Italy’s superhero Gregorio Paltrinieri completed a hat-trick in open water as he was the one who made the difference in the team event to give Italy the victory and to claim his third title in the Lupa Lake. Though Britain’s diving star Tom Daley had an amazing collection of gold medals but today he added one which he had never won before: a title in the men’s platform synchro event. With Matthew Lee, they came first in an incredibly thrilling final, bagging 43 marks of 9.0-9.5 out of 54. The women’s 3m final wasn’t any less exciting, at the end Germany’s Tina Punzel had the last laugh.
Gregorio Paltrinieri made the
difference in the team event at Lake Lupa: his blast in the third leg –
12:53min – gave a 14sec lead to Italy before the last 1250m lap and that was
easy to defend by Domenico Acerenza. The field was together at the halfway
mark, then it was quickly torn apart once Paltrinieri left the pack behind.
Before the last lap, the French had a 7sec advantage ahead of Hungary and
Germany when the anchors began the final quest.
Three world champions clashed for the
two remaining spots on the podium and Marc Antoine Olivier, Florian Wellbrock
and Kristof Rasovszky staged a thrilling battle. Though Rasovszky is famous for
anything but being a sprinter, team spirit took over and with Wellbrock they
managed to catch up 5km and 10km silver medallist Olivier and turned into the
final sprint shoulder-byshoulder. They seemed to hit the finish panel at the
very same time – 9 seconds behind Acerenza –, and the referee had to watch the
recording a couple of times before he confirmed that Wellbrock was the fastest
to touch in, 0.5sec ahead of Rasovszky, and a fingernail separated him and
Olivier (0.2sec) for the bronze. Paltrinieri finished his open water campaign
with 3/3 golds, and he will be back for more in the pool next week.
In the closing event in artistic
swimming, Ukraine came closer to Russia in the gold medal race (6-4) as they
won the Highlights Routine. While the event is yet to attract more entries, the
Ukrainians got significantly high scores, which can be a huge boost for them
for the summer. Belarus came second and host Hungary claimed its first-ever
medal in artistic swimming, a bronze.
With eight podium finishes in as many
starts, Ukraine claimed the Team Trophy (they did not enter in mixed duet) –
Martina Fiedina was part of each so she is the most decorated swimmer of the championships
so far with four gold and four silver medals.
In the previous two ‘big’ editions,
the Brits enjoyed some outstanding success in diving, an 11-medal haul (3
titles) in London 2016 and 10 podium finishes (4 titles) in Glasgow 2018. Now
they had to wait till the penultimate day of
the competition to celebrate their first victory. Tom Daley and Matthew
Lee won a majestic duel against Russia’s super due of Victor Minibaev and
Aleksandar Bondar.
The two pairs left the others behind
once the DD jumped to the heights of 3.2-3.6s. Indeed all four divers were
tremendous during the entire competition – out of the 54 marks Daley and Lee
received in the afternoon, 43 were 9.0 or 9.5. The Russians got less 9.0 and
9.5s (25) but their programme was slightly stronger in DDs, so at the end only
5.61 points separated them. The last three dives were all 92+ pointers for
both, the difference came in the third round when, due to a minor mistake,
Bondar and Minibaev got ‘only’ 79, while the Brits earned 86 – and thanks to
the following superb deliveries the gap remained till the end.
Patrick Hausding was back to the
podium after an ‘off-day’ in the 3m final, now he claimed his fourth medal
here, a second bronze (also has two golds). Diving with Timo Barthel, the
Germans did a fine job and their third place was never in danger. Indeed it was
some consolation after they had missed the Olympic cut in Tokyo by a tiny
margin.
Like in the British camp, there was a
missing part for the Germans too: a medal in the women’s event. It came this
evening finally and it was a gold straight away. Tina Punzel claimed it after a
highly exciting final in the women’s 3m.
The first two rounds saw solid dives
from the favourites, then in the third Punzel and Italy’s Chiara Pellacani both
had an erroneous attempt while Russia’s Vitalia Koroleva came up with the best
effort of the session with 75 points, which rocketed her to the first place.
But her next one was a real miss (40 points) and that cost her even the podium
since her rivals managed to rebound with two fine dives and even Emma
Gullstrand passed her as she was balanced enough to catch the bronze, the first
medal for Sweden here in Budapest.
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