Lukas Märtens

Lukas Märtens is a German swimmer, born on 27 December 2001, who is the reigning 400 m freestyle Olympic champion. He made his Olympic debut at the 2020 Games in Tokyo, finishing twelfth in the 400 m freestyle and seventeenth in the 200 m freestyle, and then built a record as a middle-distance freestyler. In 2022 he won silver in the 400 m freestyle at the World Championships in Budapest and won the European title in a championship record of 3:42.50. He added bronze medals in the 400 m freestyle at the 2023 World Championships in Fukuoka and the 2024 World Championships in Doha, and took national records in the 800 m freestyle. At the 2024 Olympics in Paris he won the gold medal in the 400 m freestyle, confirming him as one of Germany's leading swimmers.