Angelina Köhler has become world champion in swimming. The German came first in the 100 meters.
Short course European champion Angelina Köhler won gold in the 100 meter butterfly at the World Swimming Championships in Doha, making herself the first German world champion in the pool in 15 years. The 23-year-old clocked 56.28 seconds on Monday and secured her ticket to the Olympic Games in Paris with her first World Cup medal.
“I can’t quite process what just happened yet. I’m shaking all over,” said Köhler: “The victory just meant an incredible amount to me because I’ve been dreaming about it since I was a child.”
Silver went to the American Claire Curzan ahead of the Swede Louise Hansson. Most recently, Britta Steffen won women’s World Cup gold in the 50 and 100 meter freestyle pool for Germany in Rome in 2009.
Köhler was the fastest in the semi-finals on Sunday and reached the final within one day with her second German record (56.11 seconds). In the preliminary run, the Berliner had already beaten her own record, which she had set at the World Championships in Fukuoka, by 64 hundredths of a second.