German Swimming Championships 2016

128th German Swimming Championships
Host location	Berlin
Host country	Germany
Beginning	5th May 2016
The End	May 8, 2016
Venues	Swimming and diving hall in the Europa Sportpark
Disciplines	Swimming
Number of athletes	780
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The 128th German Swimming Championships took place from May 5th to 8th, 2016 for the 13th time in a row in the swimming and diving hall in the European Sports Park Berlin and were organized by the German Swimming Association . Titles were awarded in 42 competitions, with Annika Bruhn being the most successful athlete of this championship with three titles (2 in singles and 1 in relay).

Olympic qualification

The competition also served as the first step towards qualifying for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro . In the heats and finals, the athletes had to undercut the standard times specified by the German Swimming Association in order to secure a place on the so-called "longlist". Athletes who undercut this first qualification standard had to prove weakened standard times again in later competitions ("Mare-Nostrum Tour" or "German Open"). Up to two athletes per gender and per route could then qualify for the German Olympic team .

Attendees

The 100 fastest swimmers and relays in Germany (open class) of the current season (September 1, 2015 up to and including April 17, 2016) were eligible for each route. In addition, there was a separate rating for the EYOF years (female: born 2001/2002 and male: born 2000/2001), in which the 20 fastest young athletes of each gender were allowed to take part.

780 swimmers from 196 clubs were registered for 2204 individual starts and 203 relays. With 30 active players and 83 individual and 8 relay starts, SG Stadtwerke München was the largest team in terms of numbers. In addition to the members of the German clubs, athletes with German citizenship were also allowed to start, so that 5 athletes each started for a foreign club ( University of Bath ( United Kingdom ), Hullam 91 UVE ( Hungary ), NIMO Landgraaf ( Netherlands ), Ohio State University ( USA ) and another unnamed club from the USA).

Records

The sporting highlights of the championships were the German records of Alexandra Wenk over 100 meters butterfly (in the preliminary and final) as well as 200 meters medley (in the preliminary and final) and Damian Wierling over 50 meters freestyle.

Over 50 m butterfly, Dorothea Brandt (1st place), Alina Schmidtke (2nd place) and Alexandra Wenk (3rd place) remained below the old German record.

Furthermore, the women from SSG Saar Max Ritter set a German record for club relays over the 4 × 200 meter freestyle.

The only 16-year-old Johannes Hintze was able to undercut the required Olympic standards for the 400 meter medley. He set his 47th German age group record.

The women's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay from the Berlin TSC swam approx. 2 seconds faster than the existing world record in the master class C (age group 120-159). However, since it was not a Masters competition, this record is not officially recognized.

Florian Wellbrock swam as the third German swimmer ever over 1500 meters freestyle under 15 minutes. Just 5 seconds separated him from the German record from 1991 by Jörg Hoffmann .

Martina van Berkel swam a new Swiss record in the 400 m individual medley. Felix Auböck swam a new national record for Austria.

German age class records for young people have been improved 12 times: Johannes Hintze over 200 meters freestyle and 400 m medley (in the preliminary and final), Laura Riedemann over 100 meters back, Florian Wellbrock over 800 and 1500 meters freestyle, Luca Nik Armbruster 50 meters butterfly ( in the preliminary and final), Laura Riedemann 50 meters back, Henning Mühlleitner over 400 meters freestyle, Julia Mrozinski over 400 meters medley and Ramon Klenz over 400 meter medley.

