Background
Originally from Germany, Zastrow was born and raised in Wuppertal, near Düsseldorf.
Originally from Germany, Zastrow was born and raised in Wuppertal, near Düsseldorf.
He became a naturalized Dutch citizen in July 2003, after a conflict with the German Swimming Association. He currently trains at PSV Eindhoven in Eindhoven, Netherlands, with his coach, Torsten Petsch. Zastrow"s swimming career has been filled with a series of unfortunate injuries.
In 2003, at the FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain, Zastrow participated in his first World Championship as a Dutch citizen.
However, due to a back injury, he was unable to swim in most of the events that he had qualified foreign Zastrow qualified fifth out of one hundred Dutch swimmers to participate in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
Zastrow"s specialty is actually the backstroke. He has been the Dutch record holder in the 50 meter backstroke since 2003.
Zastrow has a Chinese ideograph tattooed on his left shoulder.
The character is "猴" and means "monkey.".