Carolin Morassi: strong final at the South German Championships!

Carolin Morassi: strong final at the South German Championships!

Aalen, Deutschland - The tension was great when the South German championships took place in Stuttgart from May 23 to 25, 2025. The starter fields were filled with a total of 1,062 active people who faced the competition. Among them, Carolin Morassi caught the eye, which came up with a clean performance in the swimming pool. According to Schwäbische.de she achieved a time of 1: 04.14 minutes, which secured her fifth place and the qualification for the finale brought in.

Morassi, who significantly reduced her training before the championships, showed a brave performance in the final. With a time of 1: 05.20 minutes, she swam to seventh place and thus demonstrated her fighting spirit. While she was in the 50-meter butterfly sprint with 29.17 seconds as the eleventh, she interpreted that it could have run a little scarcer: exactly a tenth missed the final. In the 50-meter freestyle sprint, she heralded a time with 27.64 seconds, which was eight tenth above her best time and was therefore only five hundredths away from the final places.

club duel in Stuttgart

Carolin wasn't the only swimmer who wanted to shine. Her club colleague Ryan Newman, who also competed, swam over 50 meters back in 28.45 seconds and was 14. On Sunday it was the turn of the 100-meter crawl, where he remained a bit behind his possibilities with 55.21 seconds. He sprinted the 50-meter crawl in 24.84 seconds, which again did not quite help him to perform.

from vintage, to open to relay competitions-the total results of the southern German championships impressed with a variety of good placements. A highlight was the 4 × 100-meter freestyle mixed relay, in which Vanessa Dambacher, Tom Gentner, Johanna Gölder and Benedikt Uhl came to 14th place in 3: 58.12 minutes. All participants achieved personal best.

medal rain in Heddesheim

in Heddesheim, where the team also started, there were remarkable success. As Heddesheim swimming , two silver and three bronze medals were achieved in the team ranking. Marlene Chrustowski shone particularly and won both silver over 50 meters of chest and bronze over 100 and 200 meters of chest. Her colleague Anna Zepp secured a silver medal over 100 meters of chest, while Lion Flößer over 50 meters back won bronze in his year class.

The success in the competition brings a breath of fresh air and great drive for the upcoming German vintage championships in Berlin in two weeks.

competitions in the region

The South German Championships once again show the diversity and commitment of swimming in Baden-Württemberg and beyond. In Riesa and Dresden, the older years were already on medal hunt in May, whereby numerous titles and medals were also awarded here, such as TSV Katzwang documented.

The swimmer community in the region can look forward to an exciting time, in which not only personal best, but also the sporting performance. In this regard, it remains exciting how the athletes will deal with the upcoming competitions.