﻿{"id":651321,"date":"2026-08-15T10:41:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T17:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=651321"},"modified":"2026-08-15T16:22:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T23:22:23","slug":"flash-johannes-liebmann-destroys-1500-free-world-record-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/flash-johannes-liebmann-destroys-1500-free-world-record-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"FLASH! Johannes Liebmann Destroys 1500 Freestyle World Record In Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FLASH! Johannes Liebmann Destroys 1500 Freestyle World Record In Paris<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omegatiming.com\/2026\/european-aquatics-swimming-championships--live-results\">Results<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Johannes Liebmann<\/strong> obliterated the 1500 free world record in 14:26.79 to take 3.88secs off <strong>Bobby Finke&#8217;s<\/strong> standard at the European Championships in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old &#8211; who set a European record en-route to 800 free gold &#8211; led from the start with <strong>Zalan Sarkany<\/strong> for company, the German always slightly ahead as the pair went stroke for stroke and eyeball for eyeball with the field splintered in their wake.<\/p>\n<p>The German &#8211; a member of the Magdeburg powerhouse coached by <strong>Bernd Berkhahn<\/strong> &#8211; was inside WR pace throughout, reaching 400m in 3:48.38, 2.66secs under Finke&#8217;s split from his record-setting exploits across the city at the 2024 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Liebmann &#8211; who accelerated away from Zarkany &#8211; reached the halfway point in 7:11.69, 3.25secs inside the world record. Extraordinarily, the teenager passed through 800 in 7:40.85, a time only he surpassed in the individual race and which would have been good enough for silver which was claimed by Germany teammate <strong>Sven Schwarz<\/strong> in 7:41.15.\u00a0By 1000m, he was 3.80secs inside and 4.11secs under with 100m to go.<\/p>\n<p>Splitting 28.79\/27.39 for a 56.18 final 100, Liebmann came home to shatter Finke&#8217;s world record of 14:30.67. He sliced a six-second chunk off <strong>Gregorio Paltrinieri&#8217;s<\/strong> European record of 14:32.80 from the 2022 worlds in Budapest and 7.25secs from the Italian&#8217;s CR that had stood since London 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Zarkany was second in a Hungarian record of 14:39.45 as he clinched his second medal following 800 bronze with<strong> Oliver Klemet<\/strong> making it a Magdeburg and Germany 1-3 in 14:40.64.<\/p>\n<p>Liebmann\u00a0 hoisted himself onto the lane ropes, arms outspread. &#8220;It couldn&#8217;t have gone better. The time is incredibly fast. I hadn&#8217;t expected that either,&#8221; he said through DPA. &#8220;I don&#8217;t even know exactly what&#8217;s going on inside me right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The teenager downplayed his achievement as &#8220;just a personal best,&#8221; saying: &#8220;I knew I could swim fast. I wanted to start fast; I knew it would hurt. But seeing the time at the end was something else entirely. Really, it\u2019s just a personal best. I don&#8217;t even know if I can get close to that time again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"651336\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/flash-johannes-liebmann-destroys-1500-free-world-record-in-paris\/men-15-wr-amendeds-paris\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/men-15-WR-amendeds-paris.png\" data-orig-size=\"728,362\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"men 15 WR amendeds paris\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/men-15-WR-amendeds-paris-700x362.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/men-15-WR-amendeds-paris.png\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-651336 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/men-15-WR-amendeds-paris-700x362.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"362\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FLASH! 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