Marco Koch

Marco Koch
	Koch wearing the gold medal he won at the 200m breaststroke, 2015 European Short Course Swimming Championships, Netanya
Personal information
National team	Germany
Born	25 January 1990; Darmstadt, Germany
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	83 kg (183 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Breaststroke, individual medley
Club	DSW 1912
Men's swimming
Representing Germany
World Championships (LC)
World Championships (SC)
European Championships (LC)
European Championships (SC)

Marco Koch (born 25 January 1990) is a German competitive swimmer who specializes in breaststroke events.[1] He is a former world record holder in the 200 meter breaststroke (short course).[2]

Career

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, he competed in the men's 200-metre breaststroke, finishing in 11th place overall in the heats and 7th in his semifinal, failing to reach the final.

After golden final in Kazan

At the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia, he won the gold medal in the men's 200-metre breaststroke, becoming the first German to claim a championship title in that event.

At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, he competed in the 200 m breaststroke. He finished in 7th place with a time of 2:08.00.[3] He was also part of the 4 x 100 medley relay team which finished in 7th place.[4]

In the Autumn of 2019 he was member of the inaugural International Swimming League swimming for the New York Breakers, who competed in the Americas Division.[5] Koch competed at all of the meets for the Breakers, and specialized in the breaststroke events. [6]

Although he mainly specializes in breaststroke, Koch also holds the German record in the 400-meter individual medley (short course) with a time of 4:01.87.[7]

gollark: The hilarity of a joke is directly proportional to the square of its length, you know.

gollark: (note: I like Linux and this is a joke, do not potato me)

gollark: What do Linux users do to change a lightbulb?First, a user creates a bug report, only for it to be closed with "could not reproduce" as the developers got to it in the day. Eventually, some nights later, someone realizes that it is actually a problem, and decides to start work on a fix, soliciting the help of other people.Debates soon break out on the architecture of the new lightbulb - should they replace it with an incandescent bulb (since the bulb which broke was one of those), try and upgrade it to a halogen or LED bulb, which are technically superior if more complex. or go to a simpler and perhaps more reliable solution such as a fire?While an LED bulb is decided on, they eventually, after yet more debate, deem off-the-shelf bulbs unsuitable, and decide to make their own using commercially available LED modules. However, some of the group working on this are unhappy with this, and splinter off, trying to set up their own open semiconductor production operation to produce the LEDs.Despite delays introduced by feature creep, as it was decided halfway through to also add RGB capability and wireless control, the main group still manages to produce an early alpha, and tests it as a replacement for the original bulb. Unfortunately it stops working after a few days of use, and debugging of the system suggests that the problem is because of their power supply - the bulb needs complex, expensive, and somewhat easily damaged circuitry to convert the mains AC power into DC suitable for the LEDs, and they got that bit a bit wrong.So they decide to launch their own power grid and lighting fixture standard, which is, although incompatible with every other device, technically superior, and integrates high-speed networking so they can improve the control hardware. Having completely retrofitted the house the original lightbulb failed in and put all their designs and code up on GitHub, they deem the project a success, and after only a year!

gollark: Minetest is already a thing.

gollark: It really isn't.

References

"Marco Koch". London 2012. The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Limited. Archived from the original on 20 May 2013. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
"Marco Koch breaks 200 SCM breast world record at German nationals". SwimSwam. 2016-11-20. Retrieved 2019-01-19.
"Rio 2016". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-08-26. Retrieved 2016-09-06.
"Rio 2016". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-08-26. Retrieved 2016-09-06.
"Club Rosters – International Swimming League". Retrieved 8 April 2020.
"Marco Koch breaks down his 1st ISL win in Budapest". swimswam.com. Retrieved 2020-05-26.
Lord, Craig (November 19, 2015). "Marco Koch Extends Menu To Four-Course Meal With 4:01 German 400IM Record". Swimvortex. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved December 3, 2015.

Records
Preceded by Dániel Gyurta	World record holder Men's 200 m breaststroke (short course) 20 November 2016 – Present	Succeeded by Incumbent

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[OlympicBotGeneratedRef-1] "Marco Koch". London 2012. The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Limited. Archived from the original on 20 May 2013. Retrieved 13 September 2012.

[2] "Marco Koch breaks 200 SCM breast world record at German nationals". SwimSwam. 2016-11-20. Retrieved 2019-01-19.

[3] "Rio 2016". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-08-26. Retrieved 2016-09-06.

[4] "Rio 2016". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-08-26. Retrieved 2016-09-06.

[5] "Club Rosters – International Swimming League". Retrieved 8 April 2020.

[6] "Marco Koch breaks down his 1st ISL win in Budapest". swimswam.com. Retrieved 2020-05-26.

[7] Lord, Craig (November 19, 2015). "Marco Koch Extends Menu To Four-Course Meal With 4:01 German 400IM Record". Swimvortex. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved December 3, 2015.