Wednesday, September 1st, 2021
Hope for gold in the pool
19-year-old swimmer Engel breaks world record
“The first 50 meters felt really awesome,” said Taliso Engel afterwards. The middle Franconian world record swims over 100 meters chest. In the finals, the first swimming gold for the DBS since 2012 should finally be given, which aims to build on successful times.
Taliso Engel swam a world record in the run-up to the Paralympics in Tokyo and has stoked hope for the first German swimming gold in nine years. The 19-year-old stayed with 1: 03.52 minutes over 100 meters chest six hundredths below the old record of the Ukrainian Oleksii Fedina, which had stood for eight years. The visually impaired Angel from Middle Franconia, who starts for Leverkusen, traveled to Japan as European champion and second in the world rankings.
However, he still did not want to spend gold as the target for the final on Wednesday at 12:02 p.m. “The goal is still a medal. I don’t care which one,” he said. His goal in the run-up was a mix “to swim easily into the final and still show that it was possible. The first 50 meters felt really awesome.”
In 1996 Germany won 19 swimming gold medals
Elena Krawzow also confirmed her reputation as a gold candidate on her favorite 100-meter breaststroke course. After a time of 1: 15.31 minutes, she went into the final fight as the fastest in the lead and didn’t even have to exhaust herself fully. “The goal was not to waste so much energy and leave something left for tonight. I did that,” said the visually impaired Berliner, who knows that she is now a favorite: “I have to stay relaxed and relaxed and focus on accelerating. ” She “didn’t even notice Engel’s world record eleven minutes earlier. But I’m really happy. I hope that I can catch up with a super performance tonight. Her final will take place at 12:08 am German time.
Since Daniela Schulte’s victory in the 400 meter freestyle on September 7, 2012 in London, there has not been a single German swimming gold on 18 days of competition at the Paralympics. In 1996 in Atlanta, the DBS had fished 19 gold medals out of the basin.
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