EM-Gold with German Record: Wellbrock surprises himself

Olympic champion Florian Wellbrock has won at the short-run EM Gold - his first international medal in the 25 m basin.

After his gold race in the unbenieved small basin Florian Wellbrock looked a bit unbelieving on the scoreboard. It was quite scarce at the world record, said the swimming Olympic champion after his victory over 1500 m freestyle at the short-run em: That annoys me a little bit.

But 91 days after the free-water triumph in the bay of Tokyo, the joy overlooked, because with the German record time of 14: 09.88 minutes the Magdeburger had not expected: I thought I could swim a 14:15. That it It was now so fast, I m surprised. The reward: his first precious metal in the 25 m basin. The first medal on the short run, then a golden, that s very cool, said Wellbrock and wanted to treat himself to the reward a cold cola.

The 24-year-old had his Italian permanent Gregorio Paltrinieri, defending champion and world recorder, held in chess from the first train. After 500 meters, I saw that my turning are much better than his, Wellbrock reported, which after 1200 m in the head-to-head race and more wasted and sowed in the end. Bronze surprisingly won Sven black (Hannover) in 14: 26.24 minutes: I did not expect.

The short run was not yet WELLBROCKS Ding. He had recovered his previous World Cup and EM titles in freewater and in the 50 m pelvis, but his strong shape already demonstrated for kick-off as a pre-run on his side track 400 m. He had then renounced the finale to hedge the medals on his strong disciplines - with a first success, over 800 m he wants to swim similar quickly at the weekend.

In recent years, Wellbrock had been fraudulating with the races on the short course. The many turns still bring me out of rhythm, he said to the SID: That s my problem. Therefore, he not so the fan of the 25-M-Bahn.

Although medals divided into Kazan as well as in six weeks at the World Cup in Abu Dhabi. But he did not really want to talk about titles. Because Wellbrock already has a Paris 2024 in view: After Olympia is in front of Olympia. There are now not world records at the short-run em in a focus. But on Thursday, only two seconds were missing.

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The final run over 100 m back on Friday reached Ole Braunschweig (Berlin) in 50.75 seconds as a eighth. The first medal for the German Swimming Association (DSV) at the European Championship was located on Wednesday Wellbrocks Klubkollegin Isabel Gose as a third above 800 m freestyle.