{"id":618715,"date":"2025-07-29T06:03:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=618715"},"modified":"2025-07-29T09:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T16:34:07","slug":"world-championships-anna-elendt-wins-100-breast-with-outside-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-anna-elendt-wins-100-breast-with-outside-smoke\/","title":{"rendered":"World Championships: Anna Elendt Wins 100 Breast with Outside Smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"

World Championships: Anna Elendt Wins 100 Breast with Outside Smoke<\/strong><\/p>\n

The attention was on the middle of the pool in Tuesday\u2019s women\u2019s 100 breaststroke final at the World Aquatics Championships.<\/p>\n

That was just fine by Anna Elendt.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The German who trains in Austin won a world title out of Lane 1 with a time of 1:05.19. It caps and up-and-down last few years for the German, who won silver in this event at the 2022 World Championships but finished a disappointing 20th at the Paris Olympics in 1:07.00.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am so speechless,” Elendt said. “When I knew I was going to start from Lane 1, I was only thinking about my coach, who always used to say, \u2018If you have a lane, you have a chance\u2019. I was following that. Just doing everything we worked on in practice, doing my underwaters. It worked out so well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kate Douglass<\/strong> rallied for silver in 1:05.27. Tang Qianting<\/strong> of China grabbed bronze in 1:05.64.<\/p>\n

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