The Austrian headlines of the short course world championships in Abu Dhabi, which will end tomorrow, undoubtedly wrote Felix Auböck, who pawed for the 400 meter title on Friday. Apart from the 25-year-olds currently training in England, the Linz training group was able to set scent notes: With Simon Bucher and Bernhard Reitshammer, two protégés of neo-trainer Florian Zimmermann made it into the finals of the top eight at the weekend.
For Bucher, seventh place on Saturday over 100 meters dolphin was the culmination of his rapid ascent this year, in which the 21-year-old surprisingly bought his Olympic ticket. In the final in the Etihad Arena, the native Tyrolean, who had moved to Linz for his swimming career, was 0.12 above the Austrian record set the day before in 49.82 seconds. “In any case, I can be very satisfied with the time below 50 seconds for the second time,” said Bucher, who tackled the finals very quickly. His 22.70 on the first 50 meters meant a new OSV record. When the 50 meter dolphin race was on the program yesterday, the ASV Linz athlete would have wished for this time – he finished 26th in 23.29.
Reitshammer, also a native of Tyrol, hit eighth in the 100-meter medley final yesterday after 52.16 seconds. “Top eight in the world is a passable performance. Unfortunately, a lot went wrong in the race,” said the 27-year-old, who won bronze at this track a month ago.
Club colleague Lena Kreundl finished over 100 meters in 1: 05.83 minutes as the semi-final 16. Been the end of the line. The Styrian Caroline Pilhatsch moved over 50 meters back into today’s final (from 2:55 p.m. on ORF Sport +).
Source: Nachrichten
