German short course championships 2008

The German Short Course Championships 2008 in swimming took place from November 27th to 30th, 2008 in Essen main pool and were organized by the SG Essen . The organizer was the German Swimming Association . The competition also served as a qualifying competition for the 2008 European Short Course in Rijeka . There were competitions for men and women in 20 disciplines each, including two relay competitions. Four new European records and fifteen new German records were set during the championships .

German short course champion 2008

discipline	Men			Women
	Surname	society	time	Surname	society	time
050 m freestyle	Steffen Deibler	Hamburger SC	00: 21.30	Dorothea Brandt	SG Neukölln Berlin	00: 24.61
100 m freestyle	Steffen Deibler	Hamburger SC	00: 46.67	Lisa Vitting	SG Mülheim	00: 53.84
200 m freestyle	Paul Biedermann	SV Halle / Saale	01: 41.42	Lisa Vitting	SG Mülheim	01: 56.87
400 m freestyle	Paul Biedermann	SV Halle / Saale	03: 34.98	Franziska Jansen	SV Hellas Bruehl	04: 11.44
800 m freestyle	Paul Biedermann	SV Halle / Saale	07: 35.23	Isabelle Harle	SV Nikar Heidelberg	08: 39.34
1500 m freestyle0	Jan Wolfgarten	SV Würzburg 05	14: 34.24	Nadine Pastor	EWR Rheinhessen-Mainz	16: 30.16
050 m chest	Marco Koch	DSW 1912 Darmstadt	00: 26.90	Janne Schäfer	SV Nikar Heidelberg	00: 30.62
100 m chest	Marco Koch	DSW 1912 Darmstadt	00: 58.57	Caroline Ruhnau	SG Essen	01: 07.34
200 m chest	Marco Koch	DSW 1912 Darmstadt	02: 06.57	Karoline Degenhardt	SV Würzburg 05	02: 24.94
050 m butterfly	Johannes Dietrich	SC Wiesbaden 1911	00: 22.62	Daniela Samulski	SG Essen	00: 26.50
100 m butterfly	Thomas Rupprath	SC Empor Rostock 2000	00: 50.34	Annika Mehlhorn	SG ACT / Baunatal	00: 58.97
200 m butterfly	Toni Embacher	SV Halle / Saale	01: 56.32	Franziska Hentke	SV Halle / Saale	02: 06.03
050 m back	Thomas Rupprath	SC Empor Rostock 2000	00: 23.54	Daniela Samulski	SG Essen	00: 26.89
100 m back	Helge Meeuw	SG Frankfurt	00: 51.62	Daniela Samulski	SG Essen	00: 58.22
200 m back	Felix Wolf	Potsdam SV	01: 54.17	Alexandra Wenk	SG Stadtwerke Munich	02: 09.61
100 m layers	Thomas Rupprath	SC Empor Rostock 2000	00: 52.94	Theresa Michalak	SV Halle / Saale	01: 00.91
200 m layers	Markus Deibler	TG Biberach	01: 55.69	Theresa Michalak	SV Halle / Saale	02: 11.40
400 m layers	Łukasz Wójt	SG Frankfurt	04: 06.56	Theresa Michalak	SV Halle / Saale	04: 36.83
4 × 50 m freestyle	SG Essen		01: 28.81	SV Halle / Saale		01: 41.68
4 × 50 m layers	SG Essen		01: 36.95	SG Essen		01: 52.82

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} new DSV record
2. ↑ ^{a b c} new European record ( 400 meters freestyle , 800 meters freestyle and 50 meters butterfly )

Margin notes

Yannick Lebherz ( DSW 1912 Darmstadt ) swam a new German record in the 400 m medley final in 04: 09.05 minutes . Lebherz was not first in the race, however, as Łukasz Wójt ( SG Frankfurt ) only needed 4: 06.56 minutes for the 400 m individual medley. The Pole does not have a German passport.

Marco Koch (DSW 1912 Darmstadt) already swam new German records in the heats over the 100 m chest and 200 m chest in 0: 58.50 minutes and 2: 08.13 minutes respectively . He was even able to improve the German record over 200 m breaststroke to 02: 06.57 minutes in the final.

Johannes Dietrich ( SC Wiesbaden 1911 ) swam a new European record in 0: 22.64 minutes in the 50 m butterfly , which he was able to beat again by 2 hundredths of a second in the final.

Web links

• Results of the German Short Course Championships 2008 in the archive of the DSV