Triumph in Budapest
Next success: Gose swims to World Cup gold
December 13, 2024 – 8:12 p.mReading time: 2 minutes
Isabel Gose has crowned her successful year. The 22-year-old from Magdeburg celebrated her first World Cup gold at the Short Course World Championships.
Vice world champion Isabel Gose won her first World Championship gold on the short course in Budapest, capping a successful year. After silver in the 800 m freestyle on Wednesday, the 22-year-old confidently won the 1500 m distance in 15:24.69 minutes on Friday, giving the German Swimming Association (DSV) its first triumph and its third medal overall in Hungary.
In the longest pool race, the Magdeburg native came third on the long course at the Olympic Games in Paris and at the World Championships in Doha this year. Now the big performance in the Duna Arena in the Hungarian capital. “I want confirmation of what I achieved in the summer,” Gose explained before leaving for Hungary.
She achieved this in an impressive way. Gose’s long-term rival, long course world champion Simona Quadarella from Italy (15:30.14), had to settle for silver, around five and a half seconds behind. In the absence of long-distance dominator Katie Ledecky (USA), bronze went to the American Jillian Cox (15:41.29).
On Tuesday, Florian Wellbrock (Magdeburg) won the first German medal in Budapest. The open water Olympic champion in Tokyo swam to silver in the 1500 m freestyle on the first day of competition. Lukas Märtens, gold medalist in Paris in the 400 m freestyle, will not be competing in Budapest. The 22-year-old had to cancel his participation at short notice due to illness.
On Friday, a US trio broke three world records: Kate Douglass swam the 200 m breaststroke in 2:12.50 minutes and reduced her own record by 22 hundredths of a second. Regan Smith then improved Canada’s Margaret Mac Neal’s 50 m backstroke record by two hundredths to 25.23 seconds. Gretchen Walsh (USA) was also faster than anyone before in the 100 m individual medley in 55.11 seconds.