The German water jumpers leave the World Cup with a medal. Also in the last competition with German participation, China is unbeatable in the fight for gold.
As expected, Alexander Lube and Jana Lisa Rother did not improve the medal balance of the German water jumpers at the last World Championship competition with German participation.
The 26-year-old Lube and Rother, who is a year younger, took seventh place in the mixed competition on the three-meter board on Saturday. For five jumps they received 270.45 points. As in the previous eleven competitions, the team from China won gold. Zhu Zifeng and Lin Shan won with 326.10 points ahead of Australia and Italy.
Germany now leaves the World Cup with a medal. Lena Hentschel, Christina Wassen, Moritz Wesemann and Timo Barthel celebrated bronze in the mixed team competition from the three-meter board and tower. “I said at half-time that there is light and shadow. Now I would tend towards the fact that it has become light,” said national coach Christoph Bohm after his first World Cup in this office. “We got the medal. It’s always very important that you have precious metal in your hands.”
Three more quota places
In Fukuoka, Germany also secured three more quota places for the 2024 Olympics. However, Bohm also said clearly: “We have to put some money into it in the synchronized disciplines. We have to step on the gas to get the quota places there. Once we have the quota places, you can also think about a medal in Paris.”
At the last World Championships there was once a precious metal for the team of the German Swimming Association. In 2022, Timo Barthel and Lars Rüdiger won bronze in synchronized jumping from the three-meter board. At that time, however, the German jumpers had come close to the podium several times in fourth or fifth place. This time the distance to the absolute world leaders was often large. Two sixth places by Moritz Wesemann from the one-meter board and by Christina and Elena Wassen in synchronized diving from the tower were the best placings apart from third place in the mixed team.