Marathon Swimming at the Aquatics WA World Championships 2023

[OlympicsFan 858]

Paltrinieri seems to be using the same strategy as his training partner Beck did yesterday. Let's see if the result will be the same.

[Josh 10,459]

Florian Wellbrock  wins the world title in men's 10km, with Kristof Rasovszky   and Oliver Klemet  also booking their ticket to Paris 2024

Edited July 16, 2023 by Josh

[Vektor 3,326]

First ever WCh medal for Raso in the 10k, two years after his Olympic silver. We really needed this considering our situation in the pool. 

[Vektor 3,326]

4 hours ago, Josh said:

Florian Wellbrock  wins the world title in men's 10km, with Kristof Rasovszky   and Oliver Klemet  also booking their ticket to Paris 2024

So no new athlete quotas as all three swimmers already qualified in the pool.

[Josh 10,459]

Beck  doubles up on the open water events, this time winning the women's 5km title. Van Rouwendaal  takes silver, and Cunha  completes the podium with bronze. 

[Josh 10,459]

 clear 1-2-3 in men's 5km.

Edited July 18, 2023 by Josh

[Josh 10,459]

Wellbrock  wins gold in the 5km, completing the open water double! Paltrinieri  takes silver, and Acerenza  takes bronze. 

[Mecki83 155]

On 7/16/2023 at 7:58 AM, Vektor said:

So no new athlete quotas as all three swimmers already qualified in the pool.

That's not quite correct as the DSV in Germany has tightened the criteria for the Olympic Qualification.

Basically all achieved quotas in the pool are worthless and the swimmers have to reach the quota again in April 2024.

Only exceptions are swimmers that reach Top4 at the World Championships 2023 or 2024. 
So in fact these are first real German quotas in swimming. 

[phelps 7,664]

3 minutes ago, Mecki83 said:

That's not quite correct as the DSV in Germany has tightened the criteria for the Olympic Qualification.

Basically all achieved quotas in the pool are worthless and the swimmers have to reach the quota again in April 2024.

Only exceptions are swimmers that reach Top4 at the World Championships 2023 or 2024. 
So in fact these are first real German quotas in swimming. 

but that's the same for most of the top swimming Nations

 

although, here we have to take notice of the official quota places awarded by the IOC/FINA rules

 

and because of those, there are a few swimmers that technically are already eligible to start the Olympic 10km race, even if they're not sure to go to the Olympics because of their own National rules (stricter than the International's)

[OlympicsFan 858]

Paltrinieri much closer than in the 10 km race. Could be seen as an encouraging sign. Really weird that Klemet (and Romanchuk) were so far off. Klemet was clearly better than the Italians in the 10 km race and is also clearly better over 400 m, but somehow he couldn’t be close to them in the 5 km race. Beck has proven once again that she doesn’t need tricks to dominate. At the moment she is clearly the best in the world apart from maybe Grimes.