Biedermann still in a high -tech suit
German Olympic champion cracks Fabel World Record
German Olympic champion cracks Fabel World Record
04/12/2025, 8:39 p.m.
It is the time of the high -tech suits when Paul Biedermann sets up a new world record over 400 meters freestyle. Now this is cracked: Lukas Märtens is eleven hundredths faster. The record remains in Germany.
He was already the Olympic champion, now Lukas Märtens is celebrating the next milestone of his swimming career: the 23-year-old broke Paul Biedermann’s almost 16-year-old world record over 400 meters freestyle. Märtens struck the Swim Open from Stockholm after 3: 39.96 minutes and amazed the experts. The Magdeburger was eleven hundredths of a second faster than Biedermann at his record in summer 2009.
Particularly crazy: Märtens did not undercut the time at the long -standing highlight of the season, but in the first international competition since the 2024 Olympics. He had traveled directly from a three -week altitude training camp in the Sierra Nevada.
“I felt good after the altitude training camp and knew that I was in shape – but I really didn’t expect that time,” he said. “The world record came as a surprise, I have to let it sink.”
Biedermann congratulates his successor
Biedermann also congratulated. “Congratulations: What a blatant performance! I am very pleased that the record in Saxony-Anhalt will stay!” Wrote the former top athlete from Halle on the Saale on Instagram.
Märtens once again underlined his exceptional class with the record – and that it can also be expected in the Nach -Olympic season. The football fan and perfume lover has developed into the German team’s great swimmer.
2022, 2023 and 2024 won the protégé of long-distance national coach Bernd Berkhahn at the World Championships. At the summer games of Paris, the crowning glory followed: gold over 400 meters freestyle. Even then, Märtens had the world record in mind. It didn’t work in 3: 41.78 minutes. “It is afraid for me whether it has fallen or not,” he said at the time. Now he also fulfilled this dream.
“Lukas swam into a frenzy here. With a time like this, you couldn’t actually count here,” said Berkhahn. Even his super swimmer does not get setbacks out of the concept. Märtens had to stop longer last autumn. In order to get rid of repeating nasal sinus problems again and again, he let himself be operated on his nose twice.
With his historical time, he has now put an initiation sign towards the World Championships. At the highlight of the season at the end of July and early August in Singapore, the Magdeburger is one of the very big favorites.
