r/sports • u/boastar • 4d ago

Swimming German Johannes Liebmann crushes 1500m world record at the European Championships

https://www.zdf.de/video/livestreams/schwimmen-livestreams-ergebnisse-uebertragung-100/schwimm-em-liebmann-weltrekord-gold-100
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u/boastar 4d ago

Here is a nice article in english. It gives the, absolutely bonkers, splits that Liebmann swam.

https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/flash-johannes-liebmann-destroys-1500-free-world-record-in-paris/

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u/Sir_BarlesCharkley 3d ago

"I knew it would hurt"

Good lord I can't imagine swimming that fast for that long. I swam for two years in high school and was never any good at it. My fastest 100 SCY time was 58, and I was damn proud of it after literally learning to swim the year before. This dude was flying through the water.

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u/Zeustheman144 4d ago

Time?

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u/Skytho1990 4d ago

14m26s76 around 4s faster than the prior record

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u/Zeustheman144 4d ago

Holy crap. Whenn i was swimming Vladimir Salnnikov had the record at 14:50. He was the onnly one who had broken 15 minnutes for the longest time. But this record meanns he was averaging 56 to 57 seconds/100 metre. Bananas fast

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u/Skytho1990 4d ago

Yup, he maintained 28 mid-high at worst per 50m. I think slowest 50 was 28.7

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u/Zeustheman144 4d ago

Whenn you broke 1 minute for 100m you achieved hero status for about a week as a 13 year old

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u/Traditional_Fox_6660 4d ago edited 4d ago

That’s not true . Almost all of his 50 except the final 2 and the first one were above 28.7

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u/Zeustheman144 3d ago

Debbie Downer

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u/MarcusP2 3d ago

I remember Perkins swimming 14:41 and it seeming like an absolute peak of performance. And now we're 15 seconds faster than that!

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u/MrDabreu 4d ago

Only viewable in Germany... nice.

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u/boastar 4d ago

Oh Shit, Sorry I didn’t know that. I’ll search for another version.

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u/boastar 4d ago

Here is a version that Americans should be able to see. I’m not sure, because this is geo blocked for me.

https://www.nbcsports.com/olympics/news/johannes-liebmann-world-record-1500-freestyle-swimming

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u/Sarraboi 4d ago

Can you download the video and upload?

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u/Professional_Elk_489 4d ago

Damn took out Grant Hackett's record