Sports Physician - Athlete 1976

1976

At the 1993 European Youth Championships in Istanbul, German Tom Oberheiden (1976-) won the 100m freestyle. With the relay team of his then club SG Essen, he achieved the German title 4 x 100m medley in 1996. After graduating from the Essen University hospital (Universitätsklinikum Essen) in 2004, he specialized in the Mannheim University hospital (Universitätsklinikum Mannheim) in Internal Medicine with a special interest in Cardiology. After his specialization, he started a practice in the Mannheim clinic.

1976

K. Brooke Pengel (1976-) played tennis in the American league and also focused on coaching young players. She graduated from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and specialized in paediatrics at the Children's Hospital of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where she also received her Sports Medicine degree. She started a pediatric Sports Medicine program at Denver's Children's Hospital, but moved to the Rocky Mountain Youth Sports Medicine Institute, a department of the Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children, in July 2010 where she became medical director of the children's sports medical program.

1976

German athlete Christian Schacht (1976-) crowned himself national champion 4 x 100m with his club LAZ Salamander Kornwestheim-Ludwigsburg in 1999 and 2001 and in 2000 he won the bronze medal in the 100m in the German title race. In 2002 he won that competition with the German relay team at the European Athletics Championships in Munich. After graduating, he settled as a general practitioner in Bremen.

1976

Anna Windsor (1976-) won four medals with the Australian relay team at the 1993, 1995 and 1998 Swimming World Championships. She was also selected for the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, where she finished sixth with the relay team in the 4 x 100m freestyle and she swam the 200m individual medley at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. At the Pan Pacific Games in Kobe, Japan, she won two silver medals, a booty which she also won during the national championships in the 200m individual medley and the 200m freestyle, which she later redid at the World Cup in Mallorca. During the Commonwealth Games she won gold with the relay team 4 x 200m freestyle. After the 2000 Games in her own country, she stopped competitive swimming to fully focus on her Medicine studies. She graduated in 2004 and settled as a general practitioner in Orange City.