Swimming
Short course world championships: Gigler and Reitshammer in the semifinals!
Bernhard Reitshammer from Tyrol in the 100 m breaststroke and Heiko Gigler from Carinthia in the 100 m crawl finished 15th and 16th respectively at the World Short Course Swimming Championships in Budapest on Wednesday.
Reitshammer kept his place in the preliminary heat, in 57.28 seconds he was 0.06 seconds faster than in the morning, Gigler missed his Austrian record from the preliminary heat in 46.46 seconds by 0.01 seconds when it came to the final.
"Unfortunately, the attack wasn't so good, but overall it was fine," said Reitshammer. The 30-year-old is focusing more on his performances in the 100 m medley on Thursday and the 50 m breaststroke on Saturday. Gigler was satisfied with his times and spoke of an "incredibly close race". 0.37 seconds faster and he would have been in the final. The 28-year-old is now also looking forward to competing in the 100 m medley. "I'm very well placed there. A semi-final in any case, that has to be in there. Everything else is then an encore."
His compatriot Iris Julia Berger set a national record in the preliminary heats of the 100 m crawl in 53.35 seconds in the water of the Duna Arena, but that was only good enough for 20th place, which meant she was knocked out. "I didn't expect to miss the semi-finals by a few tenths with an Austrian record," said the German-born swimmer. In addition to Gigler and Reitshammer, Lena Kreundl will also be competing in the 100 m medley on Thursday, as will Andreas Rizek in his only World Championship start in the 200 m dolphin and Simon Bucher in the 50 m backstroke.
Ponti first Swiss world champion with world record
After seven world records the day before, this time there was one. Noe Ponti pushed his mark in the 50 m dolphin final by a further 0.11 seconds to 21.32 seconds and also became the first Swiss world champion in pool swimming. Gretchen Walsh, the new world record holder in the women's event, also took gold, finishing in 24.01 seconds, 0.08 seconds faster than her semi-final time. Only 0.01 seconds above the world record held for more than ten years by the Lithuanian Ruta Meilutyte and the Jamaican Alia Atkinson was the Chinese Tang Qianting in 1:02.37 min. over 100 m breaststroke.
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