{"id":16552,"date":"2025-04-13T12:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T12:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/16552\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T12:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T12:58:08","slug":"germanys-maertens-breaks-mens-400m-freestyle-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/16552\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s Maertens breaks men\u2019s 400m freestyle world record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic champion Lukas Maertens of Germany on Saturday broke the men\u2019s 400-metre freestyle world record dating back to 2009 at the Stockholm Open.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old clocked 3min 39.96sec to shave 0.11sec off the mark achieved by fellow German Paul Biedermann at the world championships in Rome in July 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Biedermann\u2019s mark of 3:40.07 was achieved wearing a polyurethane swimsuit that has since been banned in competition.<\/p>\n<p>Maertens, who won Olympic gold over the distance in Paris last year in 3:41.78, had until now a personal best time of 3:40.33 in the 400m freestyle, achieved at the 2024 German championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olympic champion Lukas Maertens of Germany on Saturday broke the men\u2019s 400-metre freestyle world record dating back to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,11176,11177,11175,11178,11179],"class_list":{"0":"post-16552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-lukas-maertens-freestyle-wc","12":"tag-lukas-maertens-new-world-record","13":"tag-lukas-maertens-world-record","14":"tag-swimming-news","15":"tag-swimming-updates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114330776623656851","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}