Paralympics winner Josia Topf won his second medal at the swimming World Cup in Singapore.
Two days after his triumph over 150 m layers, the 22-year-old over 50 m back fought a duel with the Ukrainian Denys Ostaptschenko and ultimately won silver in the start class S3. 1.04 seconds were missing for his second World Cup triumph.
So far, the native of Erlangen has won four medals at World Championships.
Josia pot: “Did you feel very, very well”
“It felt very, very good. In the end I would have hoped a little more when I saw that Ostaptschenko had overtaken me, I could no longer overcome full jugs to swim against the wall”said pot: “Then I probably left one or the other tenth. Otherwise it would have been a best time.” It is still “A good race” have been, this gives confidence for the other starts.
So far four gold medals for Germany
The German Disabled Sports Association (DBS) is thus on seven medals after four out of seven competition days, and there was gold four times.
The Tanja Scholz, twice victorious in Singapore, had to be satisfied with seventh place over 50 m back of the start class S4 on Wednesday, Gina Böttcher, which was also decorated with bronze, landed one place in front.
Mira Jeanne Maack also finished six over 100 m freestyle of the S8 start class.