Märtens Takes Down Shiny Biedermann & Textile Thorpe With Game-Changing 3:39.96 WR In Stockholm 400 Free
What it took for Lukas Märtens to break Paul Biedermann's Word record: at 51.90 he matched Mark Spitz's first 100m free World record in 1970; at 1:47.55, he matched the third of Michael The Albatross Gross' 200m free World records, from 1984
Olympic champion Lukas Märtens and his coach Bernd Berkhahn changed the game in 400m freestyle racing with a 3:39.96 World record at the Swim Open Stockholm in Sweden that rook down fellow German Paul Biedermann's Rome 2009 shiny suits mark and Ian Thorpe's Manchester 2002 textile high bar.
If the time was 0.11sec inside Biedermann, 0.12sec inside Thorpe, it was the manner in which it was executed by Märtens that caught the eye:
- at 51.90 he matched Mark Spitz's first 100m free World record in 1970
- at 1:47.55, he matched the third of Michael The Albatross Gross' third 200m free World record from 1984
