2026 GERMAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Thursday, April 23rd – Sunday, April 26th
- Berlin, Germany
- LCM (50m)
- Live Results
- Livestream
The German Swimming Federation has released the selection procedures for the 2026 European Championships in Paris this summer, a a number of athletes will receive a chance to qualify this week.
Unlike other federations, however, Germany is not picking their team based on their performance at this week’s National Championship meet, but athletes must compete at the meet in order to be eligible for qualification. Section 4.1.2.1 of the qualification procedure document states
“Nomination for individual events is based on the following criteria:
1 A prerequisite for nomination is the fulfillment of the international qualification criteria set by European Aquatics and the DSV European Championship Standard (Section 4.1.6, Table 1) within the qualification period, as well as participation in the German Championships held from April 23–26, 2026 in Berlin and The FINALS held from July 23–26, 2026, in Hanover.”
The FINALS is an event in Germany where athletes from a variety of Olympic and non-Olympic sports will compete for national titles.
Athletes can receive an exemption from competing in the German Championships via a “substantiated request” submitted no later than March 1, 2026.
Once athletes meet the above criteria there are two paths to qualification
- Athletes who earned a top-four finish in an individual event at the 2025 World Championships in Singapore will earn an automatic spot in that particular event.
- All the remaining spots will go to athletes with the fastest time achieved during the qualification period
This means that any race from March 30th – April 26th will be eligible for selection.
Relay spots will go to swimmers with the fastest time in individual strokes with a clarification that selection will belong to “specifically those whose times, when aggregated across the heats and semi-finals (or heats and finals_ on a single competition day within the qualification period, yield the best average time.”
DSV Qualification Standards
| Women | Men | |
| 25.00 | 50 free | 22.10 |
| 54.6 | 100 free | 48.90 |
| 1:59.60 | 200 free | 1:47.20 |
| 4:08.40 | 400 free | 3:46.60 |
| 8:32.20 | 800 free | 7:48.90 |
| 16:17.30 | 1500 free | 15:04.70 |
| 26.25 | 50 fly | 23.45 |
| 58.60 | 100 fly | 52.00 |
| 2:11.00 | 200 fly | 1:57.00 |
| 28.25 | 50 back | 25.15 |
| 1:00.40 | 100 back | 54.40 |
| 2:11.80 | 200 back | 1:58.10 |
| 31.00 | 50 breast | 27.35 |
| 1:06.80 | 100 breast | 59.70 |
| 2:26.10 | 200 breast | 2:10.90 |
| 2:12.80 | 200 IM | 2:00.60 |
| 4:43.50 | 400 IM | 4:15.60 |
Are you sure of the time of 50/100 Fly and back for the Men and women ?????
I Really a big doubt 🇩🇪 🤔🤔🤔🤔🇫🇷😥
When looking at the document briefly it looks like the back times are the fly times and vice versa.
Oh sorry, it was obvius ! 😔😔
The title of this article brings up a memory…
Especially when the criteria is to have a good race.
I am hoping that someone like Liebmann etc that have not raced so far will race or still have a chance to go (I am thinking of the people that have made the cuts).
Was wondering why the 50/100 fly standard seemed so slow!! And then why the 50 back was under the wr haha. Think the back and fly times may have been swapped
Also Schwarz and Märtens both 7:41 tonight
biggest difference between them to me while watching the race was probably Martens lead at the 50m turn.