The swim of day 2 at the Stockholm Open is likely to end up as the swim of the meet at the close of business on Sunday: when 19-year-old Johannes Liebmann clocked 14:39.67 in the 1500m free , he made Magdeburg SC and coach Bernd Berkhahn the first single program in the world to boast four men - all of them contemporaries - inside 14:40 over 1500m freestyle.

As if four wasn't good enough, a fifth member of the Magdeburg Might has a best time just 0.28sec over that magic mark of 14:40. So, that's fifth best in his training squad with a 14:40.28 1500m free.

Germany should be on the line to Kirsty Coventry to see if she might be up for adding a 4x1500m free to the Olympic program ...

Here's how the race went in Sweden: a scorcher in which Paris 2024 Olympic marathon silver medallist Oliver Klemet set the pace until the 900m mark, he and Liebmann battled stroke for stroke of the next 400m, before the teenager broke away over the last 200m:

• Johannes Liebmann, 19 (GER) 14:39.67
  56.30; 1:55.32; 2:54.12; 3:53.30; 4:52.18; 5:51.20; 6:50.12; 7:49.29; 8:48.12; 9:47.44; 10:46.76; 11:45.97; 12:44.61; 13:43.42; 14:39.67
• Oliver Klemet (GER) 14:41.71
  56.14; 1:54.95; 2:53.83; 3:52.71; 4:51.68; 5:50.85; 6:50.06; 7:48.98; 8:47.98; 9:47.45; 10:46.64; 11:45.99; 12:44.95; 13:44.11; 14:41.71
• Florian Wellbrock (GER) 15:15.79 (800: 8:06.07)

And here's the all-time club of German sub-15min swimmers:

• Liebmann, who had a best of 14:53.15 from.last year until the Stockholm race, leapfrogged the 1991 World champion and record holder Jorg Hoffmann
• Liebmann also leapfrogged 2024 Olympic and 2025 World champion and World record holder over 400m free, Lukas Märtens
• Märtens is just 0.28sec of shy of making it five sub-14:40 men in one training group under one coach
• The German sub-15 club is topped by the man third home today, Florian Wellbrock, winner of a record four open-water World titles in Singapore last year:

Three of the 14:40-or-below swims were clocked in domestic waters, Liebmann's one of two swims clocked outside of Germany, with Sven Schwarz's effort swum for silver at World Championships in Singapore last year:

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Jörg Hoffmann, the 1991 World 1500m free champion for Germany and now head coach at Germany's Potsdam national training centre went down in history as the man who in 1991 took down the 1983 World 1500m standard of Soviet 30-lap legend Vladimir Salnikov:

At his fastest, Salnikov, Olympic 1500 champion for the USSR in 1980 and 1988, got down to 14:54.76 in Moscow in February 1983. In 1989, Glen Housman, of Australia, clocked 14:53.59, but the electronic timing failed and his time was never ratified as a world record. Hoffmann therefore broke the World mark, in 14:50.36, when he won the 1991 world title in Perth, Western Australia, by keeping another budding giant at bay, a teenage Kieren Perkins, of Australia, who was just 0.22sec away - and 15 months away from becoming the first man to race inside 14:50.

On our rankings below, showing the best times of each swimmer, Liebmann's swim demotes Perkins's 1994 World record, an ahead-of-time 14:41, to No22 on the all-time top 20 (textile; shiny suits swims noted, with Oussama Mellouli's shiny suit and textile best times in the table):

Key:   SS = swimsuit (non-textile); shown in time order but not ranked  |  H = heats  |  * = swimmer was served a WADA Code penalty during career  |  ** = swimmer sanctioned twice; first time in 2014, when a three-month suspension was backdated and the time out never actually served; and a second sanction of 4 years 3 months for manipulation of a blood sample (CAS, 2019-2020).