Sonja Schöber

Who is Sonja Schöber?

Sonja Schöber is a German swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke and individual medley events. Schober won a bronze medal, as a member of the German swimming team, at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand with a final time of 3:42.68. Schober is a member of the Dortmund Sport Community Club in Dortmund, and is coached and trained by Volker Höltke.

Schober qualified for two swimming events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing FINA A-standard entry times of 1:08.17 and 2:14.48 from the German Olympic trials in Berlin. On the second night of the Games, Schober challenged seven other swimmers in a top seeded heat of the 100 m breaststroke, including world record holder Leisel Jones of Australia, and former Olympic champion Megan Jendrick of the United States. Schober finished dead-last in her heat and thirty-sixth overall with a time of 1:11.36, more than five seconds behind Jones, who broke an Olympic record. In the 200 m individual medley, Schober repeated her luck on the same heat, as she finished dead-last again by six seconds behind Canada's Erica Morningstar in 2:20.18. Schober failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-fourth overall in the preliminary heats. Her Olympic time in the medley was 2.28 seconds behind her fellow swimmer Katharina Schiller.