Swimming World Cup
Wellbrock fetches third gold medal
07/19/2025 – 05:03 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
The German open water swimmer cannot be stopped: at the World Cup in Singapore, he won his third gold.
Florian Wellbrock won his third gold medal at the Swimming World Championships in Singapore in the third race. The 27-year-old could not be beaten in the new Knockout sprint in the open water. Wellbrock won ahead of silver winner David Bethlehem from Hungary and the Frenchman Marc-Antoine Olivier, who won bronze. The second German starter Oliver Klemet left the semi -finals.
Wellbrock had already won over ten and over five kilometers in the sea on the Palawan Beach. Born in Bremen, who trains with national coach Bernd Berkhahn in Magdeburg, looks like freed in Singapore. Almost a year after his messed up Olympic Games, he celebrates an impressive comeback on the world stage. With the tropical conditions of Southeast Asia, it is very way to cope with.
Wellbrock achieved his third victory in a format held at World Championships for the first time. At the Knockout sprint, three rounds are completed in a quick succession. First the athletes swim 1500, then 1000 and 500 meters in the final. After each round, athletes divide.
With more than 30 degrees of water temperature, Wellbrock showed its class from the start. Before the final, he had been the fastest in his heat of the first round and in the semi -finals.
Before that, it was not enough for Isabel Gose and Lea Boy for the podium. The two Germans took fifth place at the same time. Gose and Boy were only two tenths of a second in third place. For the 23 -year -old gose it was the first appearance at a World Cup in open water.
The Japanese Ichika Kajimoto secured the victory. The Italian Ginevra Taddeucci won silver in front of double world champion Moesha Johnson from Australia and the Hungarian Bettina Fabian, who both got bronze.
On Sunday (2 a.m./MESZ), the mixed seasons are on the program at the end of the open water competitions. The German quartet with Gose, Celine Rieder, Wellbrock and Klemet is also one of the top favorites.