Grand finale at the home World Cup in Leipzig: SC DHfK finswimmer Max Poschart breaks world record / German club record for men's relay team

Six times gold and once silver for SC DHfK / Over 400 athletes from 19 nations at the start What an emotional final at the finswimming World Cup in Leipzig, hosted by SC DHfK! Exceptional athlete Max Poschart broke the world record over 100 meters as the starting swimmer of the 4x100 meter relay in the last World Cup race and also pulverized the German relay club record with his team.

At the end of two packed days (April 23/24) in the University Swimming Hall with 401 athletes from 19 nations, there were six gold and one silver medal for the Leipzig athletes and the review of a perfectly organized World Cup.

Leipzig. Now it had happened after all! SC DHfK final swimmer Max Poschart looks up and raises his fist in the air. Frenetic cheers erupt. 33.71 seconds are displayed on the scoreboard in Leipzig's University Swimming Hall.

A time that no finswimmer before him has ever swum over the 100 meters. World record! And this after two long World Cup days and five races, which are already in the legs of the 27-year-old.

But Max Poschart does not have much time to celebrate. As the starting swimmer of the 4x100-meter relay, he watches spellbound as his three teammates come through the pool. After three fabulous performances by Justus Mörstedt, Sidney Zeuner and Malte Striegler, the full hall cheers again. Gold and German club record (2:19,53 min)! The own best performance undercut by 2.6 seconds. "You could not have wished for a more beautiful final for this World Cup," said a completely hoarse and proud Lutz Riemann, coach of the SC DHfK finswimmers, "I was amazed from the edge of the pool what the boys got out of themselves in such a final. That crowns the entire World Cup."

His protégé Max Poschart is still a little short of words: "It's hard for me to put my feelings into words. We are all just super happy. The fact that we have now even swum faster than the winning team at the World Cup last year is just great." It was also great that the SC DHfK athlete, after narrowly missing out on a world record on Sunday morning (old WR: 33.87 sec) when he touched in 34.17 seconds in the individual 100 meters, released unimagined strength in the final race. "The fact that I was able to add something on there and improve my world record from 2017 by 16 hundredths is already," Poschart hesitates and laughs, "a bit scary, because I don't know where else to go."