| Anna Elendt | |
| Fullname: | Anna Charlott Darcel Elendt |
| National Team: | Germany |
| Strokes: | Breaststroke |
| Collegeteam: | University of Texas at Austin |
| Birth Date: | 4 September 2001 |
| Birth Place: | Dreieich, Germany |
| Height: | 175 [1] |
| Weight: | 64 |
Anna Charlott Darcel Elendt (born 4 September 2001) is a German swimmer.[2] She competed in the women's 50 metre breaststroke and women's 100 metre breaststroke at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships.[3] She holds the National Record in the 100m breaststroke, with a time of 1:06.50, which she achieved at the German Swimming Championships on 4 June 2021 in Berlin.[4]
Elendt was born 4 September 2001 and calls Dreieich, Germany her hometown.[5] [6] She is one of three children to her parents Melanie and Philipp Elendt.[6]
She attended Carl von Weinberg Schule for high school.[6] Collegiately, Elendt decided to live and train in the United States, and began competing for the University of Texas swim team in the autumn of 2020.[6] [7]
At the 2018 European Junior Championships in Helsinki, Finland in July 2018, Elendt won three medals. She won a silver medal in the 50 metre breaststroke, a bronze medal in the 100 metre breaststroke, and a bronze medal in the 4x100 metre medley relay.[8]
In July 2019 at the World Aquatics Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, Elendt competed in two individual events and the 4x100 meter relay.[9] She ranked 7th in the final of the 50 metre breaststroke with a time of 31.06.[9] [10] In the 100 metre breaststroke she swam a 1:08.70 and tied for 24th place in the prelims. On the 4x100 metre medley relay, Elendt swam a 1:08.74 on the breaststroke leg of the relay. The relay ranked 9th overall.[9]
At the 2020 Toyota US Open Championships, Elendt won the 100 metre breaststroke ahead of second-place finisher Lydia Jacoby with a time of 1:07.50.[11] Elendt earned the "Big 12 Swimming & Diving Newcomer of the Week" award for the week of December 1 following her performance at the US Open.[12]
During Elendt's first collegiate season for the Texas Longhorns, she received the "Big 12 Swimming & Diving Newcomer of the Week” award for the week of February 24 from the Big 12 Conference. The award recognized her accomplishment of winning the 100 yard breaststroke with a time of 1:00.56 and the 200 yard breaststroke with a time of 2:12.94 in the last dual meet of the season.[13]
On 4 June 2021, at the German National Swimming Championships, Elendt set a new national record in the 100 metre breaststroke with a time of 1:06.50 and was the first female German athlete to swim faster than 1:07 in the event.[14] The next day, she broke the national record of Germany in the 50 metre breaststroke with her time of 30.67.[15]
See also: Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Elendt qualified to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, in the 100 metre breaststroke as part of Germany's 2020 Olympic team.[16] She was also one of the swimmers on the 4x100 metre medley relay at the 2019 World Championships that qualified the relay for the 2020 Olympics.[17]
On 25 July, Elendt competed in the 100 metre breaststroke prelims, swimming a 1:06.96, ranking 16th for all prelims heats, and advancing to the semifinals.[18] [19]