Disappointment at the World Cup in Budapest: Austria's swimmers divide early!

Disappointment at the World Cup in Budapest: Austria's swimmers divide early!

At the Warfahn World Championship in Budapest, the Austrian swimmers had to experience frustration on the first day of the competition. Both Simon Bucher and Lena Kreundl, who competed in their penultimate race, were eliminated in the preliminaries. Kreundl missed over 200 m in a time of 2: 09.18 minutes to enter the semi -finals and expressed that it was not in the best form due to knee problems and police training. Bucher was also unlucky: he only came 17th over 50 m dolphin in 22.49 seconds and missed the semi -finals by 0.06 seconds. His further appearance of over 100 m is on Friday, which gives him greater hopes, so Südtirol News .

swimming world recordes tumble

The World Cup was also shaped by astonishing achievements because seven world records were set up. The US swimmer Gretchen Walsh achieved a time of 24.02 seconds in the 50 m dolphin, which exceeded an old record of the Swede Therese Alshammer by 0.36 seconds. The Swiss Noe Ponti also improved its own world record in the 50 m dolphin by 0.07 seconds to 21.43 seconds. Katarina Hosszus's record over 200 m layers, which has existed for ten years, was finally beat by Kate Douglass with a time of 2: 01.63 minutes. The US relay over 4 x 100 m of crawl also set a new record, which also underlines the dominance of the USA in swimming, such as Kleine Zeitung reported.

It will be crucial for the Austrian swimmers to shine on Saturday at the last competition of Kreundl and in the other events for Bucher and Rizek. The air becomes thin, but the hope remains that they can find back on the normal form after these disappointing prelets.