Gose and Boy narrowly miss the World Cup medal in open water!

Gose and Boy narrowly miss the World Cup medal in open water!

The Swimming World Championships in Singapore will also ensure exciting competitions this year, but not all German athletes were able to take home the hoped-for medals. Isabel Gose and Lea Boy narrowly missed a medal in the open water in extremely hot conditions. At the newly introduced Knockout Sprint for the first time at World Championships, the two swam by third place in the decision at the same time. five. Only two tenths of a second were missing on the precious metal.

For the only 23-year-old Gose, it was the first appearance at a World Cup in open water and she delivered a strong performance. "It was a challenging competition, but I took a lot with me for the future," said a comment after the race.

The medalist

The victory in the competition went to Japanese Michika Kajimoto, followed by the Italian Ginevra Taddeucci, who won the silver medal. Bronze secured the double world champion Moesha Johnson from Australia and the Hungarian Bettina Fabian, so the coveted medal was once more competitive.

Florian Wellbrock triumphed

While Gose and Boy failed with a blink of an eye, Florian Wellbrock was able to shine over 10 kilometers in the open water and secure his seventh World Cup gold. He took the top of the field and left the Italian Gregorio Paltrinieri behind. In the comfortably warm water of the Sentosa island, he swam to the finish with a time of 1: 59: 55.5 hours and showed his class again. Oliver Klemet also fought bravely and landed fourth with just a tenth of a second, leaving the bronze medal barely. On the day of the women's competitions, a race had to be canceled due to poor water quality and postponed by one day, which also fueled expectations in the women's category. Gold brought Moesha Johnson again, who also proved itself in the sprint.

team services and viewer enthusiasm

The German Freilwasser relay was also unable to convince at the World Cup in Japan, which had preceded it, and also took fourth place there. The season with Lea Boy, Leonie Beck, Rob Muffels and Oliver Klemet fought to the end, but had to let the Australian Kyle Lee go ahead in the photo finish. The DSV team showed excellent performance and would have entered the history books with a win, because a nation has never been able to win all gold medals at a open-air water World Cup. Long-distance national coach Bernd Berkhahn and the athletes themselves could not be discouraged by the tight defeats.

The Swimming World Championships in Singapore still run until August 3 and offer a lot of opportunities for the athletes with a total of six sports to prove themselves and get medals. It will be interesting to see how the next races will go out. Every competition is a new opportunity to prove a good hand and maybe still bring one or the other precious metal to Germany. While German swimmers are preparing for future challenges, the hope that the next medal will not be long in coming.

ZDF reports about the festive triumph from Wellbrock, while time addresses the challenges of the German season in detail.