Lukas Martens, Angelina Koehler, Isabel Gose, and Florian Wellbrock have all been named on the German swim team for Paris 2024 with the German Olympic Sports Confederation finalising a list of twenty-three pool swimmers for the Games.
Headlining the German team at Paris 2024 is 22 year-old Lukas Martens who will be chasing Germany’s first gold medal in men’s pool events in thirty-six years.
Martens has enjoyed a remarkable start to the calendar year winning bronze in the Men’s 400m Freestyle at Doha 2024 before recording career-best times in the 50m Freestyle, 100m Freestyle, 200m Freestyle, and 400m Freestyle at April’s German National Championships.
Martens clocked 3:40.33 in the 400m Freestyle in Berlin - just 0.26 seconds off fellow countryman Paul Biedermann’s world record which remains the longest standing record across all men’s and women’s individual events.
The 22 year-old now has the fastest 400m Freestyle time of the past decade and has also moved up to be the seventh fastest man of all time in the 200m Freestyle. Martens is entered to swim both the 400m Freestyle and 200m Freestyle in Paris and has also earned a start in the Men’s 200m Backstroke.
Angelina Kohler made headlines back home earlier this year when she became Germany’s first female pool world champion since 2009 and the 23 year-old will be hoping to continue her gold medal winning form in the 100m Butterfly at Paris La Defense Arena next month.
Despite recording career-best times in all three butterfly distances throughout the first part of 2024, Kohler will focus solely on the two lap race at her debut summer games, having missed Tokyo 2020 due to a coronavirus infection.
Three-time Doha 2024 medallist Isabel Gose adds further strength to the German team with the 22 year-old aiming for a big campaign in the French capital. Gose has been named to swim the 200m Freestyle, 400m Freestyle, 800m Freestyle, and 1500m Freestyle, and has achieved career-best times in all four events since the turn of the year. She will bring big event experience to Paris having raced three finals at each of Doha 2024, Fukuoka 2023, and Budapest 2022, as well as the 400m Freestyle final at Tokyo 2020.
Rounding out the German team is 27 year-old Florian Wellbrock who will swim an identical schedule to Tokyo 2020 as he balances the 800m and 1500m Freestyle events in week one with the 10km marathon event in week two. It was a schedule that paid dividends for Wellbrock in Tokyo as he finished fourth in the 800m Freestyle, won bronze in the 1500m freestyle, and took gold in the open water event.
Other notable inclusions named in the German team to compete in Paris include 24 year-old Josha Salchow, who broke the German national record in the 100m Freestyle earlier this year, and Leonie Martens, who joins brother Lukas on the German national team for the first time.