Christian Reichert (born 7 February 1985) is a German

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. Since 2011, he participates in the open water events. He won the gold medal in the Team event at the

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alongside his teammates

Thomas Lurz Thomas Lurz (born 28 November 1979) is a German swimmer who specializes in long-distance freestyle swimming, especially open water swimming. Lurz lives in Gerbrunn and swims for the SV Würzburg 05 sports club. Biography He competed for German ...

and

Isabelle Härle Isabelle Härle (born 10 January 1988) is a German swimmer. Since 2011, she participates in the open water events. She won the bronze medal at the Team 5 km world championships. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, she competed in th ...

. At the

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, he competed in the men's 10 km marathon swim. He finished in 9th place with a time of 1:53:04.7.

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* * * * * 1985 births Living people German male long-distance swimmers World Aquatics Championships medalists in open water swimming Olympic swimmers for Germany Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Würzburg Swimmers from Bavaria 20th-century German sportsmen 21st-century German sportsmen {{Germany-sport-bio-stub