2025 GERMAN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Thursday, May 1st – Sunday, May 4th
- Berlin, Germany
- LCM (50m)
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While competing on the final day of the 2025 German Championships, 23-year-old Anna Elendt lowered her own German national record in the women’s 200m breaststroke.
Elendt fired off a time of 2:23.54 to shave another .39 off the 2:23.93 German benchmark she put on the books just last month at the Berlin Swim Open.
Tonight, Elendt beat the field by nearly 4 seconds. Lena Ludwig was the next-closest competitor in 2:27.33 while Hannah Schneider rounded out the podium in 2:29.07.
Splits between Elendt’s former and new records are below, with the former University of Texas Longhorn bringing some extra speed on the front half this time around.
| Previous National Record (April 2025) | New National Record (2025) | |
| 50 | 33.09 | 32.82 |
| 100 | 1:09.73 (36.64) | 1:09.15 (36.33) |
| 150 | 1:46.79 (37.06) | 1:45.91 (36.76) |
| 200 | 2:23.93 (37.14) | 2:23.54 (37.63) |
She now ranks 5th in the world on the season.
2024-2025 LCM Women 200 Breast
CHIKUNOVA
2:20.36
| 2 | Kate Douglass | USA | 2:20.78 | 05/03 |
| 3 | Angharad Evans | GBR | 2:21.86 | 04/17 |
| 4 | Alex WALSH | USA | 2:22.71 | 05/03 |
| 5 | Alina Zmushka | NAA | 2:23.30 | 05/22 |
The German Swimming Federation set the World Aquatics qualification standard at 2:25.60 so Elendt has made the grade to book her ticket to Singapore. She already qualified in the 100m breast courtesy of the swift 1:05.72 registered on night two of his competition.
Historic time! congratulations!