ZELLMANN Poul

World Championships

Year	Location	200Free	400Free	4x200Free
2019	Gwangju, KOR	H (1:47.65)	-	8th (7:07.65)
2017	Budapest, HUN	H (1:48.67)	H (3:50.88)	H (7:11.03)

European Championships

Year	Location	400Free	800Free	4x200Free
2018	Glasgow, GBR	7th (3:48.97)	H (8:03.07)	4th (7:09.31)

World Championships Short Course

Year	Location	200Free	400Free	1500Free
2016	Windsor, ON, CAN	H (1:46.93)	H (3:44.09)	H (14:42.28)

Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final

Armed Forces Athlete

Psychology - Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

English, French, German

SG Essen [Germany]

Nicole Endruschat [club], GER

He began swimming at age 10 after going on holiday with family friends, whose daughter was in a swimming club. He lost his swimming goggles before his first competition and had to borrow 'granny goggles' from a friend. "A friend's mother sometimes went swimming and was able to lend me her goggles. They were old, like granny goggles. But she saved me, even if I jumped into the pool and they immediately filled with water. Those goggles allowed me to swim in my first competition." (Tinongo YouTube channel, 25 Jun 2019)

"I come from a footballing family. My father and brother played football, but when my brother was injured, I took up swimming." (Tinongo YouTube channel, 25 Jun 2019)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (news.rub.de, 03 Dec 2018)

He trains 26 to 28 hours a week. On most days he will do two sessions, including a two-hour morning session and a three-hour afternoon session. (news.rub.de, 03 Dec 2018; rp-online.de, 23 Jan 2019)

The first time he swam under two minutes in the 200m freestyle. "I can still remember the feeling when I touched the pad. I later bought photographs of myself celebrating and that was a really nice moment that I remember fondly. I still look at those photographs. They have helped me overcome some difficult training sessions." (Tinongo YouTube channel, 25 Jun 2019)

In 2019 he won the North Rhine-Westphalia Male Swimmer of the Year award in Germany. He also won the award in 2016 and 2018. (swimpool.de, 27 Jan 2020)