Lukas Märtens (born 27 December 2001)
is a German
swimmer
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. He is the reigning 400m freestyle
Olympic champion
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Career
Märtens competed at the Olympics in
2020
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in the
200 metre freestlye,
400 metre freestyle,
1500 metre freestyle and
4 × 200 metre freestyle relay events,
and in
2024
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where he won a gold medal in the
400 metre freestyle event and came 5th in the
200 metre freestyle event.
In the 2025 Swim Open Stockholm, he broke the world record in the men's 400-meter freestyle, with a time of 3:39.96, beating
Paul Biedermann
Paul Biedermann (; born 7 August 1986) is a German retired competitive swimmer, a 200 and 400 metre freestyle long course world champion. He holds the long course world record in the 200 meters freestyle, and formerly held world records in the l ...
's record from 2009.
References
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2001 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Magdeburg
Swimmers from Saxony-Anhalt
German male freestyle swimmers
Olympic swimmers for Germany
Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Germany
Olympic gold medalists in swimming
Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
21st-century German sportsmen
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