Florian Wellbrock<\/strong> led from the front throughout to claim an historic third world 10k title despite a late attack from Gregorio Paltrinieri<\/strong> in Singapore<\/a>.<\/p>\n The German was in control at the head of the field for almost the entirety of the race at Sentosa Island despite Kristof Rasovszky’s<\/strong> early surge and he came home in 1:59:55.5.<\/p>\n With victory, Wellbrock became the first swimmer to claim a treble of 10k wins in World Championship history as he added Singapore gold to his titles at the 2019 and 2023 editions. He surpassed Vladimir Dyatchin<\/strong> and Spyridon Gianniotis<\/strong>, who each claimed two 10k crowns, with Keri-anne Payne<\/strong>, Aurelie Muller<\/strong> and Sharon van Rouwendaal<\/strong> also winning two apiece. The Dutchwoman is not competing in 2025.<\/p>\n Paltrinieri was second, 3.7secs behind the German in 1:59:59.2, with Kyle Lee<\/strong> of Australia edging out Olympic silver medallist and Wellbrock’s training partner Oliver Klemet<\/strong> in a photo finish for third in 2:00:10.3 to 2:00:10.4 as the pair went stroke for stroke down the finishing chute. That made it two men in the top four for Bernd Berkhahn<\/strong> who coaches Wellbrock and Klemet in Magdeburg.<\/p>\n Olympic champion Rasovszky was 13th as 58 men finished inside the cut-off time while 11 men didn’t finish including Rio 2016 bronze medallist Marc-Antoine Olivier<\/strong> who was still in the mix in the second half of the race with his last recorded time at 1:40.12.<\/p>\n