“Certainly achieved age”
German synchronous swimmer stops
05.09.2025 – 4:43 p.m.Reading time: 1 min.
Frithjof Seidel has an eventful career. At European Championships, he succeeded in doing something that nobody had done before.
Synchronous swimmer Frithjof Seidel has ended his career in the national team. As the German Swimming Association announced, the 28-year-old wants to turn to other things in the future. “I have now reached a certain age and now want to devote myself to other aspects in my life. As much as I love the synchronized swimming.”
As a man in a sport dominated by women, Seidel has shaped synchronized swimming in Germany in recent years. Most recently, he was on duty at the World Championships in Singapore. In 2023, Seidel won silver with the German synchronous swimming team in the combination at the European Championships. He was the first man to make it to the European Championship podium in a team competition. A year later he won the EM-Gold team in the Acrobatic routine. That was also a novelty.
Seidel, who had changed from the water jumping, contributed to establishing the participation of men more in his sport. “It was nice to see how it was suddenly quite normal that we had a man in the team,” he said. “I have the feeling that I was part of a process that advanced us as a sport in Germany and as a society as a whole. And that’s something I am very proud of.”