Austria's swimmer: Dream of Olympic medal bursts in the final!

Austria's swimmer: Dream of Olympic medal bursts in the final!

La Defense Arena, Paris, Frankreich - The Austrian swimmers experience a mixed appearance at the Olympic Games in Paris. On Saturday, the 4 × 100-meter layout from Bernhard Reitshammer, Simon Bucher, Valentin Bayer and Heiko Gigler had to take 12th place with a time of 3: 34.03 minutes and thus missed the desired finale by 1.5 seconds. This disappointing placement came after great expectations, such as The swimming association reported .

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Before the relay event, Simon Bucher had already lifted a strong performance over 100 meters of dolphin. The 24-year-old showed an international top brand at the national championships in Graz with a time of 49.02 seconds. OSV sports director Walter Bär expressed himself optimistically and emphasized that Bucher had chances of a medal. Despite the high expectations and the missed final, Bucher is positive: "Of course you want to swim faster and faster, but that was sometimes not successful. We all did our best," as he said in an interview.

The balance of the Olympic Games is mixed. In addition to the 12th place in the season, Martin Espernberger was able to reach the 6th place in the individual competition over 200 meters of butterfly, while Bucher took 10th place over 100 meters butterfly and riding hammer over 100 meters of chest. "It was a good performance that we were there at all," explained Reitshammer and emphasized the experience that the team gained in these competitions. The focus is now on the remaining competitions of this Olympics, in which five Austrian athletes will still take part, including Felix Auböck and Jan Hercog, who will compete in the Open Water and water jumping, as shown in another report by .