The 24-year-old swimmer from Naarden triumphed thanks to a strong final sprint. He won two years ago in Berlin at the Olympic track his first European title. Weertman coming Tuesday in Horn also from the 5 kilometers.
Weertman managed to govern well in the first part of the marathon race. The title holder, who finished second behind the American Jordan Wilimovsky, allowed himself barely see the front at the world championships last year. He swam a tactical race in which he struck in the fourth and final round of 2.5 kilometers.
Weertman chose the right course and moved at the right time of the seventh spot in the front position, after which he hardly the first forcing and
the difference with the Briton Jack Burnell was after 10 kilometers to the finish at least:. 0.6 seconds. The Frenchman Marc-Antoine Olivier took bronze, one second of European Championship gold.
Marcel Schouten finished over five seconds Weertman ninth. Pepin Smits made his debut in this discipline with the sixteenth position, with a gap of thick nine seconds of the glorious winner
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Sharon Van Rouwendaal lost on the first day of the European Championship its European title at the 10th kilometer.
the 22-year-old swimmer made on the final straight as leader a costly mistake. She went along the wrong side of the buoy, a piece had to swim back and lost some time. She lost her first position and had to settle for fourth place in the standings
The European Championship gold went through the dramatic developments in the final phase to two swimmers:. World Champion Aurélie Muller from France and Italy Rachele Bruni. Both tapped having more than two hours in the water situated simultaneously. The jury looked at the photo finish accurately, but could not pinpoint one winner.
Olympic champion Éva Risztov of Hungary ended initially in third place but was disqualified. Thereby bronze went to Italian Arianna Bridi.
Rouwendaal swam to her blunder watched a race. The defending champion was constantly at a place in the second tier and tried as much as possible to save energy for the final stage. In the last of the four rounds of Rouwendaal came for the first time in the lead, to go with another 1,200 meters.
The Dutch top swimmer, second last year at the World Championships on this part, managed all attacks on to counter its leadership position and was barely swim 50 meters on the road to gold. The champion of 2014 in Berlin lost in the final of the race, however, as the summary and switched to the wrong track choice themselves
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