German champion

German champions 2016

discipline	Men			Women
	Surname	society	time	Surname	society	time
050 m freestyle	Damian Wierling	SG Essen	00: 21.84	Dorothea Brandt	SG Essen	00: 24.66
100 m freestyle	Damian Wierling	SG Essen	00: 48.54	Annika Bruhn	SSG Saar Max Ritter	00: 54.85
200 m freestyle	Paul Biedermann	SV Halle / Saale	01: 45.45	Annika Bruhn	SSG Saar Max Ritter	01: 58.56
400 m freestyle	Florian Vogel	SG Stadtwerke Munich	03: 44.89	Sarah Koehler	SG Frankfurt	04: 06.65
800 m freestyle	Ruwen Straub	SV Würzburg 05	07: 54.96	Sarah Koehler	SG Frankfurt	08: 22.80
1500 m freestyle0	Florian Wellbrock	SC Magdeburg	14: 55.49	Isabelle Harle	SG Essen	16: 14.77
050 m chest	Fabian Schwingenschlögl	1. FCN swimming	00: 27.37	Laura Simon	EWR Rheinhessen-Mainz	00: 31.73
100 m chest	Marco Koch	DSW 1912 Darmstadt	01: 00.22	Vanessa Grimberg	SV Region Stuttgart	01: 07.91
200 m chest	Marco Koch	DSW 1912 Darmstadt	02: 07.88	Jessica Steiger	VfL Gladbeck	02: 27.97
050 m back	Marco di Carli	SG Frankfurt	00: 25.43	Johanna Roas	SG Stadtwerke Munich	00: 28.45
100 m back	Jan-Philip Glania	SG Frankfurt	00: 53.61	Nadine Laemmler	SV Nikar Heidelberg	01: 00.69
200 m back	Jan-Philip Glania	SG Frankfurt	01: 56.01	Lisa Graf	SG Neukölln Berlin	02: 08.98
050 m butterfly	Björn Hornikel	VfL Sindelfingen	00: 23.63	Dorothea Brandt	SG Essen	00: 26.02
100 m butterfly	Steffen Deibler	Hamburger SC	00: 52.16	Alexandra Wenk	SG Stadtwerke Munich	00: 57.70
200 m butterfly	Alexander Kunert	SV Gelnhausen	01: 57.11	Franziska Hentke	SC Magdeburg	02: 05.77
200 m layers	Philip Heintz	SV Nikar Heidelberg	01: 58.31	Alexandra Wenk	SG Stadtwerke Munich	02: 11.33
400 m layers	Jacob Heidtmann	ST Stadtwerke Elmshorn	04: 13.25	Franziska Hentke	SC Magdeburg	04: 38.56
4 × 100 m freestyle	SC Wiesbaden 1911 Keller , Ferrero , Wieck , Ax		03: 23.52	Wasserfreunde Spandau 04 Dietterle , Ossenberg , Cox , Friese		03: 49.20
4 × 200 m freestyle	SG Stadtwerke München Vogel, Nowosad , Zeidler , Steinmassl		07: 21.40	SSG Saar Max Ritter Hüther , Bruhn, Käthner , Massone		08: 05.26
4 × 100 m layers	Water sports fans from 1898 Hanover Barthel , Lüdtke , Gierke , Reck		03: 42.98	SG Stadtwerke München Schlegel , Ismyrli , Ehrenbauer , Banse		04: 20.41
4 × 100 m freestyle mixed	Starting community Dortmund Max Mral , Kerstin Lange , Alina Weber , Matthias Lindenbauer					03: 33.33
4 × 100 m layers mixed	SG Middle Franconia Konstantin Walter , Peter Varjasi , Daniela Karst , Katrin Gottwald					03: 59.10

Web links

• Protocol from the archive of the DSV (PDF; 6.62 MB)

References and comments

1. ↑ Sebastian Schwenke: Olympia standard times. In: swimsportnews.de. Retrieved August 2, 2016 . 
2. ↑ This is how the German Olympic qualification works. In: swim.de. Retrieved August 3, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Announcement 128th German Championships 2016 , German Swimming Association eV, PDF file on schwimm-dm.de
4. ↑ Registration results for the 128th German Swimming Championships , May 2016, as a PDF file on schwimm-dm.de
5. ↑ ^{a b} Mirko Seifert: (Rand) Notes DM 2016, 8.5., Day 4. (No longer available online.) In: Mirko Seifert Magazin. May 8, 2016, archived from the original on October 13, 2016 ; accessed on August 2, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ ^{a b} Mirko Seifert: (Rand) Notes DM 2016, 7.5., Day 3. (No longer available online.) In: Mirko Seifert Magazin. May 7, 2016, archived from the original on October 13, 2016 ; accessed on August 2, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ ^{a b} Mirko Seifert: (Rand) Notes DM 2016, 6.5., Day 2. (No longer available online.) In: Mirko Seifert Magazin. May 6, 2016, archived from the original on October 13, 2016 ; accessed on August 2, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Johannes Hintze (16) amazes with Olympic times. Retrieved August 2, 2016 . 
9. ↑ ^{a b c} Mirko Seifert: (Rand) Notes DM 2016, 5.5., Day 1. (No longer available online.) In: Mirko Seifert Magazin. May 5, 2016, archived from the original on October 13, 2016 ; accessed on August 2, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Florian Wellbrock cracks the 1,500 meter sound barrier. In: swim.de. Retrieved August 3, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Damian Wierling set a new DSV record with 21.81 seconds .
12. ↑ German age group record for 19 year olds
13. ↑ new DSV record
14. ↑ new DSV record, which Alexandra Wenk improved to 57.76 s in advance.
15. ↑ new DSV record, which Alexandra Wenk already improved to 2: 11.41 min.
16. ↑ new DSV record for club relays