Florian Wellbrock

Florian Wellbrock, born on 19 August 1997, is a German competitive swimmer who has excelled both in the pool and in open water. He holds the world record in the short course 1500 metre freestyle and is an Olympic champion, a multiple world champion and a European champion in both long and short course swimming. At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, held in 2021, he won gold in the 10 kilometre open water race and bronze in the 1500 metre freestyle, and his gold was the first won in that event at an Olympic Games by a German swimmer. At the 2019 World Aquatics Championships he became the first swimmer to win both the 1500 metre freestyle and the 10 kilometre open water race at one international competition. He made his Olympic debut at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and by the article it totals 28 international medals, 20 of them gold.