On This Day In History - When Lukas Märtens Took The 400m Free Pace Below 3:40
Timeline - The SOS Daily Trawl of official World long-course records (plus all pre 1954 standards, all pools and metrics) set this day throughout history.
April 12
On this day in 2025: 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:
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
Craig Lord
