Christian vom Lehn

Christian ( April * 14, 1992 in Wuppertal) vom Lehn is a swimmer in the SG Bayer Wuppertal / Uerdingen / Dormagen and multiple youth or junior European champion and two-time German champion in the seniors and bronze medalist at the World Swimming Championships in 2011.

Preferred swimming styles from Lehns are breast and layers, he himself a " spinal disease" attests (slower than in his specialist discipline ). About 200 meters breaststroke he defended in July 2010, his last year in Prague ( 2:11,07 min) gained European Youth Championship title in Helsinki despite a groin problem with a time of 2:12,93 min.

Career

In the German Swimming Championships 2009 seniors he had already won the age of seventeen in 2:13,65 min with vintage record over the same route the bronze medal. In Helsinki, he won two bronze medals in addition: single 100m breaststroke with a time of 1:02,56 min and the 4 × 100-meter medley relay along with Christian Diener ( Cottbus ), Melvin Herrmann ( Dortmund) and Kevin Leithold ( Bitterfeld ). In the German Swimming Championship 2010 high school graduate won the silver medal in the 4 × 100-meter medley relay with his teammates Steffen Driesen, Björn Christoph Koch and Fildebrandt, but missed the standard for the 2010 European Championships in Hungary.

After lengthy injury-related breaks trumped by Lehn at the German Swimming Championships 2011 in Berlin with two championship titles on his special routes on. About 100 meters breaststroke, he scored 1:00,51 min and won against last year's winner Hendrik Feldwehr ( 1:00,68 min). The 200 yards he put back in 2:08,97 minutes, missed the even swum with the miracle suit German record of the intestinal dweller Marco Koch in 2009 ( 2:08,38 min) only by 59 hundredths of a second and won before the Leipzig Tony Wiegmann (2: 14.67 min). Both times he was undercutting the strict qualification standards for the World Swimming Championships 2011 in Shanghai, with the 200-meter performance by 2.38 seconds ( 2:11,35 min ), which put him in second place of the annual global leaderboard.

In Shanghai, he won then in 2:09,06 minutes behind the Hungarian Dániel Gyurta ( 2:08,41 min) and Kosuke Kitajima ( 2:08,63 min), the gold medalist from Beijing and Athens, surprising the bronze medal.

Honors

  • 2009 - Wuppertal Triangulum in gold ( European Youth champion in swimming 200m breaststroke )

Achievements

  • 2010 - Youth Olympic Games in 2010, Singapore: Bronze 4 × 100 m medley
  • 2011 - World Swimming Championships in 2011, Shanghai: Bronze 200m breaststroke
  • 2012 - European Swimming Championships in 2012, Debrecen: Silver 4 × 100 m medley
April 14 Medley swimming 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
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