Anne Poleska

Anne Poleska (born February 20, 1980) is a German breaststroke swimmer who swam for the University of Alabama, won five gold medals at the European championships, and competed in three Olympics from 2000-2008. She won a Bronze medal in her specialty, the 200-meter breaststroke competing for Germany in the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Poleska was born in Krefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, West Germany on February 20, 1980, and trained and competed with the SG Krefeld Swim Club in her hometown.

After 1999, and intermittently throughout the following decade, Poleska trained at Coral Springs's Aquatic Complex in South Florida, where she would later swim with American Olympic swimmer Dara Torres and five other 2008 Beijing Olympians. To follow German Olympic guidelines, Poleska swam as an "unattached" swimmer during this period to remain eligible to compete for Germany. At Coral Springs, where she became a resident in 2005, she was trained by six-time Olympic Coach Michael Lohberg, originally a native of Germany. After his death, the Coral Springs Aquatic Complex was named in Lohberg's honor.