Paul Biedermann continues to impress in his return to the German swimming scene, taking another national championship on day 3 of the national championship meet in Berlin.
After a 400 free win on Friday, Biedermann put up a 48.31 to win the 100 Saturday, just missing the German record of 48.24 held by Marco di Carli.
That time does rank Biedermann in the top 5 in the world this year, though, sitting 5th behind Olympic gold medalist Nathan Adrian, Brazilian speedster Cesar Cielo and Aussie stars James Magnussen and Cameron McEvoy.
That 100 freestyle kicked off the meet, and Biedermann had to fight hard for that opening win, beating Steffen Deibler by just a couple tenths. Deibler’s 48.56 now sits 8th in the world.
2014 LCM Men 100 Free TYR World Ranking
MAGNUSSEN
47.59
View Top 51»2 Cameron
McEVOYAUS 47.65 04/03 3 Zetao
NINGCHN 47.70 09/25 4 Florent
MANAUDOUFRA 47.98 08/22 5 Nathan
ADRIANUSA 48.08 06/14 6 Cesar
CIELOBRA 48.13 04/26 7 Marco
ORSIITA 48.16 12/20 8 Vladimir
MOROZOVRUS 48.25 05/14 9 Matheus
SANTANABRA 48.25*WJR 08/22 10 Andrii
GRECHENRUS 48.25 08/18
The women’s race went to Dorothea Brandt in 55.05, just beating Anika Bruhn by three tenths.
Deibler’s younger brother Markus went on to pick up a win later on in the 200 IM. His 1:58.00 knocked off the rest of the A final by almost 1.5 seconds, and moves him to 8th in the world.
(Update: we originally credited Steffen Deibler with the 200 IM win. The story has been updated, as it was his brother Markus who took the event.)
2014 LCM Men 200 IM TYR World Ranking
HAGINO
1.55.34
View Top 51»2 Ryan
LOCHTEUSA 1.56.02 08/24 3 Michael
PHELPSUSA 1.56.04 08/24 4 Daiya
SETOJPN 1.57.08 09/05 5 Thiago
PEREIRABRA 1.57.23 12/18 6 Conor
DWYERUSA 1.57.41 08/10 7 Daniel
TRANTERAUS 1.57.66 04/06 8 Hiromsa
FUJIMORIJPN 1.57.77 04/12 9 Thomas
FRASER-HOLMESAUS 1.57.88 04/06 10 Chad
LE CLOSRSA 1.57.94 04/11
Also in that event, 14-year-old rising star Johannes Hintze broke another national age record. His 2:03.68 smashed the previous mark, listed on the German swimming website as 2:07.18, which Hintze went two months ago. Hintze finished 6th overall.
The women’s 200 IM went to Theresa Michalak, back in Europe after her first semester with the U.S.’s Florida Gators of the NCAA. Michalak went 2:13.16 to easily top the field.
The first age record of the day came earlier in the meet: Julia Willers went 1:08.86 in the 100 breast to take down the 18-year-olds mark of 1:09.21. Willers was hot on the trail of the win, but wound up third overall, just a half-second out of gold. Caroline Ruhnau‘s 1:08.24 took the win with Vanessa Grimberg second in 1:08.48.
In the men’s race, Henrik Feldwehr cracked the minute barrier, going 59.81 to power away with the win over Marco Koch (1:00.08). Feldwehr, the national record-holder, now sits 5th in the world for 2014.
2014 LCM Men 100 Breast TYR World Ranking
PEATY
58.68
View Top 51»2 Christian
SPRENGERAUS 58.87 04/03 3 Cameron
VAN DER BURGHRSA 59.28 07/24 4 Ross
MURDOCHGBR 59.33 08/18 5 Giedrius
TITENISLTU 59.35 08/18
Franziska Hentke took the women’s 200 fly, going 2:07.67 for a dominating 5-second victory. Hentke’s blowout win ties her season best, which already sat 7th in our world rankings:
2014 LCM Women 200 Fly TYR World Ranking
BELMONTE GARCIA
2.04.79
View Top 91»2 Natsumi
HOSHIJPN 2.05.98 04/12 3 Liliana
SZILAGYIHUN 2.06.59 08/19 4 Cammile
ADAMSUSA 2.06.61 08/21 5 Judit
IGNACIO SORRIBESESP 2.06.66 08/24 6 Madeline
GROVESAUS 2.06.81 03/01 7 Ellen
GANDYAUS 2.07.06 01/17 8 Katie
McLAUGHLINUSA 2.07.08*WJR 08/21 9 Jiao
LIUYANGCHN 2.07.28 05/14 9 Katinka
HOSSZUHUN 2.07.28 08/24
The men’s race was an outstanding one, with Robin Backhaus just edging out Philip Lücker by .01. Backhaus finished in 1:58.73 to just beat out Lücker’s 1:58.74, and Markus Gierke wasn’t far behind in third place at 1:59.01. In the preliminaries, Moritz Brandt took down an age record, going 2:01.92. He took 9th in the A final at night.
In the 200 back, women’s National record-holder Jenny Mensing blasted to a 2:09.25, winning by a full second. On the men’s side it was also the national record-holder triumphing, as Jan-Philip Glania went 1:57.40 to top Christian Diener.
Also swum were two distance freestyle races, where another athlete cracked the world top 10. In the men’s 800, Soren Meissner went 7:54.93, the 8th-fastest time in the world for 2014.
2014 LCM Men 800 Free TYR World Ranking
DETTI
7.42.74
View Top 51»2 Gregorio
PALTRINIERIITA 7.43.01 04/08 3 Ryan
COCHRANECAN 7.45.39 08/24 4 Mack
HORTONAUS 7.47.73 08/24 5 Connor
JAEGERUSA 7.47.75 08/24 6 Jordan
HARRISONAUS 7.48.20 08/24 7 Pal
JOENSENFAR 7.48.49 08/22 8 Michael
McBROOMUSA 7.49.66 08/10 9 Stephen
MILNEGBR 7.50.64 08/22 10 Kouhei
YAMAMOTOJPN 7.51.88 04/12
The women swam the 1500, with Sarah Kohler coming out with the win at 16:26.28, just eight tenths up on Isabelle Harle.
Sunday will be the final day of competition from Berlin for these German Championships.
Bieldermann for 1:46:25
Overall better results that yesterday.
The most exciting swim is johannes Hintze 2:03.68 in 200 IM.
I think that is faster than Michael Andrew’s NAG record, but certainly slower than Hagino’s crazy 2:02
I hope Germany knows how to handle and develop such a young budding superstar to fulfill his potentials, and will have the same luck as Britta stiffen than Franzi van Almsick when it comes to the Olympics.
I consider van Almsick as the clear cut greatest female 200 freestyler in the 90s and early 2000s, and yet she tragically never won Olympics gold, not even relay gold.
It wasnt Steffen Deible who won the 200 IM but his younger brother Markus. There was also another age group record by Moritz Brandt (1998) 2:01:92 in 200 fly, breaking the age group record of Michael Groß. Franziska Hentke was 7th in world ranking before today, because she had swum 2:07:74 earlier this year, so actually i hoped she could go 2:06 today.