Thomas Lurz
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Thomas Lurz (born 28 November 1979 in Würzburg) is a German swimmer who specializes is 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] 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.
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[edit] Achievements
- Ten German titles for 800 m, 1500 m, 5000 m and 10,000 m (open-water) freestyle
- Winner of the European Open Water Competition 2005
- Silver medal in the 1500 m freestyle at the 2005 Summer Universiade
- Gold medals in 5 km and 10 km events at the 2006 European Aquatics Championships in Budapest
- Gold medal in 10 km event at the 2010 European Aquatics Championships in Budapest.[2]
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| Awards | ||
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| Preceded by None  Maarten van der Weijden Valerio Cleri |
World Open Water Swimmer of the Year 2005 (with  Chip Peterson), 20062009 2011 (with  Spyridon Gianniotis) |
Succeeded by Vladimir Dyatchin Valerio CleriIncumbent |
| Preceded by Valerio Cleri |
FINA Open Water Swimmer of the Year 2011 |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
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- 1979 births
- Long-distance swimmers
- German swimmers
- Living people
- Olympic swimmers of Germany
- People from Würzburg
- Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Germany
- Swimming World Open Water Swimmers of the Year
- Olympic medalists in swimming
- German swimming Olympic medalist stubs
