Swimming World Championship in Japan
Wassen sisters miss World Cup medal in diving
Remained in synchronized diving from the tower without a podium place: Christina and Elena Wassen. photo
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At the World Championships in Fukuoka, things didn’t go as planned for the German water jump team on the first weekend. Even two European champions don’t make it onto the podium.
Even after the fifth medal decision at the World Championships, the German water jumpers remain in Japan without a podium. 24-year-old Christina Wassen and her sister Elena, who is two years younger, took sixth place in synchronized diving from the tower.
The two European champions in this discipline achieved 283.08 points in the Fukuoka Prefectural Pool with five jumps. They were 11.38 points short of bronze and the duo Delaneyn Schnell/Jessica Parratto from the USA.
The outstanding Chinese Chen Yuxi and Quan Hongchan secured gold. Your home country has cleared all five jump titles so far. Silver went to Andrea Spendolini Sirieix and Lois Toulson from Great Britain.
Wesemann sixth from the one-meter board
“It wasn’t quite what we can do and have already shown during the season,” said Elena Wassen, citing the long season as the reason. Christina Wassen also spoke of the existing medal hope. “But we also knew that China, Mexico, the USA and Great Britain, who weren’t at the European Championship, were strong teams.”
Moritz Wesemann had previously finished sixth in the one-meter board competition. On Saturday there were three tenth places for the German team. Timo Barthel and Lars Rüdiger had expected a lot more in synchronized jumping from the three-meter board. At last year’s World Championships in Hungary, they won bronze, the only medal for the German water jump team.