WM in Singapore
Gold in record time: Anna Elendt succeeds in sensation
Updated on July 29, 2025 – 3:05 p.m.Reading time: 1 min.
On Sunday Lukas Märtens celebrated the first German World Cup gold in the pool. Now Anna Malendt followed.
Next gold for Germany at the swimming World Cup in Singapore: Anna Elendt, who was miserably over 100 meters of chest. The 23-year-old secured World Cup gold on Tuesday in German record time of 1: 05.19 minutes, and in 2022 she had already finished second on this route at the World Cup in Budapest. “I’m speechless,” she said at the indoor microphone.
The day before, Elendt, who lives and trained in the United States, had trained when seventh only made the leap into the final run. There, however, she left the competition behind, undercut her own national record of 1: 05.58 minutes from 2022 and impressively returned after difficult years. Silver went to 200 m Olympic champion Kate Douglass from the USA (1: 05.27) in front of the Chinese Tang Qianting (1: 05.64).
“I feel much more relaxed and much happier than the past few years,” she had explained before the race in Singapore. “It is really the case that I only swim for myself. That I don’t have to swim for college.” Elendt added: “If I really don’t feel like it anymore, I could say I stop tomorrow. Of course that’s not the plan, but it just takes the pressure out.”
Lukas Märtens won gold over 400 meters freestyle on Sunday. In addition, Florian Wellbrock had won first place four times in open water.