Career
Brandt currently holds the short-course German record time of 23.74 seconds in the same discipline. She first appeared on the international scene, when she helped out the German team (led by Antje Buschschulte to take the bronze medal in the medley relay at the 2002 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Riesa. Brandt, however, failed to advance into the final, as she recorded the slowest phase time of 25.83 seconds in the semi-finals.
At the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade, Serbia, Brandt claimed her first ever silver medal in the 50 m freestyle, by seven hundredths of a second (007) ahead of United States. swimmer Michelle King, with a time of 25.03 seconds.
On the same year, Brandt earned her second individual career medal, a bronze, in the same event at the European Short Course Swimming Championships in Istanbul, Turkey, with a time of 23.74 seconds. Moreover, she lowered Britta Steffen"s short-course German record of 23.80, set in 2007, by a six hundredth margin (006).
At the 2010 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands, Brandt claimed her first title in the 50 m breaststroke by five hundredths of a second (005) behind second-place finisher Moniek Nijhuis of the Netherlands, with a time of 30.40 seconds. The following year, she captured a silver medal by eleven hundredths of a second (011) behind Russia"s Valentina Artemyeva in the same event at the European Short Course Swimming Championships, lowering her time to 30.17 seconds.
