Before the 24-year-old, Markus Rogan was the only Austrian who won a world championship title on April 13, 2008 in the 200 m back, in Manchester also in the 25 m pool. Auböck sat in Abu Dhabi as the fastest in the 150 m at the top of the final field, in 3: 35.90 min. His OSV record by 1.58 seconds. His lead over the Lithuanian Danas Rapsys was 0 , 33.
“I wanted to swim a personal best, and now I am world champion. In the 400 m crawl you have often seen that anyone can win the gold medal,” said the beaming Auböck in the first interview on Thursday. Before that, he had cheered in the pool. Bronze went to Antonio Djakovic (SUI) in 3: 36.83 minutes. Auböck had secured second place in the European Championship over 400 m crawl on the long track and had reached three Olympic finals. Over the 400 m crawl in Tokyo he only missed bronze by 0.13 seconds.
In the next competition Siobhan Bernadette Haughey set a world record over 200 crawls in 1: 50.31 min.
Source: Nachrichten
