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Florian Wellbrock, Leonie Beck Named Swimming World’s Open Water Swimmers of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n

German swimmers Florian Wellbrock and Leonie Beck, who both swept the 5K and 10K open water races at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, were named Swimming World\u2019s Open Water Swimmers of the Year.<\/em><\/p>\n

FLORIAN WELLBROCK<\/strong><\/p>\n

Male Open Water Swimmer of the Year<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

No one has dominated men\u2019s open water swimming in the last five years like Germany\u2019s Florian Wellbrock<\/strong>. Since 2019, he\u2019s been selected Swimming World\u2019s<\/em> male Open Water Swimmer of the Year three times (2019-21-23, with no award being presented in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic).<\/p>\n

After sweeping the 5K and 10K at last summer\u2019s World Championships in Fukuoka, Wellbrock\u2014also an elite distance freestyler in the pool\u2014now has 10 WC medals (seven gold, a silver and two bronze) to go along with his two Olympic medals (gold in the 10K and bronze in the 1500 at the 2020 Tokyo Games that were held in 2021). Of his 10 medals at Worlds, six are from open water competition (five gold and a bronze).<\/p>\n

He was ecstatic after his double-gold performance last July\u2014not only for himself, but also for the German team: \u201cThe feeling is amazing. It\u2019s the fifth medal for the team, fourth gold for the team and second World Championships title for me. It\u2019s amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

His first win came in the 10K, where he led after each of the six laps of the course. On the final lap with one-third of the lap remaining, Wellbrock led by 4.6 seconds before pulling away to win in 1:50:40.3\u201418.7 seconds ahead of the field. \u201cThe conditions were really good. We started with flat water, and the temperature was OK for every athlete,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end, the water was a little choppy, so I tried to save a little bit of energy during the race because I wanted to be prepared for the choppy water to fight a little bit with the waves. It worked really well, and my last lap was the fastest\u2014it was the key to winning the gold medal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two days later, Wellbrock led the entire race in the men\u2019s 5K, finishing in 53 minutes, 58.0 seconds to defeat Italy\u2019s Gregorio Paltrinieri<\/strong> (SW<\/em>\u2019s Open Water SOY last year) by 4.5 seconds.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe conditions were much harder (in the 5K) than the 10K\u2014the warm temperature, the water conditions and the air temperature. I tried to push directly after the start, and I think it was the key for the win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wellbrock, who turned 26 in August, also won the Open Water Cup race in Egypt in May, finishing in 1:52.53.2 in a photo finish.<\/p>\n

LEONIE BECK, GERMANY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Female Open Water Swimmer of the Year<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Twenty-six-year-old Leonie Beck<\/strong> also swept both open water races at the World Championships in Fukuoka.<\/p>\n

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In the 10K, Beck trailed by as much as 17 seconds before closing in on the leaders with a strong finish. She took over the lead in the final lap and finished in 2:02:34.0 to earn the gold medal, one year after claiming silver in Budapest.<\/p>\n

After the 10K, Beck said she was really grateful and happy with her race. \u201cI thought I could manage the first half to save a bit of energy, but on the last half, I was fighting for my life!<\/p>\n

\u201cI tried to stay calm in the beginning, not to lose the pack, but not to swim too fast. I was always somewhere in the top-20, I guess, and then the last lap, I was fourth…but I thought, \u2018Wow, it\u2019s getting really hard,\u2019 and I was exhausted.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I didn\u2019t stop fighting. I fought so much. I never stopped. At one point, I caught them…and on the last 400 meters, I think I was a bit on the right. I didn\u2019t recognize that I was passing them, but I didn\u2019t look. I was just swimming and fighting to the end.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the 5K, Beck won in 59:31.17, again finishing ahead of Sharon van Rouwendaal<\/strong> of the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the year in May at the first leg of FINA Open Water Tour in Egypt, Beck again made a late move and pulled ahead at the 8,000-meter check-in on the way to a time of 2:04:05.60. She followed that with another 10K triumph a few weeks later on the second leg of the meet in Golfo Aranci, Italy, finishing in 1:56:17.40.<\/p>\n

With their respective 10K performances at Worlds, both Beck and Wellbrock qualified for the 2024 Olympics, where they will look to continue their momentum and German dominance in the open water races in Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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