For Florian Wellbrock it stayed in Singapore with four World Cup titles-all in open water.
Photo: Imago/Laci Perenyi
Sven Schwarz walked through the Singapore Sports Hub on Sunday with a dissolved view, waved happily towards the stands and enjoyed the minutes after the final over 1500 meters freestyle. Second, the long -distance specialist from Lower Saxony, like over 800 meters, and again behind the Tunisian Ahmed Jaouadi. Florian Wellbrock, quadruple world champion when swimming in open water and the fastest lead time went into the race, finished fifth. “If that had been going on again today with a medal, I think it would have become a little too good,” commented the Bremen native and announced: “This is how we continue next year.”
Different philosophies
After its first two precious metal badges, this plan should join this plan at a large event. The 23-year-old has been working with Emil Guliyev in Hanover for a long time. With a view to his own coach and the concentrated middle and long-distance quality, which national coach Bernd Berkhahn gathered around him at the Magdeburg base, Schwarz says: »He has a different philosophy than Bernd. It shows that there is not just one way. “
With a total of five medals – twice gold, twice silver, one bronze – the German team in the pool delivered the best result since the title fights in Rome in 2009. The DSV team was hard to beat in the first World Cup week in open water-with Wellbrock as the outstanding force. But also in the pool, the floating staff in black and red gold confirmed the slight upward trend from the Olympic Games in Paris. At the same time, however, it remains clear: Without the broad phalanx of first -class permanent crawlers from Magdeburg, the German balance fell much darker.
Reliable
From the national coach’s Saxony-Anhalt training group, Lukas Märtens with gold over 400 meters freestyle and bronze over twice the distance was once again the reliability in person. Competition also grew up in his own team. Not least through Schwarz, who said on the Sunday after his second silver run: »I can’t believe it yet. I’m more than satisfied with my race – and of course also with the placement. «
The breast swimmer Anna, who lives in the USA, is at least as satisfied. On the Malay peninsula, the Hessin World Cup silver over 100 meters from 2022 with its surprising gold run on the same route. “I feel much more relaxed and happier than in recent years,” said the 23-year-old.
The best and the superstar
Even more with himself in pure than anyway is Katie Ledecky after these World Championships. The most successful swimmer of all time in Singapore won her World Cup medals number 27 to 29-and from the two golden ones, the freestyle over 800 meters shone particularly intensely from Saturday. In an epic race, in which three athletes under Ledecky were still quite fresh from May, the US icon held its extremely ambitious challenger Summer Mcintosh from Canada-with four times gold most successful starter in Singapore-and the Australian surprise Lani Pallister at a distance. As always, when things were particularly scarce in the pool, drog Ledecky after her triumph with his fist on the water. Later she said: »I no longer feel too much pressure at this point of my career. I don’t have the feeling that I still have too much to lose. “
Léon Marchand also started the world elite in the Nach Olympic Summer comparatively calmly. The superstar of the games in Paris stroked two routes in Southeast Asia at short notice, then only broke the 14 -year -old world record over 200 meters with such concentrated forces in the semi -finals and then won the final as well as on Sunday over twice the distance. The third of three global records in Singapore set up the female layer of layers of the United States in the final competition over 4×100 meters, the DSV quartet swam in sixth.
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