Biedermann remains a threat in the Europe pool
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May 25, 2012, Friday
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EVEN without his super suit, Paul Biedermann showed he's a threat by winning the 200-meter freestyle at the European Championship in Hungary by a large margin Wednesday, following up a gold in the 400 two days earlier.
Biedermann burst onto the scene at the 2009 worlds in Rome, when the German swept the 200 and 400 in world-record times, easily beating Michael Phelps in the 200 and breaking Ian Thorpe's seven-year-old 400 mark in the process. But those races were won in the now banned high-tech bodysuits, which favored Biedermann's muscle mass. Biedermann has since slimmed down to adapt to textile suits.
He touched in 1 minute, 46.27 seconds, nearly 1-1/2 seconds off the time he posted to earn bronze behind Ryan Lochte and Phelps at last year's worlds in Shanghai. Still, it was a respectable performance coming just a couple weeks after the German trials. "It didn't go 100 percent, but the time was OK," Biedermann said.
Biedermann burst onto the scene at the 2009 worlds in Rome, when the German swept the 200 and 400 in world-record times, easily beating Michael Phelps in the 200 and breaking Ian Thorpe's seven-year-old 400 mark in the process. But those races were won in the now banned high-tech bodysuits, which favored Biedermann's muscle mass. Biedermann has since slimmed down to adapt to textile suits.
He touched in 1 minute, 46.27 seconds, nearly 1-1/2 seconds off the time he posted to earn bronze behind Ryan Lochte and Phelps at last year's worlds in Shanghai. Still, it was a respectable performance coming just a couple weeks after the German trials. "It didn't go 100 percent, but the time was OK," Biedermann said.
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