Marathon swimmer Kyle Lee has opened Australia’s medal tally on the World Aquatics Championships, profitable bronze within the males’s 10km.
The boys’s race turned the primary last to be determined on the world championships in Singapore after the ladies’s 10km occasion was moved from Tuesday to Wednesday due to water high quality issues.
The 2 open-water occasions had been additionally postponed from Wednesday morning to the afternoon at Palawan Seaside on Sentosa Island, south of Singapore, once more due to the soiled sea water.
Organisers then stated water samples collected on Tuesday afternoon had proven a “vital enchancment” and went forward with Wednesday competitors, with the ladies’s 10km race to observe.
German Florian Wellbrock received his sixth open-water world championship, clocking 1 hour, 59 minutes, 55.50 seconds.
He beat Italian Gregorio Paltrinieri by 3.70 seconds, with Lee 14.80 seconds behind Wellbrock in third place.
The Paris Olympian beat one other German, Oliver Klemet, by simply 0.1 of a second to complete on the rostrum.
Nicolas Sloman, who additionally competed in Paris, completed eighth.
Wellbrock additionally received the 10km occasion on the Tokyo Olympics.
Moesha Johnson, who received silver within the 10km eventually 12 months’s Olympics, and fellow Paris competitor Chelsea Gubecka are the Australians within the ladies’s race on Wednesday.
Different open-water races in Singapore are additionally set for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Water high quality was a key concern eventually 12 months’s Olympics, with the triathlon and marathon swimming occasions held within the River Seine.
After a large mission to wash up the river for the Video games, heavy rain meant the lads’s particular person triathlon was postponed by sooner or later. All different occasions went forward as scheduled.
As soon as she competes in her open-water occasions, Johnson may even contest the 800m and 1500m freestyle within the pool on the worlds.
AAP
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