FINA World Championships: Finke takes 800m gold as Dressel ruled out of 100m defence

Published:Mar 9, 202409:28
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FINA World Championships: Finke takes 800m gold as Dressel ruled out of 100m defence

Olympic champion Bobby Finke of the US gained the lads's 800m freestyle on the World Championships on Tuesday with an electrical late burst to complete forward of Germany's Florian Wellbrock and Ukrainian Mykhailo Romanchuk.

The win for Finke was a lift for the U.S workforce after 100m free Olympic champion and reigning world champion Caeleb Dressel pulled out of the semi-finals in that occasion for medical causes.

Finke, who sat in fourth place for a lot of the race and was nonetheless behind three swimmers on the last flip, posted a private finest time of seven:39.36.

As he did in Tokyo, Finke timed his race to perfection, delivering a blistering last 50m, in 25.93 seconds to maneuver forward of his European rivals.

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"I knew I simply needed to simply stick to them and stick with what I'm good on the end. I knew the 50 size was going to harm but it surely was price it," stated Finke.

The lack of Dressel means he'll miss an anticipated showdown with Romanian teenage expertise David Popovici, who gained the 200m free on Monday.

China's Yang Junxuan gained the ladies's 200m freestyle in a time of 1:54.92 beating Australia's extremely rated 18-year-old Mollie O'Callaghan, who took silver 0.30 behind.

The Chinese language had two medals to rejoice with Muhan Tang taking bronze forward of Britain's Freya Anderson.


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