Swimming: Florian Wellbrock is "very own league"

Former swim stars have bound to Florian Wellbrock's gold race over 10 km in front of the Olympic champion. Hat off, that was absolutely deserved, "said" Albatros "Michael Grand, who had won the last gold of a float in 1988 in Seoul, the last gold of a float, the sid.

"It's extremely important that German swimming came out of the valley of tears. But Tokyo can only be the first step." He added.

Also world recorder Paul Biedermann was pleased with the first German free water Olympic champion in history. Wellbrock have "historic created", said the double-world champion of 2009: "To win a medal in the basin and in the free water is a very own league and speaks for the exceptional talent." Wellbrock (23), before his triumph in the Odaiba Marine Park, had also bronze over 1500 m freestyle in the Odaiba Marine Park at Tokyo Aquatics Center.

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Britta Steffen, double-Olympic champion of 2008, Wellbrock attested a "giant performance". "The boy made it, and in a beauty and aesthetics, in front of which I just can pull the hat," said the Berliner's side. Even ex-world champion Franziska van Almsick was excited: "He has become a focused, clear and quiet athletes who deserves my great respect."