2026 German Championships Day 3: Melvin Imoudu Swims 26.57 50 Breaststroke To Break German Report

2026 GERMAN CHAMPIONSHIPS

Day three of the German National Championships noticed some sturdy swims from well-known German athletes.

The spotlight of the night was Melvin Imoudu swimming 26.57 within the males’s 50 breaststroke to set a brand new German document time. He took 5 hundredths off his earlier document time of 26.62 from the 2024 German Championships.

He advised 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 transfer as much as the third quickest efficiency on this planet this 12 months behind American Van Mathias and Italy’s Simone Cerasuolo.

There had been just a few different members of the 2025 World Championships workforce racing this night.

Isabel Gose received the primary occasion of the day, the ladies’s 200 freestyle, for her third title of the meet after swimming the highest time within the 1500 and 400 freestyle over the primary two days. She swam the highest time within the 200 freed from 1:57.69, just below a tenth forward of Nicole Maier‘s 1:57.85 in 2nd place.

The males’s 200 freestyle went to Timo Sorgius, who was a member of the lads’s 800 freestyle relay workforce in 2025. He touched in 1:46.17, which was an enormous new private finest. His earlier finest was 1:46.88 from May of 2025, and it’ll formally qualify him for the European Championships individually this summer season, coming in below the qualifying time of 1:47.20.

Anna Elendt received her 2nd occasion of the meet, the ladies’s 50 breaststroke in 30.54 coming in almost a second forward of 2nd place finisher Lena Ludwig‘s 31.45. Elendt’s finest time stands at 30.10 from May of 2022.

Elendt wasn’t completely blissful together 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 highest time within the males’s 200 IM of 1:59.65, simply 9 hundredths quicker than 2nd place finisher Cedric Bussing’s 1:59.74 for the silver medal. Both males swam finally summer season’s World Championships for Germany.

The males’s 50 backstroke went to Vincent Passek in 24.85, simply three tenths off the German document time of 24.57 from Ole Braunschweig in April of 2023. He was additionally simply off his lifetime better of 24.79 from the 2025 World Championships.

Two different occasion winners swam below the European Championships qualifying time. Linda Roth received the ladies’s 200 IM in 2:12.47, incomes her spot on the European Championships, and she is going to nonetheless be eligible to race on the European Juniors this summer season.

She moved to coach on the nationwide coaching heart final 12 months, and dropped almost a second from the two:13.19 she swam in May of 2024.

The different was Bjorn Kammann within the males’s 200 butterfly. He swam 1:56.66 to take the highest time by two seconds over Marc Sauer‘s 1:58.68 for the silver medal.

He stated afterwards, “I struggled with making the national team. Now I’m super happy.”

The girls’s 50 backstroke went to Viktoria Hoffman in 29.05, simply off the qualifying time of 28.25, and the ladies’s 200 fly was received by Yara Fay Riefstahl in 2:12.42, lacking the time of two:11.00.