On the seventh day of the world swimming Championships in Hungary Patrick wins Board house thing silver from 3m. For the open water swimmers to Finnia Wunram, the dream of precious metal burst, however, after a few seconds.
Record European champion Patrick Hausding jumped in Budapest on the second rank. Of Berlin, earned the precious metal, mainly thanks to an outstanding four and a half forward somersaults in the penultimate passage, it was only the Chinese Xie Siyi almost 21 counter hit. Third, the Russian Ilya Zakharov was.
It was the first world championship medal from the 3-meter Board for the German swimming Federation (DSV) since 26 years. At the time of the Munich Albin Killat in Perth was in third place, jumped. On Monday, the house thing in the last common final with his tower had won synchro partner Sascha Klein Bronze level. With the two medals, the German water jump team has met its internal target for the title fights in the Duna arena already. At the world Cup two years ago in Kazan the house thing and co. were assumed to be completely empty.
The mammoth competition required the jumpers, everything. After the preliminaries had concluded on Wednesday morning with 56 starters, almost four hours in length, took the semi-final again, 90 minutes, and the Finale on Thursday was 70 minutes long. The long waiting times had sold the house thing with a card game on the phone, breaks on the sleeping Mat, and music. For the starter, had already taken Bronze at the world Championships in the last common final with his tower-synchro partner Sascha Klein, it was the fifth competition in Budapest.
Completely exhausted: Wunram (left), hands over to Leonie Beck
Open water swimmer Finnia Wunram had to get in the morning shortly after the Start of the relay race in lake Balaton, a blow to the head, tormented by the 1250 m long first round, and collapsed at the first exchange. “Cycle, Gasping, she was totally by the Wind,” said national coach Stefan Lurz, after the 21-Year-old had been pulled from the water and the medical supplies. The residue could not catch up with their teammates for the title defenders, only eight remained. Gold went to France ahead of the United States and Italy.
jk/kd (sid,dpa)