With a seventh place in the 50-meter breaststroke final, swimmer Bernhard Reitshammer set Austria’s final point yesterday in 26.39 seconds behind the short course World Cup in Abu Dhabi. Thanks to Felix Auböck’s title and five other finals, it was the second most successful World Cup in OSV history. Upper Austria’s aces around coach Florian Zimmermann were involved in four finals. Two of them went to Reithammer’s account, who had previously finished eighth in over 100 meters. “It’s a good path that I’m going, the right path, something is moving forward,” said the 27-year-old, for whom it was his fourth major event this year. His ASV Linz colleague Simon Bucher is leaving Abu Dhabi with his first World Cup final, seventh over 100 meters dolphin. In addition, Lena Kreundl and Cornelia Pammer took eighth place with the 4 × 100 m crawl relay. The former has confirmed with several top 16 placements that it has shaken off the Covid consequences. In the past few months, the 24-year-old had struggled with breathing problems at times.
At the end of the World Cup, the German Florian Wellbrock won the 1500 meter freestyle in a world record time of 14: 06.88 minutes. Over 50 meters dolphin, the Brazilian Nicholas Santos managed to defend his title at the age of 41.
Source: Nachrichten
