Swimming World Championship
Boy Wins 25K Silver – Cunha World Champion
At the end of the World Championships, Lea Boy wins silver. Photo: Li Gang/XinHua/dpa/archive image
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Lea Boy gave the German open water swimmers a silver medal at the end of the swimming competitions at the World Championships in Budapest.
Lea Boy gave the German open water swimmers a silver medal at the end of the swimming competitions at the World Championships in Budapest.
The European Champion only had to bow down to the Brazilian Ana Marcela Cunha over 25 kilometers after the photo finish decision, who was two tenths of a second faster than Boy after 5:24:15.00 hours. Cunha had already won over five kilometers in Budapest and won bronze over ten kilometers.
Third was ten-kilometer world champion Sharon van Rouwendaal from the Netherlands. Elea Linka finished sixth. There were only 15 women at the start, 13 of whom nailed it.
The Italian Dario Verani had previously won the men’s race after 5:02:21.50 hours. With an energetic final spurt, he prevented the title hat-trick of Frenchman Axel Reymond, who became world champion in 2017 and 2019. Third was the Hungarian Peter Galicz. Germany’s Andreas Waschburger and Ben Langner finished 11th and 13th.