FFlorian Wellbrock was barely moving in the swimming pool, while his competitors celebrated their medals next to him. The 23-year-old failed several times and worked hard to win his fourth place. “For its part, I have promoted myself very well. This is just an annoying fourth place,” said the freestyler after an exciting medal competition at the Olympics 800m premiere. . Wellbrock’s time of 7:42.68 minutes is not enough to win the bronze medal, so after Wellbrock’s fiancé Sarah Köhler won third place the day before, this is the second precious metal for German swimmers in Tokyo.
“Today is not bad in itself,” Welbrooke said correctly. “7.42 is still the second fastest time ever for a German to swim.” For him, if he gets fifth place, “it might be better.” Wellbrock 7’s brilliant national record: 41.77 minutes from the start of the run-up is enough for Thursday’s gold. So thirty-five percent of a second is missing on the bronze.
In the final match of the final match between the intermediate swimmer Philip Heinz and the relay world record, the American Robert Fink unexpectedly won the Olympic victory in the Wilbrook match. The 21-year-old player made an impressive final sprint. The silver medal came from Gregorio Paltrinieri from Italy and the bronze medal came from Michailo Romantschuk from Ukraine.
“Tick too hard and too early”
Patrineri, who suffered from glandular fever during preparations for the war, quickly mounted his horse and has been in a leading position for a long time. However, Wellbrock caught up and took first place in the final 50 meters. National team coach Bernd Burkhann could not sit by the swimming pool for a long time.
“Usually I should have controlled Paltrinieri for the past 50 years, but I didn’t have it today, which makes the whole thing even more annoying,” Wellbrock said of his competitors, with whom he often exchanged ideas. Wellbrock said that he may have stepped up “too hard” or “too early” and suspected this to be a “critic point.” The fourth place “Of course it hurts.”
Two years after his historic double crown at the 2019 World Cup in South Korea, when Will Bullock won the gold medal in freestyle swimming over ten kilometers and 1,500 meters in open water within a few days, he was unsuccessful in Japan. But the Bremen native was far from resigning despite his disappointment. With a white towel on his shoulders, he was anxious to go swimming. Wellbrock tried to see the positive side.
In the 800m freestyle, he was eliminated in the preliminaries of the Gwangju World Championships-this time Wellbrock confidently entered the finals. He has shown that “after a bad game, 1500 can still be very, very good,” he recalled. “Then I have to invest everything again.” In the longest Olympic pool distance and open water, Wellbrock’s rating is even higher.
Unlike Willbrook, Heinz’s Olympic career ended this morning ( The 30-year-old player failed to enter the final with a score of 1 point and 58.13 points, ranking 13th in the semifinals. “That was definitely my last game on the big stage,” the 30-year-old said, looking back on his career, and concluded: “This is very, very good. I will participate again at any time.” Germany Freestyle-Women’s 4 x 200 meters won the sixth place. China’s winning group of four set a world record with 7:40.33 minutes.
Caleb Drexel did not win in the 100-meter freestyle. Nevertheless, the 24-year-old player celebrated his first individual gold medal in the Summer Olympics with an Olympic best time of 1:47.02 minutes, with his fingers stretched upward on the swimming pool belt. Australia’s Izaac Stubblety-Cook won the women’s 200m breaststroke gold medal, and China’s Zhang Yufei won the women’s 200m butterfly gold medal.
