Read moreWellbrock, Köhler Add Olympic Tickets As Riedemann Rattles German Record09 February 2020Florian Wellbrock, World 1500m freestyle and Marathon champion, and Sarah Köhler added more tickets to their Tokyo 2020 rosters - for the inaugural Olympic men's 800m and women's 1500m freestyle - and Laura Riedemann joined the party of German swimmers inside the time cut for the Games as the MWG-Sw...
Read moreGerman Athletes Welcome Bach Readiness To Relax Rule 50 & Allow Peaceful Protest16 June 2020Athleten Deutschland, the German athlete-representative body, has welcomed an International Olympic Committee (IOC) u-turn on its stance on Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter. Until recently, the IOC had been firmly entrenched in its anti-protest stance, issuing a warning to athletes of late that those ...
Read moreGermany's Jacob Heidtmann & Marius Kusch Punch Provisional Tokyo 2020 Tickets At Pro Swim In Des Moines07 March 2020Germany's Jacob Heidtmann and Marius Kusch, both training under the guidance of coach David Marsh in San Diego, raced inside the cut for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in action at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Des Moines last night. For Heidtmann, a 4:12.40 victory over 400m medley, produced a provision...
Read moreEnd-April German Championships In Doubt As Olympic Bosses Quarrel In Public Over Fate Of Tokyo 202016 March 2020Germany's swimming federation, the DSV, will decide the fate of the German Swimming Championships, an Olympic qualifier event, this week after cancelling all federation aquatics events on Government advice issued late last week under coronavirus (COVID-19) containment measures. The April German Cham...
Read more1German Swimmers' Vote For Tokyo 2020 Postponement; DSV Rules Out July Olympics23 March 2020The German Swimming Federation (DSV) has said that it will not be sending a team to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games if they are held in July. The federation called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) run by German Thomas Bach to come to a sift decision on the fate of the Tokyo 2020 Games after...
Read moreLumaLanes Performance of the Week: Marco Koch’s 200 Breaststroke29 November 2016While swimmers across the United States took a much earned break for the Thanksgiving holiday, Germany held their 2016 Short Course Championships in Berlin last weekend. That meet served as their qualifier for the 2016 Short Course World Championships in Windsor, Canada that begin next month, and sa...