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2026 GERMAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
Thursday, April 23rd – Sunday, April 26th Berlin, Germany LCM (50m) Day 1 Recap | Day 2 Recap Live Results LivestreamDay three of the German National Championships saw some strong swims from well-known German athletes.
The highlight of the evening was Melvin Imoudu swimming 26.57 in the men’s 50 breaststroke to set a new German record time. He took five hundredths off his previous record time of 26.62 from the 2024 German Championships.
He told the German Swimming Federation, “After the good preliminary heat, I was pretty confident that I could break the record. Then it was just a matter of switching off my brain and executing the automatic movements I’d practiced in training.”
His swim will move up to the 3rd fastest performance in the world this year behind American Van Mathias and Italy’s Simone Cerasuolo.
2025-2026 LCM Men 50 BREAST
VanUSAMATHIAS 04/1926.392SimoneCERASUOLOITA26.5104/183Adam PEATYGBR26.6404/154Chris SmithRSA26.6804/175Michael HoulieRSA26.7212/04View Top 26»There were a few other members of the 2025 World Championships team racing this evening.
Isabel Gose won the first event of the day, the women’s 200 freestyle, for her 3rd title of the meet after swimming the top time in the 1500 and 400 freestyle over the first two days. She swam the top time in the 200 free of 1:57.69, just under a tenth ahead of Nicole Maier‘s 1:57.85 in 2nd place.
The men’s 200 freestyle went to Timo Sorgius, who was a member of the men’s 800 freestyle relay team in 2025. He touched in 1:46.17, which was a massive new personal best. His previous best was 1:46.88 from May of 2025, and it will officially qualify him for the European Championships individually this summer, coming in under the qualifying time of 1:47.20.
Anna Elendt won her 2nd event of the meet, the women’s 50 breaststroke in 30.54 coming in nearly a second ahead of 2nd place finisher Lena Ludwig‘s 31.45. Elendt’s best time stands at 30.10 from May of 2022.
Elendt wasn’t entirely happy with her swim, saying after the race, “There are a few things I still need to work on, and it really makes a big difference in the 50.”
Jeremias Pock swam the top time in the men’s 200 IM of 1:59.65, just nine hundredths faster than 2nd place finisher Cedric Bussing’s 1:59.74 for the silver medal. Both men swam at last summer’s World Championships for Germany.
The men’s 50 backstroke went to Vincent Passek in 24.85, just three tenths off the German record time of 24.57 from Ole Braunschweig in April of 2023. He was also just off his lifetime best of 24.79 from the 2025 World Championships.
Two other event winners swam under the European Championships qualifying time. Linda Roth won the women’s 200 IM in 2:12.47, earning her spot at the European Championships, and she will still be eligible to race at the European Juniors this summer.
She moved to train at the national training center last year, and dropped nearly a second from the 2:13.19 she swam in May of 2024.
The other was Bjorn Kammann in the men’s 200 butterfly. He swam 1:56.66 to take the top time by two seconds over Marc Sauer‘s 1:58.68 for the silver medal.
He said afterwards, “I struggled with making the national team. Now I’m super happy.”
The women’s 50 backstroke went to Viktoria Hoffman in 29.05, just off the qualifying time of 28.25, and the women’s 200 fly was won by Yara Fay Riefstahl in 2:12.42, missing the time of 2:11.00.
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