2018 Swim Open Stockholm
- Thursday, April 5 – Sunday, April 8
- LC (50m)
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Meet Central
- Event Schedule
- Live Results
Germany’s Sarah Köhler bettered her own German 1500m freestyle record yesterday. The 23-year old was clocked at 15:59,83 that is also the fastest time worldwide in 2018. She improved her old record by 0,02 seconds and won the race about 25 seconds ahead of Liechtenstein’s Julia Hassler who is her training partner in Heidelberg, Germany.
Köhler is the 2017 European Champion in the 800m free (short course) and also took the silver medal in the 400m free last december in Copenhagen.
Sarah Köhler is one of five German swimmers who cracked the qualification standards for the 2018 European Championships in individual events so far. Henning Mühlleitner won the 400m freestyle yesterday in a time of 3:46,98 and managed to dip under the special “U23 norm” for German athletes born 1996 or later. Florian Wellbrock took the silver in 3:47,17 and now is qualified next to the 1500m freestyle for his second individual event. It is possible for a nation to nominate a maximum of four athletes for the European Championships.
In Stockholm, also Franziska Hentke, Jessica Steiger, Christian vom Lehn, Fabian Schwingenschlögel and Philip Heintz are on the hunt to stay under the norms because the qualification period is going to expire at the end of April. Other German swimmers like Marco Koch and Christian Diener will try to reach the required times at the Swim Cup Eindhoven, Netherlands, next week.
Sarah Köhler has definitely a gap in her education not learning the rule that after 19 birthday there is nothing left for long distance swimmer. The rule that was clearly explained by several experts on thi
this forum
Koehler has the German record? I guess old GDR records aren’t counted?
They are counted. The DSV has existed since 1882. Turns out, even doped times from the 80s by-and-large aren’t that fast relative to now, generally speaking, though Petra Schneider still has the 400 IM record from 1982. That record apparently stands even though she would later admit to doping.
Oh yeah, for some reason I was thinking of Petra Schneider’s SCM record
Wait, does that say a nation is only allowed to nominate four athletes for Euros? How… how will they do all the relays??
Four swimmers per event.
Ohhhhh… That makes more sense.