DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Sharon van Rouwendael The Dutch girl reclaimed the ladies’s open water world title on Saturday by defeating Spain’s Maria de Valdes in a ferocious dash to the end within the girls’s 10km race.
Van Roeuwendaal had the highest contact on the World Aquatics Championships in 1:57:26.80, only a tenth of a second forward of de Valdes. The bronze medal went to Angelica Andre of Portugal, 1.4 seconds behind the winner.
Van Roeuwendaal’s ending kick within the final 500 meters of a tough race on the finish of six laps across the outdated Doha port dropped Australia’s Moesha Johnson from the result in fourth.
Van Lowendaal, 30, regained the title he held on the 2022 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. She completed fourth ultimately summer time’s Fukuoka match. leonie beck German athletes dominated the 5k and 10k titles.
Beck completed twentieth in Doha, 45 seconds behind the winner.
Van Lowendaal is a long-time star on the open water circuit. She gained a gold medal on the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics and a silver medal on the Tokyo Olympics three years in the past.
In different finals on the second day of the primary world championships within the Middle East, 13-year-olds Huang Jianjie and Zhang Jiaqi gained diving gold for China within the blended 10m synchro platform occasion.
Greece’s Evangelia Platanioti gained her first gold medal in creative swimming and took first place within the girls’s solo technical class.
China, which gained 12 of the 13 gold diving occasions on the Fukuoka World Championships, didn’t compete in Friday’s first two occasions, giving different international locations an opportunity to shine.
Doha is internet hosting the world championships a yr later than deliberate, though many international locations despatched scaled-down groups to Doha due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The timing meant it was held simply 5 months earlier than the Paris Olympics, making it the primary time the championships have been held in the identical calendar yr because the Summer Olympics.
Hwang and 19-year-old Chan regained their composure within the diving pool and stormed to victory with 353.82 factors. Zhang teamed up with Wang Feilong on this occasion and gained the gold medal on the Fukuoka Games.
North Korea’s Cho Jin-mi and Lim Young-myung gained the silver medal with 303.96 factors, whereas the bronze medal went to Mexico’s Kevin Berlin Reyes and Alejandra Estudillo Torres with 296.13 factors.
Platanioti, 29, gained the creative swimming gold medal with a rating of 272.9633. Canada’s Jacqueline Simoneau gained the silver medal (269.2767 factors) and China’s Xu Huiyan gained the bronze medal (262.3700 factors).