BERLIN, Germany, June 28. THE final day of swimming at the German Long Course Nationals featured a pair of continental standards set by Paul Biedermann and Marco Koch. Meanwhile, several other German marks fell by the wayside.
Biedermann continued his strong meet by lowering his European record in the men's 200 free. Biedermann touched in 1:44.71 to dip under his 1:44.88 set at the Monaco stop of the Mare Nostrum. Clemens Rapp (1:48.36) and Steffen Deibler (1:48.63) completed the podium.
Marco Koch joined the continental standard party, while crushing the German record in the men's 200 breast. Koch clocked a 2:08.33 to demolish the 2:11.97 national mark set by Andreas Losel in 2007. The clocking also beat the European standard of 2:08.68 set by Hungary's Daniel Gyurta at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Johannes Neumann also cleared the former national mark with a second-place 2:09.87, while Christian von Lehm touched third in 2:13.65.
Helge Meeuw shaved some time off his national record in the men's 100 back with a winning time of 53.08. That performance clipped his 53.10 set in April 2008. Dominik Keil finished second in 54.27, while Marco Di Carli took third in 55.14.
Benjamin Starke cut a half-second off the German mark in the men's 100 fly with a top time of 51.47. The readout cleared Thomas Rupprath's 51.88 set back in 2002. Meeuw took another medal with a second-place time of 52.26. Toni Embacher pocketed third in 52.79.
Annika Mehlhorn grabbed the national standard in the women's 100 fly with a time of 58.45. The swim erased the 58.63 set by Daniela Samulski in April 2008. Lena Kalla earned second in 58.98, while Franziska Hentke placed third in 59.61.
In other finals action, Samulski won the women's 100 back in 1:00.46 with Jenny Mensing (1:02.54) and Christin Zenner (1:02.84) taking second and third. Britta Steffen completed her world-record breaking meet with a victorious 24.45 in the women's 50 free. Dorothea Brandt (25.05) and Daniela Schreiber (25.34) rounded out the top three.
Meanwhile, Caroline Ruhnau took the women's 200 breast in 2:26.14, while Karoline Degenhardt (2:28.88) and Lina Rathsack (2:32.58) finished second and third. Jan Wolfgarten took home the men's 800 free with a time of 7:49.37, while Christian Kubusch (7:55.05) and Andre Biere (8:06.93) snared second and third.
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June 28, 2009 Koch had never been under 2:12 and he went 2:08.3?!? Um, wow. Submitted by: Sphere
June 28, 2009 Koch had never been under 2:12 and he went 2:08.3?!? Um, wow. Submitted by: Sphere
June 28, 2009 Its called the Jaked effect! Bye Bye LZR!
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June 28, 2009 Koch turned in 1:01.71. His best ever 100m until this season was 1:01.98. Submitted by: Sphere
June 28, 2009 Another country with four "break-out" swimmers to put together a decent medley relay: Meeuw (53.08), Feldwehr (59.45) (Neumann and Koch also 59.), Starke (51.47), Biedermann (48.39). Adds up to 3:32.39 without relay exchanges. So you've got USA, Australia, Japan, Russia, Brazil, France, maybe New Zealand, and now Germany. And then there's still good teams from South Africa and Great Britain. This is gonna be one "fast" Worlds! Submitted by: SwimDER94
June 28, 2009 U.S. is gonna have to kiss some medals goodbye if they are stuck in LZRs and everyone else is in Jaked level suits. It would be cool to see some elite swimmers protest by wearing pre 2008 suits or speedo briefs at Worlds! Though I know it won't happen ;-) Submitted by: liquidassets
June 29, 2009 How do you pronounce Jaked? Is it one sylablle (sp?) or Jak - ed? Submitted by: gailswim
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