembilla, Cappellazzo, Rosolino)
2004: Italy (Brembilla, Pelliciari, Rosolino, Magnini)
2006: Italy (Rosolino, Berbotto, Cassio, Magnini)
2008: Italy (Brembilla, Rosolino, Cassio, Magnini)
2010: Russia (Lobintsev, Izotov, Perunin, Sukhorukov)

Persondata
Name	Henkel, Rainer
Alternative names
Short description	Swimmer
Date of birth	27 February 1964
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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