BERLIN SWIM OPEN
- Friday, February 28th – Sunday, March 1st
- European Sports Park, Berlin, Germany
- Meet Site
- Start Lists
- Day 1 Recap
- Results
- Live Stream
22-year-old Christopher Rothbauer fired off a new Austrian national record last night in the men’s 200m breast at this Berlin Swim Open, crushing a lifetime best of 2:09.88.
That outing overtook the previous Austrian standard of 2:11.09 that Maxim Podoprigoda put on the books way back in 2001. Prior to this meet, Rothbauer had never before been under the 2:12 barrier, owning a previous PB of 2:12.32.
But Rothbauer wasn’t done here, however, as he set designs on lowering his 100m breaststroke personal best even further as well.
Rothbauer established himself as the top-seeded swimmer of the morning with a heats swim of 1:00.88. That time already threatened his own Austrian national record in the event of 1:00.59 he put up in April of 2019 at the Graz Trophy.
However, tonight Rothbauer brought that record down to a time of 1:00.53, disposing of .06 en route gold. Splitting 28.53/32.00, Rothbauer inches closer to the FINA ‘A’ Olympic qualifying time of 59.93 set for Tokyo.
